Sorry To Return To This, But...

[poliphilo]

Why all this celebrity support for Polanski when nobody jumped to the defence of Gary Glitter?

What has Roman got that Gary hasn't?

No-one plays Gary's music anymore, but Polanski is still in work. At the time of his arrest he was preparing a movie about Tony Blair.
 
I don't get it, I really don't.

Comments

[jfs.livejournal.com]

High art vs. Low art.

The fans of Gary Glitter's music don't see that the fact he created entertaining pop songs puts him above the law. The Glitterati (to use a phrase I came across today) honestly think that because of the 'art' they create, they are not bound by the same morals or laws as the rest of us.

As someone on my LJ said, witness those actors and filmmakers who refer to us hoi palloi as 'civilians'.

[aellia.livejournal.com]

A former fraud detective in our town was sent to proson for having indecent films and images of girls as young as three and was in contact with someone offering children for sale.
He's served just six months and is walking the streets of town.
I wonder about our legal system

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Gary Glitter's wife wasn't murdered by a religious cult that ripped the fetus out of her and killed that too. The sympathy card, I believe.

I personally think it's a bunch of crap, myself. Neither one of them deserves anything other than to be persecuted to the fullest extent.

AND, Garry Glitter's music is played almost every Saturday and Sunday here in the States, by marching bands at football games.

Yes, you read that right.

D'y wanna be in my gang?

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

It's simple. Gary Glitter is fat, ugly and working class; Roman Polanski isn't. Classism and lookism, if there is such a word. (It's the last big untouched "ism" but probably one of the most potent)