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Re: whats up with Pete Townsend?



To answer that flip remark, No.  We haven't been told about the "ordinary"
people who've been nailed in this situation, nor have we been told about
enough details to make a judgement call on it.  I must admit wondering why
we've only seen Elton John saying something in his defense, at the AMA
recently.  I don't know whether that says a lot about Pete Townshend's 
other
so-called friends, or the media being selective with their data.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Louie Angulo" <laab2000us@yahoo.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:50:AM
Subject: Re: whats up with Pete Townsend?


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> man,i guess fame does has its price doesn´t it?
> cheers
> l.a
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> > 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?
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> > 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.
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> > ----- 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?
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> > > On Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003, at 10:07
> > Europe/Stockholm, Louie Angulo
> > > wrote:
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> > > > I just listened to the news about Pete Townsend
> > jesus,
> > > > is this just celebrity sensationalism or for
> > real?
> > > > cheers
> > > > L.a
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,874192,00.html
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