I am assuming you all know about “post turtles.” They don’t know how they got on top of fence posts. They didn’t get there by themselves, and they don’t know how to get down without getting hurt.

With all due respect, you are “post turtles.” Furthermore, the crazies who have commandeered six blocks of Seattle are also “post turtles.” This is a set piece — orchestrated by evil men. It ends up with several dead on each side and a terrible, enduring smear on the police force.

To see another example of it, go back fifty years to the Kent State imbroglio. The young fools attacking an armed National Guard unit on a college campus were urged and pushed into throwing chunks of concrete at the soldiers. The short version of it is that they succeeded in provoking the guardsmen into shooting several of them. (There are longer versions, which include professional out-of-state agitators and probable snipers.)

That was fifty years ago. The troops and their officers were defamed as murderers.

The tactic is the same today. Their evil masters tell them they are successful revolutionaries, covered with glory for starting up a new and perfect nation. They are pushed into provoking you – even if their evil masters have to shoot at you to get you to shoot some of their understudies.

The press hanging around is not looking for truth, and would not recognize truth if it bit them. They have already written their stories, and have only to fill in a few blanks. Their stories involve you being the most dastardly murderers since Hitler and Stalin. You must find a way out of this trap. Take hot pizza to all the idiots. Play catch with them. Take guitars and sing Kum Bay Yah with them. Do their laundry. Haul off their stinking garbage. Something to defuse the situation.

And by all means, get the reasonable officers away from there before they reasonably fill “The Republic of Chaz” with military tear gas, mount a reasonable frontal assault and take “Chaz” with reasonable force – and, as it says in the song, “Winner loses all.”