[Gllug] Alan Turing petition

[JLMS]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Jason Clifford<jason at ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 17:02 +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
>>   We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to apologize for the
>>   prosecution of Alan Turing that led to his untimely death.
>
> Because apologising to a man dead since 1954 is going to make all the
> difference in the world.

Not to him certainly, but we are not islands, other people would find
comfort in such an apology for all kind of solid reasons.

>
> It's not even the same government that is being asked to apologise but
> one in place 54 years later.

It is not the government who would be apologizing, it is the British
State, or crown, or whatever you need to call it formally.

The government of the day just handles the affairs of the British
State,  the UK of GB & NI and its government are different legal
entities strictly speaking.
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