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Thursday, 16 June 2011
In 1982 the Thatcher regime sent men to die in the Falklands in order to ensure that her hated government was re-elected. Now, nearly 20 years after the Falklands Conflict, those who lost relatives are being further insulted by the Tory depletion of the military, which means that should Argentina again wish to take charge of the Falklands Islands, they will have no problem so doing - and considering what a boost that would be for the politicians in Buenos Aires, it would be surprising if that doesn't happen.The Falklands Conflict of 1982 was sheer political opportunism. The regime in London had been in power for a mere three years, during which they had reneged on every promise made in the 1979 General Election. A promise to halt immigration, for example, turned into an increase in the number of people entering the country. This exacerbated the unemployment situation and led to riots across many English cities. By 1982, public discontent with the regime was such that it seemed inevitable that the government would fall. Faced with the prospect of bowing to the will of the electorate, the London criminals chose another option - they chose war.
The prospect of war came with the invasion of the Falkland Islands by the Argentine Navy. The Islands had been in dispute for sometime and the British government, eager for an opportunity to distract the people from the social ills wracking the UK, had manipulated the Argentine government into invading the Islands in order to create such a diversion. The war was not about defending the Islanders from foreign aggression. Prior to the Thatcher regime's slander of Argentina, the Islands had a very close relationship with Buenos Aires. Stories that the Islanders were in any way endangered by Argentina were pure fantasy.
Once hostilities broke out, the media went into overdrive spreading lies about our European kin in Argentina; dehumanising them with absurd propaganda. During the War, the Argentine ship, the General Belgrano, was sank by the Royal Navy whilst attempting to return to Argentina with injured servicemen. The Establishment media greeted this war crime with applause; notably with the infamous Sun scandal sheet 'Gotcha' headline. The reaction of the British people to the atrocities being committed in their name was to wave flags and celebrate. To date no one has been held to account for this crime. Just as with Bomber Harris, the Butcher of Dresden, the British war criminal responsible for the sinking of the Belgrano were treated as heroes, not murderers.
Now, 19 years on, the people of the Falklands are forgotten. No longer of political value, the Westminster regime is not interested in keeping a Naval force ready to defend them in case of invasion. So what has changed? Absolutely nothing. The Falkland Islanders were pawns in Westminster politics - pawns which are no longer needed. As for the military dead and injured, they were never more than instruments of the political Establishment. If the government cared about the people, the military would be at home defending the borders from the ongoing invasion of illegal immigrants. Instead the military are in North Africa and Asia killing foreigners in their own lands for the benefit of international finance; creating conditions which compel people to migrate from their homelands. Imperialism leads to the displacement of people - and the destruction of the Homeland. It happened to Egypt and to Rome; now it is happening to us.
Politicians lie and people die. Until people wake up to this reality and demand a new system of government based on popular rule and people's congresses, it will remain this way. The solution to mass migration is to create conditions in the home countries which encourage people to stay where they come from. Bombing them and stealing their resources doesn't do that! War benefits corrupt politicians and munitions producers, no one else.
On the plus side, the Falkland Islanders will now have to come to terms with their neighbours. Argentina is a civilised European nation. In the long term, the end of the influence of the depots in London can only be a good thing.
RIP the victims of the Thatcher War: Argentine and British.
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