So Alan Turing was a mathematical genius who helped the
British win World War II for The British with his codebreaking skills. However,
after the war he was indicted under public indecency laws of the time because
of his homosexuality. He was sentenced to have to take female hormones to blunt
his sex drive and he killed himself a few years later.
The government of Britain officially apologized to Turing
and pardoned him in 2013. Now, a new bill will be introduced by Prime Minister
Theresa May to pardon another 49,000 men who were indicted under public
indecency laws before they were repealed in 1967.
I always wonder if it’s worth it for a government to take
time to redress something that’s long since over. On the other hand, in 2003
the United States Congress renamed french fries “freedom fries.”
Actually, one guy changed the congressional cafeteria menu,
but it counts.
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