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Anarchists of action, you’re excellent cooks.
Your culinary feats are fine art.
I praise your flavorful and hearty attack.
The communique and the ideas expressed in it, are not the recipe, but a paper wrapper that I rip apart, crumble up, and throw away quickly, eager to devour this tasty treat.
I lick my lips, I’m grateful for this gift, I’m nourished, but hungry for more.
The appropriate thing would be for me to repay in kind and gift another meal to this potlatch, so we could keep the party going and keep on feasting.

But what do you do, if the wrapper of a wonderful gift offered to you contained a veiled insult?
If you know the one who gives you the gift and you know them to be a good friend, you’d give them the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe they got the wrapper at a store and didn’t notice what it said, maybe they were reusing an old wrapper from a gift someone else gave to them long ago, maybe it’s a message lost in translation. Either way, if noted, you might not make much of it, but you may be curious to ask them, or someone else, about it.

So I ask in a friendly manner, when it says :

“Society can protect itself from both the crime and the police. This requires determination, mutual assistance and self-organization – developing institutions of self-government and peoples militia.“

Surely by “the crime” you’re referring to police brutality -as you mentioned before that that the state’s use of violence is criminal- and not my petty crimes, which along others besiege society, eroding it, and are the reason police are put in place, to preserve society as it is, or else people would do away with the constraints that criminalize behaviors.

Surely by society -which you also appeal to earlier on- you just mean people in general, not its current civil arrangement which we struggle against.

Surely by “developing institutions of self-government and peoples militia.”...
this is just some paper you had around the house right?