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The execution of Gary Glitter

Jazzz said:
While people may not be buying Glitter albums anymore, at least one tune has surely continued to earn him royalties - Rock & Roll part 2, which is a stadium anthem in the US and is still cropping up in films
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I thought they were going to drop it from the US stadiums.

Oddly I was looking for rock and roll (& part 2) single in the shops today.
 
Those interviews were real weren't they, the people saying they were in favour of bringing the death penalty back... And the chaplain, I'd imagine that character was based on interviews with one or more american chaplains in US prisons.

Probably a good programme to show to people who are in favour of the death penalty! Which apparently is most of the people in this country. And possibly the world? :(
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
I thought they were going to drop it from the US stadiums.

Oddly I was looking for rock and roll (& part 2) single in the shops today.
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It was played at George Bush's inauguration by the brass band when he 'beat' Al Gore... or was it John Kerry... not sure but my jaw dropped :D

great tune!
 
smokedout said:
me too, watched to the end

and the point was :confused:
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It's educational.

If they bring back the death penalty
If they change the law, so you can get done for crimes committed abroad
If the first case happens to be a glam-rocker turned paedo . . .



. . . then this is exactly what will happen.
 
don't worry I'll find it :)

it's moderated and my comment might never make it... But I found it :)
 
That actor is amazing - scarily look-alike and sound-alike.

Struggling to see the point of the drama, though. Thank god it's unlikely to happen - I agree with Frankie Jack - the whole media circus is another good reason for never restoring the death penalty.
 
I think the actor Kevin Eldon would have made an excellent Garry Glitter.

At the end it quoted a 2009 opinion poll stating that 56% of Brits want the reinstatement of the death penalty. :(
 
Ceej said:
That actor is amazing - scarily look-alike and sound-alike.

Struggling to see the point of the drama, though. Thank god it's unlikely to happen - I agree with Frankie Jack - the whole media circus is another good reason for never restoring the death penalty.
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Very scary to even consider the kind of media coverage the return of the death penalty and the first trial would get..

I want no part of that circus at all.. and no part in taking anothers life. The execution of Sadam Hussein and the others in Iraq was hard enough for me to handle.. The footage leaked over the world for anyone to view was an abomination..

I hope the point of the program was to show the barbarism and legal fuckwittery of the death penalty in a so called civilised society like the UK..

It may have been different if the program makers had used a person whom many people think deserve the death penalty..

An extreme program in so many ways.... disturbing to look on other forums and see some actually call for the return of the death penalty..

I despair.....
 
No ones ever asked me.. Cept on urban... Are all statistics taken from a small amount polled.. Usually a few thousand.. I don't think that's enough to get a true figure..
 
Fucking hell, what must Glitter have thought watching it, seeing himself strung up by the State like that? :eek::D

Last 10 minutes were pretty uncomfortable viewing though.
 
Got to feel sorry for the actor playing Glitter.

He must have spent weeks in hiding, during filming, cause he'd have been lynched.
 
Griff said:
Fucking hell, what must Glitter have thought watching it, seeing himself strung up by the State like that? :eek::D

Last 10 minutes were pretty uncomfortable viewing though.
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I'd be worried it they weren't uncomfortable. The last part did bring back memories of 'Dead Man Walking'
 
I managed 40 minutes and came away thinking I'm glad there's room for this kind of experiment on terrestrial tv in the UK.
 
john x said:
Why would they?

1. Gary Glitter is virtually unknown in the US.

2. Paedophilia is nowhere near as popular in the US as it is here.

john x
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1. He/was is popular enough to play stadiums.

2.
In 2005-2006, Glitter was convicted on child sexual abuse charges in Vietnam. After the conviction was upheld in court, the NFL asked teams to stop playing the song, although Glitter had already been convicted and imprisoned on child pornography charges in Britain in 1997. The NFL has allowed a cover version of the song by the Tube Tops 2000 to be played.[3] Subsequently, some professional and college teams in the US and Canada have discontinued using the song.
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