唐纳德·特朗普总统周六宣布，他可能很快将反法西斯⁠—归类为一个由左翼、自治、激进的反法西斯团体和个人⁠—组成的松散运动，作为一个主要的恐怖组织，以使“警察更容易开展工作”

周六下午，总统在推特上写道:“人们正在考虑宣布反法西斯党，这是一个没有勇气的激进左翼古怪的工作，他们用棒球棒打(只有非战斗人员)人的头，这是一个主要的恐怖组织(以及微软-13和其他组织)。"会让警察更容易完成他们的工作！"

反法西斯运动，简称为“反法西斯”，由反对新纳粹、法西斯主义、白人至上主义、种族主义和其他形式的极右意识形态的自治团体组成。

安迪NgoQuillette上个月在俄勒冈州波特兰报道右翼示威中的左翼反抗议者时遭到袭击。在事件的一个片段中，可以看到Ngo被奶昔击中，抗议者高呼，“滚开”。

本周早些时候，参议员特德·克鲁兹写了一份信致司法部长威廉·巴尔、副司法部长杰弗里·罗森和联邦调查局局长克里斯托弗·瑞，他们呼吁“根据敲诈勒索者影响和腐败组织法(RICO)”对反法西斯进行调查，并对波特兰市长特德·惠勒进行调查，他声称他拒绝阻止该组织在该市的暴力活动。

克鲁兹在信中要求司法部对“经常依靠暴力恐吓和惩罚其政治对手的左翼无政府主义恐怖组织”进行“有组织犯罪调查”

“反法西斯的暴力是普遍和众所周知的...反法西斯党的成员依靠面具来掩盖哪个特定成员犯下了任何特定的罪行，”克鲁兹说，并补充说联邦法律规定起诉依靠匿名的犯罪集团，如反法西斯党和三k党。

KKK和新纳粹组织Atomwaffen等组织被描述为“仇恨组织”，因为联邦政府没有公布活跃的国内恐怖组织的官方名单。然而，它确实将恐怖威胁列入了恐怖分子观察名单。

Antifa不是一个团体，而是一个反对极右议程的活动家网络。根据爱国者法案，一个团体通过从事“违反美国刑法的危害人类生命”的行为实施国内恐怖主义，目的是“恐吓或胁迫平民”、“影响政府政策”或“影响政府行为”如果该运动属于这一定义，执法部门调查其成员的能力将会扩大。

反诽谤联盟称，通过将反法西斯主义纳入该定义，政府有可能错误地将所有反抗议者贴上白人至上主义者的标签，这可能会让警方侵犯和平抗议者的权利。美国公民自由联盟由来已久警告爱国者法案对恐怖主义法的扩展可能会赋予政府没收财产和窥探抗议团体私人事务的权力。

虽然反法西斯组织的一些成员确实损坏了财产并参与了人身暴力，但他们还没有与美国的任何杀戮联系在一起，这与一些没有被指定为恐怖组织的已知仇恨团体不同。

“反法西斯拒绝种族主义，但使用不可接受的策略，”民主同盟军说，根据华盛顿邮报。“白人至上主义者使用更极端的暴力来传播他们的仇恨意识，恐吓少数民族，破坏民主规范。”

根据民主同盟军今年早些时候发布的一份报告，右翼极端分子对2009年至2018年间美国425起暴力极端主义导致的死亡负有73.3%的责任。而左翼极端分子应该为3.2%负责。

在右翼极端分子袭击造成的死亡中，民主同盟军发现白人至上主义者占绝大多数(76%)，其次是反政府极端分子，占19%。

2019年7月16日，DC华盛顿，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在白宫主持内阁会议。特朗普周六透露，他的政府目前正在考虑是否宣布反法西斯为“主要恐怖组织”

 

TRUMP WANTS TO DECLARE ANTIFA A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, EVEN THOUGH RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS HAVE BEEN MORE VIOLENT

President Donald Trump declared Saturday that he may soon try to classify Antifa ⁠— a loosely defined movement composed of left-wing, autonomous, militant anti-fascist groups and individuals ⁠— as a major terrorist organization to make it "easier for police to do their job."

"Consideration is being given to declaring ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the heads with baseball bats, a major Organization of Terror (along with MS-13 & others)," the president tweeted on Saturday afternoon. "Would make it easier for police to do their job!"

The Antifa movement, shortened from "anti-fascist," is comprised of autonomous groups that oppose neo-Nazis, fascism, white supremacists, racism and other forms of extreme right-wing ideology.

Andy Ngo, editor at the Quillette, was assaulted in Portland, Oregon last month while covering left-wing counter-protesters at a right-wing demonstration. In a clip of the incident, Ngo can be seen getting hit with a milkshake as protesters shouted, "get the f*** out of here."

Earlier this week, Senator Ted Cruz penned a letter to Attorney General William Barr, Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, and FBI Director Christopher Wray calling for a probe into Antifa "under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)", as well as an investigation into Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who he claims refused to stop the group's violence in the city.

In the letter, Cruz asked the Department of Justice to "open an organized crime investigation" into the "left-wing anarchist terrorist organization that routinely relies on violence to intimidate and punish its political opponents."

"Antifa's violence is widespread and well-known... Antifa's members rely on masks to conceal which particular member committed any given crime," Cruz said, adding that federal law provides for the prosecution of criminal groups that rely on anonymity, such as Antifa and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

Organizations such as the KKK and the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen are described as "hate groups" because the federal government does not make public an official list of active domestic terrorist groups. However, it does include terror threats on its terrorist watch list.

Antifa is not one group but a network of activists that oppose the far-right agenda. According to the Patriot Act, a group commits domestic terrorism by engaging in acts "dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the U.S." in order to "intimidate or coerce a civilian population," "influence the policy of a government," or "affect the conduct of a government." If the movement were to fall under that definition, law enforcement's ability to investigate its members would be expanded.

By including Antifa under that definition, the government runs the risk of wrongly labeling all counter protesters as white supremacists, the Anti-Defamation League said, which could allow police to violate the rights of peaceful protesters. The American Civil Liberties Union has long cautioned that the Patriot Act's expansion of terrorism law could give the government authority to seize property and pry into the private matters of protest groups.

While some members of Antifa have indeed damaged property and engaged in physical violence, they have not yet been linked to any killings in America, unlike some known hate groups that have not been designated as terrorist organizations.

"The Antifa reject racism but use unacceptable tactics," the ADL said, according to Washington Post. "White supremacists use even more extreme violence to spread their ideologies of hate, to intimidate ethnic minorities, and undermine democratic norms."

 

Right-wing extremists were responsible for 73.3 percent of the more than 425 deaths in the U.S. attributable to violent extremism between 2009 and 2018, according to an ADL report released earlier this year. While left-wing extremists were to blame for 3.2 percent.

Of those deaths attributable to right-wing extremist attacks — 313 in total, during that 10-year period — the ADL found that white supremacists were responsible for the vast majority (76 percent), followed by anti-government extremists with 19 percent.

U.S. President Donald Trump (C) leads a cabinet meeting at the White House July 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. Trump on Saturday revealed that his administration is currently considering whether to declare ANTIFA a "major Organization of Terror."