The U.S. State Department release “U.S. Support for Georgian People,” issued Dec. 4, displays a reckless disregard for the facts on the ground. In so doing, its overtly one-sided account appears designed as nothing so much as the cover for a “color revolution” coup.
It begins by citing “reports of serious injuries sustained by people at the hands of law enforcement,” as if over 110 policemen had not already been injured by some of the violent protesters. It then condemned “the Georgian Dream party’s brutal and unjustified violence” and its “repressive tactics” of “arbitrary detention and physical violence….” It characterized the arrested protesters as “detained for exercising their human rights to peaceful assembly”—though, assumedly, the overwhelming majority of those not detained might have been trying to assemble peacefully, while the overwhelming majority of those detained were indeed carrying out the violent and illegal actions.
