Hi lads!

This is intended to be a serious and adult conversation about something I am totally against. That is the removal from history of everything by people convicted of sexual offences with a child.

I am not defending them, far from it, but we are risking losing a lot of culturally significant material. Yesterday the National Archives announced it was erasing the 'Clunk-Click' adverts featuring Saville.

Why? He has been erased from Top of the Pops too, as has Gary Glitter after his 1999 conviction for possessing child p***.

I am not saying they should profit at all, maybe the state can create a law to redirect the earnings to a charity for victims of the same type of crime, but to remove them from history is like burying what happened.

So, what can we do instead of erasing them from history? I would suggest a subtitle detailing their crimes and punishment. Not removing them but highlighting their crimes.

Definitely confiscate their royalties and if they refuse to sign them over then prevent them from being aired or played thus denying them money anyway.

We can all mock Saville or Glitter but what about Jackson? Would he be removed from every shop and playlist? His music isn't cheesy like Glitter's, is it? Well, it shouldn't be about taste or because he belonged to a minority.

Ah, but Jackson was never convicted. Neither was Saville! He never got to answer his accusers though I am sure he is guilty. Jackson was found not guilty on one case and paid another accuser m to drop the case.

R. Kelly still gets played, convicted paedophile. Graham Rix was re-employed by Chelsea when he was released from Wandsworth after serving 6 months of a 12 month sentence for sex with an under age girl.

Rolf Harris... Should all of his programs and work be deleted or used to profit a charity for child abuse victims?

It's a sensitive subject and I do have close experience of this subject so I am not talking about it from a distance.

I just think, with so many more cases to come before they move on to pop stars of the 70s and 80s that we stand to lose a lot of heritage.

We need an adult solution to this situation and not reactionary, snap decisions just to appear tough. If things are 'air brushed' from history we fall into the trap where parents used to not tell kids about paedos because they thought that was protecting them.

Edited by ceitinn (16 Apr 2016 1.07pm)