唐纳德·特朗普总统警告说，他可能会宣布左翼反法西斯运动为“恐怖组织”特朗普的评论发表在推特上，先于俄勒冈州波特兰市的骄傲男孩抗议活动，预计周六将有数百人聚集在市中心的滨水公园附近。

“主要考虑将反法西斯组织命名为‘恐怖组织’波特兰正受到密切关注。希望市长能够恰当地完成他的工作！”特朗普写道。

城市领导人担心，这场旨在吸引持相反政治和社会观点的人的抗议可能会导致城市街道上广泛的暴力事件。

波特兰警方和其他地方、州和联邦一级的响应单位将在抗议活动中大力巡逻，并确保参与者留在人行道上。波特兰警察局发言人蒂娜·琼斯中尉告诉美国全国广播公司新闻，那些违反城市街道条例的人将被逮捕，因为没有为该活动发放群众集会许可。

“这主要是看谁在比赛当天出现，”她周五说。

这项活动由骄傲男孩组织的成员举办，该组织自称是年轻的“西方沙文主义者”的“兄弟组织”。该组织成立于2016年，创始人之一、前编辑加文·麦金尼斯强烈宣称，他们与极右组织和其他法西斯和白人至上主义组织没有联系，而是以“反白人罪行”的议程来维护“反政治正确性”。南方贫困法律中心指出，该组织支持极端主义运动，特别是骄傲男孩组织参与夏洛茨维尔“联合右翼”集会，在该集会上，一名妇女被杀害。

该组织周六举行的“结束国内恐怖主义”集会旨在让被称为反法西斯国家的自由派反法西斯集体被承认为国内恐怖组织。美联社报道，其他极右和白人民族主义团体预计将抵达波特兰参加抗议活动，尽管组织者乔·比格斯要求人们不要携带武器和挑起战斗。

这不是特朗普对安蒂法的第一个威胁。在得克萨斯州参议员特德·克鲁兹7月份无条件承认“反法西斯被指定为国内恐怖组织”的决议后，他发出警告，宣布反法西斯为恐怖组织。在保守派记者安迪·恩戈本月早些时候在波特兰遭到反对极右极端组织的人袭击后，克鲁兹建议司法部长威廉·巴尔调查安蒂法。

波特兰最受欢迎的左翼组织玫瑰城反法西斯党对克鲁兹的决议做出回应，声明称共和党“明确针对政治反对派”

声明继续说:“如果获得通过，这项决议将成为压制美国左翼分子和异议人士的有力新武器。”。


 

'ORGANIZATION OF TERROR': DONALD TRUMP WARNS ANTIFA MAY BE RENAMED IN LIGHT OF PROUD BOY PROTESTS IN PORTLAND

President Donald Trump warned that he might declare the left-wing Antifia movement an "Organization of Terror." Trump's comment, shared on Twitter, comes ahead of the Proud Boy protest in Portland, Oregon, which is expected to draw hundreds near a downtown waterfront park on Saturday.

"Major consideration is being given to naming ANTIFA an 'ORGANIZATION OF TERROR.' Portland is being watched very closely. Hopefully the Mayor will be able to properly do his job!" Trump wrote.

City leaders fear the protest, which is positioned to draw people with opposing political and social views, could lead to widespread violence within the city streets.

Portland Police and other local, state and federal level response units will be heavily patrolling the protest and ensuring participants remain on sidewalks. Those who violate city street ordinances will be subject to arrest as no mass gathering permits were granted for the event, Lt. Tina Jones, a spokeswoman for the Portland Police Bureau, told NBC News.

"A lot of this is seeing who shows up on game day," she said on Friday.

The event is being held by members of Proud Boys, a group which boasts to be a "fraternal organization" for young "Western chauvinist" men. Created in 2016 by Vice co-founder and former editor Gavin McInnes, the group vehemently claims they are not connected to the alt-right and other fascist and white supremacist groups, but rather uphold "anti-political correctness" with an "anti-white guilt" agenda. The Southern Poverty Law Center notes the group's support of extremist movements, particularly Proud Boys' involvement in the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally, during which a woman was killed.

The organization's "End Domestic Terrorism" rally on Saturday aims to get the liberal-leaning anti-fascist collective known as Antifa nationally recognized as a domestic terrorist organization. Other far-right and white nationalist groups are expected to arrive in Portland to participate in the protest, although organizer Joe Biggs requested people refrain from bringing weapons and starting fights, the Associated Press reported.

This isn't Trump's first threat against Antifa. He issued warnings to declare Antifa a terror group following Texas Senator Ted Cruz's nonbonding resolution to acknowledge the "designation of Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization" in July. Along with the resolution, Cruz suggested Attorney General William Barr investigate Antifa after conservative journalist Andy Ngo was attacked by people opposing far-right extremist groups in Portland earlier in the month.

Portland's most popular left-wing group Rose City Antifa issued a response to Cruz's resolution with a statement claiming the Republican Party was "explicitly targeting political opposition."

"If passed, this resolution would be a powerful new weapon for silencing leftists and dissent in the U.S," the statement continued.