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class, crime, Defence, human rights, open government, Tories
(not satire)
Compare wartime hero Alan Turing’s treatment – who committed suicide after being forcibly castrated for homosexuality – with that of wartime traitor Lord William Forbes-Sempill who spied for the Japanese during the war but escaped prosecution because his father was an aide-de-camp to King George V.
Old Etonian Sempill – who like a lot of the British aristocracy was an anti-semitic, fascist sympathiser – was paid by the Japanese to pass on top secret documents right up until 1941.
Normal plebs would have been shot for lesser acts of wartime treason but Tory peer Sempill was not even sacked, never mind arrested, even after British intelligence discovered his treasonous activities.
Wartime hero Alan Turing on the other hand was convicted for ‘homosexual activity’ barely 6 years after the war ended and was still being refused a ‘pardon’ by the British establishment as recently as 2012.
Still, it wouldn’t be the last time an Old Etonian got away with selling out his country for a few pieces of silver. Would it?
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Thanks to the ever-knowledgeable Jim Grundy for the heads-up on this one.
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Related articles by Tom Pride:
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London’s fire engines are now owned by one man – an old Etonian
Class warfare comes to the Tory Party
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Please feel free to comment.
beastrabban said:
I about this a little while ago over at Another Angry Voice, and you’re both absolutely right: it is an appalling example of establishment double standards. It was exactly that attitude that prompted the founding of ‘Private Eye’ and the satire boom in the 1960s. the ‘Eye’ has frequently revisited cases from the past where the defendant was found ‘not guilty’, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, because the judge was sympathetic to him as a member of the aristocracy and another ex-public schoolboy.
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chess said:
Plus ca change……. sickening, hypocritical, two faced bastards, the lot of them.
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nedhamson said:
Reblogged this on Ned Hamson Second Line View of the News.
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