Finally after 69 yrs a Pardon For Gay Genius British Code Breaker Alan Turing

About 69 hears ago this Christmas season after the death of a gay genius hero of war whose accomplishments saved hundreds of thousands of both his compatriots and the allies both the Americans and the Russians. Yes the Russians too who might have not known of the invention but got intelligence from it through the British and American Secret Services. Yes the Russians you know the ones that don’t like gays and whose ancestors buds were saved by a Gay men’s work and invention which allow the allies to know what the Germans were up all the time. This British man was Alan Turing. A man before his time.  His code breaking and finally his code braking machine was the first useful computer use anywhere but particularly in the military.

His family, his name and gays whose honor some haters like to either ignore or throw around like it was a carpet full of sleeping bugs was finally vindicated by receiving a full pardon on Tuesday for the crime of having sex with another man! The only man in Britain to do so.

 Today as we fight for our civil rights and even though we had so many victories particularly in this year that is coming to an end our victories keep going but is not an easy road. Russia who was on the road of an educated, semi compassionate nation on the question of civil rights comes out with laws against gays. They proved to the world that the USSR still alive and kicking and Russians wether their government or the people that live there do not understand the world. A nation capable of destroying the world it does not understand!

Then there is India in a path of an outrageously gross national product.  Electronics, exporting and education that make some of their people and  companies welcome in many places because of their cheap labor and cheap products. Paid Cell phones where first distributed all over india like they were candy and now even Africa has cell phones thanks to this Indian Company. A nation that as big as it is it could possibly have the larges amount of gays maybe except China than any other nation on the planet and they passed a law taking away what they had already given which helped them get doors open from people that are now having second thoughts. They shoot themselves in the behind  like Britain did by persecuting Turing and driving him to suicide. He was embarrassed and persecuted.

Does it makes sense. The timing of this pardon should embarrass the hell out of the British for dragging their feet on gay marriage like they did and Russia and India but I think Russia has no morals and it is very had to embarrass a whole population without morals.  The British should also be embarrassed for taking so much work and decades for them to reversed the morality of the issue. As for Turing, he was sent to the grave a very sad, broken individual, because that’s what countries do to some of their heroes.


Henry Chu from Latimes.com  reports the following facts  about what went on yesterday:

Turing was convicted in 1952 of “gross indecency,” the charge used against gay men in an age when homosexual relations were illegal in Britain. He underwent chemical castration and had his government security clearance confiscated, then took his own life in 1954 at age 41, prematurely ending a distinguished career that pioneered today’s computer era.

In recent years, a campaign to have Turing’s name cleared has built momentum, resulting in an official apology in 2009 and culminating in the announcement Tuesday that Queen Elizabeth II, exercising her royal “prerogative of mercy,” had pardoned Turing at the request of the government.

The decision was hailed by many as long-overdue redress for one of Britain’s most brilliant scientists. But there was also criticism over the legal anomaly it created and the fact that tens of thousands of other men not fortunate enough to be as famous as Turing remain on the books as criminals for being gay.

“Dr. Turing deserves to be remembered and recognized for his fantastic contribution to the war effort and his legacy to science,” Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said. “A pardon from the queen is a fitting tribute to an exceptional man.”

Prime Minister David Cameron lauded Turing’s vital work in cracking the Nazis’ ingenious “Enigma” code, which had stumped some of the Allies’ best cryptographers. Deciphering the German military’s secret communications shortened World War II and “saved countless lives,” Cameron said.

Turing is also remembered for his path-breaking thinking on artificial intelligence and the idea that a machine could be programmed to perform multiple tasks. Long before the creation of modern computers, he developed the “Turing test,” an influential framework for determining whether a machine could be described as intelligent.

But his conviction for gross indecency shut down his career and subjected him to disgrace and appalling treatment. Forced to take female hormones to sap his sex drive, Turing was stripped of his clearance for government intelligence work and became bitter and depressed.

His death two years later from cyanide poisoning was ruled a suicide, though some of his friends and colleagues insisted it was an accident, and a few others muttered darkly of a plot by secret agents to kill him.

Turing’s story has been much-written about and dramatized for stage and screen. The play “Breaking the Code” won critical acclaim in the West End and on Broadway in the 1980s; a new musical based on Turing’s life and work, “The Universal Machine,” premiered in London this year. Shooting has begun on a film about Turing, "The Imitation Game," starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley.

His posthumous pardon is highly unusual and possibly unique. Royal pardons are normally reserved for people who are innocent of the offenses they are accused of committing, and are usually requested by family members or others close to the alleged offender. Neither is true in this case, a departure from protocol that reflects “the exceptional nature of Alan Turing’s achievements,” the government said.

But that sits uneasily with some legal scholars. While it’s fine to denounce past statutes, such as the one against homosexuality, as retrograde and unjust, critics say, Turing was convicted according to the law of the land at the time, and pardoning him alone could be seen as implying that some people are above the law by virtue of their fame, their accomplishments or their value to the state.

Peter Tatchell, Britain’s most prominent gay-rights advocate, said that at least 50,000 men were convicted of gross indecency, and that as many as 15,000 of them are still alive, stuck with criminal records for being gay.

“They have never been offered a pardon and will never get one. Selective redress is a bad way to remedy a historic injustice,” Tatchell said. “An apology and pardon is due to the other 50,000-plus men who were also convicted of consenting, victimless homosexual relationships during the 20th century.”

Adam Gonzalez, Publisher