[geeks] Socialized medicine [was Re: nVidia 8800GT for Apple Mac Pro]

[Phil Stracchino]

Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On May 26, 2008, at 06:22 , Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>> Most of the early settlers in the English part of the "new world"
>> went there to evade religous persecution.
> 
> Actually, only a few came here because of that.
> 
> That's an old American myth.
> 
> Most of the early settlements were purely economic colonies run as 
> standard business arrangements.
> 
> People just tend to focus on the pilgrims for some odd reason.

The "moral descendents" of the Pilgrims like to focus on the Pilgrims 
and to remind everyone that the Pilgrim Fathers came to America fleeing 
from religious persecution in Europe.  However, as has oft been 
remarked, it's perhaps closer to the truth to say that they fled what 
they perceived as religious persecution in Europe, seeking the freedom 
to persecute others in their own way.


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