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So what’s he trying to communicate? I can’t find any meaning that makes sense beyond the literal one, which seems extremely deranged.
They're saying that if you believe in the system so hard, you understand it can make mistakes, and that some mistakes are a necessary evil in the system. Their situation, though they may actually be innocent, is acceptable to them on those terms, because they truly believe it's a mistake. They're willing to die for that mistake to prove that they are that loyal to the country and its ideals, however deranged that might be.