Liberal Newsletter rages against Margaret Thatcher

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While in Bangor Maine last week I saw the liberal fruit loops downtown handout fliers and protest  against Trump. They were gathered near the bus terminal at the parking garage, beating drums, chanting F donald Trump and so on, 

There was  also a table handing out pamplets and leaflets. They were mostly the same, raging against trump, global warming deniers, capitalism ETC. But one that really caught my attention was a single pamphlet they had about Margaret Thatcher.

Some of what I read was pretty crazy and yet not so surprising. Essentially they claimed that Britain was the aggressor in the Falklands war, that Margaret thatcher was guilty of war crimes for sinking an Argentine battleship that threatened Royal Navy vessels and that she should have made peaceful negotiations and never raise a figer.

Here are some excerpts: 

By declaring war, rather than conducting political negotiations with Argentina over Britain’s ongoing colonial possession of the Malvinas(falklands), Thatcher salvaged her waning public support in Britain, and the bloodletting helped catapult her into a second term of office in Downing Street. Her political “greatness” that so many Western leaders now eulogize was therefore paid in part by the lives of Argentine and British soldiers, and by bequeathing an ongoing source of conflict in the South Atlantic.

It wasn’t just foreigners that Thatcher declared war on. Armed with her snake-oil economic policies of privatisation, deregulation, unleashing finance capitalism, pump-priming the rich with tax awards subsidised by the ordinary working population, Thatcher declared war on the British people themselves. She famously proclaimed that “there was no such thing as society” and went on to oversee an explosion in the gap between rich and poor and the demolition of social conditions in Britain. That legacy has been amplified by both successive Conservative and Labour governments and is central to today’s social meltdown in Britain – more than two decades after Thatcher resigned. Laughably, David Cameron, a protégé of Thatcher, claims that she “saved” Britain. The truth is Thatcher accelerated the sinking of British capitalism and society at large. What she ordered for the Belgrano has in a very real way come to be realised for British society at large.

During her second term of office in the mid-1980s, the Iron Lady declared war on the “enemy within”. She was referring to Britain’s strongly unionised coal-mining industry. Imagine declaring war on your own population. That is a measure of her pathological intolerance towards others who did not happen to share her obnoxious ideological views – ideological views that have since become exposed as intellectually and morally bankrupt.

For over a year around 1984, her Orwellian mindset and policies starved mining communities in the North of England into submission. Her use of paramilitary police violence also broke the resolve and legitimate rights of these communities. Miners’ leader Arthur Scargill would later be vindicated in the eyes of ordinary people, if not in the eyes of the mainstream media. Britain’s coalmines were systematically shut down, thousands of workers would be made unemployed, and entire communities were thrown on the social scrap heap. All this violence and misery was the price for Thatcher’s ideological war against working people and their political rights.

The class war that Thatcher unleashed in Britain is still raging. The rich have become richer, the poor decidedly more numerous and poorer. The decimation of workers’ rights and the unfettered power given to finance capital were hallmarks of Thatcher’s legacy and are to this day hallmarks of Britain’s current social decay. But that destructive legacy goes well beyond Britain. The right wing nihilistic capitalism that Thatcher gave vent to was, and became, a zeitgeist for North America, Europe and globally. The economic malaise that is currently plaguing the world can be traced directly to such ideologues as Margaret Thatcher and former US President Ronald Reagan.

A final word on Thatcher’s real legacy, as opposed to the fakery from fellow war criminals, is her role in Ireland’s conflict. Her epitaph of “Iron Lady” is often said with admiration or even sneaking regard for her supposed virtues of determination and strength. In truth, her “iron” character was simply malevolent, as can be seen from her policies towards the Irish struggle for independence from Britain. In 1981, 10 Irish republican prisoners, led by a young Belfast man by the name of Bobby Sands, died from hunger strikes. The men died after more than 50 days of refusing prison food because they were demanding to be treated as political prisoners, not as criminals. Thatcher refused to yield to their demands, denouncing them as criminals and callously claiming that they “took their own lives”. No matter that Bobby Sands had been elected by tens of thousands of Irish voters to the British House of Parliament during his hunger strike. He was merely a criminal who deserved to die, according to the cold, unfeeling Thatcher.

