[ExI] turing again

[Ben Zaiboc]

David Lubkin <lubkin at unreasonable.com> wrote:


> 
> <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.


A 'pardon'?  That's outrageous.

You pardon people who did something wrong, and the pardon doesn't negate the wrongness of the thing they did.

Turing should get a posthumous grovelling apology.

All a 'pardon' does is acknowledge that the thing he did used to be illegal and isn't anymore, and we all know that.


Ben Zaiboc