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No, those are ours too. You see my double standards? Hehehe...
For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)
Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Yeah, both the Italians and Spanish are weird. Can you imagine what kind of freak would emerge if you were to crossbreed them?
Originally posted by Chris 62
As for the Falklands, they were NEVER Argentinian, when Britain claimed them there was NO Argentina, it belonged to Spain, and they never claimed the islands before the British.
The people living there are all British, but UNLIKE Gibraltar, there are no displaced decendents.
Argentina was already independent when the britons took the islands, it was not a unified country, it was a confederacy of states and the province of Buenos Aires was the province in charge of internacional relationships of the confederacy.
The argentinean rule of the island (The confederacy was known as Provincias unidas del rio de la Plata, United provinces of the river plate) lasted from 1810 to 1833, and there was argentinean population, but minimal.
Anyway, I dont care at all about the islands.
2 icy rocks inhabited by 4 old britons and their sheeps.
That sounds like hell to me.
As for Gibraltar, the simple truth is that the people of Gibraltar have a right to self-determination, and as such Gibraltar ought to remain British for as long as it's people do.
Of course, I could go on. Gibraltar has been a British territory for far longer than it was ever under Spanish control (the Spanish themselves "stole" the rock from the Morrocans previously). It is also completely and utterly hypocritical of the Spanish to demand Gibraltar back whilst maintaining their enclaves on the north coast of Africa - indeed, we saw earlier this year that they were prepared to risk a war over an uninhabited cliff.
I guarantee my country's military is better than yours. Without a doubt.
Like that destroyer run aground off Australia? Or the submarine run aground off the coast of Scotland?
As for the Falklands, they were NEVER Argentinian, when Britain claimed them there was NO Argentina, it belonged to Spain, and they never claimed the islands before the British.
The people living there are all British, but UNLIKE Gibraltar, there are no displaced decendents.
"Pero pronto las Provincias Unidas del RÃo de La Plata, por conducto de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, se ocuparon de la administración insular designando "permisionarios", "concesionarios", "comisionados", "comandantes" y "comandantes polÃticos y militares"."
Despite not taking charge as of 1810, Buenos Aires took care of the Administration and designated permissions, comissions and commanders to rule in their name.
El gobierno de Buenos Aires nombra a Luis Vernet como "Comandante PolÃtico y Militar", delegándose "en su persona toda la autoridad y jurisdicción necesaria" y con las instrucciones pertinentes.
Vernet, de simple empresario y concesionario, pasa a ser representante polÃtico del Gobierno bonaerense, timbrando la documentación con un sello que decÃa "Armas de la Patria. Comandancia de Malvinas y adyacentes".
A comienzos de 1831 Vernet elaboró un plan para la organización de la caza de focas y ballenas y la defensa del litoral dependiente de su Comandancia, en aplicación de la ley de pesca. Las medidas punitivas afectaron a tres goletas norteamericanas, "Harriet", "Superior" y "Breakwater", de las cuales dos fueron capturadas, cuya suerte generó graves problemas diplomáticos con los Estados Unidos y con su cónsul en Buenos Aires, Jorge W. Slacum, que de paso representaba los intereses económicos de los pesqueros.
Vernet formuló una nueva propuesta para reconstruir la Colonia, que habÃa quedado con sólo veinticinco habitantes, solicitando equipamiento y material humano para su expedición reivindicatoria. No tuvo respuesta ministerial formal.
El 14 de septiembre de 1832, Rosas imparte las instrucciones al nuevo Comandante Mestivier y faculta al Comandante de la "Sarandà para darle posesión del mando con las formalidades de la ordenanza. Se le encomienda orientar a los habitantes en cultivos agrÃcolas y defender el honor de la República respondiendo con las fuerzas a los invasores. Desembarcaron el 10 de octubre de 1832 y ante la tropa y los habitantes asume Mestivier la Comandancia. El 30 de noviembre de 1832 una sublevación de parte de la guarnición no pudo ser reprimida por el Comandante, el que murió en la contingencia.
El 2 de enero de 1833 se presentó en el puerto un navÃo de guerra de bandera inglesa, la "Clio", al mando de John James Onslow. La misión de J. M. Pinedo habÃa terminado. La defensa era imposible. Reembarcó la tropa existente en el Establecimiento, dejando izado en tierra el pabellón argentino al cuidado de Juan Simón, a quien nombró Comandante PolÃtico y Militar de las Islas. El 4 de enero puso proa hacia Buenos Aires.
Too lazy to translate that, but it proves that the Malvinas were illegally usurped by Great Britain since there was an Argentine administration in the Islands.
Isn't the British government trying to negotiate joint custody with the Spanish for Gibraltar? I don't think it's necessarily a case of Spain wants it back (although it does), but also Britain doesn't consider it vitally important anymore.
I also seem to recall that many Gibraltarans(?) work and shop over in Spain. And I know that Spain has shut the border down a few times, screwing some people over.
As for Hong Kong, again I may be incorrect, but I thought that most of the people actually wanted it to be part of China. They just feared the Chinese economic system. I thought it was pretty much the same deal as Taiwan - want to be a part of China, but on their own terms.
"The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
"you people who bash Bush have no appreciation for one of the great presidents in our history." - Ned
"I wish I had gay sex in the boy scouts" - Dissident
I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
Good for you datajack, now can you provide a damn point for that?
If Gibraltar won't accept our rule we won't let them into our country. I know that is kind of nationalistic but if they want to spit in our country's face like this then they will get screwed.
To the Argentines here:
Why does your country claim a big portion of Antarctica? The land isn't your's. Infact it shouldn't be anybodys.
For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)
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