I had no idea that happened, though I'm slightly pleased to be let off the hook in hearing that you didn't either. I guess the post-911 news cycle was a pretty weird thing.

I've been reading a lot of anarchist pacificists lately, particularly Gustav Landauer, and he has to talk a lot about assassination because of how common it was in the late 19th and early 20th century and how quickly it became associated with the anarchist movement in particular. Landauer's a pacifist, so obviously he disavows it, but the frank way that he talks about it, through the lens of Pisacane's understanding of assassination as "propaganda of the deed" is so weirdly dispassionate. He talks about it as though it's just another political tactic in an ocean of possible tactics and ends up dismissing it almost as much for its ultimate inefficacy than any moral reason.

It's real weird.