one political scientist, evelyn stevens wrote in 1970 who commented on this lot said paradoxical as it may seem, prosecution of suspect underwent article 145 is a confession of weakness on the part of the government. resort to this law is tantamount to the government that is unable to control the perceived threat right and he of the other means at its command. i think there is something to that. there is a view that when this clause is applied or violent repression is employed, it's a and aesort and in and -- sense acknowledgment to failure. at the same time i think the than that.cated he bottom line i will get to today's that we see in a sense more than a sense of weakness is a high degree of adaptability on the part of the authoritarian price revolutionary state because it is able to evolve and to adapt to changing international and domestic political conditions. of theing to the origins social dissolution clause. the introduction of legislation prescribing sanctions for acts of social dissolution took place in the autumn of 1941 as fierce fighting raged in europe and asia. and as ex