1. Crowd-Sourcing
Assassination 2.0

2. The Problem of Offense
Occupy was 1% offense, followed by 99%
defense
Lose direct confrontation every time
Left hoping you get beat so bad that someone
notices

3. Anarchist Assassins
Limits risk of collateral damage
Humanizes structures
Makes power less appealing
Triggers self-preservation
Clarifies antagonisms

4. Why We Can't Shoot People
Literally outgunned
Can tolerate structural violence, and insane
violence, but not organized interpersonal
violence
Necessarily insular, secretive

5. Why We Can't Shoot People Part 2
We aren't those people

6. (Failed) Alternatives to Violence
Occupation playbook is written
Leaks framework is based on apolitical
epistemology
What's left is representational (voting,
petitioning, DDSing)

7. Right-Wing Assassinations
Whitewater
Birth certificate
James O'Keefe/ACORN

8. Anonymous
Based largely (but not only) leaks framework
HB Gary
The "moralfag" turn
Steubenville

9. Great Expectations
"He should have had a more responsible
father"
"If you have something that you don’t want
anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be
doing it in the first place"
Miley Cyrus

10. Diversity of Tactics
Chinese flesh search
Makode Linde
SHAME project

11. High-Value Targets
David Petraeus
Pope Benedict

12. The People's Kill List

13. Counter-Ethics
Transparency defines what people should be
held accountable for
Social war is not a metaphor
Redistribution of fear
Cyber-bullying up