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Falklands-born candidate says he has sufficient credentials to be a Mercosur parliament member
Falkland Islands born and pre-candidate for the Mercosur Parliament in representation of a Tierra del Fuego political party, Alejandro Betts, underlined his diplomatic experience in international forums and meetings with 30 presentations, including those at the annual UN Decolonization Committee or C24 in New York. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWell he lies like a politician.....
Aug 07th, 2015 - 09:12 am - Link - Report abuse +1So more than adequately qualified.
Glad l'm not related to him.
Aug 07th, 2015 - 10:25 am - Link - Report abuse +1His poor family.
Hey Bettsy Boy - so tell us - which nations recognise Argentina then with undisputed sovereignty over the Islands?
Aug 07th, 2015 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse +1You arse - you showed your total ignorance of the situation ! Is Paulie your bumchum?
I really feel for his wife. Not only is he a cowardly rat who ran out on her whilst pregnant, he is also traitor.
Aug 07th, 2015 - 11:15 am - Link - Report abuse +1What a disgusting toad.
I hope he rots in hell.
“Betts argues that self determination is a decoy used by the UK and Islanders not to comply with international community resolutions”
Aug 07th, 2015 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse -1EXACTLY.
“UK is a mere administrative power of the Islands with no legal document or rights over the Malvinas.”
SPOT ON.
at last we have an islander who can think properly.
the exception of the rule, uh????
“I know first hand international law” - my cat knows more about international law than this knacker.
Aug 07th, 2015 - 11:33 am - Link - Report abuse +1Paul
Aug 07th, 2015 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Sorry, but Betts isn't an “islander”. He's now an Argentinean.
He migrated and therefore is no longer an “islander”.
He definitely acts deluded like an Argentinean. You yourself proved that.
7
Aug 07th, 2015 - 12:05 pm - Link - Report abuse -1you are not very bright, no?
he was born in the islets.
hence, he is an islander,
a lot more than you, who are embarrassed of recognizing that you are just another benny-hillbilly.
Being born somewhere doesnt automatically give you that countries nationality, nor does it mean you keep it after you leave.
Aug 07th, 2015 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse +1A child knows this...Paul condom doesnt.
What “legal document” does Argentina have for the Malvinas? There is none.
International community regulations state that the Islanders have the right to self-determination as do the inhabitants of all NSGTs
Poor Paul....very very very thick!
@5. No, not EXACTLY, there's a word missing. It should read “Betts argues that self determination is a decoy used by the UK and Islanders not to comply with IRRELEVANT international community resolutions”.
Aug 07th, 2015 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse +1You've been told FACTS on any number of occasions. We'll try one more time. UN General Assembly resolutions are NON-BINDING. Now, is it NON or BINDING that you have a problem with? Can you get with the concept that NON before BINDING means the same as NOT BINDING?
“UK is a mere administrative power of the Islands with no legal document or rights over the Malvinas.”
Correct. Where's “the Malvinas”? Cordoba, isn't it?
@8. And you were, I presume, born in argieland. Hence, you are a prick. We can see the result. It's difficult to tell the difference between an argie and a banana. Bent and yellow. Then there's the banana.
The Falklands are only a sideshow. Financiers (or any perceived external threat) kick rotting roadkill. rotting roadkill then threatens the Falklands. If the domestic press in rotting roadkill could be totally squelched the Falklands wouldn't be an issue. It's that simple. The only reason the rotting roadkiliian masses want it is because they have been and continue to be conditioned to do so.
Aug 07th, 2015 - 12:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0rotting roadkill: Pay your debts.
A two faced liar ,hypocrite and adulterer. Sounds like consummate politician to me.
Aug 07th, 2015 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Paulie- Come on now - answer Conqueror,s points please.
Aug 07th, 2015 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse +1List the Inyernational Organisations that have the power to issue International BINDING resolutions please.
Then list the Internationally Binding resulutions that have been passed and apply to the Islands. Hint- look to UN Security Council and Int Court of Justice.
