Should we strengthen our occupying forces on the Falklands, but call it Malvinas anyway?
I’m indebted to a regular Slogger for pointing out this piece to me:
‘Demonstrators clashed with police in front of the Casa de Tucuman in Buenos Aires, on December 12, 2012 during a protest against the sentence that allowed the release of 13 indicted in cases of forced disappearance of women, prostitution and involvement in the case of Marta Veron, disappeared in the province of Tucuman ten years ago. The suspects in the case were accused of kidnapping a young woman, Maria de los Angeles “Marita” Veron, and forcing her into prostitution. They were exposed largely as a result of her mother’s decade-long quest to find the missing daughter. Susana Trimarco’s efforts helped to uncover an underworld of organized crime figures who operate brothels with protection from authorities across the country. But unfortunately the quest has not yet resulted in the discovery of her daughter. The verdict has been slammed by the public as a major setback for Argentinean justice and efforts to fight sex trafficking.’
Just piece together the elements of this story, and then join up the dots: abusive sex rings working on a commercial basis, judicial corruption, the dedicated campaigning of a mother, protection of the criminals by the authorities, and ten years of getting nowhere in the search of justice.
I’m sorry if what I’m about to write seems to some a little too Clarksonesque, but I deal in facts, not fancy. In 1966 when the Argentine national football side behaved appallingly at Wembley, the England manager Alf Ramsey – a taciturn man later knighted for his enormous achievements in football – uncharacteristically vented his feelings to the press, referring to the Argentinian players as “having behaved like animals”. The Argentines have never forgiven us for this, and on the way to winning the World Cup in 1986, their main genius Diego Maradona quite blatantly handled the ball for the winning goal.
He gloried in this afterwards. He also fell in with the drug cartels, and became a bloated gargoyle of wasted genius who behaved like a feral animal throughout his career abroad. By then of course, Margaret Thatcher had foolishly allowed the Argentine tin-pot dictator Galtieri to see his opportunity (just like any wild animal) and invade an island on which everyone was genetically British and spoke only English – in the South Atlantic.
The Argentine action was contrary to the timeless principles of self-determination for all peoples enshrined in every civilised document from the US Constitution to the UN Charter. Not only did British guts get the invaders out, our liberation of the Falklands toppled a military authoritarian dictatorship guilty of many crimes of detention and murder outside the law. We’re still waiting for any thanks for doing that. Instead what we get is current President Cristina Fernandez trying to do it all over again….while abominations like the case described above go unpunished.
However, before the Guardian readers turn what they see as a racist rant off, let me also make another very important point in three quick ways. Compare and contrast the behaviour, petulance and animal lack of self-control evidenced week in week out by our national footballers today, with that of Argentine superstar Lionel Messi. Now widely recognised as the greatest white footballer of all time, he is gracious, adult, kind and dedicated in all he says and does on and off the field of play. I love to watch his genius (even when it’s destroying my team) but above all, I am in awe of this man’s attitude and example.
Compare and contrast the ballsy determination of Susana Trimarco with the brainless demands for an Enquiry, if they so much as hit a tree when pissed, spluttered by our self-entitled, obese Waynettas in Britain. And compare and contrast the Camerlot government today with that of Baroness Thatcher thirty years ago, as the Prime Minister looks to do grubby deals with Brazil or Ecuador in an attempt to calm Fernandez down. The conclusion is inescapable: not only are we just as bad as Argentina today, on occasion brave individuals there leave us behind in both ethics and bravery.
Let me add clearly that my apparent anger at all things Latin is entirely aimed at all Governments South American, and not their long-suffering citizens.
Now look down the road a little. We already have our narcotics gangsters, only we call them the financial services sector. Unfair? Then name me a substance in the average British life more addictive than money. Osborne and Cameron are a laughing stock in their eyes, and the Treasury openly colludes with the criminals still running the banks it took over four years ago.
We also already have Establishment users of real but designer luvvie-luvvie narcotics : so widespread are these tooters in 2012, nobody in the field (or nobody I know anyway, and I only talk to the realists) thinks there’s a hope in hell of ever stopping this trade in death universally lumped into one word by the press as ‘drugs’. If you think this has no connection with political advance and blackmail in this country, then go to the Hunt Balls page at this site.
And the excuse of the coke-chique collaborationists? “We can’t win this war”. Well there you are Cristina Fernandez, I think just you and the Army C-in-C in a f**king rowing boat should do it this time: what time can you set off for Port Arthur? We’ll order a welcoming committee.
And of course, we have our sex rings. Not the oldest profession of all whereby male bullies control vulnerable women – but gross paedophile psycho-buggery artists most Latins would tear limb from limb in the unlikely event that they were sent to prison. Go to the Paedofile dedicated page here at The Slog, and you will see articles so great in number and deep in their disgusting social misery, they cannot all be the product of “rumour and innuendo” – however much self-absorbed tribal clowns like Boris Johnson would have us believe otherwise. The pieces there represent a catalogue of judicial corruption and incompetence, political collusion at local and national level, cover-up at police and Cabinet level, and a woeful record of conviction of the alien predators at work in our care homes: nearly 18,000 reported, and just 1600 convictions to show for it.
All this is why we have reached the level of Argentina, and why it is going to get worse. Our triple-A will go, our deficit will sink us, our competitors will outflank us, and thus we will turn more and more to cheating in order to record an occasional victory in an otherwise mediocre run of uncreative, shadowy banality. The principles of undermining equality before the law and the sovereignty of Parliament having been clearly established by every unpleasant organisation from Newscorp to the European Union, I’d say that given a decade or even less, we’ll have one other thing in common with Argentina: national financial default on a spectacular scale.
But fear not, because then Generalissimo Boris Galtieri can invade the Isle of Man, and we’ll have the full set.
Related: Sadly, it’s no better in Scotland
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