[SML] The more things change...

[Richard Niederberg]

A British possession? Technically. It gets all its food, water, energy, and
all else from Argentina. May the Sun set on the British Empire! The Monroe
Doctrine deals with Real Estate in the Americas, not what country settled
it.
/s/ Richard
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On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Jeffrey E. Salzberg via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> The case could be made  – and, indeed, was made  – that the Falklands were
> a British possession that was attacked by the Argentinians.  In fact, you
> just made that case yourself; "The Falkland Islands" is the British name.
> Argentina calls them "Las Malvinas".
>
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> On 4/6/2016 2:06 PM, Richard Niederberg via Stagecraft wrote:
>
> Distrust for the Government is not unfounded. The first Clause of the
> Declaration of Independence explicitly says that if things get intolerable,
> you can leave, yet 70 years later, the North stopped the South from
> leaving. The Monroe Doctrine stated that we would repel European aggression
> attacking North, Central, or South America, yet when the Falkland Islands,
> just off Argentina's coast, was attacked by England, we took England's side.
>
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/s/ Richard
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