Is it fair for gary glitter to be persecuted?

Question

he done his time and he is a poor old man now. why do the papers and people keep hounding him?

Answer 1

Because we love paedophiles.

That is why no one can stop talking about them. The users on this site particularly adore them as they give them the perfect opportunity to vent their spleen in a particularly gruesome manner, and allows them to feel justified for being bloodthirsty would be murderers and torturers.

The press especially love child rape and murder, as it gives them something to bang on about, and givesw them what they need to sell there c**p newspapers: a bogey man!

Answer 2

He is a peadophile, He deserves it all, if it was my choice he would be put down like a bad dog.

Answer 3

Because he's a perv who gets off on bedding 11 year olds. Poor old man, my a*se. Like getting old will stop his sexual urges. He shld be castrated or better still, put down!

Answer 4

He is a paedophile, he doesn't even admit that his behaviour was wrong!

Paedophilia isn't like any other crime, even a murderer can possibly be reformed, but paedophiles are different, which is why people don't want them anywhere near their kids, even after they have served their time.

Glitter revelled in media attention in the past for his "pop career", now he is a known kiddie fiddler he wants the world to leave him alone! Bloody cheek.

Think of the children who's lives have been ruined by his actions, and those of men like him.

Answer 5

I think the problem lies with anyone who poses an ongoing risk to society (and that included serial killers, and those who incite hatred).  

The maximum penalty is life imprisonment for the most heinous crimes such as pre-meditated murder with torture of a child being perhaps the worst.  Going back from that, the tarrif must go down, so that armed robbers get just a few years (they do not even count as crimes according to some people) and drug dealers, GBH and burglary hardly counting at all, roughly on a par with refusing to pay the Council Tax, speeding or overfilling your bins.

Now quite a few released criminals will re-offend.  This includes the burglars, the armed robbers, the drug dealers, the lager louts and many non-murdering s*x offenders such as Gary Glitter.  Either we remove the differentials and risk "hung for a lamb as for a sheep" mentality among criminals, or we impose heavy surveillance, or we introduce some effective rehabilitation programmes, or we just give up on law, brand them as outlaws and set the dogs on them.

My personal preference is for effective rehabilitation and some serious, radical and open-minded research on this is long overdue - I do not think they have got it right yet.  Hence I asked a question on the Psychology section to start this off with paedophiles: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

A second best is surveillance, but this is more expensive and it is unpleasant for anyone to be living where anyone of us could have our thoughts put continually under scrutiny by hostile people, not just the bogeymen.  Anyone caught in this gin-trap will do everything possible to escape and go underground or into exile.

If we do what most people here seem to want, then we are giving up on civilisation and we may as well live in the middle ages.  Maybe I am in a minority (and I hope to God I am not!), but I do not want to see the progress made in law and human rights in 500 years thrown away because of one sick old man.

Answer 6

Because everybody loves to hate a kiddy fiddler because no matter how bad a person you are, no matter how scummy or jakey you are always better than one of them.

Answer 7

As always with cases like this, we all want to have our emotional outbursts and condemn paedophiles to a slow lingering death, but few realistic legal/social solutions to the problem emerge.

That Garry Glitter is a paedophile is not relevant.  What is pertinent is how we as a society can protect our children by controlling these people?

Answer 8

I tend to agree with your comments.  He's just a 'has been'.  Nobody will ever play his records again so he might as well be left alone from the public and media point of view.  What does bother me however, is the fact that he is now a free man and as someone has said, he will not have lost his sexual tendencies.  So in that respect he should be closely monitored , albeit at taxpayers expense.  (prison would be more expensive).

I reluctantly have to say that whilst I have no sympathy for him at all, I can't help wondering whether this kind of perverse lifestyle is something beyond his control.  In this day and age, we all accept that people can be g*y which is not a normal sexual lifestyle.  So do some people find it 'normal' to have s*x with under-age children?  The main difference of course is that same-s*x activities are between consenting adults, but the same desire may still be there for people such as him (sorry, can't bear to say his name).

I suppose what I'm really saying is, "There but for the grace of God go I".  Just a thought.

Andy (Not g*y, not perverted, not religious).

Answer 9

Ask yourself if was your child he molested. They should cut his balls off and feed them to him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

he molested a girl of 11.had s*x with her,and many others..that why people,like me..hound him,till the day he dies..no merci for him.mary.c.

Answer 11

Because he is a depraved, disgusting, paedophile who preys on small children. They're not safe near his type as paedophiles think there is nothing wrong with what they do. They should all be castrated and lobotomised.

Answer 12

Becuase the crimes are that awful - regardless of if hes served his time etc. the crime is so bad that he shouldnt be given another chance.

With something like this - I think ONE strike and your out.

Answer 13

I cant think of a better pastime persecuting a filthy paedophile who had no qualms about pursuing young children and robbing them of their innocence.

Answer 14

You are right.

Obviously, I want to see children protected, as much as the next person, but there are far worse paedophiles out there and he is in the headlines because he's famous and because everyone has a fascination with every detail.  I found a video of him drinking a cup of tea on the plane for goodness sake - what's the point of that.

I think it makes everyone feel very self-righteous to have someone to get angry with. And of course, it's not difficult to feel morally superior when people like that exist. I think people do it so they feel less bad about their own minor transgressions.  They'd be better off focusing on the good people in this world and aspiring to them instead.

Answer 15

Yes it is fair he deserves to die the sicko  

Answer 16

probably because NO amount of ''time served ''will be enough.his victims have a lifetime of suffering at the memoryof what he did to them. so its only right he should be hounded and persecuted. with a little luckhe will hang himself. hes a vile filthy paedo.

Answer 17

If you have to ask then maybe their is something wrong with you.