BBC Eric Gill paedo statue attacked

[maomao]

So, for many years the BBC who spent decades nurturing and covering for serial paedophiles have had a statue of a naked boy with an old man fondling him on the front of their best-known building on Portland Place. The statue was carved by a known paedophile who repeatedly raped his daughters and according to his diary, his dog. Some of us have found this pretty offensive for a long time

This evening a man with a hammer scaled the building and has been trying to smash it. Good for him. Unfortunately the clips on the Guardian website suggest he hasn't managed to damage it much yet but he's apparently been left up there for at least two hours (i'm not sure if he's down yet; you can probably find out on Twitter or something). If this has been inspired by the Colston statue verdict then even better as far as I'm concerned. Hopefully he'll be up there long enough to completely destroy the paedophile broadcasting company's paedophile statue.

Man uses hammer to attack statue on front of BBC Broadcasting House

Artwork by Eric Gill installed in 1933 at London HQ is controversial because artist was a paedophile

www.theguardian.com

 

[Cloo]

Although unfortunately it does sound like this is coming from a mad-bastard Q-Anon type angle, when there are probably less deranged voices out there to tackle the issue. That said, these guys probably think BLM are deranged

 

[8ball]

I hope we can clarify whether it was a deranged act or a heroic act before the thread gets too confusing.

People should wear a clear logo when doing this sort of thing.

 

[maomao]

Although unfortunately it does sound like this is coming from a mad-bastard Q-Anon type angle, when there are probably less deranged voices out there to tackle the issue. That said, these guys probably think BLM are deranged

Meh. I can't fault their reasoning on this one and someone needed to get up there and have a go. I'm more worried that he doesn't seem to have a big enough hammer.

 

[bluescreen]

So who is going to have a go at the Stations of the Cross in Westminster Cathedral?

 

[goldenecitrone]

Entartete Kunst. What a great idea!

 

[Ax^]

hmm who is the fella


if he is a misguide fool who is smashing up bbc statues as they are the bastilion of the left

put him in jail for a year just to remind him why he is a twat

 

[editor]

Although unfortunately it does sound like this is coming from a mad-bastard Q-Anon type angle, when there are probably less deranged voices out there to tackle the issue. That said, these guys probably think BLM are deranged

BBC Monitoring journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh said the presence of Gill’s statue on the front of the building had been “an obsession for British QAnon, ‘save our children’, ‘satanic ritual abuse’ and other conspiracy groups for a very long time”.

Couldn't give a shit if the statue is smashed into a million bits, but fuck these morons and their ludicrous Satanic bullshit.

 

[mx wcfc]

I hope we can clarify whether it was a deranged act or a heroic act before the thread gets too confusing.

People should wear a clear logo when doing this sort of thing.

Well, clearly.

We are going to have to be careful with this one. If it does turn out to (as I suspect) be a far right loon, he's still right for doing this, and slagging him off just cos he's a far right loon, is going to look bad.

(tbh, I had no idea of the history behind this statue. I assume no-one at the Beeb these days did either)

 

[8ball]

Entartete Kunst. What a great idea!

Mmm, yes please. With custard.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I hope we can clarify whether it was a deranged act or a heroic act before the thread gets too confusing.

People should wear a clear logo when doing this sort of thing.

I refer the RT Hon Poster for Indeterminate to my answer of 11th January:

Everything would be fine if only there was better regulation of revolutionaries. Perhaps with a Revolutionary Industry Authority vetting, training and licensing revolutionaries to a state-approved standard?

 

[nogojones]

Well, clearly.

We are going to have to be careful with this one. If it does turn out to (as I suspect) be a far right loon, he's still right for doing this, and slagging him off just cos he's a far right loon, is going to look bad.

(tbh, I had no idea of the history behind this statue. I assume no-one at the Beeb these days did either)

Oh, they knew. Eric Gills activities are well known.

 

[maomao]

(tbh, I had no idea of the history behind this statue. I assume no-one at the Beeb these days did either)

I know all about it and I have almost no interest in art. It's the radio 4 building. If anyone knows about artists and paedophiles it's that lot.

 

[mx wcfc]

Oh, they knew. Eric Gills activities are well known.

Not by me, clearly. But on that basis, if "they" is the people that put it up there, I'm not pointing the finger at the current leadership. Unless they knew too, in which case, yes, of course, they should have bloody well done something about it.

