I don’t think it has much effect. The, ahem, ‘leadership’ amongst the usual are inured to killing and murder even amongst themselves anyways. Killing is common as dirt.
You are looking at them from your value system.
I am in favor of just having a kill list and working your way through it, with as little drama as possible. In short, just kill them. But that might seem a little too clinical.
I don’t know, but I feel more threatening would be free sat/radio/TV broadcasts talking about where the money goes, exposing racketeering amongst the enemy. If not turn the people against them, turn them into cynics against their own ‘leadership’.
>>>I am in favor of just having a kill list and working your way through it, with as little drama as possible. In short, just kill them. But that might seem a little too clinical.<<<
I’m with you on this point. The people who invented the term “assassin” would recognize the strategy, too.