"For example, Lord Haw-Haw, the Irish-American who broadcast from Germany in English to undermine morale and sow confusion among Allied troops, was arrested by the British and executed for treason. A mere radio broadcast was deemed sufficiently dangerous to warrant the death penalty.

Yet here we are, not in a state of war, and our systems of government and law enforcement are baffled by what in wartime would be understood very clearly as an act of war, and at least from one side is being conducted as such."

https://medium.com/@tswriting/sleep-walking-into-a-war-b1e7e42f85bc