At 12:23 PM 11/20/98 -0500, Mikey wrote:
>> At least you are allow to read whatever you like in the States. Not
>> something understood down here.
>
>Yes, I've wondered about that. Is that a carryover from being subjects under
>the British Commonwealth, or merely because the original founders were mostly
>prisoners?
The original founders (i.e. early British settlers) were not mostly prisoners.
Damien Broderick