Support apology for treatment of Alan Turing

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Someone's setup a petition on the Number 10 site to call for an apology for way Alan Turing was treated. Thought people here might like to support it.

petition said:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to apologize for the prosecution of Alan Turing that led to his untimely death

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/turing/

For those that don't know, Alan Turing is the father of computer science. Amongst his other achievements he worked at Bletchley Park during the second world war, and was instrumental in breaking the Enigma. After the war he was stripped of his security clearance because he refused to lie about his sexuality, which led him into depression and taking his own life. A true genius and great Britain. You can read about him here:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_turing