On Thursday, the State Department announced sanctions on Georgian officials over a foreign agents bill that the speaker of Georgia’s parliament signed into law earlier in the week.
The law, titled “On the Transparency of Foreign Influence,” requires non-governmental organizations that receive at least 20% of their funding from abroad to register as foreign agents.
The US has been warning Georgia against enacting the law and threatening there would be consequences. According to The Associated Press, the sanctions impose travel bans on members of the ruling Georgian Dream party, law enforcement officers, lawmakers, private citizens, and family members.
When announcing the travel bans, State Department spokesman Matt Miller didn’t name the targeted individuals but said “a few dozen” people would be sanctioned. He also threatened the US would take more action if Georgia didn’t change course.
Proponents of the bill in the Georgian Dream party have compared it to the US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which requires individuals or entities engaging in lobbying or other activity on behalf of a foreign country to register as foreign agents with the US Department of Justice.
The US and opponents of the law compare it to a similar law that was enacted by Russia in 2012. The Russian law was part of Moscow’s response to the US government funding NGOs and opposition parties. The White House has previously expressed support for protesters inside Georgia who oppose the new law.
The problem with color revolution is that once it’s played out, you can’t reuse it again.
UA had the Orange & Maidan, but not many countries are as corrupt as the Ukies..Georgia is showing a pleasant degree of political awareness..
A few camp guards came from Ukraine. I have seen pictures of German officers with Ukrainians, and, Catholic clergymen, in Ukraine, during the war.
Let's sanction every country in the world that doesn't want to look like Ukraine or Israel.
FJB and his criminal thugs in Washington.
People of all countries have a right to know who is buying their Politicians and that includes the USA. Biden again, is looking like a FOOL. Sanctions for what, because a country makes their own laws, to try and protect themselves from invaders? We need a similar law and if we already had such a law, Israel would NOT be running our Republic.
Touché Ole!
The US has not only a similar law, but the very model the Georgians used to draft theirs: the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Naturally, AIPAC doesn't have to abide by it and there are tons of loopholes for Congresscritters gettin' payola.
AIPAC is the child born from the AZC, which should have been registered as a foreign agent.
But we "love freedom", so its ok. Clearly the Georgians "hate freedom", and "hate democracy", so sanctions are in order. The logic is irrefutable.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/12/georgia-abandon-foreign-agent-registration-law
We are a constant war running the government.
Relevance?
Can you read? Got a mind? Follow history?
The article is about the country Georgia and the criticism of the new law regarding foreign agents – how is you point: "We are a constant war running the government"
Relevant – is it that you propose that the US is about to start a war with Georgia?
The sanctions that the US are imposing are on a dozens of individuals (officials) how does this imply war?
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Moreover how is it relevant to the point raised by human rights watch?
The federal government of the USA has sunk into the cesspool of history.
What about sanctioning AIPAC??? Hmmm?
The fate of the US is that AIPAC is doing the sanctioning. The Israel Lobby owns the US government. But the US is a democracy though. Currently this democracy consists of a chosing on a menu of two old men, one white, one orange, both mentally ill, both corrupt as the day is long, one of them genocidal, the other aspiring to be more genocidal still, the Americans want to serve Israeli interests.
One has to feel sorry for the writers of the Simpsons. Whatever absurdity they are able to come up with, and this is by no means an accusation of insufficient imagination and creativity happening there, it is absolutely certain to fall hopelessly short when reality overtakes it when the US spirals further down to a new low.
The federal government of the USA has sunk into the cesspool of history.
With amnesia poured over it.
Georgians, how dare you limit Democrat George Soros' influence over your politics? How are we going to do another color revolution in Georgia if needed? Now the Democrats must use the U.S. government's power to punish you.
Background: As in Ukraine in 2008 and 2014, Georgia had a "color revolution" in 2003, carried out by a "youth organization" funded by George Soros, the CIA's NED, USAID, IRI, Freedom House.
They overthrew the president, Eduard Shevardnadze, the founder of perestroika in the earlier Soviet Union.
The new president bragged that he could come and go as he pleased in the White House. He went to Washington with his wife who went shopping with U.S. female politicians. They were finally out of the trashheap and got to visit a Western country. The Georgian military was QUADRUPLED in size by U.S. money, and was trained by the CIA and Mossad (but Israel paid nothing).
Then this new military was used to attack Russian-speaking South Ossetia, which was "Georgian" only on Soviet paper, moved to them by the Georgian Stalin for administrative purposes. They bombed South Ossetia and killed some Russian peacekeepers stationed there.
But Russia responded quickly. And the South Ossetians fought well for their freedom.
The attack was done during the Olympics – a typical Washington/Israel stunt, to choose the time for war with an eye to when the media would be distracted.
As Russia entered Georgia they found U.S. missiles which would be meaningless against the South Ossetians, but which were likely placed there for an eventual attack on Iran to the south.
As for the Georgian Dream party they have been in and out of power for many years, a well-established part of Georgian politics; it's not like a party suddenly took power and initiated a new law. The kind of thing the Soros-Washington-Israel axis does.
Do as we say not as we do!
Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)
“FARA requires certain agents of foreign principals who are engaged in political activities or other activities specified under the statute to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of those activities.”
All the protesters are in one way or another recepients od foreign grants- — either ine time or permanently staffed, They are active in politics, media, academia, legal profession, police, activism in social arena, etc.,l
What is possible justification for not alliwin lg other countries to have FARA protection? Russian law is pretty much a copy of American. Georgian law is very weak compared to American FARA. Only financijal oenalties are provided for. No penalties for individuals.
Meh? Another day of meaningless sanctions and hypocrisy
The consequences would be far worse if they didn't pass that law.
"US Bombers Drop Live Munitions in Threat to …"
Fill in name of target country here .
Damn those Georgians; they hate freedom so much they will no longer allow US NGOs and state department money to operate in the dark and instigate another coup, like the one that brought our puppet Saakashvili to power in the so-called "Rose Revolution", and nearly triggered a war that would have ruined Georgia. OF COURSE we need to sanction them. Sanction them BAD. Sanction them and sanction them some more. How else will they ever learn to love freedom???
Interestingly, little Saakashvili is now in Ukraine, in the inner circle of that other great patriot and freedom-lover, Zelensky. Can't make this stuff up.
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