Siege Warfare Monthly: Argentine union to boycott UK Ships
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[quote][B][B]Argentina's transport workers' union says it will boycott ships flying the British flag because of the dispute over the Falkland Islands.[/B][/B]
The union - which includes dock workers - said the measure would apply to all UK vessels reaching Argentina.
It is not clear how much impact the boycott will have.
Tension between the UK and Argentina over the Falklands has been rising in recent months as the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war approaches.
"We have resolved to boycott any ship with the British flag, or with the lying and invented flag of the Falklands, or with any flag of convenience which the British pirates use," the Argentine Confederation of Transport Workers said in a statement.
The announcement is the latest in a series of measures aimed at pressing Argentina's claim to sovereignty over the islands, which it calls the Malvinas.
In December, the South American trading bloc Mercosur closed its ports to ships flying the Falkland Islands flag.
And last week Argentina took its case to the UN general assembly, where it accused the UK of "militarising" the region and sending a nuclear-armed submarine to the South Atlantic.
The UK government has dismissed the claim of militarisation as "absurd" and says its defence posture in the Falklands has not changed.
It says there can be no negotiations on sovereignty as long as the Falkland Islanders wish to remain British.
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Actor intervenes
[/B][/B]The latest figure to back the Argentine cause is the Hollywood actor and activist Sean Penn.
After meeting Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Buenos Aires, he urged the UK to join talks on the dispute.
"I think that the world today is not going to tolerate any kind of ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology," the Oscar-winning actor said.
His intervention has caused bemusement among the islanders.
"Ha Ha if Penn supported UK Brits would probably ask what gives an actor the right to have an opinion on the Falklands?" Lisa Watson, editor of the Falklands newspaper the Penguin News wrote on Twitter.[/quote]
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And the bomber plane continues to stall.....
QQ more Argentina.
The Falklands don't want you - don't make us come over there again.
Isn't there very specific international laws and treaties that forbid this sort of thing.
It sounds like Argentina needs liberating instead of the Falklands.
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Isn't it quite uncommon for anything other than military ships to fly their national flags? I thought flying flags of convenience was the common practice.
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"I think that the world today is not going to tolerate any kind of ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology," the Oscar-winning actor said.[/quote]
[B]ARE YOU FUCKING RETARDED[/B]
[QUOTE=acds;34692004][B]ARE YOU FUCKING RETARDED[/B][/QUOTE]
Yes, of course he's fucking retarded. He has no idea what he's even talking about. He's never been to the Falklands, he knows nothing about it's history (Honestly, I would bet money that he'd never heard of them beyond knowing that there was a war over them and whatever his Argentine hosts said), and he has no appreciation of irony. GG US-tard, your nation is ONLY founded on the blood of oppressed and slaughtered natives :D
Argentina never had a colony on the Falklands. The British colony was the first there. Argentina only cares because we found Oil. To top it all off, the Falklanders want to remain British.
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