Amnesiac Histories

If you or I was to walk unguarded in either the Palestinian West bank, or in the Hamas run Gaza strip, we would almost certainly run the serious risk of being kidnapped (especially in Gaza), either as a terror hostage/execution, or for ransom/prisoner swap. Our crime? Being :

(a) A Westerner.
(b) A Non Muslim, or
 

Jeremy Corbyn Described Hamas and Hezbollah As Friends

(c) Stupid enough to believe the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli nonsense that comes out of the mouths of idiots like Jeremy Corbyn.

Crackers In Caracas

“Welcome to the USSR” …. That’s the sign they should put up at Simón Bolívar International Airport, aka Caracas International airport in Venezuela.

Chavez - From Soldier -
To Arrested Coup Plotter -
To Demagogue. A Well Worn Path.

It certainly seems to be a country run by idiots, with an ideological bias that only an ex-terrorist could have come up with.

 

The Court Of The Mad Hatter

In a sign that South Africa really is now just another Black African nation, it announced that Zenani Mandela-Dlamini (a Daughter of Nelson Mandela), has been been appointed as ambassador to Argentina.

Practising For The Court Of The Mad Hatter

Nepotism is running rampant in South Africa these days .... the new royalty is being created as we watch.

 

Still she will be in good company, with El Presidenti Kirchner ruling the roost, in a manner that an African politician would be proud of ..... the court of the mad hatter is being assembled.

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.

Remember The Junta?

I remember when the Falklands war broke out ....

 

Mrs Thatcher In The Falklands

 

.... there was such a anti-Thatcher feeling amongst the UK's Left Wing, that they *supported the Argentinians Military Junta's invasion.

 

The Right To Vote

Gibraltar, that little bit of England in the Mediterranean, fought a very hard legal battle against our pathetic governments, and the Spanish (who like the Argentinians find history hard to digest, and democracy even harder to swallow .... is it because they are both 'new' democracies??), to get the right to vote in European elections, is voting this week, as part of the English constituency of 'South West England and Gibraltar'.

I am pleased that despite the PC policies of appeasement to the Spanish speaking world, that this country has followed under the Labour Government since the "Falklands War", justice and democracy finally prevailed, due in part to the much maligned (by me amongst others) "Human Rights Act".

Argy Bargy in South Atlantic

Even though Argentina are now a democracy and you would expect that they would act like that in respect to others, they continue to harbour ambitions over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.

This has been shown once by what can only be described as an aggressive claim to the UN to ownership of all the territorial waters on the continental shelf (including those around the Falklands). The 1,700,000 sq km (650,000 sq miles) claimed includes the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands.

This follows increasingly bellicose talk from Buenos Aires about "Colonial Wars" and continuing claims on the Islands.

As usual, the wishes of the wholly British inhabitants don't enter into the considerations of the Argentines, who see no irony in trying to colonise English speaking islands, whilst claiming Britain is a colonial power.

As expected, our spineless UK government has apparently done nothing to counter this claim, and we await the inevitable last minute scramble as the Brown government realises that the UN is biased against us, and that the UK population won't stand for letting Argentina take the islands by stealth.