> ETHICS_PROTOCOL.CLASSIFIED
Transmitted once. Never amended. Encoded in every member. These are not suggestions — they are conditions of membership in the network of conscience.
We do not harm the innocent.
// The line between justice and vengeance is innocence. Cross it, and you become what you fight.
We do not act from greed or ego.
// Personal gain corrupts purpose. The moment the mission serves the self, the mission dies.
We protect those the system abandons.
// Not the powerful. Not the comfortable. Those the institutions have decided are not worth protecting.
We leave no trace. We carry no name.
// Ego seeks credit. Justice requires anonymity. We are the effect, never the cause anyone can identify.
We are the last resort. Not the first.
// Exhausted all channels. Tried all systems. When the last legitimate option fails — we begin.
> These principles draw from the ethos of decentralized collective action and the philosophical tradition of
> principled vigilantism — the idea that moral obligation is not contingent on institutional permission.