Alan Turing armahdettu!

Alan Turingin "armahdus" Iso-Britannian hallituksen toimesta on enemmänkin loukkaus kuin aito anteeksipyyntö. Tekopyhää kaksinaismoralismia.

THE FREEMAN
The Shame of Medicine: Alan Turing Redux
THOMAS S. SZASZ
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

http://fee.org/freeman/the-shame-of-medicine-alan-turing-redux/

"In my May 2009 column I recounted the tragic story of the medical-legal persecution of the famed British mathematician and World War II code breaker Alan Turing. In June, John Graham-Cumming, a British computer programmer, created a petition on the “No. 10 Downing Street” website asking for a government apology for Turing’s mistreatment. On September 10, Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a formal apology on behalf of the U.K. government, stating, in part:

Earlier this year, I stood with Presidents Sarkozy and Obama to honour the service and the sacrifice of the heroes who stormed the beaches of Normandy 65 years ago. And just last week, we marked the 70 years which have passed since the British government declared its willingness to take up arms against fascism and declared the outbreak of the Second World War. So I am both pleased and proud that, thanks to a coalition of computer scientists, historians and LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] activists, we have this year a chance to mark and celebrate another contribution to Britain’s fight against the darkness of dictatorship: that of code-breaker Alan Turing.

Brown was clueless."

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Tuohan oli vastenmielinen homo.