Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing
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#2Even this, 61 years late and only applying to him, is only a sort-of pardon legally:
http://www.newstatesman.com/david-allen-green/2013/07/puttin...
Re: Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing
#3He should get a Royal Apology as well, even if the PM already issued one.
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#4Finally. Though it is the very least that the establishment could do given how Turing was treated.
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#5> "Alan Turing, the second world war codebreaker who took his own life after undergoing chemical castration following a conviction for homosexual activity, has been granted a posthumous royal pardon 59 years after his death."
I don't understand, I thought what was needed was "royal apologies". WTH.
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#6Somewhere between better than nothing and nothing.
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#7Ridiculous
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#8The manner in which the document was written makes its authenticity strike me as highly surprising.
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#9> "Alan Turing, the second world war codebreaker who took his own life after undergoing chemical castration following a conviction for homosexual activity, has been granted a posthumous royal pardon 59 years after his death." I don't understand, I thought what was needed was "royal apologies". WTH.
Don't be too concerned by the "Royal" nature of the pardon. In the UK the legislative system is in theory dependent on the Royal prerogative (i.e all laws derive from the will of the head of state, currently Queen Elizabeth II). In practice that is not so, as Her Majesty does not personally deliberate on legislative matters.
However, as a journalistic device, describing the decision as "Royal" conveys the journalists and editors feelings as to the importance and sincerity of the pardon.
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#10How ironic, coming the same week as LGBT education sites are blocked by British "porn" filters.
The best pardon to someone who is dead would be to stop doing similar misdeeds to those who are living.