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Sean Penn accuses Britain of 'colonialism' over Falklands
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 13 Feb 2012 | Staff Reporter

Posted on 02/13/2012 5:27:42 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick

Sean Penn has accused Britain of colonialism and urged the government to open negotiations with Argentina over the Falkland Islands.

At a meeting with Argentine president Cristina Kirchner, the Left-wing Hollywood actor referred to the islands "the Malvinas Islands of Argentina" and said Britain should entered into a UN-sponsored dialogue over their sovereignty.

"The world today is not going to tolerate any ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology," he said during the meeting in Buenos Aires.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: PotatoHeadMick
Penn versus Penn debate:


41 posted on 02/13/2012 6:20:48 PM PST by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: Hunton Peck

Sean Penn is an ass.


42 posted on 02/13/2012 6:22:30 PM PST by Mears (Alcohol. Tobacco. Firearms. What's not to like?)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

...and Penn’s words of wisdom elicited the following from patrons of the White Horse Tavern in Soho:

“Sod off, ya wanker.”


43 posted on 02/13/2012 6:23:15 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: youngidiot
My sentiments, exactly.

ML/NJ

44 posted on 02/13/2012 6:26:54 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: PotatoHeadMick
ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology

I don't think he knows what those words mean otherwise he would know that they don't have much relationship with reality in this case.

45 posted on 02/13/2012 6:34:21 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Would you sing if someone sucked YOU up the vacuum cleaner hose?)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Why the bleep does Argentina care about these islands anyway? Canada doesn’t care about the two French colonial islands south of Newfoundland. Some sort of weird national pride thing? Current population is around 3 thousand. GDP is around $100 million. A bad Sean Penn movie makes that much.


46 posted on 02/13/2012 6:37:51 PM PST by xp38
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To: colorado tanker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-establishment_of_British_rule_on_the_Falkland_Islands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Falkland_Islands

My money’s on the British!


47 posted on 02/13/2012 6:43:32 PM PST by WellyP (REAL)
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To: EEGator

looks like banjo boy from “Deliverance”....


48 posted on 02/13/2012 6:43:41 PM PST by pricilla (one should always try to be smarter than the equipment one is operating - Amajato)
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To: xp38

Why? OIL and GAS!


49 posted on 02/13/2012 6:46:23 PM PST by WellyP (REAL)
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To: xp38

Oil this time around.


50 posted on 02/13/2012 6:51:22 PM PST by jimnm
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To: PotatoHeadMick

What a shame ....... Whitney Houston dies of an O.D. and this junkie crap POS trash is still walking around breathing. Her drugs appear to have come from a drug store in a Rx plastic bottle and his probably come in a one kilo bag carried across the border by a guy name Juan or Jose’.


51 posted on 02/13/2012 6:55:47 PM PST by jmax
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To: PotatoHeadMick

You would think he knows what a real colony looks like, seeing the Reconquista in action and living in the heart of Aztlan and all.


52 posted on 02/13/2012 6:56:40 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Colonialism? The people who live there want to remain part of the UK. The islands never belonged to Argentina...briefly they sent a garrison there but that was it. That does not give them claim to the islands.

The islands are part of the UK. Argentina lead a war of aggression against the UK in the 1980s to try to overtake the islands and they lost the war - the matter is settled. There is nothing to negotiate - Argentina has no claim to the islands.


53 posted on 02/13/2012 7:03:32 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: okie01
Subsequently, in 1592, the islands were discovered by English explorer John Davis and claimed for the Queen. The islands were then uninhabited! Following discovery, the Falklands were first settled in 1766...by British colonists! At the time, there were no other inhabitants! In other words, the Falklands were British before there was an Argentina!

Exactly. No serious person can even entertain the argument that Argentina has a claim to the islands against the British. This whole debate is completely absurd.

54 posted on 02/13/2012 7:08:14 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: PotatoHeadMick

The heck with this kid. He has never been anything but a loud mouthed punk.


55 posted on 02/13/2012 7:10:14 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it doesn't get any better than that!)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Ignorant liberals like Sean Penn are an embarrassment to this country.


56 posted on 02/13/2012 7:12:02 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

TOO LONG HAVE THE INDIGENOUS INHABITANTS OF THE FALKLANDS BEEN SUFFERING UNDER BRITISH RULE!

Oh wait. There are no indigenous inhabitants of the Falklands. Except for the, um, British.


57 posted on 02/13/2012 7:14:39 PM PST by denydenydeny (The more a system is all about equality in theory the more it's an aristocracy in practice.)
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To: PotatoHeadMick
"OH, GNARLY!"
58 posted on 02/13/2012 7:15:09 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

What in the world did an attractive woman like Robin Wright see in this yahoo? (Madonna is another story)


59 posted on 02/13/2012 7:20:31 PM PST by Marathoner (In the 80s we had Reagan, Johnny Cash and Bob Hope. Now we have Obama, no cash and no hope.)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Mr. Penn wouldn’t make a pimple on an Elephants butt, he should shut up and sit down.


60 posted on 02/13/2012 7:43:45 PM PST by JamesA (You don't have to be big to stand tall)
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