[Baron von Richthofen (Vaclav)]

Originally Posted by astroron

Vars, your one eyed view of history is both wrong and very badly distorted
It was not only English convicts who where transported to Australia,they came from all the countries of the UK.
Also Brutality was the norm for most penal colonies all over the world.
A lot of convicts had done very little crime to get transported, but with the judicial system being as it was and the jails over flowing it was a solution to a problem.
Some of the best administrators and architects and other fields where former convicts.

When is said England I meant Great Britton and my comments are from personal experience when I was younger
I thought that was all behind me but I was wrong, it seems that if you are a nice guy nearly everybody wants to put you down, (I am not from Australia or English speaking country)
It seems if you are not a beer swilling football fanatic you don't fit in Australia