As his hundredth birthday approaches, there is growing demand for a pardon for Alan Turing. His treatment really was barbarous.
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As his hundredth birthday approaches, there is growing demand for a pardon for Alan Turing. His treatment really was barbarous.
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It is sad. I watched a MIL channel show the other day where they spent most of the show extolling the work of Bletchly Park and Turning and never mentioned the horrors they put him through after he arguably saved them all from German servitude.
The dead little notice the tributes of the living, nor recoil from their condemnations…
It always seemed odd to me that they treated ANYONE like that, in England! A place with more gay men per square mile than any place I’ve ever heard of. If you read any English history, they can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a dead gay King, Prince or other Royal of some import.
What did THEY ever do, compared to a thinker like Alan Turing?
And your right Gunga, it won’t make a difference TO Turing, but we should make amends when we can. I’m sure he still has living family, it could matter to them.