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  Rock and roll, rock, rock and roll
context: Confused Americans might actually know his music more than younger brits who just know his name since his song is apparently played at a lot of sporting events >
  
  I don’t think I’ve ever been to an American sporting event that did not play this song at least once. >
  
  It’s less common than it was 15-20 years ago. A lot of schools realized that the song was from a pedo, and stopped playing it. I watch NHL hockey on the regular and haven’t heard it in forever . But yeah that shit used to be everywhere >
  
  Yeah, I heard it constantly when I was a kid, but it's significantly less common now. I had no idea who Gary glitter was until this post and definitely didn't know the singer of that song was a pedo. Then again, I probably should have assumed since it seems like every big musician or band  from that time period had at least 1 member who is a pedo. >
  
  
  His fall from grace happened years earlier after he admitted possessing around 4,000 child pornography images and was jailed for four months in 1999.
  In 2002, he was expelled from Cambodia amid reports of sex crime allegations, and in March 2006 he was convicted of sexually abusing two girls, aged 10 and 11, in Vietnam and spent two-and-a-half years in prison.
  
  Served only 8 years in the UK despite being an unrepentant predator. I can’t image how awful his victims feel about this. >
  
  UK seems to be a nightmare to get justice if you are a woman or a child. Recently heard that conviction rate in rape cases is just 1%! >
  
  A Manchester United player just had abuse charges dropped when there’s literal audio evidence of it >
  
  Yup, I am a Manchester United fan and that’s where I found  the news. 
  The main witness/victim seems to have gone rogue and the case just collapsed which is just sad. >
  
  The victims dad was completely trying to downplay what greenwood did. Sickening. I have no doubt she was pressured by her father and greenwood's team to stay silent. >
  
  Yea, that was very much the case. The victim and the accused were even living together in August. >
  
  Fuck this. 8 years? That’s it? >
  
  "When you're a star they just let you do it. You can do anything" >
  
  Celebrity has nothing to do with it - that's about how long most molestation convicts get.
  Relative of mine was a menace who beat and raped his step-daughter until she was old enough to move out. Sentenced to 12 years, served 7. >
  
  That is so fucked >
  
  Don't diddle kids. How difficult is this goddamn concept?! >
  
  He’s definitely gotta write a song about how he does not diddle kids!
  🎶 Do not diddle kids, it's no good diddlin' kids🎶
  🎶I wouldn't do it with anybody younger than my daughter, not little kids, gotta be big🎶
  🎶Younger than my wife, older than my daughter🎶 >
  
  Avatar checks out! >
  
  Oh damn, I think Im finally in on this joke from No Offense. >
  
  Holy shit, that was gold. >
  
  I know people that got caught with drugs that have done more time >
  
  What's up with these light gentle wrist taps in UK for sentences. Like how did this happen and why is it being allowed to continue to happen???
  Repeat offenders should not be free. >
  
  rehabilitation as currently practiced is a myth. punishment is the only operative concept. the uk errs on the side of punishing less, the us errs on the side of punishing more.
  if rehabilitation is truly considered, the penal systems would change to be more equitable. at the same time, those who are resistant to rehabilitation should be acknowledged. not the fairy tale version that assumes a priori that everyone can be rehabilitated. some cannot. difficult options would have to be considered, like castration or indefinite confinement.
  personally I would release those resistant to rehab to the victims or their families. it's not popular but neither is this result. nor paying to house them for their natural lives. there's no easy answers & that's why the status quo will never change. >
  
  
  rehabilitation as currently practiced is a myth. punishment is the only operative concept. 
  
  Citation needed >
  
  Pedo recidivism is near 100%.  He'll be back in in less than a year but who knows how many girl's lives will be destroyed in that time. >
  
  Na na na na na hey! Lock this creep back up! >
  
  When will society stand up for the rights of the the most vulnerable among us. When will the true impact of these crimes be recognized and actual justice be imposed. >
  
  Not everything that glitters is gold..... Comes to mind >
  
  I think that was smash mouth >
  
  Pretty sure that was Led Zeppelin? >
  
  Or Shakespeare or whatever. It's all the same crap >
  
  That was about a nonce >
  
  Jeez — that article’s cookie acceptance requirement was absurd. Pass. >
  
  I remember when "Rock and Roll,vol.2" was popular at High School sportsball stuff. ( early 1980s)... >
  
  Everyone talks about how pedos have such a hard time in prison. “Oh he won’t make it 10 minutes “. “Bubba’s gonna get his ass.” 
  How has he survived? How has Jared Fogle survived? >
  
  Fuck. 
  FUCK!
  Just when I thought the day couldn't get worse. >
  
  all abuse of minors should be life in prison without possibility of parole, period. >
  
  Hopefully that dumbass song stays locked up for good, even if he can’t be >
  
  Didn’t stop it from featuring in The Joker in 2019 >
  
  I forgot about that.
  Not OK. >
  
  I would have bet a lot of money he had died. >
  
  My ex father-in-law, my [now ex] wife and a few of my besties had phots taken with him when he was on a tour. I guess that makes them all pedos. They seem such OK people as well >
  
  Well done on missing the point. >
  
  The only way he should've left prison was in a pine box. Fucking English justice system is shayte. >
  
  ROCK AND ROLL! Part two..? >
  
  Someone should keep an eye on him >
  
  He made that song that nobody knows the name of. >
  
  I agree with you pedos never stop, life in prison is the answer! >
  
  I guess it's time to. . .  ROCK 'N' ROLLLLL!!
  (hey!)