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RE: !!!Fox-Fair and Balanced
This is great and I think we owe thanks to one person who has worked
tirelessly since the news broke, our own Keets.
Good job, Lela. Rock on.
Rick in Maine
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Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:05 AM
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Subject: !!!Fox-Fair and Balanced
It looks like they heard us!!! Thanks to all who contacted Fox News
Channel.
Maybe we really can get the word out!!!
Jo
This is on their website.
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 b and since deleted b 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,B 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 b
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 b one was
eradicating child abuse and pedophilia. His other goal was to argueB 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 termsB -- 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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