The execution of Gary Glitter

[Keef]

What on earth was the agenda of the filmmakers? Are they trying to tell us that the death penalty is a good thing and we should open the debate again? Is that what it was about?

I thought the opposite, but maybe I'm wrong...

Was difficult viewing, but very well made.

[iaineasy]

I agree attillab

[woofmarkthedog]

Atila Reincarnate Wrote:

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> The fact that this being discussed on Forums like

> this up and down the country proves that there is

> strong feeling both for and against the death

> penalty and neither faction will persuade the

> other faction to change their view. I've always

> believed in the death penalty for certain crimes

> and that has never chamged, nor has anybody

> persuaded me that the death penalty is wrong.

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Really, I mean really truly

If so why have so many states put it "on hold" ?

It is barbaric, it does not stop crime. So what's the justification then

I'm all ears Atia & Ian & whoever

Well ?

W**F

[giggirl]

Keef Wrote:

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> What on earth was the agenda of the filmmakers?

> Are they trying to tell us that the death penalty

> is a good thing and we should open the debate

> again? Is that what it was about?

>

> I thought the opposite, but maybe I'm wrong...

>

> Was difficult viewing, but very well made.

Yes it was difficult viewing but I didn't think it was well made - I thought that it was scraping the bottom of the barrel for C4. There was no point in the programme that I felt I was being challenged and was being shown things from a different perspective that I didn't necessarily agree with but nevertheless had merit. For me it was as challenging as reading the Daily Mail.

[woofmarkthedog]

But no "free DVD" though .

[giggirl]

For me, the very best thing about the ED forum (when it's on top form) is that there are people who come on here and post things that in a million years I wouldn't agree with but they argue so well that they at least have my ear. For the same reason, it's why those who want to subvert the forum incur my anger. Very sad to see C4 producing drivel like this.

[monica]

I am still confused at, what point the filmakers were trying to make? I watched it and I felt confused, did they want to upset Paul Gadd? Or were they trying to make a point about Capital punishment?

[Keef]

I guess I say it differently to you giggirl. I definitely wouldn't say that I enjoyed it. But I think, and I could be wrong, that the point was to show how nasty capital punishment is.

[SteveT]

Woofmarkthedog wrote:- It is barbaric, it does not stop crime.

Well it certainly stops any further crime from those unfortunate enough to receive it, I believe.

[SeanMacGabhann]

plus, just to be sure, it stops people who didn't do nuffink from doing anything further

genius

[JohnL]

If Capital Punishment was reinstated it would have to be in public, not hidden away in prisons IMHO. Those who support it, or not then know what is happening and the public response. I'm generally against by the way.

and, about C4, as the Guardian says

"A former glam-rock star called, say, Stanley Sparkle, who likes to have sex with children would have fooled nobody, but would have demonstrated a little more humanity. "

[woofmarkthedog]

JohnL wrote>

"A former glam-rock star called, say, Stanley Sparkle, who likes to have sex with children would have fooled nobody, but would have demonstrated a little more humanity. "

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First Gary Glitter, now Stanley Sparkle. I mean who next, Danny Dazzle ?

It cant be true, really ?

[mockney piers]

Though there are certainly horrific cynical

predators, and though it's hard for me to say, glitter seems

to be one of them, plenty of paedophiles see mentally ill, often profoundly damaged as victims of sexual abuse themselves.

Surely to demand death for them is tantamount to euthenasia, what next, cerebral palsy?

Plus the whole 'they'll never do it again' thing, where lines drawn, death by drink driving, drink driving full stop (prevention being better than cure)?