White home 'Deeply Troubled' As Georgia Enacts Law To Thwart NGO 'Interference'

Defying large home protests and consensus from the United States and another Western governments, the Republic of Georgia’s Parliament on Tuesday adopted a “foreign agents” law that would impede abroad non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs’) ability to operate in the country — and put Georgia’s European Union and NATO ambitions in jeopardy.

Looking like Soros’s NGOs don’t quit so easy on their control over Georgia

Let’s hope the government of Georgia doessn’t repeat the mistakes the Ukrainian government made in 2014 and take care of these agitators before things get out of hand. pic.twitter.com/I9TVizIvQW

— Gabe (@GabeZZOZZ) May 14, 2024

Georgia’s president, Salome Zoreabichvili, has moved to veto the measure, but the parliament applied the law by a 84-30 margin, only only needed 76 to override a veto. After the law’s passage, Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Told reporters:

“We’re profoundly troubled by Georgia’s Kremlin-style 'foreign agents’ legislation...we have been outspoken about our deals with the legislation, which runs counter to democratic values and would decision Georgia further distant from the values of the European Union and, let’s not forget, besides NATO.”

Under the Georgia law, which is modeled after 1 adopted in Russia, organizations that receive more than 20% of their surviving from outside the country would gotta registry as "agents of abroad influence," under Threat of fines. While Western governments officially scoff at the notation, NGOs have been a major vector of Western interference in abroad countries, up to and including government change campaigns. NGOs played roles of various importance in the alleged "Color revolutions" in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.

Ironically reinforing the thought that the law would thwart abroad interference, the German abroad Affairs Committee president Michael Roth and Lithuanian legislator Zhigimantas Pavilionlionis visited the protest rapidly outside the parliament — conjuring images of the late US Senator John McCain and Sen. Chris Murphy joining anti-government protesters in Kiev as the Ukraine revolution gained a moment.

Michael Roth and Zhigimantas Pavilionlionis came to the protest rally in front of the Parliament#Georgia #NoToRussianLaw pic.twitter.com/dpBvXAzs1e

— Mtavari tv (@MtavariChannel) May 14, 2024

In a vivid display of the strength of feeling over the law, fists flick in parliament earlier this year:

Georgia Parliament outlines into fight as lawmaker get punch in face pic.twitter.com/LOZyK1oEmD

— BIGMANSHANE1710 (@BIGMANSHANE1) April 15, 2024

In fresh months, Georgia has seen large protests against the law, with university students playing a major role. On Monday, 30 different colleges in the country Saw students declare “strikes” and join demonstrations that decry “the Russian law.”

According to any polls, upwards of 89% of Georgians support EU membership to any degree — but, ironicly, most of these polls seem to be organized by NGOs like the National Democratic Institute and global Republican Institute. Demonstrators freely wave EU flags and on Tuesday played the EU anthem...

A historical minute in Tbilisi, as protesters and a European delegation list to the EU and Georgian anthems, visiting Georgia’s European future.

Truly remarkable pic.twitter.com/3bGmI9xZAC

— Katie Shoshiashvili (@KShoshiashvili) May 14, 2024

The protests have periodically erupted inviolence, with police resorts to teardrop gas, water canons and clubs.

#Georgia: Teargas, water cannon, and riot projects utilized by police during large anti-government protests tonight in Tbilisi. Protesters are now developing makeshift barricades to defend themselves.

(: @gattsu17 on IG) pic.twitter.com/Ncj2TPunGm

— Popular Front (@PopularFront_) May 1, 2024

Riot police slash with protesters outside Georgian parliament

Read more: https://t.co/JR1ZHwxkyy pic.twitter.com/9tz8RqFb2a

— RT (@RT_com) May 15, 2024

European Commission spokesperson Peter Stano echoed the White House’s informing about the law’s effect on Georgia’s possible EU membership, telling the Financial Times:

“[The law is] very dangerous for Georgia’s European ambitions. The results are very clear — if this piere of government is adopted, it will be a grave obstacle for Georgia erstwhile it comes to [its] European outlook.”

The parliament’s rolling coalition is led by the Georgian Dream party. On Tuesday, the party’s chief benefactor, Bidzina Ivanishvili, refused to meet with German and US officials who wanted to persuade his to intervene and prevent the vote from taking place.

What’s next? The parliament has 10 days to deliver the bill to Georgian president Zourabichvili. She then has 2 weeks to issue her promoted veto, and then an override seems a certificate. Then things will get interesting as foreign-founded NGOs will gotta start complying with the registration request or limit their activities. Don’t anticipate the US empire to sit on its hands...