Heritage Foundation's Lora Ries on Fox: “It's very simple to not be shot by federal agents: don't draw your gun on federal agents”
Ries: “These protesters are paid. This is not free speech, it's paid for. Nor is it speech.”
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From the January 24, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox Report with Jon Scott
LORA RIES (HERITAGE FOUNDATION): These protesters are paid. This is not free speech, it's paid for. Nor is it speech. And the government has a right to restrict time, place and manner of true free speech. But these people are simply interfering and obstructing federal agents from carrying out federal law.
It's very simple to not be shot by federal agents: don't draw your gun on federal agents. Don't assault federal agents. Don't aim your car at federal agents. And so Governor Walz can't have it both ways -- he can't demonize federal agents, call for resistance to federal agents and then be angry when some radical goon draws their gun on a federal agent and himself is shot.