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Post subject: Happy birthday Pete Townshend
Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 11:31 pm
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Happy birthday Pete! Born on this day in 1945, Pete Townshend, guitar, vocals, The Who, (1965 UK No.2 single 'My Generation' 1967 US No.9 single 'I Can See For Miles' plus over 20 other UK Top 40 hit singles, 16 US Top 40 singles and rock opera albums 'Tommy' & 'Quadrophenia'). Townshend became known for his eccentric stage style during the band's early days, swinging his right arm against the guitar strings in his signature move; a windmill style, often smashing guitars on stage.

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Post subject: Re: Happy birthday Pete Townshend
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 7:16 am
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Yeah right.

Happy birthday to Pete Townshend and to similar sex offenders everywhere.

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Post subject: Re: Happy birthday Pete Townshend
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 7:24 am
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Come on, Pete is not a sex offended. He was cleared of all charges.


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Post subject: Re: Happy birthday Pete Townshend
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 9:15 am
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He admitted responsibility, received an official caution and had to sign the sex offenders register for five years. If that doesn't make him a sex offender then I don't know what does.

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Post subject: Re: Happy birthday Pete Townshend
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 9:20 am
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He admitted responsibility, received an official caution and had to sign the sex offenders register for five years. If that doesn't make him a sex offender then I don't know what does.

Being convicted and not having served one's sentence does.

I don't understand this lynch mob mentality - due process is instituted precisely to prevent that base instinct.


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Post subject: Re: Happy birthday Pete Townshend
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 9:23 am
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he was just doing research, right? Image

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Post subject: Re: Happy birthday Pete Townshend
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 9:29 am
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Base instinct, right. I'm the one with the base instinct.

Not the guy who admitted paying money to download pictures of children being raped.

Happy birthday Pete. You wrote a few songs so I guess everyone will overlook that fact.

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Post subject: Re: Happy birthday Pete Townshend
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 9:30 am
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he was just doing research, right? Image


I'm sure the idea of masturbating to his research material never once crossed his mind.

Funny how he never finished the book he was researching.

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Post subject: Re: Happy birthday Pete Townshend
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 10:08 am
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GilgaFrank wrote:
Base instinct, right. I'm the one with the base instinct.

Not the guy who admitted paying money to download pictures of children being raped.


You know you're not telling the truth, right?
1: Police confiscated 14 computers from Townshend, and after four months of forensic investigation concluded that not a single child porn picture was on them. He also never admitted to downloading any CP. So where do you have your download claim from? Is it fabricated by your thirst for stringing up the accused?
2: The site in question had pictures of nude children, not children being raped. Two years down the road in the Operation Ore, it was found that he had, indeed, just paid to access an adult site that used the same payment processing (Landslide) and advertising as the CP sites. So where do you have your claim of children being raped from? Is it fabricated by your thirst for stringing up the accused?
3: He admitted having paid for access to a porn site that Advertised child pornography. Not to one that provided CP. He could have seen CP in advertising banners, and never denied that.
4: Even if he had admitted to raping and killing children, it would not have proven guilt. See Thomas Quick for a good reason why one should not jump to conclusions and string up people based on what they say.

Given the choice of accepting a caution for having accessed a site advertising child porn, and being prosecuted for same, he chose the option his solicitor recommended. I would have too, given that in the mind of the public (as we see here), accusation implies guilt.


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Post subject: Re: Happy birthday Pete Townshend
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 10:16 am
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"Leave Pete Townshend ALONE!"

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Post subject: Re: Happy birthday Pete Townshend
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 10:19 am
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So why did he have to sign the sex offenders register for five years?

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Post subject: Re: Happy birthday Pete Townshend
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 10:34 am
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Operation Ore ... yeah.

In the two years it took the police to determine that thousands had been falsely accused, over one hundred children had been removed from their homes and denied any unsupervised time with their fathers.[15] The arrests also led to an estimated 33 suicides by 2007.[3]

One man was charged when the sole "suspicious" image in his possession was of young-looking — but adult — actress Melissa-Ashley.
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Post subject: Re: Happy birthday Pete Townshend
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 10:58 am
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GilgaFrank wrote:
So why did he have to sign the sex offenders register for five years?

Because he accepted the caution, instead of going to court.
See http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-19876936

Anyhow, no matter how you feel about his guilt or not[*], the five years are over, and his slate is wiped clean after not being caught committing any crimes during the caution period. At most, he can be called a former sex offender. An insufferable old guy with an ego bigger than a small country, and questionable sexual taste (he fancied Mick Jagger, ffs), but he's not a sex offender.

[*]: My personal feeling is that when guilt has not been proven, it must be treated like innocence. The more heinous and abhorrent the crime, the more important this principle should be.


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Post subject: Re: Happy birthday Pete Townshend
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 11:14 am
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actress Melissa-Ashley


Ugh. Her. She's famous for "acting" younger than she really is.

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Surprised the police didn't recognise her though, she's a very well known porn actress.

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Post subject: Re: Happy birthday Pete Townshend
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 1:22 pm
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I have always given Pete Townshend a wide benefit of a doubt,that has nothing to do with wishing for the best because he's a famous guitarist but from the fact that with all his money,he could have gotten hold of C.P. by much more discreet means.He would have been able to keep the whole thing secret if he really was as involved in it as the witch hunt had alleged.All of the "evidence" against him was found to be very flimsy to say the least and some of it was not only impossible to prove but just didn't exist. The whole thing was just a gossip rag feeding frenzy caused by trumped up charges by an over-zealous police department-much like the arrest of so many of rock royalty in the 60s.
Pete Townshend obviously detested child porn and sexual exploitation,which was made obvious in "Tommy" with his "Wicked Uncle Ernie" in "Fiddle About".Being a victim of abuse as a child himself I doubt very much that he was the type to carry on the "tradition" as many abuse victims do and chose to be defiant and turned against it.

Anyway on the chance that he drops by and reads this forum-Happy Birthday Pete.

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