Break down the system and then they can impose martial law as an excuse to control things. Stalin would be proud of them.
Brings to mind The Great Outdoors (Dan Ackyrod/John Candy) the subtitled 'coon scene;
"heh, heh, heh, rocks on the trash can lids, that never works!"
So they can put rocks all over our trashcan lids, U S "'coons" will eventually come along and knock'um over and get the America we "own" anyway, no matter what(just ask King George III).