[ExI] turing again

David Lubkin lubkin at unreasonable.com
Sat Jul 20 21:52:22 UTC 2013


<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/19/enigma-codebreaker-alan-turing-posthumous-pardon?INTCMP=SRCH>
Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing to be given posthumous pardon


Although I have no particular objection, I'm not big on posthumous pardons.

I'd rather Turing be given an extraordinary honor, e.g., a posthumous 
award of a hereditary peerage, making him superior to his brother 
(Sir John Leslie Turing, 11th Baronet of Forevan). Or the Order of 
the Garter, the highest order of chivalry, previously bestowed on 
Churchill and Thatcher.

I have no clue about what's possible and what's involved. But I'm 
looking for a grand, unmistakable gesture.


-- David.




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