Some context around the D-Day memorial ‘celebrations’ here is a footnote to history and one for those believing Churchill was in some way a heroic figure; a high functioning alcoholic we have looked at before, a confirmed racist and right winger and we should judge by his treatment of someone who ACTUALLY acted to save lives!
"Turing got widely known as the scientist who helped to develop a device for cracking the codes of the German Enigma system during WW II by improving the Polish pre-war Bomba system. For his pre-war work, he is often considered to be the father of theoretical computer science.
Alan Turing was a homosexual and despite his efforts to hide this from the British secret service, he was arrested and was forced to go to prison or accept chemical castration. He chose the latter.
Turing died of cyanide poisoning. His death was determined as a suicide but could also have been an accident.
Probably because of his homosexuality, voices in the public opinion claimed that Turing’s contributions to end the war sooner were “overrated”.
Winston Churchill refused to intervene to help spare Turing from prosecution in 1954. In that same year Churchill opposed a suggestion to decriminalize homosexuality in England and Wales.
We’re talking about the great Winston Churchill here. The great Churchill, who already caused a war disaster at Gallipoli during the first world war."
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