Absolutely excellent post. I cannot disagree with a single point. You just helped me realize another rhetorical strength available to us: talking and planning EVERYTHING in an open and documented fashion. For a while now I have been wondering if a movement needs secrecy or if it can plan in the open. If you have secrecy you have the advanage of surprise but you lose on the optics front because eventually you have to step out of the shadows. If you plan in the open you lose the advantage of surprise but you win the optics war. Sometimes when I read posts like yours I wonder if we are giving up too much to the enemy. However, as I was reading through this discussion, there are A LOT of people that would be energized and engaged by a much larger strategic conversation that discussed all of this in the open. I have known this for a while, but now I can read it as well, we hold the ABSOLUTE MORAL HIGHGROUND in any possible conversation around this topic. There isn't a single rhetorical wedge that I can see that can be placed into our position such that it either doesn't make sense or it loses explanatory and predictive power. Now that I think about it, our enemies weren't hiding exactly either. They all published their stuff in the open. Maybe it's time we look into doing the same our selves.