@epictittus @BowsacNoodle That's because we still had to maintain the kayfabe, but now we've moved into a religious frame of mind: They don't need to have actually DONE something, their very existence is a sin because they have inherent aspects of being that are incompatible with freedom and democracy
Therefore, the empire must smite them to render the world safe for the tenets of our civic religion (ass sex between men and their child victims)