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Star Member BotanyThis was an act of warand the republicans went along w/it.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029247050
OK. I read the DUmmy link. Anyone know what the hell they're referring to?
"Botany" is not a good primitive name. Plants serve a useful purpose. This primitive doesn't..
Maybe it short for "Botany Bay", Kahn's ship from Star Trek... the superior man and all...
Crime1788First Australian penal colony establishedShare this:facebooktwittergoogle+PRINT CITEThe first 736 convicts banished from England to Australia land in Botany Bay. Over the next 60 years, approximately 50,000 criminals were transported from Great Britain to the “land down under,” in one of the strangest episodes in criminal-justice history.The accepted wisdom of the upper and ruling classes in 18th century England was that criminals were inherently defective. Thus, they could not be rehabilitated and simply required separation from the genetically pure and law-abiding citizens. Accordingly, lawbreakers had to be either killed or exiled, since prisons were too expensive. With the American victory in the Revolutionary War, transgressors could no longer be shipped off across the Atlantic, and the English looked for a colony in the other direction.Captain Arthur Phillip, a tough but fair career naval officer, was charged with setting up the first penal colony in Australia. The convicts were chained beneath the deck during the entire hellish six-month voyage. The first voyage claimed the lives of nearly 10 percent of the prisoners, which remarkably proved to be a rather good rate. On later trips, up to a third of the unwilling passengers died on the way. These were not hardened criminals by any measure; only a small minority were transported for violent offenses. Among the first group was a 70-year-old woman who had stolen cheese to eat. <SNIP>