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All of this ensures the organization will stay around.

Collateral, incorrect targets, and martyrs enrage the populace and get recruits. Killing the head keeps the group from getting too big. Keeping them out of the courts allows for any real grievances they have to remain unheard by the voters (out of sight out of mind means they won't be fixed). This gives the MICC a great target to keep them running.

I've heard that one should never blame one evil what could instead be attributed to stupidity, but I do not agree with such logic. Under that rule, there would only be stupidity.




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