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Tealeaf · 08-08-2005, 15:42

[QUOTE=WillowTheWhisp]
Wasn't the "crime" he was convicted of that of being homosexual and having a personal relationship with another man? QUOTE]

There has never been a crime of being a homosexual in this county; what was a crime, until 1967, was the committment of homosexual acts between adults. The law was changed in that year to allow for such acts between consenting adults and has since been amended to reduce the age to 16 (In other words, a paedophile's charter). So its quite simple; Turin, however great a mathematician and scientist, had been found guilty of committing a crime and as such was a criminal. End of story.

We appear to have digressed somewhat from the theme of this thread, that of the ethical and strategic case for nuking Japs in 1945. I know that 'Owd Bert does have a personal interest in this because had the US not done so he would have spent the following months and possibly years fighting his way up through the Japanese mainland, with all the risk of injury and death. However, I suspect he may be pleasantly surprised by the relative absence of whinging, do-gooding idealists on here and the fact that most of this younger generation would have been more than happy to join Capt Tibbets aboard the Enola Gay and press the bomb release button when the time was right.

08-08-2005, 15:42	#42
Tealeaf God Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Paradise Lost Posts: 7,220 Liked: 11 times Rep Power: 4266	Re: Hiroshima on TV [QUOTE=WillowTheWhisp] Wasn't the "crime" he was convicted of that of being homosexual and having a personal relationship with another man? QUOTE] There has never been a crime of being a homosexual in this county; what was a crime, until 1967, was the committment of homosexual acts between adults. The law was changed in that year to allow for such acts between consenting adults and has since been amended to reduce the age to 16 (In other words, a paedophile's charter). So its quite simple; Turin, however great a mathematician and scientist, had been found guilty of committing a crime and as such was a criminal. End of story. We appear to have digressed somewhat from the theme of this thread, that of the ethical and strategic case for nuking Japs in 1945. I know that 'Owd Bert does have a personal interest in this because had the US not done so he would have spent the following months and possibly years fighting his way up through the Japanese mainland, with all the risk of injury and death. However, I suspect he may be pleasantly surprised by the relative absence of whinging, do-gooding idealists on here and the fact that most of this younger generation would have been more than happy to join Capt Tibbets aboard the Enola Gay and press the bomb release button when the time was right.