Reminds me of "The Hundred Flowers Campaign" under Mao...

The Hundred Flowers campaign (baihua yundong) was a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) program that encouraged China’s intellectuals to submit different ideas, opinions and suggestions – even criticism of the party and its policies. It was launched by Mao Zedong in May 1956 with the phrase “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend”.

Today, historians remain divided whether the Hundred Flowers campaign was an error of judgement or a deliberate ploy to coax dissidents into the open. Mao himself claimed it was the latter, suggesting he had “enticed the snakes out of their caves”.

Sort of like Ollie, ollie, come in free...(sound of AK-47's one shot at a time)