Family of Alan Turing to demand government pardon 49,000 other men
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| Family of Alan Turing to demand government pardon 49...Campaigners to bring
petition to Downing Street, demanding all men convicted under gross indecency
law for their homosexuality are pardoned |
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From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2015 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One for Turq and fellow conspiracy fans
Decriminalization may be what I remembered reading.
From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2015 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One for Turq and fellow conspiracy fans
I don't think this is true. Homosexual acts were decriminalized, but no one
(other than famous people like Turing) were ever granted pardons for the
incarcerations and chemical castrations they had been subjected to.
If you think it through, that could never happen, because it would open the UK
government to millions -- possible billions -- of pounds in reparation
lawsuits.
Some Brit may be able to correct me on this, but none of the articles I've seen
about this shameful era of British history suggest that anyone has even
*apologized* to the victims of these laws, much less issued pardons to them.
From: "Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2015 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One for Turq and fellow conspiracy fans
I'm pretty sure, though not absolutely certain, that *pardon* was extended
to everyone later.
From: "Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2015 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: One for Turq and fellow conspiracy fans
Just got home from watching Imitation Game - quite a good film, Cumberbatch
is excellent as always. I thought the pardon was a wunnerful thang. It was done
as a "royal prerogative of mercy" which just goes to show Her Starchiness does
have some practical use in today's UK?
From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2015 8:44 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: One for Turq and fellow conspiracy fans
Re "The Imitation Game to watch with my daughter and her mom":
It mentions at the end of the film that Alan Turing has recently been pardoned
(a Royal Pardon, no less) for his conviction for homosexual indecent acts.
That's just the kind of headline-grabbing, liberal hand-wringing that drives me
nuts. My grievance is that if the argument is that being gay is no longer a
crime so we should posthumously and retrospectively pardon those convicted
under the old law then why single out Turing? Surely *everyone* convicted under
the old legal framework deserves a reprieve?
There's also the issue that we are all well aware that they did things
differently in Olde England. To revisit the past and apply contemporary
standards to old judgements is pointless. We wouldn't have forcibly deported
someone to Australia for stealing a loaf of bread, but so what? There's
something tiresomely self-congratulatory about these revisions. It's
advertising to the world how tolerant and well-intentioned you are.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote :
I can barely keep up with Grimm and Justified.
Tonight I am taking a DVD of the Imitation Game to watch with my daughter and
her mom - Daughter is a BIG fan of Benedict Cumberbatch, or Benedict Cumberbund
as I usually call him, much to her annoyance.
From: "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2015 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] One for Turq and fellow conspiracy fans
And WGN's "Salem" season 2 beginsSunday. You're not a fan of the show but
Lucy Lawless joins thecast this season.
On 04/04/2015 01:34 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@...[FairfieldLife] wrote:
Soundsinteresting. I always liked her, so at the veryleast it has a high "eye
candy" quotient for me. :-)
From:"Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]"<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent:Friday, April 3, 2015 9:13 PM
Subject:[FairfieldLife] One for Turq and fellow conspiracyfans
"AmericanOdyssey" stars Anna Friel and debuts onNBC Sunday night:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3551796/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/arts/television/review-american-odyssey-a-new-nbc-series-stars-anna-friel.html
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