As a result of Thatcher’s intransigence to negotiate Irish rights, the violence in the North of Ireland would escalate over the next decade, claiming thousands of lives. As with Las Malvinas dispute with Argentina, Thatcher deliberately took the military option and, with that, countless lives, rather than engage in reasoned, mutual dialogue. Her arrogance and obduracy blinded her to any other possibility.

As the violence gyrated in Ireland, Thatcher would also embrace the criminal policy of colluding with pro-British death squads. Armed, funded and directed by British intelligence, these death squads would in subsequent years kill hundreds of innocent people – with the knowledge and tacit approval of Lady Thatcher. It was a policy of British state terrorism in action, sanctioned by Thatcher. One of those victims was Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane, who was murdered in February 1989. He was shot 12 times in the head in front of his wife and children by a British death squad, after the killers smashed their way into the Finucane home on a Sunday afternoon.


Thus whether in her dealings with Las Malvinas row with Argentina, the British working people or Irish republicans, Margaret Thatcher was an intolerant militarist who always resorted to demagoguery, violence and starvation to get her political way. She was a criminal fascist who is now proclaimed to be a national hero.

Reports this week say that Thatcher died with Alzheimer’s, the brain-degenerating disease in which the patient loses their faculty for memory. Western leaders, it seems, would also like to erase public memory of Thatcher’s criminal legacy.

Ah... so the IRA, the Argentine Junta, and Union bolshevil thugs are not the bad guys?

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The thing that liberals are really huffing and puffing about on youtube is her sinking.

The ship was loitering near the exclusion zone, turning to home and back again in a matter that made it appear to be loitering. meanwhile another Argentine task force had launched exocets at the RN task force and aborted and there was another task force nearby.

The British feared a pincer attack by the Argentine navy, the RN admirals were hesitant to order the ship sunk because the left would throw tantrums and they practically held a monopoly over the press.

Maggie ordered it sunk. The HMS conqueror, a nuclear sub launcehed the attack and sank the Belgrano.

After she sank the entire Argentine navy panicked back to home port.

shortly thereafter, the far left condemned Maggie as a war criminal for having the nerve to defend her majesty's navy from hostility.

Based entirely on what the left said, the sinking of the Bismarck could quantify as a war crime. The Bismarck and prinz Eugen was on her way to port at Brest France according to survivors. The Argentinians also claim the same thing about the Belgrano even though it was loitering danerously close to the RN taskfroce as to pose a threat.

Despite Argentina being considered a fascist country at the time, the left took sides with the fascist junta over Britain.

[BlueLancer]

There is something the moralists overlook,
Or more likely don’t give a damn about,
When they cry: “Pity the beaten foe!”
What they’re saying, in effect, is:
“Kill our fellows tomorrow rather than the enemy today.”
But they don’t care to have it put to them like that.
They want their wars won clean and comfortable, with a clear conscience;
Their consciences being much more precious than their own soldiers’ lives.

General Sir Harry P. Flashman
"Flashman and the Mountain of Light"
George McDonald Fraser

[Mollypitcher1]

“Ours not to reason why,
Ours but to do and die...”

R. Kipling

[dfwgator]

Brezhnev took Afghanistan.
Begin took Beirut.
Galtieri took the Union Jack.
And Maggie, over lunch one day,
Took a cruiser with all hands.
Apparently, to make him give it back.

[JimRed]

Despite Argentina being considered a fascist country at the time, the left took sides with the fascist junta over Britain.

Nothing new or unusual about that.

[Nifster]

And it’s Tommy do this
And Tommy do that
And Tommy we never knew ye

[Snickering Hound]

‘Battleship’.

Stopped reading right there. The ‘General Belgrano’ was a former Brooklyn class light cruiser.

[spintreebob]

When Thatcher shut down the coal mines is was bad.
When Obama shut down the coal mines it was good.

Is that relativist morality or just irony?

[Dahoser]

Stick it, snowflakes.    Signed, Maggie T