Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!

I noticed today that one of my Facebook friends has joined a group called “If no other country will take Gary Glitter, why the F**K should we!!!!”. It’s one of those irritating sentences intended as a rhetorical question but which in fact has a simple answer, which totally undermines the point. Its wall makes for depressing reading, but it is at least polite of these morons to line up near a wall – it will save everyone a job when the revolution comes. The group is full of the same irony-resistant people who demand all foreign criminals be deported.

Sharon Welham-Jones Was Stocker (London) wrote It makes me so damn angry why the hell do we want that monster back in our country???????? argggggg makes me so angry

It makes me angry that nobody on Facebook knows the word “née”.

There are a disturbing number of people advocating torturing him – sometimes I worry that people would welcome an Orwellian dystopia, which rather defeats the point – but these are I think the most graphic:

Mellissa Salvage (Bristol) wrote if i had my way, i would take him somewhere in the middle of nowhere-tie him up and everyday, stick pins in his dick and singe his pubes-i hateeeeeeeeeeeee this man and all other evil paedophiles-they are scum, set his head on fire with petrol and let him suffer a long slowwwwwww death, but then killing him is far too good for him!!!!!!!! Just let him ROT!!!!!

(Evil paedophiles are the worst kind.)

Ed Bear wrote

You lot are all TOO KIND !! , slowly peel off the sick fucks skin inch by inch then apply salt , i think that over the course of a week he'd be skinless but still alive , THEN let the mothers have a go at whats left !! .

Dave Oldman wrote

vile nonce needs putting down,like the rest of them. take him down the shed,put his prick in the vise and remove the t.bar. put a blunt knife on the bench. set fire to the shed. then sit back,pour yourself a beer and wait.

…and this is the craziest:

Tom Sta (Wales) wrote

i agree with becky he needs his throat cut and the rest of his body cut into lil pieces and buried in different parts of the uk like william wallace just to make sure the lil bugger being polite aint alive

There are also a lot of comments suggesting paedophiles be visibly branded in various ways (my favourite being dipping them in orange dye – bad news for them but great news for the sales of Tango), a practice as undesirable as it is pointless in the case of a man who’s been in every newspaper for a month.

I mean, steady on. It seems to me perfectly plausible that he was born how he is, same as gay people can’t become straight and vice versa. How many people could honestly go their whole lives without indulging their sexual desires even once? Surely any humane society will at least try an understanding approach first?

Offering paedophiles libido inhibiting drugs seems smart to me. It’s more a medical intervention, and apparently it works. The act should be punished; the condition should be understood. And if this stupid country could get over its collective pantomime-villain complex about paedophiles then maybe they could discreetly get the drugs without molesting any children, but of course that wouldn’t be barbaric enough.

Ironically, the wingnuts calling for him to be castrated may have stumbled by chance onto a relatively sensible idea. Like this guy:

Dave Smith (London) wrote

Paedophiles are fucking immature arseholes.

Well of course they are – that’s what paedophiles do.

Sadly this one missed that idea by a few anatomically significant feet:

Rebecca Jones wrote

Paedophiles should have their eyes gouged out and their hands chopped off. Lets see how much beastliness they can get up to then!

When faced with the answer “because he’s British, you morons” (I’m paraphrasing) they hide behind this kind of thing:

Matthew Brown (Belvidere Secondary School) wrote

im sorry... i dont give a fukin shit if hes british u try tellin tht 2 a group of mothers and see if deyu care, he shudnt be allowed in our country cuz hes sick, he shud be punished sevealy and i 4 1 would love 2 help kick his puny little ass

So what’s your idea? Fly him around the world until he dies and invite idiots to hurt him? This point was raised…

Paul Gregson wrote

I hate Gary Glitter and paedophiles in general but this group is stupid and pointless. He was born here and is an English citizen, that is why we should take him back. Simple as that. We can't just dump all of the UK's paedophiles on other countries, he is english so it is our responsibilty to deal with him. Seeing as though this group has over 700 members, lets see if anyone can answer the following question without being rude or aggressive. Afterall we are all adults and paedophilia is very serious, so lets discuss this seriously like adults. If you don't believe that we should let Gary Glitter (an English citizen who has travelled to another country and sexually abused children there) back into this country then what country do you believe we should send him to? Bear in mind when answering this question that "Capital Punishment" doesn't take place in the UK and he can't sent to the US to face "Capital Punishment" either.

…and this was the answer, or at least the reply:

Rebecca Hawkesford-Whelan (West Midlands) wrote

In answer to Pauls question, I dont believe we should let him into any other country, why make any other country deal with him, I hasten to add that if I were able to make the decision about where he and other paedophiles were to go then I like the idea of a rocket, a couple of engines and a few days travel to mars, that would be a lovely place for them all to live along side rapists, murderers, people who harm animals and also those lovely people who clobber old men and ladies over the head for their last couple of quid. Is that an adult enough answer to your question?? <TAKES A BOW>

<TAKES A BOW> is almost as good as “end of”, isn’t it?

Paul Gregson has some great replies in there:

To be honest Rebecca that isn't an adult enough answer to my question. Sending humans to Mars is estimated to cost between $20 Billion and $450 Billion which of course isn't finacially viable. So in conclusion your suggestion is null and void and you have no reason whatsoever to be taking a bow. He should burn in hell and he is a complete cunt but while he is actually on earth and not being tortured in a mythical realm what do you suggest we do with him?

I don’t think ‘conflict of interests’ means what Damian Trump thinks it means…

Damian Trump (London) wrote

There is a serious confict of interests between our gov and us the people. 99.9 % would say fuckoff and die you arse fiddling goat shaggin life wrecker- and our gov who say yes ofcourse Sir come in oh and how much did you say you would contribute ! Why when our steets are already unsafe-espeacialy so for our children ! We really should do something dont you agree ? But thts the problam with brits we say and dont do.

I like that you say and don’t do. Apart from the bit where you say.

Michelle Pearson (Nottingham) wrote he should b fukin killed not let into this country.. every parent will be worried about their children now.. shouldnt this country do whts rite by us not a paedo.. we should do what every other country has dne n not let him in our society

Yes, one frail old man who everyone recognises is a serious threat.

Stephen Cook wrote

he has no right to to call himself glitter it should be shitter

Yeah! Or “Gritter”! That’ll show him!

Steph Bell (West Midlands) wrote

nobody wants the dirty old bastard we should have just dropped him in the sea with a brick!

What is the brick for in that? There’s a pretty narrow band of sea where he could make it back to shore as long as he didn’t have a brick.

Courtney Spellacy (London) wrote

its not just glitter though is it whats worse is that registered sex offenders/paedophiles are also allowed to access these sites someone i know phoned up facebook complaining that a known paedophile was using the site but facebook wouldn't do anything because he wasn't put in prison for downloading child porn, its not just living near or around them, they are on here! and its absolutely sickening

In many ways, there should be an age limit on the Rape Me application.

Phil Middleton (West Midlands) wrote

2 words: Scum bag!

Two words: more on.

I just tell myself these people are the minority, over and over again. I never dare check if it’s true.