Oglethorpe?
Posted on 08/08/2016 12:45:41 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Swimming officials from Australia and China have joined the fray as a feud over doping between swimmers Mack Horton and Sun Yang boils over at the Rio Olympics...
Sun had earlier been accused of splashing water at Horton in an apparent attempt to get his attention, and Horton made his initial "drug cheat" reference when asked why he had ignored Sun...
.... The Global Times tabloid opted for a more blunt approach, referring to Australia in a commentary as a former British "offshore prison" that is on "the fringes of civilization."
(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...
Oh well! Better off than on!
Of *course* China is doping their athletes...it's simply in their nature.
I thought everyone was a convict in Austrailia. Isn’t that why it’s there?
BTW, ;-)
Is someone claiming it wasn't?
Iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
That was also true for the state of Georgia.
You truly have a dizzying intellect!
“Iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.”
I see what you did there. Well played.
Unlike China, prisoners dumped in Australia (and even the USA), born with the right to reason, were given the opportunity to work their sentences off and so they built a nation in the process, which was the entire point. China, otoh, forcefully “reeducates” entire families against freedom of thought through hard labor, using its lifetime prisons as organ and sex “donation” centers, and so in the same length of time they’ve accomplished little more than growing a militarized feudal slave dynasty. And that is why, I’ll take the free nation of Australia for 1000, please, Alex.
No, not everyone. There are also aborigines and spiders.
In all, about 164,000 convicts were transported to the Australian colonies between 1788 and 1868 on board 806 ships.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_in_Australia
The Australians I have known are in fact VERY proud of thr convict heritage!
If you were caught Jaywalking... get on the ship anything more, they put you down.
Virtually all malefactors were caught by informers or denounced to the local court by their victims.[citation needed] Pursuant to the so-called "Bloody Code", by the 1770s there were 222 crimes in Britain which carried the death penalty,[6] almost all of which were crimes against property. These included such offences as the stealing of goods worth over 5 shillings, the cutting down of a tree, the theft of an animal, even the theft of a rabbit from a rabbit warren.
I am now a bigger fan of Australia
“fringes of civilization”???
Commie China has been lost to civilization....
I had also heard that.
Found this:
http://www.earlyamericancrime.com/convict-transportation/business-of-transportation/georgia
“Unfortunately, the people who came over with Oglethorpe did not supply the kind of industrious work needed to start a colony. Quickly, the trustees of the colony agreed in 1734 to abandon the idea of populating the colony with debtors, contending that “as many of the poor who had been useless in England were inclined to be useless likewise in Georgia” “
Interesting.
Oglethorpe?
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