Thinking about how none of the planners (except like one, who they rolled their eyes at) of that “levitate the Pentagon” protest in the 60s thought they might actually levitate it, the point – this sort of thing was Abbie Hoffman’s specialty – was to signal to both sides that this was not actually going to be conducted as a violent assault, while taking none of the morale or ideological hit of stepping back from a pose of total hostility