I am only aware of one- Res 502 from the UN Security Council in April 1982 - it mentioned the Islands as it instructed Argentina to withdraw her armed forces from the Islands.
I seem to recall that Argentina ignored that Internationally BINDING resolution - thus the UK had International Law on its side when it kicked Argentine forces out a few weeks later.
These dear boy are FACTS - you usually spout a lot of theoretical garbage of no International value. Rather like Bettsy boy!
”I know firsthand international law,..the self determination argument from the UK is a decoy ..illegitimate occupation by a colonial power,
Aug 07th, 2015 - 02:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“UN Charter; DECLARATION REGARDING NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES; Article 73; Members of the United Nations which have or assume responsibilities for ..peoples have not yet attained ..of self-government recognize the principle that the interests of the inhabitants of these territories are paramount, ..b. to develop self-government, ...”
“Self-determination of people: a legal reappraisal by Antonio Cassese
The content of self-determination as laid down in the Covenants Article 1 of both the UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights provides as follows:
All peoples have the right of self-determination. ... All peoples may, ... freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources ...
”The States Parties to the present Covenant, including those having responsibility for the administration of Non-Self-Govcrning and Trust Territories, shall promote ...the right of self-determination, and shall respect that right, in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.
SELF-DETERMINATION AS A CONTINUING RIGHT'. EXPRESSION OF THE POPULAR WILL
53 Article 1(3) grants pcoples of dependent territories (non-self-governing and trust territories) the right freely to decide their international status, in other words, whether to form a State or to associate with an existing sovereign” Oops this makes Sr. Betts a liar, which should make him an ideal representative of Argentina.
@5. By the way, I forgot to mention that all those silly little organisations you like to come up with in south america are neither of interest nor of relevance. What's it about? “Must use all the letters in the alphabet”? Here's a catch-all organisation for you. It's the WABOT organisation. You can add “sur” or “SUR” to it if you want. It's the What A Bunch Of Tossers organisation. Is it an offence to have a false address on your argie ID? Betts has an address on his that hasn't been valid for 33 years. Is he a bigamist? A traitor? A coward? A liar? All five? Terrific “credentials”.
Aug 07th, 2015 - 05:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe justice will be done. Quite recently a number of argies got turned down for “war pensions”. Wait until they pop round to see Alex. He might learn what it's like to be in a war zone!
Will he dare to appear at the C-24 again? Let's see how he likes it when his list of crimes is stated publicly.
The more media cover he gets, the bigger his brain cells grow,
Aug 07th, 2015 - 06:28 pm - Link - Report abuse +1now all of a sudden he is a politician,
with experience from internet sites,
does that mean everybody on here can claim to be politicians,
the man is obviously mad and needs help,
the asylum should act quickly , and look after him,
like they look after paulcedron,
he gets leave from the nuthouse to get on line.lol
@5
Aug 07th, 2015 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse +1“Betts argues that self determination is a decoy used by the UK and Islanders not to comply with international community resolutions”
No, idiot, because none of these resolutions are binding the UK doesn't have to comply with them.
Now, if you were to go to the ICJ, you might get a 'binding' ruling.
@8
”you are not very bright, no?
he was born in the islets.
hence, he is an islander,”
According to Argentina he is not an islander as the Argentines do not recognise Islanders.
So Betts according to you is an implant squatter -not an islander.
Make your mind up and stop locking yourself in that CT scanner all day.
Incidentally, you have often described the islanders as stupid.
These are the facts.
3000 people on an Island the size of Northern Ireland have more or less, got what they want.
Their neighbours with a population of 40 000 000 haven't got what they want, and have not had a ruling toe on the Islands since 3 months (that's a quarter of a YEAR Paul) in 1982. over a quarter of a CENTURY ago. (Sorry, no bold, so shouty capitals).
Resolution 2065 was issued half a century ago-to exactly what result?
A few of your Spanish mates agree with your side?
In 2015 the situation is more or less the same.
And you think the Islanders are stupid when they hold the winning cards?
Where has all this so called international support got you?
