Posted on 03/14/2013 8:49:56 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
Falklands veterans told of their dismay last night after the Argentine president hinted she hoped the new Pope – her countryman – would mediate in the dispute surrounding the territory.
Pope Francis believes the South Atlantic islands are ‘Argentine soil’.
In 2010 the then Buenos Aires Cardinal declared: ‘The Malvinas are ours’, and last year he accused Britain of ‘usurping’ the islands.
Firebrand Argentine president Cristina Kirchner, who has for months been seeking easy home popularity by calling for Britain to enter talks on withdrawing from the Falklands, has leapt on the promotion of her fellow Argentine to the papacy to boost her case.
In a televised address yesterday she pointedly said she hoped the new Pope would ‘take a message to the major world powers that they need to participate in dialogue’.
The controversy was stoked up only days after the islanders voted almost unanimously to retain their ties to London.
Last night retired Lieutenant General Sir Hew Pike, who commanded 3 Para in the 1982 conflict, said the newly elected leader of the Catholic Church seemed not to recognise the Falkland islanders’ right to self-determination.
Sir Hew, 69, said the Pope’s statements about the Falklands gave no recognition of the islanders’ wish to remain British.
Sir Hew said: ‘It saddens me that a man of the Pope’s stature does not seem to respect the rights of a group of people to self-determination.
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The Cardinal’s statements were designed to increase the take in the offering collection boxes. That is no longer his job.
“The British are our closest allies.”
That would be Australia.
“The current German inbreds show more loyalty to the Commonwealth than to Britain.”
This reduces their dependence on the EU; a trading bloc of former colonies/territories.
“The so-called sovereign Queen regnant has sat idly by as her empire collapsed, and transfered sovereignty to the the EUSSR. That is an act of supreme treachery, an act of treason by the monarch.”
The same queen watched the wars in Malaya, Rhodesia, Palestine, etc. sap the blood of her people; they couldn’t hold onto them, and avoided a war along the lines of France’s Indochina or Algeria wars or Portugal’s Angola war.
No, that’s not the reason.....Short story: the Catholic Church actively conspired against Henry to attempt to overthrow England, in favor of Spain. So you might understand that when a political entity (which the Church was at the time) is your sworn enemy that you may not welcome them into the monarchy of your Country.
The monarchy is as outdated as the exclusion, but really it’s not as bad as you make it out to be. It actually has roots in reason. You probably knew that already.
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