Posted on 02/13/2012 5:27:42 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick
Sean Penn has accused Britain of colonialism and urged the government to open negotiations with Argentina over the Falkland Islands.
At a meeting with Argentine president Cristina Kirchner, the Left-wing Hollywood actor referred to the islands "the Malvinas Islands of Argentina" and said Britain should entered into a UN-sponsored dialogue over their sovereignty.
"The world today is not going to tolerate any ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology," he said during the meeting in Buenos Aires.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Sean Penn is an ass.
...and Penn’s words of wisdom elicited the following from patrons of the White Horse Tavern in Soho:
“Sod off, ya wanker.”
ML/NJ
I don't think he knows what those words mean otherwise he would know that they don't have much relationship with reality in this case.
Why the bleep does Argentina care about these islands anyway? Canada doesn’t care about the two French colonial islands south of Newfoundland. Some sort of weird national pride thing? Current population is around 3 thousand. GDP is around $100 million. A bad Sean Penn movie makes that much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-establishment_of_British_rule_on_the_Falkland_Islands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Falkland_Islands
My money’s on the British!
looks like banjo boy from “Deliverance”....
Why? OIL and GAS!
Oil this time around.
What a shame ....... Whitney Houston dies of an O.D. and this junkie crap POS trash is still walking around breathing. Her drugs appear to have come from a drug store in a Rx plastic bottle and his probably come in a one kilo bag carried across the border by a guy name Juan or Jose’.
You would think he knows what a real colony looks like, seeing the Reconquista in action and living in the heart of Aztlan and all.
Colonialism? The people who live there want to remain part of the UK. The islands never belonged to Argentina...briefly they sent a garrison there but that was it. That does not give them claim to the islands.
The islands are part of the UK. Argentina lead a war of aggression against the UK in the 1980s to try to overtake the islands and they lost the war - the matter is settled. There is nothing to negotiate - Argentina has no claim to the islands.
Exactly. No serious person can even entertain the argument that Argentina has a claim to the islands against the British. This whole debate is completely absurd.
The heck with this kid. He has never been anything but a loud mouthed punk.
Ignorant liberals like Sean Penn are an embarrassment to this country.
TOO LONG HAVE THE INDIGENOUS INHABITANTS OF THE FALKLANDS BEEN SUFFERING UNDER BRITISH RULE!
Oh wait. There are no indigenous inhabitants of the Falklands. Except for the, um, British.
What in the world did an attractive woman like Robin Wright see in this yahoo? (Madonna is another story)
Mr. Penn wouldn’t make a pimple on an Elephants butt, he should shut up and sit down.
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