Posted on 03/12/2013 9:09:27 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
With 92% of registered Falkland Island voters coming out to vote in their just held two-day referendum on whether they want to retain British rule over these small, barren Islands that fueled a brief, and bloody war between Great Britain and neighboring Argentina over three decades ago, the results are breathtaking.
99.8% of Falkland Islanders, the majority residing in the capital city of Stanley, voted to retain British rule, while only three people on the entire Island voted against. Their point: to show the Argentine government they are British and proud of it and to hopefully gain sympathy from the international community.
This comes in the aftermath of unrelenting pressure from the Argentine government on the international community to force the British in negotiations over the "disputed islands," which the two nations fought for claim of almost three decades ago, and which the British won decisively with assistance from the Reagan White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at punditpress.com ...
That is because the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants are BRITISH!
If proximity = nationality then we need to grab up Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaca, Hispaniola, Cuba, Mexico and Canada and others.
Majority Rule - What an awesome concept.
In PC America If 2% don’t like something the other 98% have to shut up.
You really want to grab some of those armpits like Mexico???
Las Malvinas son Nuehtras. /sarc
1,513 in favour, 3 against. Local residents Carlos, Pedro and Diego were unavailable for comment...
“So ... what you’re saying is that the feeling on the island is divided on this issue?” /[Lib]
Long as they don’t get statehood and and electoral votes and Congressional representation.
If you’ve never been to Bermuda, it’s an American colony in all but name. The American dollar is accepted at parity with the Bermuda dollar, without even batting an eyelash, they speak unaccented American English and most certainly welcome American tourists and treat them very well. (Of course, only citizens of Bermuda can buy property there.) The local accent is similar to Virginia or Maryland.
Before the U.S. even entered World War II there was a Marine Division stationed there, all the British troops went off to fight elsewhere, as part of lend lease. We lent them some old destroyers and they paid us by leasing us bases in their colonies near the U.S. (like Bermuda and Trinidad) so we could defend them until the War was over. (”If you go down to Trinidad, You gonna be very glad”,.. was about GI’s station in Trinidad getting over with the local women, after all.)
Trying to make a point dont want to grab any other land
But
Lots of oil in Mexico
I thought of that too, but can you imagine the cost per barrel with all that comes with it...
Make ‘em feel guilty about slavery, colonialism, Jim Crow, apartheid, hungry children, etc, and see what happens!
Funnily enough, I don’t know if you already know this, but Bermuda was one of those colonies that was sympathetic to the rebel cause during the American War of Independence, and at the beginning of the war many Bermudans helped the rebels by supplying ships, gunpowder and other supplies.
However, their relatively isolated position meant that it was not logistically possible for them to become the 14th colony revolting against British rule, and is consequently still a British Colony (or ‘Overseas Territory’ as they’re now called) to this day...
If it wasn’t for Bermuda, I wouldn’t be here. I am (said by those who claim to know) a descendent of Steve Hopkins, a crew member and official of the Virginia Company, on the Sea Venture, which wrecked on Bermuda in 1609, when it was uninhabited. If it hadn’t been for Bermuda the Sea Venture’s crew would have been lost. As far as anyone knows, the crew of the Sea Venture were the first humans to set foot on a Bermuda.
Deliverance almost cost him his life, as he was sentenced to be hanged for mutiny on Bermuda, but he was spared, at least in part because he was liked by most of the ship’s complement.
When he arrived in Jamestown, he may have met Pocahantas, and certainly knew John Smith.
A character in Shakespeare’s The Tempest is said to be based on Hopkins, and he later sailed on the Mayflower, and was an assistant to John Alden in the Plymouth Colony. He is the only person know to have been in Jamestown and aboard the Mayflower.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hopkins_(settler)
I vaguely recall reading about that (about the shipwreck) most interesting story I have is that some of my ancestors took part in the monmouth rebellion and ended up being hanged via the bloody assizes.
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