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By: - 24th June 2012 at 10:20 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I'll second that. Full marks for your robust comments.
Alan Turing personified genius in terms of its proper definition; a capacity for original thought.
A memorial and an unqualified pardon are long, long overdue.
John Green
By: - 24th June 2012 at 12:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Indeed the guy deserves great credit for what he has done, though the governments still refuse to give him an official pardon it seems. While he was properly convicted of a crime, what he did shouldn't have been a crime. Scotland and Northern Ireland are the worst it seems, their cops arresting people for being gay up until 1980 and 1982 respectively. They do deserve some credit for managing to tell the gay and straight people apart in the 80s, or even for telling the men and women apart :cool:
The government has rejected calls for computer pioneer Alan Turing to be granted an official pardon for convictions for homosexuality dating back to the 1950s.
An online petition of over 23,000 signatures had requested the pardon.
Justice Minister Lord McNally dismissed the motion in the House of Lords.
"A posthumous pardon was not considered appropriate as Alan Turing was properly convicted of what at the time was a criminal offence," he said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16919012
By: - 24th June 2012 at 12:46 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Even with my eyesight I am guessing the two in the middle are the girls?
Moggy
By: - 24th June 2012 at 19:55 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Re 3
PPP
"a posthumous pardon not considered appropriate....."
I seem to recall that just recently some 'properly convicted' by Courts Martial soldiers from WW1, who had been shot for various 'crimes' on the battlefield, received a full pardon. Or am I wrong?
Sauce for the goose ?
John Green
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By: Moggy C - 24th June 2012 at 09:21
I have been away for a while, but can't see any tribute to the man here.
That being the case I thought I would post some images of the memorial thoughtfully erected by the Germans that stands largely as a tribute to the man and the team at Bletchley Park
The wall displays the names of 35,000 dead U-Boat crew, that could so easily have been another 35,000 British and allied merchant seamen.
Thank heavens for Turing, and shame on the way we treated him later
Moggy