Gosh, mojo, the original Publius was three men, all of whom were leaders of their respective political movements, writing six years after the end of the American revolution. They were among the most powerful and influential men in the country even before the ratification of the Constitution.
They wrote under pseudonym to avoid having their famous names, and the baggage attached to them, distract from their arguments. Admittedly Publius at Obsidian Wings faces no danger to life or limb because of Whelan's stunt, but then neither did anyone writing as Publius in 1787.
That makes Whelan's conduct no less vile.