I suppose this system works similar to the "Fememorde" in the 1920s in Germany.
Right wing organisations killed people involved with the treaty of Versailles.
The state had nothing to do with it, but many individuals sympathized with the perpetrators. If somebody was caught, he could expect a mild sentence.
A similar system is the "deep state" in Turkey, where people critical of the turkish state usually drop dead.
Strange how Americans usually think of other countries as some kind of monolithic block with a single will, while in reality their internal politics are as complex and diverse as those in the US.
I mean if somebody shot Michael Moore during the Bush administration, would the world have blamed it on Bush?
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