by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:

In the latest ICE shooting in Minnesota, it turns out that the “protester” was armed with a semi-automatic pistol instead of a vehicle. One question is whether the shooting was justified. A more important question is why are Democrats protesting against legitimate federal law enforcement, thereby escalating protest into violence?

It seems clear that the protests have evolved into insurrection against federal authority. Whether or not the insurrection is treasonous depends on who is behind it. If it is a foreign power, such as China, which some conservatives believe, then the Minneapolis protesters are engaged in aiding and abetting a foreign power, and therefore the protests constitute treason, but if the protests are funded by, for example, George Soros, then it is just a protest financed by a philanthropist even though it does the same amount of damage.