Love your music, hate your air-headed politics.
Just another ale-swilling surrender monkey.
Aria, of Pacific Northwest USA, says leave what Margaret Thatcher fought for alone.
So why not...I figure I’m at least as intelligent as some rock band person.
But that said, what do the Falklands have that anyone wants?
Or is he just being imperial in a politically correct manner? It's pretty harsh to give your citizens to another country with a spotty history.
/johnny
Yes - but what would Syd Barrett think about all this?
Petula Clark, it’s your turn to tell us!
I love Pink Floyd’s music, but Waters has always struck me as one of those “artiste” types who is long on wind and short on brains. His solo stuff is so preachy it’s hard to listen to.
He don’t need no ejucayshun.
“Waters, who is on tour in South America, allegedly said he was “as ashamed as I possibly could be of our colonial past ... When we were out raping and plundering and stealing”. “
If he’s pissed at this aspect of his country’s legacy he ought to be irate that the Italians have forgotten their history of the same that lasted for hundreds of years more than English colonialism and with far more brutality inflicted on the conquered.
How can the UK “return” something to Argentina which never belonged to Argentina?
What’s a “Pink Floyd” .... some new kind of British QFP?
Residents of the Falkland Islands seem to disagree.
Addled.
And Roger’s, or any other artist’s opinion is relevant because...?
The Falklands were never part of Argentina to begin with. The Falklanders want to keep their UK passports and want nothing to do with Argentina. This was true before oil was discovered and is even more so now. If they stay with the UK and commercial oil production begins, the Falklands will be one of the richest places on earth, per capita. If they went with Argentina, the islanders would see nothing and they would be faced with a horde of Argentinian settlers whose purpose would be to demographically replace the Falklanders. Argentina used to be a decent place with a high standard of living. Unfortunately, it’s gone steadily down hill with a series of statist governments. Under the current administration, the president spends like crazy to assure her continued re-election and criminalizes the reporting of the actual inflation rate.
The reemergence of the Falklands ‘issue’ is about oil money. The Falklanders would never agree to be a part of Argentina and the UK has said it would not give up the islanders without their consent.
And Waters is a proponent and an apologist for Argentinian colonialism. Argentina wants the oil and the land, and to hell with the inhabitants. And Waters is 100% behind them. Who's the colonialist now, Roger?
I have to admit that I’m enjoying this, watching idiot actors and rock stars make fools of themselves talking about “colonialism” in the Falklands and that Britain should “give them back,” statements that identify HOW ****ING DUMBASS STUPID THESE PEOPLE ARE.
It’s like watching all of your enemies line up to stick their heads into airplane propellors because they have been talked into believing it will help the world. And, indeed, they are correct.
Water’s a delusional drug user, if you follow his politics. That the Falklands was never part of Argenina isn’t relevant. His hatred of Britain is.
Believing, “my country’s enemy is my friend”, is a terminal form of stupidity. See OWS.