Crackdown call as Glitter jailed

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 771420.stm

Personally I think he should have got a longer sentence but at least he didnt go free, filthy pervert.

I think there's something rather dodgy about all this. If he hadn't already had a conviction in a court in the United Kingdom for child porn offences the British tabloids would be jumping up and down claiming his innocence.

If the whole thing didn't have the abhorrent stench of chequebook journalism about it Gadd would have probably received a much heavier sentence and been given proper treatment.

The 'best' thing about all this for Britain is this: after his sentence is finished in Vietnam, we get him back!

Vietnam doesn't want to punish Glitter too harshly because it doesn't want to give the signal that paedophiles are unwelcome there. Being such a poor country, it'll make the most of its tourism industry by avoiding tackling the epidemic of fly-by kiddie-fiddlers. Geographically, Vietnam is a stunning landscape and it's no surprise it's a holiday haven but beyond the external paradise there is internally worrying decline. Even its citizens accept paedophilia as a lesser evil. It's better than having no investment in the country at all. The solution to the problem would be for the UN to put pressure on Vietnam to establish democracy in the country and to open up its markets to private enterprise. If negotiations don't work, a referendum should be held by the UN to hold a strongly-enforced international trade embargo with as many countries being involved as possible. Until then, the communist state will necessarily remain corrupt and keep on ignoring social deprivation like child prostitution.

And the democratic neighbour to the North Thialand should come under similair scrutny?