In <[email protected]>, on 12/24/2013 at 03:01 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>http://boingboing.net/2013/12/24/queen-elizabeth-pardons-turing.html >In my view, the Queen should have pardoned every man and woman >persecuted under the cruel and unjust law that ruined so many lives. Indeed. >Likewise, some gay rights advocates have complained that the British >government might better have expended its resources not in such a >symbolic gesture but in the more fitting memorial of broadening >legal protection for living gays. I won't hold my breathe. For that matter, we (USA) have our own list of people punished under dubious laws. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
