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Given that neither Gordon Brown nor any members of the current government are culpable in the brutal treatment of Alan Turing a lifetime ago, they are not capab
by jacoblyles 17y ago
Given that neither Gordon Brown nor any members of the current government are culpable in the brutal treatment of Alan Turing a lifetime ago, they are not capable of making a sincere apology for that treatment. The only thing they are capable of is in making a self-congratulatory statement that amounts to "Look how much better we are today than our forefathers!". That is what this is, and that is all they can give us. Anything else would be dishonest.
- jacquesm 17y agoThey could formally pardon him as well.
- russss 17y agoI'm not sure there is any history of the UK government issuing posthumous pardons.
- jacquesm 17y agoThere are actually plenty, such as a lot of people that were executed during World War I for 'cowardice', there are others dealing with people wrongly accused of crimes.
- russss 17y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon#United_Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon#United_Kingdom Today the monarch may only grant a pardon on the advice of the Justice Secretary (previously the Home Secretary) or the First Minister of Scotland (or the Defence Secretary in military justice cases), and the policy of the Ministry of Justice and Scottish Executive is only to grant pardons to those who are "morally" innocent of the offence (as opposed to those who may have been wrongly convicted by misapplication of the law)