there are a few who learn by observation, and most of the rest just have to try peeing on an electric fence themselves before they believe you when you tell them it's not a good idea to pee on the third rail in the underground
We are, of course, sad to hear that your young chums have been imprisoned -- though it's likely we would have actually broken out in tears had we heard instead they seriously injured someone with Molotov cocktails -- and so we thought we'd offer some advice, on the off-chance that some of you sometimes learn by reading
(1) It is almost impossible to make an articulate and convincing argument with Molotov cocktails. Whenever you find yourself thinking that burning down Moe's diner will make everybody nicer, will encourage some chef somewhere to cook kickass apple pies and sell huge slices at giveaway prices, and will bring the neighborhood around to your way of thinking, ask a friend to smack you in the nose and yell You stupid fuck! -- because what WILL happen, if you carry through on your shit-headed plan, is that most people will conclude there is something wrong with your head, lots of them will hope you should be shot down like rapid dogs, nobody will care why you did it, and anybody who's been seen with you will be demonized as murderous arsonists by the opposition. It's not merely a waste of energy: it's counter-productive
(2) Objectively speaking, the shithead who is trying to talk you into manufacturing Molotov cocktails is not your friend. He may be an otherwise nice person with some screws loose; he may be somebody trying to disrupt your movement; he may be any number of things, but friend he is not. We aren't lawyers, and don't want to practice law without a license, so if you need real legal advice, talk to somebody who's actually passed the bar, but we will say:
(2a) entrapment law is tricky: yes! there is such a thing as entrapment but no! an entrapment defense probably won't work for you when you want to argue that somebody talked you into manufacturing Molotov cocktails; and
(2b) if some shithead is going around trying to talk folk into manufacturing Molotov cocktails, and you know about it, and then somebody does it, you might find yourself facing a conspiracy charge, unless you make it damn clear you completely oppose such a thing and won't have any part of it
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