Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 18:18:20 -0400 From: Tobias Kunze tkunze@ccrma.stanford.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: Csound List csound@maths.ex.ac.uk Subject: Re: Almost as offtopic as Fabios mail.. Sender: owner-csound-outgoing@maths.ex.ac.uk

Besides capitalists and thieves, there were those how emigrated for religious reasons.

But mind you--most of these "thieves" weren't actually felons. Check out the new book by Scott Christiansen: "With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America", Northeastern University Press (reviewed in the February 13 issue of the Economist, Review of Books & Multimedia). In short, many prisoners the "land of the free" relied on for forced labour on plantations, etc. were actually simply kidnapped street kids from London. One of the big winners of this system by the way was. So, i'd add the kidnapped to your list :)

-Tobias