Next up: Statement Analysis of Townsend's full statement about child porn.
The Who's Pete Townshend says child porn foray was 'research,' and 'insane'
Legendary Who guitarist Pete Townshend, who was forced to register as a sex offender in 2003 after authorities determined he downloaded child porn, broke his longstanding silence on the incident with a claim that he was trying to prove banks profit from pedophile rings.
Townshend says in his memoir, "Who Am I," which is being serialized in The Times of London, that he paid $14 to download images of abused youngsters in an admittedly "insane" bid to prove British banks helped channel profits from pedophiles to illegal child pornography rings. It marked the first time the 67-year-old has discussed the matter publicly since he was warned by police and put on a British registry of sex offenders.
"It's White Knight Syndrome," Townshend said. "You want to be the one that's seen to be helping.
"I had experienced something creepy as a child, so you imagine, what if I was a girl of nine or 10 and my uncle had raped me every week? I felt I had an understanding, and I could help,'' he added.
His "help" did not include alerting police or other organizations. His "help" was to give a child pornographic website his credit card in exchange for explicit images of children being sexually exploited. Now he wants you to buy his book.
His "help" did not include alerting police or other organizations. His "help" was to give a child pornographic website his credit card in exchange for explicit images of children being sexually exploited. Now he wants you to buy his book.
Townshend said he planned to show that the sick industry of child sex spans from Russian orphanages to British banks. But when word of his illicit web work got out, he says in his memoir, he was ashamed and distraught.
"If I had a gun I would have shot myself."
It was easier to purchase child porn than a gun.
- Pete Townshend
"If I had a gun I would have shot myself," Townshend wrote of the experience in his memoir. "It really did feel like a lynching."
The purpose of "lynching" is to kill. Shooting himself would have been faster.
The purpose of "lynching" is to kill. Shooting himself would have been faster.
Police confiscated Townshend's computers and files, and found nothing incriminating. But his reputation was in tatters.
''What I did was insane,'' said Townshend, who also talked to the paper.
Please keep this word, "insane" (with the pronoun, "I") close in mind when you read his statement, up next.
He said he didn't fight to clear his name in court because, "I think I was exhausted. The police at Kingston station gave me half an hour to make a decision about whether to go to court or not.
They gave him a half hour to decide. It would take an innocent person less than 5 seconds to decide.
"My lawyers were as surprised as I was because everyone thought I would be let off. And I thought that if I went to court they would f***ing rip me apart."
Next up: The reason why Pete Townsend downloaded child pornography.
''What I did was insane,'' said Townshend, who also talked to the paper.
Please keep this word, "insane" (with the pronoun, "I") close in mind when you read his statement, up next.
He said he didn't fight to clear his name in court because, "I think I was exhausted. The police at Kingston station gave me half an hour to make a decision about whether to go to court or not.
They gave him a half hour to decide. It would take an innocent person less than 5 seconds to decide.
"My lawyers were as surprised as I was because everyone thought I would be let off. And I thought that if I went to court they would f***ing rip me apart."
Next up: The reason why Pete Townsend downloaded child pornography.
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O T firstly a will post aboot Pete Townsend an try an find a link shortly...Thease two words from convicted drug smugler show his mind set...Faceing a life sentance for stupidly importing drugs inton a country with the most thourough drugs customs officers very very exsperianced.Also the harshest drug sentanceing legal system.Maybe he thought no one would expect someone to smuggle drugs into the country as the majority are trying to export illegal opiates from Inonesia not import meth?Anyway he got caught an sentanced to a life sentance.Apealled against that an sentance was increased to death....Listen to his responce only a couple of sentances to work with... http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4562536/Brit-father-Gareth-Cashmore-sentenced-to-death-by-firing-squad-in-Indonesia.html seems to me hoooking an crooking are what landed him in his current predicament.
i m o P Townsend was sexually molested as a child by an older man..The character Uncle Ernie in rock opera Tommy penned by P Townsend recounts visions an memorys of those events enthused with poetic licance being the artist he is .I think those events tortured him even more so as he grew older sexuall feelings aroused in him not unpleasant thoughts of homosexuall encounters .More likely bi sexuall than homo sexuall thease feeling that he tried to lock away in a closet manifested whilst he was quite young. Perhaps even while his own abuse was still ocouring.Probably repulsed by his abuser but terrified of repercusions if the situation became known to others like many others he sufferedin silance.He was more than likely attracted to young boys of his own age.An attraction that has never gone away M O O .. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article4559267.ece
OT Please could you make an alternative to continually haveig to prove.../..@kkk error error error does not compute does not comput ?>@:DANGER DANGER WILL ROBINSON..PHFFFT PHFIFFT..Ooops better now where was I ?Oh yes an alternative to proveing I am not a robot..Every time I post its realy hard sometimes especialy with dodgy peepers to make out the numbers an letters..As an Rs squeezed up together look identical an some Os just dissapear?I have 14 10 plus attempts lastnight on a L Irwin page I think an gave up in the end....Am I the onlyone....Is there not softwear that allows a site to recognise a regular poster..I dont mind loggging in an out ect povided an emaail addy ect doea this not prove Im a human opposed robot?Also what happens in a few years time an A I is up an running some of thease AI programs might fancy commenting at other blogs sites ect..SHOULDNT THINK THEY WOULD BE INTERESTED IN RECIPES FOR FOOD or gossip showbiz sites might be thouth..But a site like this statement analysis would be right up an asspiring knowlage A I program/personalit/entity/consiousnis /It thinks therefore it is?..Cant ban robots when they aquire intelegence through AI can you? Wouldint that be anti intelegence?Robotist/machineist/.
