Sunni, I'm with you. I've been assuming this was all theatre, and I do find it mildly funny; "hoist by his own petard" has been funny since the first petard blew up. But you have got to be right. I'm an anarchist because evil means cannot be justified, no matter how desireable (or funny) the ends in question.

I'm not a purist, nor a man bound particularly tight to my own morality; poke me hard enough with a stick and I could come to be at war with the state by any means to hand, including deadly force that's only defensive in the sense that killing a snake defends children in the neighborhood who might encounter it. But like you, I have a problem with embracing immoral means and giving them the public endorsement of freedom lovers.

I'm willing to agree with John DeWitt that too much purity may be a bad thing, when it comes down to the knife. But if it's not too late for propoganda, then in our propoganda at least we ought to be distinguishable from the thugs. With this prank, we really aren't.