Posted on 12/24/2013 9:14:14 AM PST by thetallguy24
Mathematician Alan Turing, who helped Britain win World War Two by cracking Nazi Germany's "unbreakable" Enigma code, was granted a rare royal pardon on Tuesday for a criminal conviction for homosexuality that led to his suicide.
Turing's electromechanical machine, a forerunner of modern computers, unravelled the code used by German U-boats in the Atlantic. His work at Bletchley Park, Britain's wartime codebreaking centre, was credited with shortening the war.
However, he was stripped of his job and chemically castrated with injections of female hormones after being convicted of gross indecency in 1952 for having sex with a man. Homosexual sex was illegal in Britain until 1967.
Turing killed himself in 1954, aged 41, with cyanide.
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It’d be nice if you had any evidence to these theories of yours, but as it stands now, there’s no evidence he was charged differently than if he would have been a butcher, a baker, or any average schmo.
Besides, the fact that he had a security clearance of the highest order only made his act of stupidity that much more dangerous.
Ok, well at least you’ve finally admitted that security clearance had nothing to do with the charges. Would’ve helped if you admitted it up front.
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