On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:29:57 -0500, Potter, Tom E wrote
> And the US to a large extent. Who in their right mind would brave
> 3000 miles of the North Atlantic unless someone was forcing you out.
> Don't forget the penal colony of Georgia.
I think we mostly got the religiously oppressed, and religious people who
wanted to set up their own oppressive governments outside the control of
England. I remember an Australian remarking, during the Lewinsky scandal,
"Thank God we got the criminals and they got the Puritans." Sometimes I
know exactly what he meant. Sometimes I think the U.S. has the most
up-tight attitudes towards sex this side of the Taliban.
