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Old 24-12-2013, 05:27 PM #17
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Originally Posted by Livia View Post
I think the pardon, so long after the awful conviction, goes some way to say that the conviction was wrong, an acknowledgement of something that never should have happened. It's decades late... but I'm very pleased to see it. I'm pleased that people who perhaps didn't know him will learn what a hero he was, what a contribution he made, that they will be sickened by what happened and ensure it never happens again.
He was one of those responsible for our success during WW2 even more so than Churchill, and then he gets the shabbiest treatment from the "Establishment", many of whom were more than likely also homosexual!

How ****ing hypocritical is that?
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