>Yes - but this is not a good thing! It's a bug not a feature!

From the point of view of many Americans, not only is it a feature, but the defining feature of a free state.

Then again, many Americans take to heart Jefferson's line about the 'Tree of Liberty needing to be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants' without realizing what he actually meant by referring to both patriots and tyrants as 'its natural manure.'