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the Falklands oil row

guypjfreakguypjfreak Posts: 2,281
edited February 2010 in A Moving Train
i see that as the British may have found oil down there the Argentinians are trying to impose restrictions on ships going down there .
the Falklands are a British sovereignty and i think they should remember that . :evil:
i also think they should remember what happened in 1982 ! nobody wants that :?:
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  • flywallyflyflywallyfly Posts: 1,453
    I remember that war. I never laughed so hard as when Britain used a passenger ship (the Queen Elizabeth 1 ??)to transport its troops to the tiny little island. So yes, nobody wants that -- especially the British tourist industry !
  • he still standshe still stands Posts: 2,835
    I wonder if the Monroe Doctrine would take effect if it were say... China... that claimed a part of the Americas instead of the UK?
    Everything not forbidden is compulsory and eveything not compulsory is forbidden. You are free... free to do what the government says you can do.
  • masciamascia Posts: 20
    The islands are Argentinian, they are placed on the Argentinian sea, the fact that England has always being a colonizer country it doesn't mean that they can keep the islands, they should be returned to Argentina which is the legitimate owner of them. These f***ing pirates invaded the islands in 1833, until that year they were part of Argentinian land.
    ¡LAS MALVINAS FUERON SON Y SERAN ARGENTINAS!
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    mascia wrote:
    The islands are Argentinian, they are placed on the Argentinian sea, the fact that England has always being a colonizer country it doesn't mean that they can keep the islands, they should be returned to Argentina which is the legitimate owner of them. These f***ing pirates invaded the islands in 1833, until that year they were part of Argentinian land.
    ¡LAS MALVINAS FUERON SON Y SERAN ARGENTINAS!

    normally i would agree with you but it's 300 miles out and the people living on the island now do not want to be part of Argentina as far as i know .. .
  • guypjfreakguypjfreak Posts: 2,281
    the Falklands are as British as Hawaii are American
  • masciamascia Posts: 20
    polaris_x wrote:
    mascia wrote:
    The islands are Argentinian, they are placed on the Argentinian sea, the fact that England has always being a colonizer country it doesn't mean that they can keep the islands, they should be returned to Argentina which is the legitimate owner of them. These f***ing pirates invaded the islands in 1833, until that year they were part of Argentinian land.
    ¡LAS MALVINAS FUERON SON Y SERAN ARGENTINAS!

    normally i would agree with you but it's 300 miles out and the people living on the island now do not want to be part of Argentina as far as i know .. .

    And when the islands where part of Argentina and England colonize them I don't think they asked the people who where living there if they wanted to be part of the English Empire?
    guypjfreak wrote:
    the Falklands are as British as Hawaii are American
    It's the same case, Hawaii was a free state until 1898 when they were annexed to the USA.

    Read what I found in wikipedia:
    The overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi and the subsequent annexation of Hawaiʻi has recently been cited as the first major instance of American imperialism.[14]
    In 1993, the US Congress passed Public Law 103-150 ("The Apology Bill") which corrects misinformation regarding the overthrow of the monarchy and apologizes on behalf of the United States for the "suppression of the inherent sovereignty of the Native Hawaiian people".
  • rebornFixerrebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    70% of the people on the Falklands are of British decent. There is a small minority of people from South America, mainly Chile. In short, there are/were no "native" Falkland Islanders for the British to "imperially conquest"!
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    mascia wrote:
    And when the islands where part of Argentina and England colonize them I don't think they asked the people who where living there if they wanted to be part of the English Empire?

    they were never part of Argentina ... when it was colonized - there weren't some indigenous peoples living there although there was evidence of people there ...
  • masciamascia Posts: 20
    polaris_x wrote:
    mascia wrote:
    And when the islands where part of Argentina and England colonize them I don't think they asked the people who where living there if they wanted to be part of the English Empire?

    they were never part of Argentina ... when it was colonized - there weren't some indigenous peoples living there although there was evidence of people there ...

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands:
    On 6 November 1820, Colonel David Jewett raised the flag of the United Provinces of the River Plate (Argentina) at Port Louis. Jewett was an American sailor and privateer in the employment of Buenos Aires businessman Patrick Lynch to captain his ship.
    In 1828 the Argentines founded a settlement and a penal colony. United States warships destroyed this settlement in 1831 after the Argentine governor of the islands Luis Vernet seized US seal hunting ships during a dispute over fishing rights. Escaped prisoners and pirates were left behind. In November 1832, Argentina sent another governor who was killed in a mutiny.
    In January 1833, British forces returned and informed the Argentine commander that they intended to reassert British sovereignty. The existing settlers were allowed to remain, with an Irish member of Vernet's settlement, William Dickson, appointed as the Islands' governor. Vernet's deputy, Matthew Brisbane, returned later that year and was informed that the British had no objections to the continuation of Vernet's business ventures provided there was no interference with British control.[23][24][25][26]
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    also from wikipedia ...

    The islands were uninhabited when they were first discovered by European explorers but there is evidence that Patagonian Indians may have reached the Falklands in canoes.

    The English name for the islands, the "Falkland Islands", derives from the English mariner John Strong, who in 1690 named the channel between the two main islands "Falkland Sound" after his patron
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