[QUOTE]The request was declined by the then justice minister [U]Lord McNally[/U] on the grounds that Turing was properly convicted of what at the time was a criminal offence.[/QUOTE]
Troglodyte dickhead. I wonder if his tenure extends back to Vicky's time.

[QUOTE=kladner;518975]Troglodyte dickhead. I wonder if his tenure extends back to Vicky's time.[/QUOTE]Whether or not you agree with it, his statement was undoubtedly correct.

[QUOTE=xilman;518985]Whether or not you agree with it, his statement was undoubtedly correct.[/QUOTE]
True. However, "pardon" implies forgiveness. Also, to hang onto a repealed law, especially such a discriminatory law, years after its repeal, is a Dick Move. :beatdown:

[QUOTE=kladner;518995][QUOTE=xilman;518985]Whether or not you agree with it, his statement was undoubtedly correct.[/QUOTE]True. However, "pardon" implies forgiveness. Also, to hang onto a repealed law, especially such a discriminatory law, years after its repeal, is a Dick Move. :beatdown:[/QUOTE]In defense of then justice minister Lord McNally's decision, it was certainly legally correct. And the granting of the pardon in Turing's case was unusual, as indicated in my earlier post:

[quote]A pardon is normally granted only when the person is innocent of the offence and where a request has been made by someone with a vested interest, such as a family member. On this occasion, a pardon has been issued without either requirement being met.[/quote]

The effort to pardon Turing did [i]not[/i] address the issue of whether the law under which he was convicted, and which was later repealed, was a just law. The pardon was for him alone, and was made based on his extraordinary service to the country in wartime, in view of which, his fate was particularly lamentable.

Pardons are usually granted to remedy individual miscarriages of justice -- people convicted of crimes they didn't commit, but who have no judicial remedy; or, people properly convicted but for whom there are mitigating circumstances. The closest thing to an official acknowledgement that the "gross indecency" law was an unjust law (which may be viewed as the [i]ultimate[/i] mitigating circumstance), would be a blanket pardon of [i]all[/i] those in the UK convicted of "gross indecency" for consensual, private homosexual acts. That came in 2017, as described [url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-41108768]here[/url]. It automatically pardoned those convicted and who died before February 1, 2017, but did [i]not[/i] automatically pardon those still alive on that date. They were required to apply. The reason for this was to make sure their offenses were not covered by laws still on the books, as opposed to merely by the repealed "gross indecency" law.

With the coming of the blanket pardon, the criminalization of private consensual homosexual acts in the UK was well and truly declared dead and buried. May it rest in peace.

[URL="https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/news-events-seminars/professor-william-newman"]William Newman[/URL], inventor of the WIMP paradigm.

Gloria Vanderbilt
 

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[url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/06/egypt-president-mohamed-morsi-buried-cairo-lawyer-190618045239054.html]Egypt's ex-President Mohamed Morsi buried in Cairo: Son[/url]
[quote]Egypt's first freely elected president buried in Cairo at dawn, his son says, with some Morsi family members present.

18 Jun 2019 09:58 GMT

Egypt's former President Mohamed Morsi was buried on Tuesday in eastern Cairo, his son said, a day after he collapsed in court and died shortly after.

Morsi was buried early in the morning alongside other senior figures of the Muslim Brotherhood, his son, Ahmed Morsi, said on his Facebook page.

The burial was attended by members of the family in Cairo's Madinat Nasr after authorities refused to grant permission for a burial in Morsi's home province of Sharqiya in the Nile Delta, Ahmed Morsi said.
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There have been reports over the years that Morsi had been mistreated and tortured in jail, with activists saying on Monday his death should be seen in the context of the Egyptian authorities' systematic isolation and mistreatment of political detainees.

Human Rights Watch called the news of Morsi's death "terrible" but "entirely predictable", citing the government's "failure to allow him adequate medical care".

"The government of Egypt today bears responsibility for his death, given their failure to provide him with adequate medical care or basic prisoner rights," the group said in a statement to Al Jazeera.

Amnesty International said the Egyptian government bears responsibility for the death of the former president, amid pressing international demands for a fair and transparent investigation into the circumstances surrounding his final hours.[/quote]

Dave Bartholomew
 

[B][URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Bartholomew[/URL]
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[QUOTE][B]David Louis Bartholomew[/B] (December 24, 1918 – June 23, 2019) was an American musician, bandleader, composer, [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrangement"]arranger[/URL] and [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_producer"]record producer[/URL], prominent in the music of [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans"]New Orleans[/URL] throughout the second half of the 20th century. Originally a trumpeter, he was active in many musical genres, including [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues"]rhythm and blues[/URL], [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band"]big band[/URL], [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_music"]swing music[/URL], [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll"]rock and roll[/URL], New Orleans jazz and [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixieland"]Dixieland[/URL]. In his induction into the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame"]Rock and Roll Hall of Fame[/URL], he was cited as a key figure in the transition from [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_blues"]jump blues[/URL] and swing to R&B and as "one of the Crescent City’s greatest musicians and a true pioneer in the rock and roll revolution."[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Bartholomew#cite_note-rockhall-1"][1][/URL]

Many musicians have recorded Bartholomew's songs, but [U]his partnership with [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fats_Domino"]Fats Domino[/URL] produced some of his greatest successes.[/U] In the mid-1950s they wrote more than forty [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_record"]hits[/URL] for [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Records_(1947)"]Imperial Records[/URL], including the [I][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)"]Billboard[/URL][/I] [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Songs"]R&B[/URL] number one [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_chart"]chart[/URL] hit "[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_That_a_Shame"]Ain't That a Shame[/URL]". Bartholomew's other hit songs as a composer included "[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Hear_You_Knocking"]I Hear You Knocking[/URL]", "[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_(Fats_Domino_song)"]Blue Monday[/URL]", "[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Walkin%27"]I'm Walkin'[/URL]", "[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Ding-A-Ling"]My Ding-A-Ling[/URL]", and "[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Night_(Elvis_Presley_song)"]One Night[/URL]". He was a member of the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songwriters_Hall_of_Fame"]Songwriters Hall of Fame[/URL], the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame"]Rock and Roll Hall of Fame[/URL] and the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Music_Hall_of_Fame"]Louisiana Music Hall of Fame[/URL].[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Bartholomew#cite_note-songhall-2"][2][/URL][/QUOTE]

If anyone could be called an "intrepid reporter" it was Chicago's WMAQ-TV (later WLS-TV) local correspondent [url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-russ-ewing-obituary-20190626-55opsibmobczjllwvgcgrgg7gy-story.html]Russ Ewing[/url].

[URL="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/02/george-felton-obituary"]George Felton[/URL], Computer Scientist dies aged 98

Lee Iacocca
 

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