You're nowhere nearer to getting the Islands than 33 years ago when you were booted off.
And you still say the islanders are stupid?
If Argentina's 'native cunning is so good, why are they not the administrative power?
If this arsehole manages to get elected it means he will be lauded in this nonsense when he goes to the Mercosur Parliament, sited in MVD.
Aug 07th, 2015 - 07:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He will be in good company with all the other arseholes who meet there.
No doubt the founders thought UYU needed the money and took pity on them when siting this ridiculous 'organisation' here: they overlooked the disgrace it brings to the citizens.
He can be Minister of Philandery and adultery.
Aug 07th, 2015 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse +1His experience of being at UN meetings should get him an appearance on Sesame St or the The Muppet Show as he's just been a puppet each time he's been presented there.
Aug 07th, 2015 - 08:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 017 pete boludo
Aug 07th, 2015 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse -1“According to Argentina he is not an islander as the Argentines do not recognise Islanders.”
who told you that shite, boludo?
argentina recognizes the islets as some kind of province.
territorio nacional to be more accurate.
so he is an islander, period.
whats your problem with that, boludo?
“Betts who recently adopted Argentine nationality...”
Aug 07th, 2015 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Why would he “adopt” Argie nationality, unless he never had it before... being born in the Falkland Islands and all.... ???
Paulie, petal, can you tell us, as you are always so “wisely” explaining everything for us, all about UN Res. 502?
Aug 07th, 2015 - 10:45 pm - Link - Report abuse +1And, if the Falkland Islands are all ready a province of Argentina, why has the bigamist/liar/coward/“historian”/“international lawyer”, to adopt nationality? Surely he's all ready an Argentine?
I have to admit that he is indistinguishable from the vast majority of other RG “politicians”.
But it won't do him any good. He'll probably die of cancer soon enough.......
Betts is a great guy and very sincere, that bothers
Aug 08th, 2015 - 12:47 am - Link - Report abuse -1http://www.infobae.com/notas/700320-El-relato-ingles-desenmascarado-en-un-libro.html
Paul- Can you answer the questions at 11 please?
Aug 08th, 2015 - 03:00 am - Link - Report abuse +1Good time to remember the truths of the Irish lyrics of this song.
Aug 08th, 2015 - 03:25 am - Link - Report abuse -1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BniyC33QdjM
@24: Is he really? You're welcome to the coward/liar/bigamist/deserter.
Aug 08th, 2015 - 03:52 am - Link - Report abuse +1No one over here is bothered, trust me on that!
@26: Here's a better song for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdxvedxPhNU
Prissie Allende: You really want to check out Alex Betts in detail. His smokescreen is pretty thin.
PeDo
Aug 08th, 2015 - 04:10 am - Link - Report abuse -1better song?
it is a shower of shite...
why all of you dear isleteers have such shitty taste for music, eh????
Ah! the unique Islander with honor to recognise the uk wrongdoing...
Aug 08th, 2015 - 06:04 am - Link - Report abuse -1Good after all there is some hope that the rest of the Islanders will understand that take over other people gardens with flags is a felony...
@29
Aug 08th, 2015 - 06:34 am - Link - Report abuse +1This is a bloke who can't even tell his address truthfully.
http://www.clarin.com/politica/particular-DNI-pasaporte-argentinos-domicilio_0_1172883055.html
“Good after all there is some hope that the rest of the Islanders will understand that take over other people gardens with flags is a felony...”
Aug 08th, 2015 - 06:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well at this rate is will take Argentina roughly 60,000 to convince all of them all or 30,000 to convince half.
(Based on converting 1 Islanders every 30 years at Argentina's current success rate).
@31
Aug 08th, 2015 - 07:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Or losing 3,000 wars.
24 presidenteallende
Aug 08th, 2015 - 11:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0He is viewed by many, and with good reason as a de facto traitor, so he has zero credibility.
