Noncewatch

["L. Bird" <pkeets@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ha.  Here's an interesting development on the Noncewatch site.  They've 
posted an article with a portion of Pete statement and some comments.  
Although the last comment is still snotty, the text seems nicely balanced.  
If I read rightist lit correctly, they've admitted here that their previous 
posts about Pete were in error.

Whoohooo.  Victory is ours.      ;)


keets


http://www.redwatch.net/noncewatch/celebrity.html

> Pete Townsend to be Placed on Sex Offender Registry

Pete Townsend, lead guitarist for the Who, has resolved his legal 
difficulties arising from his arrest on child porn charges this past 
January. He will receive a "caution" and be listed in the sex offender 
registry for five years.

British authorities concede Townsend cooperated in the investigation against 
him, and that he did not download any material from the website he accessed. 
Townsend said he accessed the site while doing research--he believes he was 
sexually abused as a child.

"I accept that I was wrong to access this site, and that by doing so, I 
broke the law, and I have accepted the caution that the police have given 
me," Townshend said in a statement.

We don't see the value to labeling Townsend a sex offender. But it's better 
than facing criminal charges and jail, so we certainly understood why he 
agreed to it.

Five years on the Sex Offender Registry Board is nothing! What he actually 
has is a lifetime left of a reputation for checking out child porn. Sick 
bastard.

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