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New Call For Turing Pardon
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.'"
seriously. who gives a fuck? he's dead, who cares, move on. pardoning him has no real effect on today's world, so there's no need to do it.
People need to leave the past in, well, the past. This is what ticks me off. Blacks keep saying that they want reparations for slavery. I won't give them dime one. The grandparents maybe, but the newer generation need to shut up. What might have been wrong yesterday does not apply today when the law changed overnight.