Sorry my links dint show up here is a cut an paste of the drug smuggler article an the statment he made after his death sentanced imposed.
A BRITISH father of one was last night under sentence of death by firing squad for smuggling drugs into Indonesia.
Roofer Gareth Cashmore, 33, was arrested a year ago after customs officers said 6.5kg of crystal meth was found in his luggage.
He was originally sentenced to life imprisonment. But it only emerged last night that judges RAISED the penalty to death at an appeal hearing in May.
Cashmore, from Wakefield, West Yorks, said from his cell: “I’ve got a son, how would you feel?”
He vowed: “I hope to be out to see him before he’s grown up. I’ll survive this by hook or by crook.”
His distraught mum Lynne said: “Can you tell me why the Bali bomber only got 20 years and he was responsible for more than 200 people’s deaths?
“My son has admitted he’s done wrong and he’s got the death penalty. I speak to him every day. It’s a terrible situation.”
Muslim Indonesia has some of the strictest anti-drug laws in the world.
Prosecutors claimed Cashmore, whose toddler son is called Harley, was carrying crystal meth worth £800,000 for a narcotics ring when he arrived at Jakarta airport.
Three other Britons, Lindsay Sandiford, Julian Ponder and Rachel Dougall, face execution in Indonesia if convicted of cocaine smuggling.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4562536/Brit-father-Gareth-Cashmore-sentenced-to-death-by-firing-squad-in-Indonesia.html#ixzz27sfiyVlz
An the Peter Townsend link http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article4559267.ece MICK JAGGER must be worried every time an old friend picks up a pen after KEITH RICHARDS’ autobiography, Life.
But Sir Mick will have no problems with PETE TOWNSHEND’S recollections in The Who man’s new book Who I Am.
Pete writes: “Mick is the only man I’ve ever seriously wanted to f***.”
And in stark contrast to Keith’s “tiny todger” remark in his 2010 memoirs, Pete also calls the Rolling Stones frontman’s member “long and plump,” adding “Mick was clearly very well-endowed”.
That’ll have Jagger dancing in the streets.
Pete’s tell-all title is out on October 11.
And the guitarist is typically candid in the other chapters, saying his late bandmate Keith Moon “was such a t*** sometimes” and calling Woodstock “a crock of s***”.
It’s not the only big rock book out in the next couple of months.
Neil Young, Peter Hook, and Morrissey all have autobiographies on the way.
Great Christmas stocking fillers.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/4559267/Pete-Townshend-defends-Mick-Jaggers-private-parts.html#ixzz27sjxdcdO
Now this manipulative monster is attempting to solicit sympathy by telling reporters how he contemplated suicide after being charged. We (idiots in his opinion) are to believe that he is the victim and not the raped children in the child porn he purchased.
ecossie possie, I have a hard time with the verification words as well, and I don't even have "dodgy peepers", that I know of anyway.
I didn't even know that Pete Townsend had issues with child porn and had to register as a sex offender. His case is all new to me. I'll have to read more about it.
I agree with with Pete. I can definetly see that he is "sincerly disturbed." No lying there!
For years and years he has done such good charitable works to benefit the little needy chillin'(he started out playin' that ole time hillbilly musik that you hear in the elevators nowadays)with an achin' in his heart to become ONE.
Those fabulous 60's...what the heay?!
Undercover ghost rider in the sky like the hawgsters of yesteryear and today-All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes..........
Any celeb who wants to make a stand about child porn, to be a voice for the victims can go to LE an say i want to be the face of this campaign, tell me how i can help, show me what sort of material is out there, tell me how parents can protect their children and so on.
LE or a relevant childrens charity is the first point of contact this way everything is above board and legal.
This way the celeb can be informed on how best to help, they can give reasoned statements about what is out there and have the support especially mentally after beng exposed to a small part of what the child victims suffer.
Anyone who doesn't liase with LE and charities in regard to child porn has a reason not to.
They aren't doing it to help the victims they are doing it for their own satisfaction and thus when caught they come out with sindry excuses which are used by all paedophiles, it was accidental, it was someone else who downloaded it, my credit card/account/pc was hacked, it was for research.
This brings something back to me from a book I read years ago- it was a book about Reactive Attachment Disorder by Foster Cline. I don't remember too much about the book now but for some reason, it stuck in my mind that he spoke of analyzing Townshend's songs, and he felt that Townshend was describing attachment disorder. Particularly, the song, "Behind Blue Eyes."
"No one knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man, behind blue eyes."
"No one knows what it's like to be hated... to be slated... to telling only lies."
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