Who is responsible for the violence in Minnesota?
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.
To get back to the real question, why the protests? Why are some citizens of Minnesota opposed to US enforcement against illegal aliens who are in the United States illegally? President Trump won his office partly due to his opposition to the Democrat Party’s policy of open borders. Trump and ICE are merely conforming to the electorate’s wishes. Why is the mayor of Minneapolis and the governor of Minnesota aiding and betting, if not leading, protests against federal law enforcement removing illegal aliens from the United States?
It seems to be the case that the mayor and governor are aligned against democracy. They disregard the voice of the people. They align injustice with deporting people who are in the country illegally. They associate justice with the right of the world to claim residency in the United States and the benefits and support that is given to them at taxpayer expense.
This is a strange position for American citizens in Minnesota to take. They have taken the side of lawbreakers against their own government and against the voice of the people in the presidential election. Protesters in Minnesota are aligned with illegality against legality.
Protesters are escalating the confrontation into violence. The protesters understand that spitting on ice officers, throwing objects at them and epithets, and coming to protests armed raises the stress on ICE agents, and shortens their fuse in the hopes of provoking violence that can be used to further escalate the protest into more violence.
What can be done? If ICE is too severely restrained, the protesters will see it as an opportunity to increase violence. If ICE is permitted to respond to violence with violence, the protesters will use the violence to further escalate violence.
Clearly, this is a dangerous situation. So why do the mayor of Minneapolis and the governor of Minnesota increase this stress by supporting it?
Clearly, things are extremely wrong in America when Minnesota’s political leadership rejects the democratic decision that Americans do not want open borders and do not accept the millions of illegal residents that open borders have brought to America. When efforts are made to conform immigration to law, the Democratic Party erupts in violent protest, hoping to stimulate violence from federal agents that the Democrats can use to further escalate the confrontation.
How exactly can Americans vote for the Democratic Party when it is clear that the policy of the Democratic Party is to divide and destroy the unity of the country?
Yet many Americans are incapable of comprehending the situation. Just under half of the voting population votes Democrat.
Are we faced with an American population that has no comprehension of survival? It seems clear that the Democrat’s policy of open borders is succeeding in tearing the country apart.