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much better to scream, grow old and jack off over little kids

It is desperately sad for me to sit here, 41 years old, having enjoyed listening to The Who
and his solo efforts since I was young, and contemplate how often wasteful are the lives
of so many artists, especially ones like Pete Townsend, who should take responsibility
for the fact that the message such child pornography sends to his fans is that it is in
some way heroic to scream at the world, thrash a guitar, smash it up and then allegedly
produce and distrubute child pornography.

I can't believe Pete is such a creep!

I can't believe we're so gullible as to believe what our piece of shit media tells us. Do we really think its that simple? That he's guilty and now he's just a gross man? Perhaps he is but think of all the posturing jerks out there who just love to beat someone when they're down. Think of a corporate-owned media that loves to say "we got the bad guy," when they're the very ones profiting off of kiddie porn. Think of the not -quite- a -woman Britany Spears practically naked at any given moment or the 13 year old Calvin Klein models or the 15 year old supermodels on the cover of Cosmo. Pete Townsend isn't the scum. Not the real scum at least.

I have never made any connections between gary glitter and pete. I still hope this is proved wrong. Beatles dying, townsend doing such a thing(hopefully not)-

When commenting on Kurt Cobain's journals, Pete Townsend said, "I sometimes get letters from people who write and draw like Cobain. I put them in a file marked 'Loonies'." As a Nirvana fan, I would readily concede that Kurt Cobain was, in all likelihood, "loony". But on the surface, he at least appears to have done far more damage to himself than to others. I wonder how many children may eventually meet Kurt's fate as a result of being exploited by paedophiles and sexual predators such as Pete Townsend?

Hey guys, Pete has been vocal on his site for almost two years about doing this research about child porn. Do you think that someone with his intellect would go on his website and publicly state that he was trying to abolish these sites, all the while using them for his own personal pleasure? Think about it.

It's pathetic. Here's a guy who has been ranting about his anger over the complacency of the law when it comes to this filth for almost two years via essays he's been writing on his website (which, obviously, none of you have read) and you've already convicted him. Maybe, just maybe, he actually WAS doing research. Hey guys, the cops do it too. Do you think they build a case against child porn without viewing it? If Pete was building a case against it (which he's been doing acording to his website diary posts over the past TWO YEARS) it's disturbing, but I'm willing to accept it if he makes a difference using his fame to raise awareness. After all, what have you done to stop it? I can assure you, no matter what you've done to stop, Townsend has done a great deal more.

Innocent Until Proven Guilty

Oh Yeah, Ryder was doing research on shoplifting.
Thanks for all your hard on work, Pete.

Who are we to judge? Do you thing that epics like Tommy and Quadraphenia just come from the imagination? Pete has been a public icon for generations...(my generation...) Do you think that an interest in child porn would stay undercover for so long? Hell, you people forgive Micheal Jackson for more overt acts than Pete has even been charged with. (none at this moment) Lets forget the internet FBI lynch mob and get back to what is real... Show me proof that Pete had underage children in his control: And I will then believe. Until then, its just Ruby Ridge all over again...

can,t you see the real me doctor? doctor? in this song pete exposed himself as a pedophile..we now see the real him.

hi i am leonie i am 14 i think it is discusting i think he should be put AWAY, the pedrofile (pete) ewww as if you would that is wrong

Hello there,
I for one think Townsend is telling the truth when he says he was doing research. Townsend has always been honest-sometimes to a fault. The pictures of him being driven away in the car show the face of a man with nothing to hide. If Townsend was into pedophilia, he would be the first to own up to it. Remember years ago when he owned up to "Rough Boys" being some kind of confused gay song, and that he was actually "a woman"? Townsend is a great artist and a spiritual seeker. His intentions are noble.

Look, a year ago Pete wrote an essay on his website that explained how he came to be a vigualanty against child porn on the internet. This 6 page essay (again, written by Pete himself over a year ago) goes into great detail about his disgust and need to do something about it and his growing frustration in the authourities complacecy over this matter. Read it first before you shoot your mouth off and accuse him of anything.

Here is a link to that essay. Read it and weep members of the lynch mob....

http://www.thewho.org/020116adifferentbomb.pdf

Honest. doesn't anyone one remeber the YEARS he spoke against drugs and rock stars who used drugs only to disclose much later he was a herion and other drugs of choice user/abuser. I think he is in denial about why he views kids. No matter the reason, it is sick!

I'll give Pete the benefit of doubt, but looking
at his essay, "A Different Bomb", dated 1/02:

On his own experience:

"...I remember no specific sexual abuse, though when I was young I was treated in an extremely
controlling and agressive way by my maternal grandmother. This is not unusual. It might be described by some as insignificant. Almost everyone I know experienced similar stuff at some time or other - many friends experienced more extreme 'abuses' and have no obvious adult vices as a result..."

On his awareness of public attitudes and law enforcement:

"...On the issue of child-abuse, the climate in the press, the police, and in Government in the UK at the moment is one of a witch-hunt..."

He continues to discuss how demand drives it's creation:

"...However, what many people fail to realise is how - by visiting their websites - we directly and effectively subsidise pornographers. This is true whether we do so unwittingly or deliberately, out of curiosity or a vigilante spirit...The terrible part is that what they found on the internet will almost have certainly found them by return...it is to say that because their visit was undoubtedly recorded by the site or sites in question, the pornographers who run those sites would have found validation and commercial promise for their activity. They would then have redoubled their efforts in this area..."

On accidentally seeing a horrible, indefensable
and terribly violent image when searching for legitimate contacts to help a charity fundraiser:

"...I reached for the phone, I intended to call the police and take them through the process I had stumbled upon - and bring the pornographers involved to book. Then I thought twice about it. With someone on trial who had once been connected with me - however loosely - I spoke off-the-record to a lawyer instead. He advised me to do nothing. He advised me that I most certainly should not download the image as 'evidence'. So I did as he advised. Nothing."

This does not appear to be current, because he forgot both his own advice and the advise of his
lawyer.

In addition, he allegedly used a credit card to pay for child porn.

WHAT IS PETER TOWNSEND TRYING TO STUDY FOR HIS RESEARCH? HOW WOULD THESE PICTURES HELP HIS RESEARCH? WHY COULDN,T PETE JUST FIND A WEBSITE ON STUDIES OF SEXUAL ABUSE INSTEAD? THESE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED IN TIME.