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At least our country wasn't founded by a bunch of criminals!
Although, if we hadn't won the revolution, the men we call the Founding Fathers would have all been hanged for treason and in addition to driving on the wrong side of the road, we would all consider then criminals today.
Do we consider people who leave the US to live in another country criminals (discouting the people who decide to go to Iraq and learn how to kill American soldiers)? If the founding fathers of the US were guilty of anything, it was aggressive invasion of another country, genocide, and importing illegal goods which brought exotic diseases to a group of people who came before them. Not treason. They left England. They didn't revolt in England. If the US is guilty of treason for that, then so is India, much of Africa, Canada, much of South America and Mexico, and several asian countries. Also, people complain about the takeover of the US from the American Indians, but it happened in Australia too.
Also, Australia was populated by the least worst criminals. It wasn't murderers and rapists there. It was the tax fraud and shoplifters of the time that got sent there. They had short sentences and ended up getting out even earlier so they could help build up the colony. It was all about cheap labor.