keep getting support that he,s a good guy from people in the show biz world? for downloading child porn and paying with his visa card to do so. However it WAS for research i belive, GET REAL luvvies!!
2006-10-26 18:31:20 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
he downloaded child porn GUILTY has any one ever seen this book he was supposed to be researching for ???? Don,t think so you perv
2006-10-26 19:14:57 · answer #1 · answered by bigtdotcom 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know, I know, I keep asking myself about this too. Townshend was my hero when I was a teenager and It's hard to think that this is the same guy. I went through some emotional difficulties when I was young and the only thing that really got through to me was the music of THE WHO. yes sad isn't it. But that was the '60s.
All I can say is he done it, he got caught, he got found not guilty. So thats an end to it. Let's be charitable- he gave us so much. It's a pity this happened but there you go.
2006-10-27 02:45:34 · answer #2 · answered by Not Ecky Boy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, anyone over the age of 18 can look at porn and download it. Yes, child porn is disgusting but the sick b@$t@rd hasn't yet been convicted of anything.
2006-10-27 01:46:28 · answer #3 · answered by Sunny 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
do your research and stop being sensationalist.....
Fact: Pete Townshend contacted the Internet Watch Foundation on several occasions to complain about the site
Fact: Pete Townshend is not under suspicion for child abuse
Fact: Pete Townshend has been outspoken against child pornography and child abuse
Fact: Pete Townshend has not been charged with a crime
Fact: Pete Townshend has been an avid supporter of children's charities
Fact: Pete Townshend did NOT admit to downloading child pornography
Fact: Pete Townshend owns Eel Pie Publishing and was an editor for Faber & Faber
Fact: Pete Townshend announced his intent to publish an autobiography in 1996
Fact: Pete Townshend received an ISBN number for his autobiography in 1999. (ISBN: 0316851353)
Fact: Pete Townshend's estranged wife, Karen, has dismissed claims that he is a pedophile
Fact: Pete Townshend has stated as far back as 1994 that he had been sexualy abused
Pete Townshend has admitted studying child pornography, to help his role as a "vigilante" fighting paedophilia.
The Who guitarist issued the following statement after a newspaper said an un-named musician was among people identified by US detectives investigating a pay-per-view web site.
I am not a paedophile.
I have never entered chat rooms on the internet to converse with children.
I have felt for a long time that it is part of my duty, knowing what I know, to act as a vigilante
I have, to the contrary, been shocked, angry and vocal (especially on my website) about the explosion of advertised paedophilic images on the internet.
I have been writing my childhood autobiography for the past seven years.
I believe I was sexually abused between the age of five and six-and-a-half when in the care of my maternal grandmother who was mentally ill at the time.
I cannot remember clearly what happened, but my creative work tends to throw up nasty shadows - particularly in Tommy.
'Anger and vengeance'
Some of the things I have seen on the internet have informed my book which I hope will be published later this year, and which will make clear to the public that if I have any compulsions in this area, they are to face what is happening to young children in the world today and to try to deal openly with my anger and vengeance towards the mentally ill people who find paedophilic pornography attractive.
I hope you will be able to see that I am sincerely disturbed by the sexual abuse of children
I predicted many years ago that what has become the internet would be used to subvert, pervert and destroy the lives of decent people.
I have felt for a long time that it is part of my duty, knowing what I know, to act as a vigilante to help support organisations like the Internet Watch Foundation, the NSPCC and Scotland Yard to build up a powerful and well-informed voice to speak loudly about the millions of dollars being made by American banks and credit card companies for the pornography industry.
That industry deliberately blurs what is legal and what is illegal, and different countries have different laws and moral values about this. I do not.
'Sincerely disturbed'
I do not want child pornography to be available on the internet anywhere at any time.
On one occasion I used a credit card to enter a site advertising child porn.
I did this purely to see what was there.
I spoke informally to a friend who was a lawyer and reported what I'd seen.
I hope you will be able to see that I am sincerely disturbed by the sexual abuse of children, and I am very active trying to help individuals who have suffered, and to prevent further abuse.
2006-10-27 04:22:33 · answer #4 · answered by emma a 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
makes me sick what possible research could he have been doing ? hes a kiddie fiddler and fcuk knows how he got away with it and still gets adoration same as r kelly hes worshipped they should lose all rights to be in the public eye if they have created such crimes rather them people supporting them
2006-10-27 02:56:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the man was found not guilty wasn't he ?, so leave it there , he's having trouble on tour i read this morning If he's satisfied he did nothing wrong then his conscience is clear if not then he has to suffer the slurs
2006-10-27 02:38:37 · answer #6 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hold on, he was not convicted. if some one researches Nazis and the far right (for example) that does not make them one to!
2006-10-27 01:37:56 · answer #7 · answered by belickcat 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
it wasnt proven
2006-10-27 05:13:50 · answer #8 · answered by dream theatre 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