Tag: Stuart Laycock

In April last year, at a memorial mass in Buenos Aires 30 years on from the Falklands conflict, he said: “We come to pray for all who have fallen, sons of the homeland who went out to defend their mother, the homeland, and to reclaim what is theirs, that is of the homeland, and it was usurped.”

And a year earlier, he urged people “not to forget those who had fallen during the war” as they had “shed their blood on Argentine soil”

 

Not that his relation with the present Argentinian  is cozy..far from it.

 

He is against Gay marriage.

When the Cardinal urged parishioners to join a campaign he called “God’s war” against gay marriage, Ms.Kirchner , Argentinian President,,compared his tone to the Middle Ages and the Inquisition.

Previously, in a snipe at Cardinal Bergoglio, Mr Kirchner reportedly said: “Our God is everyone’s, but careful because the Devil also reaches everyone – those who wear trousers and those who wear cassocks.”

Despite their differences, the Cardinal called for the Argentine people to pray for Mr Kirchner when he died in October 2010.

Now this statement on Falklands, where a referendum has taken place about 4 days ago on its status.

Britain, though outwardly cool awaits the result of the Referendum.

Hope it has not manipulated the Referendum process.

Britain formed a new sect of Christianity because the Catholic pope did not allow a king to marry when his wife was alive.

Let’s see if the Pope creates a new Britain. outside Britain.

Anyway, we can find Britain squirming in the coming years.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/pope-francis-hard-line-falkland-1762205

Related;

People living in the Falkland Islands are voting in a referendum on their political status on Sunday and Monday at a time of heightened tensions between Argentina and Britain over their sovereignty.

The two countries went to war over the territory, known to the Argentinians as Las Malvinas, in 1982 after the then-military government in Argentina landed troops on the islands.

According to the Falklands legislative assembly, the vote is intended to affirm islanders’ desire to remain a self-governing territory of the United Kingdom and to reject claims of ownership by Argentina.

The question put to voters is: “Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom?”

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/10/world/americas/falklands-referendum/index.html

I received a colorful comment for this post and there are two ratings “Poor’.

 

(that the post received 18 Likes is  a different matter-Obviously from the colonized!)

 

Obviously from the British.

 

They asked me to Study History.

 

This is Britain’s History.

 

“Everybody knew that the British loved to conquer lots of countries for their precious empire. It’s not until somebody sits down and actually counts all of them that we realize just how many. Historian Stuart Laycock was happy to volunteer for the job and presents his findings in a new book All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To. The book stays true to its title and finds in a survey of 200 of the world’s countries through that, in one shape or form, Great Britain has invaded all but 22 of them. That amounts to about 90 percent of the world’s countries.”

http://ramanisblog.in/2013/01/04/sun-letter-on-falklands-argentina-if-colonies-write-back/