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Originally Posted by seabuggy
Is Pete Townsend from the Who, the same one that was up on some child porn charges? If so, he ranks right up there with Janet Jackson's boob debacle.
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Townshend was cautioned by the British police in 2003 as part of Operation Ore. Following a news leak that Townshend was among the subjects of the investigation, he publicly stated that on one occasion he had used a credit card to access a website advertising child pornography. Townshend, who had posted essays on his personal website in 2002 as part of his campaign against the widespread availability of child pornography on the internet, said that he had entered the site for research purposes and had not downloaded any images. A four-month police investigation, including forensic examination of all of his computers, established that Townshend was not in possession of any illegal downloaded images. Instead of pressing charges, the police elected to caution him, stating, "It is not a defence to access these images for research or out of curiosity." In a statement issued by his lawyer, Townshend said, "I accept that I was wrong to access this site, and that by doing so, I broke the law, and I have accepted the caution that the police have given me."
In light of the fact that we all most likely recieve some questionable crap in the emails thanks to our "friends".. I highly doubt any of our PC hard drives would pass a purity test..
To lump Pete into the whacko jacko, or Janet's tit.. category...is one helluva reach if you ask me.
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