<div dir="ltr">I think that the important question is: Do Alan Turing pardon the Queen?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 10:51 PM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Will Steinberg wrote:<br>
> The fact that they denied the same pardon but a year ago makes it seem like<br>
> an empty gesture. This is the government that drove one of the greatest<br>
> geniuses of our time to suicide by STERILIZING him...<br>
><br>
><br>
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</div></div>Earlier governments did much worse than that.<br>
Heretics and witches were tortured and burnt at the stake. Capital<br>
punishment was common. Slavery was normal.<br>
The Royal Pardoner will be very busy if all earlier wrongs are to be<br>
righted (by our current standards).<br>
<br>
This is likely to be a permanent job as future generations will<br>
probably want to pardon a lot of the things we do nowadays.<br>
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BillK<br>
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