A critical perspective from the World Socialist Web Site:
Stop Trump’s military deployment to Portland! Mobilize the working class against dictatorship!
Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland, Oregon, with authorization to use deadly violence, is a criminal assault on the American people and part of a calculated conspiracy to obliterate democratic rights and establish a police state.
On Saturday morning, Trump posted on Truth Social: “At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”
The president of the United States has ordered the military into an American city with the explicit directive to use deadly force against civilians. This is an unprecedented violation of the Constitution and the Posse Comitatus Act. It is a frontal assault on the inalienable rights of the population, including those inscribed in the First Amendment, which prohibits any abridgment of “the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” If there were any definition of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” this is it.