Gott resigned as literary editor of the Guardian in 1994 after it was alleged in The Spectator that he had been an “agent of influence” for the KGB, claims which he rejected, arguing that “Like many other journalists, diplomats and politicians, I lunched with Russians during the cold war”. He asserted that his resignation was “a debt of honour to my paper, not an admission of guilt”, because his failure to inform his editor of three trips abroad to meet with KGB officials at their expense had caused embarrassment to the paper during its investigation of Jonathan Aitken.
The source of the allegation that he was an agent, KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky. In his resignation letter Gott admitted “I took red gold, even if it was only in the form of expenses for myself and my partner. That, in the circumstances, was culpable stupidity, though at the time it seemed more like an enjoyable joke”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gott
@24,
Aug 08th, 2015 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Gott is a traitor.
lf you want to take notice of people like him & A. Betts, then that shows the level of your country's integrity.
Whatever………this is STILL NOT your land, so get lost.
@28: Ah Paulie, on topic as usual. Courteous, intelligent and “wise” to a fault. At least it's not a boy band like those Germans, Passing By. I can tell you haven't heard anything by Sabaton, you'd know something if you had. Their album about the Swedish Empire was quite surprising.
Aug 08th, 2015 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Anyway, what are you going to tell us about UN Res. 502? You never answer any o our questions.
my dear dear isolda: what are you doing here?
Aug 08th, 2015 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse -1you should be at the nuthouse.
Richard Gott is a traitorous a------e!
Aug 08th, 2015 - 02:05 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Very few people take any notice of his ideas¡
@21 Pau
Aug 08th, 2015 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse +1“who told you that shite, boludo?”
Hector Timmerman, who has to borrow windshields off lorries to fit his massive spectacles frames.
“argentina recognizes the islets as some kind of province”
Most countries with provinces have some power over them. Your country has no power over the Falklands whatsoever.
If Argentina ruled the Islands as a province, why are the signs and official documentation not in Spanish, you educationally subnormal moron?
@22 Troy
“Why would he “adopt” Argie nationality, unless he never had it before... being born in the Falkland Islands and all.... ???”
For someone so keen on Argentina, it took a long time to persuade him that being Argentine was a good idea. Betts is so stupid I expect he attended junior school classes and eventually got brainwashed.
Perhaps this why the Argentine government think they will persuade the Islanders to be Argentine as it worked on Betts after 30 years, so according to Argentine logic everyone on the Islands will follow.......prats.
@24
“Betts is a great guy and very sincere, that bothers”
So what you are saying is that it is accepted Argentine practice to ditch your wife and children?
Does the pope agree?
@29
“Good after all there is some hope that the rest of the Islanders will understand that take over other people gardens with flags is a felony...”
Which gardens did Mestivier tend before his own men (not the enemy) murdered him? Did Pinedo have gardens? Thought he lived mostly on the Sarandi?
The 22 people that asked to stay in January 1833 kept their gardens, including Antonina Roxa (transplanted from South America, not England), who ended up with a ranch near Stanley (that's a bit bigger than a garden).
The odds are, if her own people had run the Islands, she would have ended up with nothing.
@31 Skip
”(Based on converting 1 Islanders every 30 years at Argentina's current success rate).”
And someone who wanted to live in Argentina took 30 years to persuade!!!!!
As Mercosur it seems will have its own parliament
Aug 08th, 2015 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And I presume, like the EU,
It ultimately wants a united states of mercosur,
Does this mean that Alejandro Betts
Could ultimately one day become president of this mighty mercosur,
And the future ruler of the Falkland’s,
Or are we just expected to go along with the fantasies of this silly twit.
Still,
We can all dream, but some of us , dreams a little more, chuckle.
lololol
Every village has its idiot. Every community has its adulterer. Every country has its traitor. The Falklands rolled up the three into one. Ignore the inconsequential bugger!
Aug 08th, 2015 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@36 Think,
Aug 08th, 2015 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No room in the nuthouse, its full with malvinistas.
And you, Think, are you on day release?
@ 41 lsolde
Aug 08th, 2015 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“And you, Think, are you on day release?”
When the asylum guards looked out the windows for the escapee, they ignored that sheep wandering over the grounds dragging it's backside on the ground as if it was hurting: but WE know different, don't we?
