What we learned from CHAZ/CHOP

1. The new "Summer of Love" apparently only lasts for 23 days.

2. The Mayor of Seattle is an idiot who doesn't care about putting the lives of native people in the zone in danger. However, march down the street in her neighborhood with shouting and angry protest signs, particularly where she lives, and she'll not only crap her pants, she'll suddenly decide cops are a good thing to have, and sic them on you to take your beloved utopia apart.

3. Without cops, you end up with a loser former rapper who declares himself a "warlord," who forms a gang of armed thugs who will beat up people for even the smallest slights that he deems to be infractions.

4. Apparently homeless people can't be trusted to not steal all your food on the very first day.

5. You end up begging the outside world for food and other necessities, because your awesome "cop-free utopia" apparently can't provide food for you (I can't imagine why).

6. You find out just why farmers work so hard to make harvests work, because those cute little gardens you set up in the park don't grow the food overnight like the city always made you believe.

7. Crime goes up 500% at night, and 4 people get shot and killed in less than 30 days.

8. Businesses are not safe at all and get broken into every night, just like in one of those post-apocalyptic tv shows, only scarier.

9. You can't care for the sick and wounded, because there's no hospital or medical supplies, so you gotta have people from outside the zone come help (after a long, unreasonable delay from the warlord's thug squads).

10. You can get deported without due process, and nobody bats an eyelash at you for it.

11. Getting deported from CHOP is actually a good thing.