If you pardon him because the law he broke should never have been on the books in the first place, then you have to do the same for everybody else convicted under that same law.
If it was okay to have that law, but you pardon him because of who he was and what he did for the country, you get into that whole question of whether or not there's equal justice under the law for both the common and the elite.
(I think we all know the real-life answer to that one, but we should at least acknowledge that it is not right that it is that way)
But a knighthood says "A grateful nation and sovereign thank you for what you did for the nation".
Of course if there were any real justice he'd have gotten that knighthood back around '46 or '47.
Boffin icon as a salute to the man who should be called Sir Alan.
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If you pardon him because the law he broke should never have been on the books in the first place, then you have to do the same for everybody else convicted under that same law.
If it was okay to have that law, but you pardon him because of who he was and what he did for the country, you get into that whole question of whether or not there's equal justice under the law for both the common and the elite.
(I think we all know the real-life answer to that one, but we should at least acknowledge that it is not right that it is that way)
But a knighthood says "A grateful nation and sovereign thank you for what you did for the nation".
Of course if there were any real justice he'd have gotten that knighthood back around '46 or '47.
Boffin icon as a salute to the man who should be called Sir Alan.