Gary Glitter could face a firing squad
OK, so you’re a pathetic 61-year-old perv in search of a little excitement. So what are you going to do? How about have sex? With a 12-year-old girl? In Vietnam. For LESS THAN $15 US. Helluva a deal, you’re thinking, eh? Well, perhaps so, until you consider that, in Vietnam, this sort of thing will get you stood up in front of a firing squad. Literally. No joke.
I neither know nor care for whatever Gary Glitter’s personal perversions happen to be, but when they involve preteen children and money, I’m not certain that a firing squad is sufficient. I’m thinking more along the lines of castration sans anesthetic…or disembowelment (or a lobotomy) with a dull, rusty knife.
Glitter probably should have been in prison and the key misplaced a long time ago. Given the man’s history, it was probably just a matter of time before he did something to earn himself a DUMB@$$ AWARD. Ask, and ye shall receive, eh??
It’s one thing when you do this sort of thing in the privacy of your own home. It’s sick, and it’s depraved…but when you take your buying power to a Third World country and violate children for less than $15 US…well, let’s just say that I think the Vietnamese may just have the right idea.
And if they’re looking for volunteers for the firing squad….
GARY GLITTER could face a firing squad or decades in a squalid jail if he is found guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl in Vietnam.
The girl is said to have admitted having sex with the 61-year-old former glam rock star, allegedly for £5.50, but police in the Vietnamese resort city of Vung Tau said yesterday that it was still considered rape under Vietnamese law.
Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, was arrested as he tried to leave Vietnam for Bangkok via Tan Son Hnat airport in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday, after police started searching for him in connection with allegations about his relationships with two teenage girls.
If he is imprisoned, the former singer will find Vietnamese jails very different from Horfield Prison in Bristol, where he served two months in 1999 for possessing “hard-core, sick and degrading images of children. Vietnamese jails are notorious for their squalor, harsh treatment of prisoners and lack of attention to sanitation, hygiene and food.
Even if he is not prosecuted in Vietnam, Glitter could face charges in this country if he ever returned under Britain’s “sex tourism laws ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ the Sex Offences Act 1996.
And, even if he is “fortunate” enough to escape the firing squad for an extended stay in a Vietnamese prison, it’s not as if he has to worry about getting fat on prison food:
Prisoners in Vietnam are allowed only 12kg (26¬Ωlb) of rice or a rice substitute each month and this is often reduced to 9kg for minor infringements of prison rules or showing disrespect.
And then, as if to prove that their prisons will never be confused with the relative country clubs in England, things get even better:
As well as being made to undertake hard labour, prisoners are expected to repent their crimes frequently and in writing. Beatings with bamboo canes are common, as are the use of stocks and electric shocks.
However, the country very rarely, if ever, executes foreign tourists. The last foreign citizen to be put to death was Nguyen Thi Hiep, who held dual Canadian-Vietnamese citizenship, in 1999. In August this year Tran Van Thanh, 40, an Australian citizen, had his death penalty commuted to a life sentence. Both were convicted on drug smuggling charges.
If there is any justice in this world, the Vietnamese will make an exception in this case and bestow a cigarette and a blindfold upon Glitter, who would be well-advised not to depend on the mercy of a Vietnamese court. Being a DUMB@$$ may not be an executable offense in Vietnam, but what Glitter is accused of goes far beyond merely being a DUMB@$$…and I’ll buy the bullets.
