Oh well. The rest of the country will catch up to my purple prose. Eventually.
As to this threading distinctions between "vigilantes" and "private army", same difference. The state employs them to ferret out NPA sparrow units specifically, but it's hard to see how this won't be subject to de facto mission creep, ie salvaging commies and "commies" and well they're not commies *bang*, as has been happening with the drug war.