Mao Zedong believed that peasants would make true revolutionaries because the peasantry force is comparable to intense wind and raging rain. It is increasing violence rapidly. No other force that can stop them. Their force will destroy all nets that bonded it and continue to their liberation. They will conceal underneath the militarism, imperialism, evilness, and corruption.
If it were me, I would own up to it and turn myself in. I would feel horrible to ruin someone else’s life for something I did.
C. To preserve the independence of the states.