First the story of Gary Glitter, who means much more in the UK than he ever will or did in the States, though you, convicted pedophile and jailbird for pying preteen children for sex in Thailand, and now convicted again in England. Reposted from Gigwise:
“Convicted pedophile former pop star Gary Glitter has again been found guilty of a string of child sex offences.
The 70-year-old ex-glam-rocker, real name Paul Gadd, was today (Thursday 5 February, 2015) convicted of a charge of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault and one of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13
Among the charges, Gadd stood trial for the attempted to rape of a schoolgirl under the age of ten when he crept into her bed in 1975 – as well as four counts of indecently assaulting another girl when she was under the age of 13 in 1977.
The court also heard how Glitter was said to have given the girl alcohol, aiming to ‘stupefy or overpower’ her to have sex with him between January and May 1977, as well as a count to have unlawful sex with her.
A third complainant brought two charges of indecent assault between October 1979 and December 1980.
Metro reports that after his ‘shock’ of hearing the verdicts, Glitter “blew kisses to a public gallery full of reporters as he was remanded in custody and led down to the cells”.
Glitter is currently remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 27 February, 2015.”
Glitter is the equivalent of the pederast priest or Scoutmaster taken out to the nth degree. What better career for a child molester than to be a huge pop star with millions of little girls screaming for you, he must have been completely bewildered at his good fortune and it is a miracle there aren’t Jimmy Saville type numbers of women coming forward.
The question with Glitter isn’t whether he did it or not, he is convicted twice, and not whether it matters, he is being jailed and he should be jailed, but how it effects his music and it sort of does. I was on a Rock Hudson- Doris Day kick over Christmas (comfort movies if you like) and while not caring who Rock Hudson had sex with, I could feel it effect my perception of his performance.
It isn’t really fair when it comes to Hudson, but when it comes to Glitter… Watch this…
It moves from what it was, camp, to what it is, creepy, what you bring to it, the knowledge of his sexuality, the video has a haunted, horrible quality to it that it didn’t have before.
George Clinton of parliament/Funkadelica, was once discussing what we do we with bad thoughts, with bad ideas.
1 – It is immoral to punish people for having unnatural desires, to molest children or for sheep, cannibalism, whatever. That is their right as free people to want things that are terrible and terrifying. They have every single right to think it. But the second they do it they should be jailed or worse.
2 – To have these desires and not act upon them makes you a better person than those who are not tempted. Without temptation, without, indeed, the devil , good does not exist. If you have no desire to molest nine year old girls and you don’t molest nine year old girls, what have you done that is so good?
It is to misunderstand the nature of goodness to treat evil thought as evil action: For instance, I could think about killing my friend all day long and it is less important than me kicking him once. Action trumps thought.
But I digress (because thought versus action is one of my biggest obsessions), Glitter is getting what is comining to him and we are left with music we loved we can no longer hear.