www.oldhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/118299..._glitter_in_our_gang


Angry villagers have launched an internet campaign against a disgraced pop star planning to house-hunt in Saddleworth.

It is claimed that Gary Glitter, a convicted paedophile, is flying into the borough this week to find a secluded house in the £900,000 price bracket....

...But Uppermill father-of-two, Jarrod Lowe, has turned people’s champion by launching a new group on the Facebook social networking site offering anxious families a chance to air their views about Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd. In just 12 hours, more than 500 people had signed up - with more joining at the rate of 20 an hour. The total currently stands at 1,266.

And he sent a warning to Glitter: "We are all answerable to the law but move in and I will make it my life’s work to ensure you leave. I have taught my kids to be very wary of people like you, to the point you need to be very wary of them. You ain’t welcome. Go view houses abroad - we are The United Republic of Saddleworth."



If I had any children, I would be warning them about people like Mr Lowe.

Here we go again. They should leave him alone. He's done the crime and served the time and now he should be left to get on with his life. In any case, wherever he goes, the police will no doubt keep their eye on him. He's 65 now and most men at 65 just aren't bothered about sex, due to the body ageing and chemical changes taking place. For instance, I'm nearly 63 and I'm nowhere near as randy or virile as I was forty years ago. It comes to us all.

I think Gary is at far less risk of getting into trouble now than he was when eleven year old girls were throwing their knickers at him in the 1970's. And I notice that the staff at the Oldham Advertiser have as little knowledge of the law regarding paedophilia as the rest of their colleagues in the media. Gary Glitter (or Paul Gadd) is not, as they state in their article, a "convicted paedophile", as there is no such thing in law. It is not illegal to be a paedophile, as long as you don't act on your feelings and molest a child. He was a convicted sex offender, but he wasn't convicted of being a paedophile, because you can't convict someone because of what they think or feel, only for what they do. Yet the media continue to go on and on referring to child sex offenders as "convicted peadophiles." Perhaps because the foreign word "paedophile" sounds horrorfic, like "Dracula" or "Frankenstein" and they want to scare their readers / viewers / listeners.

Do such people ever look beneath the headlines?

No, but sadly neither do the Government, the courts or the police.
They are all terrified of us - the meejah.
We rool the world!

Mr Lowe has committed a serious criminal offence under the Offences against the person act. He has made threats to kill or harm Mr Glitter. These threats are in writing in a public place.

Now lets see whether our POLICE will take action against this person - GLITTER deserves to be treated equally under the law.

OVER TO THE POLICE in that area - it is time the violent sorts like MR LOWE in our society were prosecuted. For too long criminals like him have ruled the roost with their total contempt for decent behaviour and the rule of the law.

GG could make a killing here like a very wealthy "registered sex offender" did in the USA. He bought a house in the most middle class suburban street and placed a sign "sex offender lives here"...the community took up a collection to pay him to sell up and move out.

Imagine the locals if he place a huge sign saying

CONVICTED PEDOPHILE LIVES IN THIS HOUSE

it may drive prices down..he could do a deal with a developer...buy up the properties and so on....

In this country, Gary Glitter has never been convicted for sex with children, only for possessing images which neither us or the staff at the Oldham Advertiser or the people of Saddleworth have seen and so are unable to judge.

His conviction for sexual molestation was in a country with a seriously flawed legal system where there is no trial, only a hearing to pass sentence which not even the defence lawyer is permitted to attend. His accusers were well paid by certain British media. None of this means he was not guilty, but it should raise serious questions in the minds of all intelligent people about the reliability of the information fed to us.

The people of Saddleworth, especially Mr Uppermill, need to get a grip.

A great post, DR2.Thank you for making any comment I might have made on this thread thoroughly redundant.

btw .. when I say Mr Uppermill, I don't just mean Mr Lowe but all those he represents. The ignorant masses.

Thanks, Locked Out. I've been waiting for years the film industry to jump on the bandwagon with all this, with titles like "The Curse of Paedophile"; "The Revenge of Paedophile" and "The Horror of Paedophile", all in breathtaking PeadoScope and glorious Paedo Colour and starring someone we've never heard of as Gary Glitter and at a cinema near you from Friday (if you have a cinema anywhere near you these days, that is). Rated 18, of course! Note that in the above titles, I merely swapped the name Frankenstein with the word Paedophile. That would be bound to keep the present day paranoia going along nicely.

I think that it is ridiculous to think that Gary Glitter poses a threat to children. For a start it didn't have any previous record of offences against children until in his mid-50's when he was caught downloading child porn images. This doesn't necessarily mean he is a threat.
The conviction in Vietnam should be taken with a pinch of salt, due to that countries reputation.

Also Glitter can barely leave his house without the press and the police watching him, let alone go hunting for children, as those paranoid people seem to think he may be doing. Also like someone else said your sexual interest and capibility declines in your 60's.

There's a bloke on Buzzjack forums who is quite open about still listening to Glitter, and admits to downloading his greatest hits. You should see the abuse he gets...very harsh indeed.

I could never understand why anyone liked Gary Glitter, nor why they bought his records in sufficient quantities to send him to the top of the hit parade with some pretty awful platters that I certainly wasn't going to waste my money on in 1973. No, it was definitely David Cassidy; The Carpenters and Darren Burn for me at that time. At least they could sing and their records ran rings around Glitter's stuff.

I often wonder though, what happened to all the eleven years old female weenyboppers from 1973 who were mad on him and used to scream at him. They'd be around 48 years of age by now and probably parents and grandparents. Would they be too embarrassed to admit that they were once mad on him and had posters of him all over their bedroom walls?