Cool idea.
Reminds me of a Sci-Fi story (Heinlein?) about moon (or maybe even Mars) colonists who get treated to the old "taxation without representation" delio
They don't possess offensive weapons (or do they?). They put together a "catapult" system that flings over-sized clods of rock at the Earth (with devastating results).
Low-tech solution to high-tech problem.......
Typical of the Weekly Standard and the egregious Frum to omit that the original idea was part of Reagan's Star Wars. It was called Project Thor, and came from the group of advisors headed by Jerry Pournelle, Science Fiction author of "The Mote in God's Eye" fame. (He was also an Operations Analyst for the Space Program in the sixties.)
Dunno why Frum had him drummed out, but it was a serious mistake IMHO!