I’m sickened by the fact that HP is using a Gary Glitter song (covered by Joan Jett in 1982) for their recent computer ads.  Gary Glitter aka Paul Francis Gadd, is a convicted pedophile and I don’t give two shits about the fact that “it’s just music”.  The fact is - with these ads he is profiting from the use of the song.  In my opinion he should be shot - not rewarded in any way for anything that he’s done musically in his life.  All of that was devalued when he made the decision to molest children.

I will NEVER purchase anything HP related out of protest.  I’m sickened.

“In 1999, Glitter once again became notorious when he was listed as a sex offender in the UK following conviction for downloading thousands of items of child pornography.^[4] His reputation was greatly tarnished, and, though he continued releasing new music, Glitter’s popularity declined sharply. He moved from Cambodia, from where he was permanently deported in 2002 for suspected child sexual abuse,^[5] to Vung Tau in Vietnam.^[6] In 2005, he was arrested by Vietnamese authorities, was tried and convicted of child sexual abuse charges in June. He was released from prison on 19 August 2008 and returned to London three days later, after being refused entry into Thailand and Hong Kong.”\\

I’ve watched live interviews of this man attempting to explain himself.  He’s full of shit.  It was a HUGE mistake for HP to think it would be ok to market their product with the music of a pedophile sex offender.  There are PLENTY of songs out there by respectable musicians that have the word “touch” in them that they could have used.  But since they insisted on using this sick m-f’s music they are now helping to support his existence.  He really does not deserve to live in my opinon.  Stealing the innocence of children is unexcusable in so many ways.

~ Source AssociatedContent.com:  “Convicted child sex offender Gary Glitter is alive and well and making money thanks to a new ad for Hewlett Packard’s TouchSmart TV.

The ad features the background track of the 1973 release of ‘Do you want to touch, yeah” a hit by Glitter. Booming across the airwaves the ad is seen as showing a distinct lack of sensitivity toward the cause of child sexual abuse prevention by child advocates.

See and hear the ad here: http://h30418.www3.hp.com/index.jsp

Evin Daly, President of Child Abusewatch.net (CAN) and a Guardian ad Litem with the 15th Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach, wrote a personal note on behalf of Child AbuseWatch to Mark Hurd, HP Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President and to the Hewlett Packard board of directors pointing out this egregious oversight. In addition to expressing outrage that the ad was produced with such poor taste, Mr. Daly suggested that they fire their ad agency. No comment was available from HP.

The hit song “Do you want to touch, yeah” was released in 1973 by Garry Glitter in the UK. Glitter was recently expelled from Thailand after serving a jail sentence for having sex with children. He is a previously convicted pedophile in the United Kingdom. The NFL and NHL stopped using his music due to Glitter’s pedophilic convictions last year.

Read about him here in this Times article: ‘Gary Glitter - mad, bad or just dangerous to know?‘

AbuseWatch.net is a national child abuse prevention organization (www.abusewatch.net) which provides child abuse prevention resources to the general public and to 36,000 Guardian ad Litem and Court Appointed Special Guardians nationwide. Privately funded, 100% of all donations go directly to children in need through Guardian ad Litem Programs.”