:o)
Lolz, like a dog with its bum daubed with creosote.
Aug 09th, 2015 - 08:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are awful, Chris, but l do like you!
you have no integrity my dearest isolda.
Aug 09th, 2015 - 12:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0both betts AND gott should be the new heroes for the inhabitants of the islets.
@44
Aug 09th, 2015 - 12:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hahahahahaha, oh you crack me up. Cheers for giving me a laugh during a 12 hour Sunday work shift.
@44 Think,
Aug 09th, 2015 - 08:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Both Betts AND Gott AND you should be sold into slavery.
Wouldn't be worth much though, ANY of you.
You'd work hard if l had control of you.
my dear beautiful isolda,
Aug 10th, 2015 - 10:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0you cannot even have control of your intake of vodka.
@47 Think,
Aug 10th, 2015 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 02 bottles a day isn't much, hic!
or is it 2 bottles before lunch?
and white wine after lunch, or does that come before the wodka?
can't remember, l'm too pissed to think straight, hic!
God save Mother Russia for producing wodka.
Les have 'nother drink or three,
OJ(=Only Joking!).
But seriously Think, you'd better stay off the Paco.
The quality of your posts has really deteriorated.
This paul cedron character doesn't suit you.
isolda...isolda.
Aug 10th, 2015 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse -1you should go back to the asylum, the sooner the better.
its for your own sake my beautiful isolda.
and do not forget to wear your straitjacket.
His credentials...lets see...Traitor bull shiting egotistic liar, yep hes get every credential to sit amongst the c24, shit he could even chair it.
Aug 10th, 2015 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@44 Paul
Aug 10th, 2015 - 06:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“both betts AND gott should be the new heroes”
Like Leon Trotsky?
the thing is, dear inhabitants of the islets, that you don't want to know the truth.
Aug 10th, 2015 - 08:37 pm - Link - Report abuse -1so, when some intelligent, sensitive writers, journalists, historians, politicians, whatever the fuck you want, tell you the truth, you get nervous and start with all this nonsensical rant.
it is a lot worse, when those journos, historians, etc are also islanders, english, british, you name the rest.
it seems they, richard, gott, alejandro betts and the other guy, have been intelligent enough not to be brainwashed and indoctrinated.
unlike the ordinary benny who thinks and does exactly what their government orders.
sad, sad, sad.
read and learn, dear ignorant benny-hillbillies
http://www.falklands.net/FalklandsCorruption.shtml
http://www.falklands.net/FalklandsCorruption.shtml
@52 Think,
Aug 11th, 2015 - 01:30 am - Link - Report abuse +1Well, we're happy in our ignorance, Think.
And GUESS WHAT, We still own & are in possession of these blessed lslands & you ARE NOT.
Really that all that counts.
Better get back on the Paco, you won't feel the pain then.
53 my lovely beautiful gorgeous dear isolda:
Aug 11th, 2015 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0just shut it.
capisce?
@53 Think,
Aug 11th, 2015 - 09:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Up yours, idiot.
Choke your piehole.
Got it?
55 Isolde
Aug 11th, 2015 - 10:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think just plain, creepy.
MON DIEU, ISOLDA....
Aug 11th, 2015 - 11:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0YOU ARE LIKE THE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS = NO CLASS.
57 think
Aug 12th, 2015 - 12:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Paul persona is crying for attention now.
@52
Aug 12th, 2015 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“it seems they, richard, gott, alejandro betts and the other guy, have been intelligent enough not to be brainwashed and indoctrinated.”
Betts intelligent?
Hahahahahhaahahahahhaahahahahaahah
Best joke you've told for ages.
My horse has more brains in his poop than Betts will ever have.
If Bettsy boy comes over to the UK I could arrange a brain transplant.....
This demented and vile chappie can rest assured that the islanders will be living free and independent under our Union flag long after Kirchner and her corrupt, criminal and cowardly cabal have been flushed into Buenos Aires’s stinking sewers.
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