Do you want to touch?
Hewlett Packard uses convicted pedophile’s
music in TouchSmart TV ad
October 14th,
2007. Boca Raton, Florida: 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
See and
hear Glitter's original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF0W5KBkpO8
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. Joan Jett recorded a cover of the song.
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.
Contact:
info@abusewatch.net
Hewlett-Packard Company, 3000 Hanover
Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1185 USA Phone: (650) 857-1501.
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