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man,i guess fame does has its price doesn´t it?
cheers
l.a
> It comes down to a couple of actual facts, which are
> certainly never
> reported as much as the wild speculation and
> insinuation preferred by the
> press in the UK. So far this morning, Pete's still
> not been charged with
> anything, and he's out on bail, as well as
> volunteered his PC and CDs for
> police examination. No word after several days as
> to whether or not the
> coppers actually found anything. The only fact
> involved so far is the
> acquisition of his credit card info by an apparently
> notorious child porn
> web site running out of Texas, that was recently
> shut down. Most Americans
> have already heard about how the Postal Service not
> only has their own
> police force, but also has run stings in even
> "straight" porn, placing ads
> in magazines for mail-order and 900 numbers - and
> anyone who gets in touch
> with them is apparently guilty as hell, even if they
> were just mildly
> curious and decided to mail/call.
>
> It was the US Postal Service that gave Pete
> Townshend's info to the police
> in the UK, having found his credit card data in
> their culling through the
> confiscated stuff from the Texas bust. It's
> unfortunate and also
> unfortunately typical that British Tabloids (which
> include the Guardian by
> the way) have decided to convict him before any
> evidence beyond this single
> fact has been found - but if one reads the articles
> (if one knows how to
> sift through all the innuendo, vagueries and
> scandalous non-facts that is)
> you'll find that the only facts so far involve the
> credit card data, and
> Pete's handing over his PC and CDs before being
> asked to do so.
>
> I think back however on the fact that
> quasi-paedophilic material has been
> openly marketed to the world-at-large (and
> especially in the US) publicly
> and without any criticism whatsoever for years upon
> years. Remember "Bugsy
> Malone"? Jon-Benet Ramsey's cavorting in full
> makeup etc? So now, after
> years of this, a few folks being human get a little
> curious about it (and by
> this I don't obviously mean paedophiles), and not
> being on kiddy-porn
> mailing lists, go to a site to see what is going on,
> and get prompted to
> enter their credit card data. Theoretically it
> could be as simple as that.
> I recall that Pete Townshend not only has worked
> with anti-child abuse
> organizations in the past, but has said that he was
> abused himself as a
> child. Many songs from "Tommy" ("Fiddle About" and
> "The Acid Queen" come to
> mind) might then have greater perspective, yes?
>
> If you think about it though, all of those
> 'age-verification' routines
> involve a credit card. It might have been something
> as seemingly innocuous
> as this that yielded Pete Townshend's credit card
> data - which as you should
> know is not presented as the same thing as paying
> for entrance to such a
> site. Perhaps the Postal Service and the screaming
> puritans running their
> private police force think otherwise, and have
> decided to present such as
> the exact opposite. In the meantime the stingee
> swings in the media wind,
> convicted by proxy and innuendo.
>
> Before the Internet, British tabloids didn't tend to
> be read outside the UK,
> though their antics were certainly infamous
> world-wide. Now they might have
> to improve their responsibility factor, and live up
> to the standards held by
> the legitimate press. You'd think that having a
> good deal to do with the
> exascerbated conditions leading up to Princess Di's
> death would have caused
> this to occur. But then I'm probably wrong.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Tibert" <tibbe@pi.se>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 09:25:AM
> Subject: Re: whats up with Pete Townsend?
>
>
> >
> > On Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003, at 10:07
> Europe/Stockholm, Louie Angulo
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I just listened to the news about Pete Townsend
> jesus,
> > > is this just celebrity sensationalism or for
> real?
> > > cheers
> > > L.a
> >
> >
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,874192,00.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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