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The Carriers of Mercy began acquiring weapons and inducting retired members of the military to act as bodyguards. This was justified by the fact that criminal syndicates were attacking their members. As part of a war on drugs campaign, veterans gave "military" training to young people to prevent them from doing drugs or going into crime and indoctrinated them with pro-Amhoud propaganda. The Carriers started holding mass rallies where Amhoud featured prominently. The General Secretary was often a guest further legitimising and giving tacit public support to Amhoud and the Carriers. The Carriers cultivated its bodyguard to secretly dispose of people who revealed internal secrets and to keep its members in line.
Members of the party often found that the Carriers of Mercy were useful in attaining positions due to their influence. So they often paid donations to the Carriers or entered quid pro quo arrangements, so that the Carriers would support them in internal party elections. Many Provincial, Regional and Local Party Secretaries had at least in part attributed their positions to the support of the Carriers of Mercy and thus often confided government secrets in the Carriers or did tasks for the Carriers such as providing government offices or appointed their members as policy consultants. The Carriers had worked over a period of decades to become a sort of "state within the state" (also known as the deep state).
The Carriers also spread their influence to law enforcement. But due to the size of law enforcement, their influence was more diffuse. The Carriers struggled to penetrate the intelligence services who were avowedly devoted to the main party leadership. The problem with the intelligence services is that they were prone to infighting due to jockeying for influence. They often underestimated the political ambitions of the Carriers and missed a lot of the illegal parts of their work. They were also reluctant to attack it due to the influence it commanded especially among Politburo members. Furthermore, the Politburo members who were also Carriers members also used their influence to restrain the Intelligence Service by obstructing investigations into the Carriers activities.
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