Welcome to The Falkland Islands

I feel I should explain that the very word 'malvinas', a Spanish bastardisation of the French name for the Falkland Island 'les Îles Malouines', makes me feel almost physically sick. Perhaps that's a bit of an extreme reaction as I'm not a Falkland Islander, but that's the way it is. This is likely due to the invasion, occupation, humiliation, subjugation and misery inflicted on the people of the Falkland Islands in 1982 by Argentina, and the current Argentine aggression towards those people. The Falkland Islanders are a far off people, but a people I very easily relate to. A peaceful, harmless, rural population sharing, to a great extent, my culture, lifestyle, language and customs. The eviction of the Argentine invaders and subsequent liberation of the islands by British armed forces diminishes, to some extent, that feeling of revulsion at the word "malvinas", but the very word still raises anger and a determination to resist threats and aggression, and to never again present the opportunity of an open door and free meal to a treacherous and duplicitous neighbour.

Unfortunately the current excuse for a democracy in Argentina, a dynasty, fronted by the hideous, botulinum toxin 'enhanced' Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the widow of  previous president Néstor Kirscher, egged on by the Russians and Chinese, and backed by promises by Clown-President for life of Venezuela Hugo Chávez that Venezuelan troops will fight alongside Argentineans to invade the Falkland Islands, and lacklustre words from the most anti-British United States President, Obama since.... well, ever. Obama, an idiot who doesn't know the Falkland Islands from the Maldives, naively , or cynically, encouraged the expansionist, yet essentially impotent, Argentine government to make more threats and demands.

There is nothing to discuss. There is no conflict. There is no 'threat to peace', there is no 'militarisation'. The only aggression and threats come from Argentina. The Falkland Islands are, and always have been peaceful, and never presented any threat to Argentina nor anybody else. All and any unreciprocated good will from the British people and the British government, and any possibility of negotiations to hand over British territory and free people to a hostile and belligerent power, however unlikely, was squandered, and any imagined legal right was nullified by Argentina's unprovoked invasion in 1982, and the consequent deaths and injuries of hundreds of our people. Of course the current Argentine colonialists complain, "It wasn't us, it was the junta". Evidence to the contrary exists, and is available for all to see. Hundreds of thousands of screaming Argentine citizens filmed on the streets of Buenos Aires in 1982, having been informed by the junta of its illegal military invasion and occupation of the Falkland Islands by their countrymen, demonstrating their enthusiastic and obvious approval. Many of those same citizens, more than thirty years later, are squealing "Malvinas volveremos" (Falklands we will return). The junta appears to have been no less representative of the Argentine population than the current shower of reprobates currently in control of that part of the continent.

Even a cursory honest examination of the historical records shows that Argentina has no legitimate historical claim to the Falkland Islands. Argentina's claim to ownership on the grounds of geographic proximity would be irrelevant even if the Falklands had a land border with Argentina, like Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia. Even if the Falklands were just off the coast, like Ireland is from Great Britain, that would not be any grounds for ownership. Iceland is much closer to the British Isles than the Falkland Islands are to Argentina. The Falkland Islands are hundreds of miles from Argentina, more than a thousand miles from Buenos Aires, far outside Argentine territorial waters. Argentina wants to expand its territory to encompass lands it has never owned, land occupied by people who have lived there for generations, longer than Argentina has existed, before the invasion and occupation of Patagonia. Perhaps Britain could hand over the Falkland Islands to Argentina, assuming the Falkland Islanders would not object, when Argentina returns the stolen territories from which it is comprised, to its indigenous inhabitants, the Puelche, Pehuenche, Tehuelche, Poya, Teuesah, Ona Comechigon, Qurandia, Caingang, Mataraetc and others.