Below-the-threshold violence relates to ‘isolated and sporadic’ internal disturbances (see supra 66). These extend to all forms of disorganized – individual or mob – violence, which do not make the grade of an armed conflict, although they may cause mayhem and provoke savage crackdowns by governmental agencies. Grave internal disturbances may cause an incumbent Government to be reeling, and perhaps even force a political realignment or dissolution of the legislature, but that does not mean that a NIAC has been cut loose.