Townshend speaks about new "Who" album and tour..

[Nitro Express]

That sicko lost me as a fan when he got caught looking at kiddie porn. Doing research, give me a fucking break Pete! You and Gary Glitter deserve to have waste from Chernobyl rubbed all over your balls.

[Jack68]

Originally posted by Nitro Express
That sicko lost me as a fan when he got caught looking at kiddie porn. Doing research, give me a fucking break Pete! You and Gary Glitter deserve to have waste from Chernobyl rubbed all over your balls.

Surprised it took this long to come up.I dont believe it for a second but i also cannot defend it in any way.I know research.. Stupid motherfucker,he should get his balls busted for that.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Looking forward to it.

[guwapo_rocker]

The WHO ceased to exist for me after their "Farewell Concert"

in Toronto on December 17, 1982.

They invented the farewell tour scam!!

[Seshmeister]

Originally posted by Jack68
Surprised it took this long to come up.I dont believe it for a second but i also cannot defend it in any way.I know research.. Stupid motherfucker,he should get his balls busted for that.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=179859&in_page_id=1773

Townshend on sex register

Rock guitarist Pete Townshend was cautioned by police today over child porn offences.
But Scotland Yard said The Who star would be placed on the sex offenders' register for five years.

Townshend, 57, was arrested in January as part of the Operation Ore investigation into accessing child porn on the Internet.


The rock legend admitted using his credit card to access images but said they were for "research" for a book he was writing.

He received an official police caution today for "accessing a web site containing child abuse images" after the investigation found he was not in possession of any downloaded images of child abuse.

It had been widely reported in recent months that Townshend would be cautioned rather than charged.

Sex offenders' register

Scotland Yard said in a statement: "At 12pm today at Kingston police station, the musician Pete Townshend was formally cautioned for accessing a web site containing child abuse images in 1999.

"After four months of investigation by officers from Scotland Yard's child protection group, it was established that Mr Townshend was not in possession of any downloaded child abuse images.

"He has fully co-operated with the investigation.

"As a routine part of the cautioning process fingerprints, a photograph and a DNA sample will be taken, additionally in these cases, the person concerned will be entered on the sex offenders' register for a period of five years."

Police stressed that access and payment for child abuse images was an offence.

"Inciting others to distribute these images leads to young children being seriously sexually assaulted to meet the growing demands of the Internet customer.

"It is not a defence to access these images for research or out of curiosity."

Scotland Yard added that any member of the public accidentally discovering images of child abuse should inform the authorities.

In a statement released today, Townshend admitted that he was wrong to access the website.

But he insisted police had "unconditionally accepted" his explanation that he was looking at the site as research for his "campaign" against child pornography.

He said: "From the very beginning, I acknowledged that I did access this site and that I had given the police full access to all of my computers.

"As I made clear at the outset, I accessed the site because of my concerns at the shocking material readily available on the Internet to children as well as adults, and as part of my research toward the campaign I had been putting together since 1995 to counter damage done by all kinds of pornography on the internet, but especially any involving child abuse," he said.

"The police have unconditionally accepted that these were my motives in looking at this site and that there was no other nefarious purpose, and as a result they have decided not to charge me.

"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 refused to speak to reporters at his luxury home on Richmond Hill in south west London today.

A member of his staff handed out the brief statement from the star.

[Seshmeister]

Has he been to the States since 2003?

I would have thought he could have visa problems...

[FORD]

Originally posted by Seshmeister
Has he been to the States since 2003?

I would have thought he could have visa problems...

Maybe he's on the BCE's "No Fly List" (like Cat Stevens) and doesn't know it yet?

[Jack68]

Originally posted by Seshmeister
Has he been to the States since 2003?

I would have thought he could have visa problems...

Yes in 2004,The OO played Boston,NYC and i think hawaii.They also played japan ,austrailia.I dont think it was a problem at all for him.I could be wrong...