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Re:UK government declines to pardon Alan Turing by bwarp on Monday February 06, 2012 @05:40AM (#3556952)
It makes me wonder who they'll be pardoning in 50 years time from now. Assange, Manning, David Kelly, McKinnon etc.

There's no excuse to get it wrong in the first place and I'm sure for the people concerned, a pardon is probably virtually irrelevant by the time they have issued it. Either the people are dead or their life is wrecked.

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Re:UK government declines to pardon Alan Turing by itmag on Monday February 06, 2012 @06:40AM (#3557072)
It makes me wonder who they'll be pardoning in 50 years time from now. Assange, Manning, David Kelly, McKinnon etc.

You're assuming that history is a linear ascent toward ever higher morality. What if it goes the other way?

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Re:UK government declines to pardon Alan Turing by bwarp on Monday February 06, 2012 @06:57AM (#3557100)
That's a very fair point. Thinking about it, the morality inclines for a bit after a war, then declines as another appears. Well that's my perception anyway.
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Re:UK government declines to pardon Alan Turing by mooism2 on Monday February 06, 2012 @06:06AM (#3557022)
They can't pardon David Kelly. He wasn't ever charged with anything, much less convicted, was he?
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Re:UK government declines to pardon Alan Turing by bwarp on Monday February 06, 2012 @06:17AM (#3557042)
Not every part of the government operates under the same rules as us. If they don't want someone around, they bully them to suicide or kill them (opinions are open as to what happened there). Then they run a public inquiry, ironically headed by school chums of the ruling class to shut people up about it.
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Re:UK government declines to pardon Alan Turing by mooism2 on Monday February 06, 2012 @06:36AM (#3557065)
Even accepting what you say, having been convicted of a crime is a necessary prerequisite for receiving a pardon.
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Re:UK government declines to pardon Alan Turing by hahaiamatwork on Monday February 06, 2012 @06:38AM (#3557070)
This isn't a conspiracy theory site. For the sake of polite conversation this isn't the place to start making such claims.
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Re:UK government declines to pardon Alan Turing by JeremyBanks on Monday February 06, 2012 @10:13AM (#3557643)
Previous discussion on this subject (two years ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1073405
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Re:UK government declines to pardon Alan Turing by mjwalshe on Monday February 06, 2012 @08:02AM (#3557225)
No but the elements of the press that hounded him have some repsonsability for his suicide as arguably do his employers for failing in thier duty of care
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Re:UK government declines to pardon Alan Turing by peteretep on Monday February 06, 2012 @06:05AM (#3557016)
Well, given the response, presumably they won't be pardoning any of them...?
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