No one wants an ongoing debate about any difficult issues that the government has already determined the answers to. That would be messy and perhaps force them

No one wants an ongoing debate about any difficult issues that the government has already determined the answers to. That would be messy and perhaps force them to change their plans. The exposure of this also makes more plausible the claims that many "spontaneous" street demonstrations that turn violent are carefully planned using similar elements, though perhaps not by the government.