Just another brick in the wall

The bricks reading 'Gary Glitter' and 'Jonathan King' have been scrubbed from the Cavern's Wall of Fame, so that everyone in Liverpool can sleep sounder in our beds that Mathew Street is no longer sullied by their names. The Cavern Club took this decision after what the Liverpool Echo describes as a 'storm of protest'. And when they say storm of protest, they mean that West Derby MP Bob Wareing said 'I wouldn't myself have wanted to put his name up.' Them's fighting words.
When I walked past the Wall of Fame earlier, I snapped a picture of the replacement plaque:

So the bricks have gone, but their names remain. This small act poses so many questions that it could be the start of an Arthur Miller play. Tim Jonze eloquently mulls it over on the Guardian music blog, and I agree that we should separate the art from the artist. Otherwise where does it end? Will the government announce a Gary Glitter amnesty, so you can hand in your Gary Glitter records at the local police station and free yourself of their shame?