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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Re: [mukto-mona] Gay mathematician gets royal pardon



With the same token, Slavery laws and Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 should be totally kosher too? Certain laws are inherently discriminatory and wrong. It is never too late to acknowledge that and move on.
-SD
 
"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
-Seuss


On Thursday, December 26, 2013 12:33 PM, ANISUR RAHMAN <anisur.rahman1@btinternet.com> wrote:
 
Dear Mr Bain,

Your outburst on Alan Turing issue is totally unfounded and misplaced. What Alan Turing did in 1952 was illegal under the laws of 1952. So he was convicted and castrated, not imprisoned, as per his wish. 

Now 50 or so years later that law has been changed and Alan Turing, a brilliant British mathematician, had been granted pardon retrospectively and it is the most decent thing the British government and the British Royalty can do.

Your invection that 'the British have not yet gotten civilized enough to seek an unconditional pardon from him, and are talking the nonsense of pardoning him instead' is the most despicable and uncivilised outburst I have ever seen. It is not only racist but also sheer vindictive. What right have you got to brand the whole of British population as uncivilised? And that is coming from somebody with the assumed 'citizenship of America', who had been doing all the uncivilised things throughout the whole world!

If you have any amount of decency, you should withdraw the your sentence and apologise publicly.

- Dr A Rahman    

From: Sukhamaya Bain <subain1@yahoo.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, 25 December 2013, 23:39
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Gay mathematician gets royal pardon

 
I have serious problems with the words, "pardon" and "amnesty", when they are applied to victims and fighters of injustice.
 
Alan Turing did not do any crime, and he did not need any 'pardon'. The British government did a gross injustice to him in 1952 by castrating him. The British government and their royalty are the ones that needed pardoning by him (his departed soul or his family), not the other way around. Obviously, the British have not yet gotten civilized enough to seek an unconditional pardon from him, and are talking the nonsense of pardoning him instead.
 
SuBain
 
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From: subimal chakrabarty <subimal@yahoo.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 9:33 PM
Subject: [mukto-mona] Gay mathematician gets royal pardon







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