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Pie	09-11-2009 08:33 AM

Yippee!

I appreciated the (apparent) sincerity of Mr. Brown's words.

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Alan and the many thousands of other gay men who were convicted as he was convicted under homophobic laws were treated terribly. Over the years millions more lived in fear of conviction.
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So on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely thanks to Alan's work I am very proud to say: we're sorry, you deserved so much better.

sean	09-13-2009 03:21 PM

I've known the story about Alan Turing for a long time. Altho this apology is long long overdue, it's good to hear of it. It's unusual for official actions to be reconsidered like this, and apologies pretty much unknown.

I didn't know it was prompted by a petition, but it doesn't surprise me. Its all good tho.

DanaC

09-13-2009 05:39 PM

he did sound sincere...excellent.

Bout time this happened. Though I wouldn't have predicted it.

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