REPORT: Tory Members Threatened with Party Expulsion if They Back Farage
Conservative Party members have reportedly been warned they face expulsion if they are caught campaigning for the Brexit Party.
“All party members, including elected representatives at all levels, are expected to fully support the party in all elections.
“Campaigning for or endorsement of any other political party is incompatible with membership of the party… The board will not hesitate to enforce these rules,” a leaked email from the Conservative Party board seen by The Times said.
Tory MPs are also believed to be considering joining the Brexit Party, with the newspaper having sight of a leaked WhatsApp message from a senior Tory Brexiteer to members of the European Research Group (ERG) which said, “Maybe we should all just defect to the Brexit Party. Can you imagine the chaos.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/04/28/report-conservative-activists-threatened-party-expulsion-back-farage/
The Mueller effect? DOJ steps up FARA enforcement
As the country focused on special counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month-long investigation, the Justice Department was ramping up its efforts to enforce the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
In a recent interview with the Washington Examiner, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Adam Hickey of the National Security Division stressed the Justice Department was going to prioritize enforcement of Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, well beyond the end of the Mueller investigation. “I think the statute is really smart and really good, because — you’ve got this problem of malign foreign influence, right? So what do you do about it?” Hickey said.
Originally passed during the World War II era to combat Nazi propaganda efforts, the rarely prosecuted law gained new attention after Mueller secured Foreign Agent convictions against Trump associates like Paul Manafort and Rick Gates during his investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 campaign.
The Foreign Agents Registration Act requires anyone who is working on behalf of a foreign government — whether a lobbyist, a business, a K Street firm, or a media outlet — to disclose this relationship by registering with the Justice Department.
Hickey admitted there was a time when the Foreign Agents unit was not taken as seriously as the rest of the Justice Department. When people were questioned by the unit, he said, “their answers were not as complete and in some cases — including some public cases — they were misleading, and deliberately so.”
“So how do you address that problem?” Hickey asked. “Well, one, you have to make clear to people that there will be consequences if they come to you and answer your questions in a way that is misleading.”
Since this interview, Greg Craig — formerly a White House counsel for President Obama and a partner at Skadden, Arps, Meagher, Slate, & Flom law firm — was charged with making false statements to investigators about the work he had done in 2012 for pro-Russian elements of the Ukrainian government.
Hickey repeatedly pointed to a settlement agreement that the Justice Department reached with Skadden in January, requiring them to pay $4.6 million for their failure to properly register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/the-mueller-effect-doj-steps-up-fara-enforcement
Yellow Vests mutilated by 'sublethal' police weapons form their own association, plan anti-brutality
Yellow Vest protesters who have suffered life-changing injuries at the hands of French police have launched their own association, promising fresh actions against police brutality.
Called “the Mutilated for the edification of others,” the collective aims to accurately calculate the number of people who have been injured nationally by police during Yellow Vest protests. It also called for an end to the use of the non-lethal weapons deployed by French police — namely tear gas canisters and flashballs — and a large national demonstration is scheduled in Paris on May 26.
Among those attending was Jerome Rodrigues, a prominent Yellow Vest leader who was hit in the eye with a gas canister during a demonstration in January. “You have 19 people in front of you and you have only 26 eyes that look back,” he told the press conference. “Count, there is a small problem,” he added.
We demand the truth, justice and the ban on so-called sublethal weapons," said Robin Pagès, another activist. He accused French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner of “lying” when the minister suggested that only “10 people have been hit in the head by LBD [flashball] shots.”
According to statistics gathered by the activist group Desarmons-les (“Disarm Them”), at least 154 people have been seriously injured by police use of non-lethal weapons during protests. Of that number, 22 people have lost the use of an eye due to flash balls. A further five have had their hand torn off by gas canisters.
The growing list of casualties has done little to prevent police use of non-lethal weapons, who fired gas at hundreds of protesters in order to prevent them from gathering at the EU Parliament building in Strasbourg on Saturday.
Now in entering its 25th week, the movement has morphed from one protesting a planned fuel tax hike into a wider campaign against austerity and the pro-business policies of the French government.
https://www.rt.com/news/457786-injured-yellow-vests-association/
Ay, can't have the little people getting their own country back.