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Subject: RE: BS: Pete Townshend a Child Fondler? From: Leadfingers Date: 11 Jan 03 - 02:22 PM And of course it is posted anonymously. |
Subject: RE: BS: Pete Townshend a Child Fondler? From: Big Tim Date: 11 Jan 03 - 02:12 PM Here, here to the second and third posts. Thumbs down to the first. For chrissake GUEST can't you at least wait until some facts have emerged? |
Subject: RE: BS: Pete Townshend a Child Fondler? From: alanabit Date: 11 Jan 03 - 01:51 PM Thanks Spaw for a brave and honest reply to yet another potentially horrible thread, posted by - surprise, surprise - an anonymous guest. |
Subject: RE: BS: Pete Townshend a Child Fondler? From: catspaw49 Date: 11 Jan 03 - 01:35 PM So what? Yet another Big Brother campaign. I'm not advocating child pornography, but the question of if he paid would enter into my thinking. I'm more bothered though that Joe Average can find kiddie porn with ease and often quite by accident...no money involved. So if you stumble onto any unsavory sight does this make you a whatever? About two years back I was looking for a downloadable and printable calendar with angels on it for a friend. I came onto a site about angels and calendars that was nothing but young girls photographed in the nude. I stayed awhile and went to their links page and was amazed at the number of sites and many were completely free. Does this make me a pedophile? If some remnant of that is left somewhere in the guts of the computer am I guilty of something? I like some old-fashioned porn but that stuff was unreal. The "Disclaimer" material was an interesting read as well. Kiddie porn has always been a tough one to break and far more prevalent than I would ever have believed. But even more, I worry about a big brother approach that spys on everything. I really don't know how you bust the one without stepping on the other in a rights violation. Much as I might abhor kiddie porn, the long term and more significant issue is civil rights. Spaw |
Subject: BS: Pete Townshend a Child Fondler? From: GUEST Date: 11 Jan 03 - 01:11 PM I'm no paedophile, says Who star courtesy of the bbc. Rock legend Pete Townshend has admitted paying to view a child pornography site on the internet but said he did so "just to see what was there". The star's admission comes after a UK newspaper report said a British musician was among those identified by a US police investigation for downloading child pornography from the internet. The Who guitarist, speaking from his home in Richmond, London, strongly denied being a paedophile and said police were aware he had studied child pornography but only for research. I am not a paedophile - I think paedophilia is appalling Pete Townshend A report in Saturday's Daily Mail said details of an internationally-famous musician had been passed to police investigating an American pay-per-view porn ring. Campaign In a statement Mr Townshend emphasised his "anger and vengeance towards the mentally ill people who find paedophilic pornography attractive". The 57-year-old, who is married with children, said: "I am not a paedophile. I think paedophilia is appalling." "To fight against paedophilia, you have to know what's out there," he said. The guitarist believes he may have been abused himself as a child "I have been involved in a campaign against paedophilia on the internet but it fizzled out." The Daily Mail report said Scotland Yard officers were now investigating the celebrity - whom the paper did not name - and deciding whether to make an arrest.
But Mr Townshend said he had already been in contact with police. |