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Post #630595

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Bingowings
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Religion
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Date created
31-Mar-2013, 7:46 AM

It reminds me of the sort of ta'do that happens when someone changes or neglects to remember one of the artifacts of a classic telly show or a comic book.

The Doctor never snogs his companions. Batman doesn't shoot people. Sherlock Holmes wouldn't fall in love with anyone let alone a woman who isn't Irene Adler.

The Pope doesn't wash women's feet, Jesus only washed men's feet.

The Doctor wouldn't wear a leather jacket, Superman wouldn't grow a beard. The Pope has to wear his ruby slippers and his fur hat or he isn't a proper Pope.

He has some funny ideas though.

On the Falkland Islands 3 people when polled wanted to be Argentine.

That's 3 people to 1500.

Yet he sees the 1983 invasion at the fag end of the Dirty War, as Argentine's defending their mother and the forced removal of the Argentines as a usurpation.

In with those invaders were colourful characters like this chap responsible for pushing people (including famously two French Catholic nuns) alive out of airplanes.

I have no doubt that the reason Westminster and and Buenos Aires are so keen to fight over the islands is more to do with mineral rights than human rights but when the majority population don't want to be Argentine with good reason it's wrong to force them especially as they have never been Argentine.

Cristina Fernández de Kircher calls this British Colonialism. She is president of a country which has a mostly latin/ Catholic identity. Yet the land was once owned by indigenous peoples with cultures of their own.

The indigenous peoples of the Falklands are penguins, seals and gulls.

If I were Prime Minister of Great Britain I would call their bluff and say have the mineral rights but leave the population alone.

That way we would know what the Argentines really want but for obvious reasons they will never do that.