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New Call For Turing Pardon

Posted by samzenpus on from the give-him-a-break dept.

mikejuk writes "As 2012, Alan Turing Year, draws to close a group of highly regarded UK scientists, including Professor Stephen Hawking, have repeated the call for a posthumous pardon for Turing's criminal conviction in a letter to the Telegraph. The letter has re-opened the debate, which is controversial even for those who support the idea that Turing was treated in an unfair and appalling way, was formally acknowledged by the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2009 when he apologized for the treatment Turing had received. In February Justice Minister Lord McNally rebuffed a 23,000 signature petition for a pardon saying: 'A posthumous pardon was not considered appropriate as Alan Turing was properly convicted of what at the time was a criminal offense.'"

2 of 231 comments (clear)

  1. Re:He doesn't need a pardon . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wrong. What he did was wrong and he was handled appropriately.

  2. Re:Let it go by Jetra · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm tired of Reverend Jesse Jackson spewing his "Racist" preaches. Every time he does, we have to give more reparations to blacks, thus giving them little incentive to work. Our economy can't handle the stress of supporting a massive unemployed populace.

    I'm not saying ALL blacks are lazy, but I've seen a number that refuse to work because their being paid for the suffering of their forefathers. This is disgusting to me morally because I don't want to profit off my dad's corpse for years to come and it's sickening to see them do such a thing. If I were paid for doing nothing, I would sit and not work (well, not really because that's what I've been doing the past few years.I have tried hard to get a job/go back to school, but nobody hires me).

    Yes, there was slavery. Yes, we should repay the blacks that were alive before 1990 and the family of the the Little Rock Shooting.. No, we shouldn't repay the blacks kids because they don't want to work. I'm not saying "ignore it," I'm saying that history is what it is and no amount of money can ever fix it or should fix it. If someone runs over your grandmother should money fix it? No, that guy should go to jail.

    I suggest a role reversal for a decade.