Lest They Forget

Even now, thirty years after the events, trendy little lefties like to flaunt their total historical and political ignorance, and support Argentina's claim to the Falklands .... The singer Morrissey's comments in support of Argentina for example, follow those of such luminaries as the US actor Sean Penn and the Pink Floyd bass player Roger Waters ... intellectual giants one and all.

Many of them no doubt *marched in support of the Military Junta when the original invasion took place ..... but then the left has never cared much about truth, or justice, just ideological or class propaganda. So maybe this is a good time to remind those who prefer to ignore the truth of the regime that they supported.

Leftwing Human rights groups estimate that in all, more than 30,000 people were kidnapped and murdered by the Junta and its supporters during the period they ruled, which only ended after the failure of the invasion of the Falklands.

Even now, most of the victim’s bodies have never been found. The 'Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo' have been marching every Thursday for 35 yrs to remind the Argentines (including their nasty little president) that these crimes were never adequately investigated nor resolved.

Soon these old ladies will be gone .... justice will not have been served, and the left-wing myth, that supporting the Argentine invasion and its subsequent attempts to bully the UK into handing the Islanders over to Argentina is 'just', will be left unhindered by any inconvenient facts, or a mothers tears.

Oh, and for the benefit of Mr Penn ..... here's some 'inconvenient historical facts' ...

The Time Lines of The Falklands and Guam

Falklands	Guam
Uninhabited when discovered by Europeans.	Indigenous Chamorro peoples.
1st British Landings - In 1690 Captain John Strong of the Welfare.	1668 to 1898 – continuous Spanish Rule and colonists.
French (1764), then British Colonies (1765).	Occupied By US 1898 after seizing them from Spain in a trumped up war during US 'Empire' era.
Spain gained control of French Colony 1767 following war, and attacked British colonists 1770.	Occupied By Japan 1941.
1774 – British withdrawal during war but left behind a plaque asserting our continued claim.	Re-occupied by US 1944.
Spain maintained its governor until 1806 who, on his departure, also left behind a plaque asserting Spanish claims.	Occupied ever since.
The last Spanish settlers were  withdrawn in 1811.	In the 1980s and early 1990s, there was a significant movement in favour of the territory becoming a 'commonwealth' i.e. Self-government similar to Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Islands now unoccupied by any colonists.	However, the US federal government rejected the version of a commonwealth that the government of Guam proposed.
1820 – US Privateer ‘Colonel D Jewett’ raised the ‘Republic of River plate’ flag on Falklands BUT while anchored there (and incidentally aided by British ships) he found some 50 British and U.S. sealing ships already on the Islands.	Still occupied US territory.
1833 – British Fleet arrives and expels various nationalities including a by now illegal ‘Argentine garrison’
Lt Henry Smith became the first permanent British resident 1834.
Governed as a naval station until 1840, when the British Government decided to establish a permanent colony.
Invaded 1982 by Argentina.
Invaders beaten 1982 – Argentine surrender.
Still British Colony.

.... So who are the colonialists with a "ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology" Mr Penn?

* Update: A case in point is John O'Farrell the Labour Candidate for the Eastleigh by-election in 2013, who has previously stated that he was "disappointed" that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was not murdered by the IRA, and that he wanted Britain to lose the Falklands War to the Military Junta of Argentina.