Stormbringer wrote:Who Guitarist Arrest on Child Porn Charges
So what do you think? Is he a child pornographer? An idiot researcher? Does it matter?
To my way of thinking even if his excuse is genuine, and I doubt it is, then he still bought kiddie porn. For that he deserves to spend a good long time in prison. Purchasing kiddie porn is and always should be illegal. If that was valid research there are much better, and legal, ways to conduct it. I think in a likelyhood he is a pedophile and thought he could get away with it.
Sadly, thank to his excuse and his celebrity status he'll probably get away with it. It's fucking pathetic that a star can ecen after a crime that horrendous.
The thing is, even if he is absolutely inoccent he will still be catching crap about this for the rest of his life. Once accusations or rumors hit the general public stuff like that always turns into a ton of jokes on late night tv and after awhile people believe it whether it is true or not.
I'd give some examples but the only ones I can think of Michael Jackson (likely is a child molester) OJ Simpson (likely is a murder) don't exactly prove my point. I guess the only one I can think of right now is Richard Geare and that whole gerbil thing.
In some cases I really wonder if celebrities get off from stuff the rest of us wouldn't or if stuff we wouldn't have any problems with is blown all out of proprotion because they are celebrities? It seems to work both ways sometimes.
Back on Pete Townsend, considering how absolutely obsessed most Western societies are about protecting children he was really stupid to be doing research in a way that would bring child porn into his home or put it on his computer. These days if you have children you have to be careful about taking nude pictures of them because what may seem totally innocent to you may be reported to the authorites. So if he was going to do research on that suject (why??? his childhood?) he should have used his handy dandy celebrity clout and gotten an interview with the legal authorities who track this stuff and with people who help the children deal with the aftermath. So you are right that he certainly deserves some swift kick in the ass for being such a dumbass.
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