The Smoking Gun reposts A Different Bomb as Document Of The Day

[Brian Cady <brianinatlanta2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

Go to:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/petetownshend1.html

Their intro:
MAY 7--After a four-month investigation, London police
today cleared Pete Townshend of kiddie porn charges.
But the rock star will still spend five years on a
U.K. register of sex offenders because the co-founder
of The Who visited a web site containing child porn
images. Townshend was nabbed in January on suspicion
of possessing indecent images of children, though no
such photos were found following a search of his home
and computer. At the time of his arrest, Townshend
admitted using his credit card to visit a web site
offering child porn, but told cops he was just
conducting research. Along with being placed on the
sex offender registry, the performer had to submit a
DNA sample to police and have his fingerprints and mug
shot taken. As part of his "research project,"
Townshend drafted the below six-page treatise on the
easy availability of child pornography on the
Internet. So easy, in fact, that Townshend, 57, wrote
that he accidentally discovered a photo of a
two-year-old boy being raped when he typed the words
"Russia," "orphanages," and "boys" into a search
engine. Townshend claimed that he reached for his
telephone and "intended to call the police and take
them through the process I had stumbled upon--and
bring the pornographers involved to [jail]," but that
he decided not to contact authorities after discussing
the issue with an attorney. Townshend's paper, which
he once posted on his official web site, also notes
that the "pathway to 'free' paedophilic imagery is--as
it were--laid out like a free line of cocaine at a
decadent cocktail party: only the strong willed or
terminally uncurious can resist." In the January 2002
porn treatise, Townshend notes that since 1997 he has
been working on "some kind of document" relating to
Internet porn, but that he feared being arrested by
police who were on a "witch hunt" to catch anyone who
visited illicit web pages: "Those vigilantes who
research these pathways open themselves up to internet
'snoops.'" (6 pages) 


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-Brian in Atlanta
The Who This Month!
http://www.thewhothismonth.com

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