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| Fiji Joe |
Just giving my humble opinion of Pete...and I'm not even buying into this whole child-molestation gig...I hope that crap is wrong |
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| gypsy |
You already fucked up by calling it "Nam." My dad hates it when people call it "'Nam." |
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| Joey |
" You already fucked up by calling it "Nam." My dad hates it when people call it "'Nam." "
Ahhhhh Gypsy ...........please give your little Joeykins another chance 
I have had a stressful day what with the Petey and all .............and when it comes .......to all night living ..............I knows whats I'm giving.....................I've got all down to a " T " and it free ...................it 's me !!!!!!!!!!!! 
{{{{{{{{{{{{ J KINS }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
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| Scot Rocks |
Those, 3 films are classics, Apocalypse Now, Deer Hunter and Full Metal Jacket, 3 of my favourite films of all time. If I didn't have exams this week, I would watch one of them to try and cheer me up after the sickening allegations against Pete.
Mark |
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| Maxlugar |
Pete is coo coo for coco puffs!
(laugh track)
NEW MATERIAL FOR WEEKS!!!!
(Laugh track w/Arsenio-like woo woo's)
MACKY!!! |
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| gypsy |
I could care less about the whole Pete thing. He was and is not one of my idols/heroes. I just think it's sad for all children who are victims of this sick terrible crime. |
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| sasca |
Whether or not he is a hero, he is still worthy of compassion. Those children aren't heroes of mine, yet they are still worthy of my compassion.
An observation: people who are happy to joke about murder are not happy to joke about sexual crimes. Which doesn't seem reasonable. Isn't the excessive delicacy with which we handle such matters both a cause of crime (through the repression which leads to an inability to deal with sexual matters healthily) and an unwitting way of heightening the hurt caused by the crime (by increasing the unwarranted feelings of shame)?
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| doo doo doo Dude |
Another article from Fox News:
Exclusive: Pete Townshend's Thoughts on Pedophilia
The Who's Pete Townshend has been arrested in Britain for suspicion of making and possessing indecent images of children and of incitement to distribute indecent images of children, relating to research he claims to have been doing on the subject via the Internet.
The Fox 411 has obtained an impassioned letter Townshend wrote and posted to his own Web site a year ago — and since deleted — which may or may not demonstrate that he was doing what he said he was doing.
Titled "A Different Bomb," Townshend discusses his own difficult childhood at the hands of a domineering grandmother. He writes about the suicide of a friend who was the victim of child abuse, and then observes: "On the issue of child-abuse, the climate in the press, the police, and in Government in the U.K. at the moment is one of a witch-hunt."
"The world of which I speak is that of the abusive pedophile. The window of 'freedom' of entry to that world is of course the Internet. There is hardly a man I know who uses computers who will not admit to surfing casually sometimes to find pornography. I have done it. Certainly, one expects only to find what is available on the top shelf at the news agents."
Townshend, possibly to his own detriment, exhibits in this article a wide range of knowledge on this subject.
"This issue came to my attention when in 1997 a man who had briefly worked for me was arrested in the U.K. for downloading pedophilic pornography. Until then I was unaware of the scale of the problem. I was cautious of openly condemning him until he had been tried. He had performed in one of my musicals and was a popular figure in the soft-pop pantomime of the U.K. music scene. When he went to trial, the buzzword that the newspapers kept reprinting -- that he had allegedly used in his regular Internet searches — was 'lolita.'
"A few weeks into the trial The Guardian newspaper revealed that www.uksearchterms.com listed 'lolita' high on the list of the most searched words in the U.K. ('sex' is often No.1). It seemed to me that there was some hypocrisy going on.
"Who were all these people typing 'lolita' into their browsers? They were surely not all pedophiles. Perhaps they were simply curious of what they might find."
Townshend stated in this piece that he was after two things — one was eradicating child abuse and pedophilia. His other goal was to argue that innocent people could be harmed by a Big Brother attitude on the part of the police.
"Since 1997 I have been attempting to prepare some kind of document with respect to all this for wider publication," he wrote. "My feeling is that if Internet service providers (ISPs) can be enlisted by the police and other authorities to 'snoop' and provide information about customers downloading illegal pornography, they could just as easily filter search terms -- or better yet, practice combinations of such search terms on a regular basis and then block specific site names. Many ISPs do such work. It is part of their regular housekeeping. But pedophilic pornographers are fearless criminals. Banned sites are replicated, renamed and replaced in days."
Now the question is: Do we really know what goes on behind blue eyes? Has Pete Townshend, a rock legend, been maligned in a rush to judgement by an overeager Scotland Yard? Did he ominously predict his own fate? Or is there a kernel of truth to the allegations? For all of that, we will have to wait and see.
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| gypsymofo60 |
quote:
sasca wrote:
Whether or not he is a hero, he is still worthy of compassion. Those children aren't heroes of mine, yet they are still worthy of my compassion.
An observation: people who are happy to joke about murder are not happy to joke about sexual crimes. Which doesn't seem reasonable. Isn't the excessive delicacy with which we handle such matters both a cause of crime (through the repression which leads to an inability to deal with sexual matters healthily) and an unwitting way of heightening the hurt caused by the crime (by increasing the unwarranted feelings of shame)?
[Edited by sasca]
Whose murder are we talking about? And making light of a repugnant act, or acts does not necessarily put one in league with such perpertrators. |
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| sasca |
quote:
gypsymofo60 wrote:
Whose murder are we talking about? And making light of a repugnant act, or acts does not necessarily put one in league with such perpertrators.
Oh, I agree.
And I meant people in general seem far less comfortable with joking about sexual violence than other forms of violence. On this forum I only seem to remember jokes about Brian´s possible murder.
Another point - people are much more careful when they are emotionally involved. They take far less care of other's feelings. Some who are disgusted with jokes about Pete or Joe happily joked when I posted a message that Taher Boukhzar had died. |
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