 

[maomao]

Entartete Kunst

Same to you

 

[SpookyFrank]

First slavers, now nonces. Is no statue safe?

 

[nogojones]

Not by me, clearly. But on that basis, if "they" is the people that put it up there, I'm not pointing the finger at the current leadership. Unless they knew too, in which case, yes, of course, they should have bloody well done something about it.

It's been pretty common knowledge from at least the 80's. It's one of those things the BBC have been pretendning has nothing to do with them.

 

[killer b]

Not by me, clearly. But on that basis, if "they" is the people that put it up there, I'm not pointing the finger at the current leadership. Unless they knew too, in which case, yes, of course, they should have bloody well done something about it.

the people who put it there did not know that Gill was a paedo, the details of his crimes emerged decades after he died. If he hadn't have kept details about them in his diary they might never have fully emerged at all I suppose.

 

[DaveCinzano]

(tbh, I had no idea of the history behind this statue. I assume no-one at the Beeb these days did either)

It's something the Corporation has published articles and programmes about:

site:bbc.co.uk "eric gill" paedophile OR incest OR bestial* - Google Search

 

[Yossarian]

Weird how the guy apparently went for the child's penis first.

 

[bluescreen]

Oh, they knew. Eric Gills activities are well known.

Yes, it's been well known for years. Didn't Fiona McCarthy write a biography of him? She certainly wrote about it in the Graun a while back but it wasn't news even then.

Fiona MacCarthy on Eric Gill's life and art

Eric Gill's reprehensible private life would doubtless land him in prison today. But does that mean we should value his sculpture less? After all, writes Fiona MacCarthy, the two sides of the man are inextricably linked.

www.theguardian.com

 

[8ball]

First slavers, now nonces. Is no statue safe?

Nonce artist as opposed to nonce statue, isn’t it?

I do hope there’s not a nonce stonemason out there. We’ll be out with the hammers the rest of the bloody year…

 

[danny la rouge]

The statue needs to come down. No doubt about that. If the BBC won’t do it, then somebody else will have to. It’s a shame if it’s right wing conspiracists doing it, but there’s nothing inherently right wing in wanting rid of it.

 

[ska invita]

First slavers, now nonces. Is no statue safe?

Thing is these are categorically different cases
Colston is a statue of a slaver, honouring the man
This is a statue by a child molester
I think thats a big difference
The fact this statue depicts a naked child with an adult behind blurs that distinction though

Does anyone know how many public sculptures of his there are?

 

[maomao]

Nonce artist as opposed to nonce statue, isn’t it?

It's a noncey statue by a nonce on the nonciest building in London. Savile used to park his noncewagon right under it (genuinely, he lived in a mobile home on Portland Place for a long time). It would be safer to knock the whole lot down and start all over.

 

[danny la rouge]

The fact this statue depicts a naked child blurs that distinction though

Indeed. It’s not possible to say his private life and his art are separate.

 

[8ball]

It's a noncey statue by a nonce on the nonciest building in London. Savile used to park his noncewagon right under it (genuinely, he lived in a mobile home on Portland Place for a long time). It would be safer to knock the whole lot down and start all over.

I very could easily have walked past it without realising it was Nonce Palace of Nonce City.

Which I guess is the point, really.

 

[ska invita]

Which I guess is the point, really.

...sorry for being dim here, the point of what?

 

[Ax^]

It's a noncey statue by a nonce on the nonciest building in London. Savile used to park his noncewagon right under it (genuinely, he lived in a mobile home on Portland Place for a long time). It would be safer to knock the whole lot down and start all over.

what parilement, the bbc , the british state or the royal family


the weird thing about this fuck wit is he more than likely thing he is a patriot and vote for brexit & Boris


sold you soul to a broken system did you not fella

sorry your afraid of needles


bet he has a flag pole in his garden like a champion dick head

 

[belboid]

The fact this statue depicts a naked child with an adult behind blurs that distinction though

Pedantically, Ariel isn't a child. He was taken by Sycorax when mature, held for twelve years before Prospero turned up and rescued him. Usually portrayed by a bloke in their early twenties.

Which might matter in other circumstances, but putting the specific form it has taken with the specific nature of its creator, it is not something that should be put as a centre piece in any public arena.