I don't buy Townshend's excuses for the simple reason that he gave one excuse to the cops at the time, that he was part of a campaign against such websites. But a decade later he said that it was an attempt to expose the banking sector knowingly making money from such activities. Absolute bollocks.
@@kieranhardy581 Because they process the credit card transactions online. He's got a point. But I don't know. You would think you would be worried the police would come after you.
@@williamneuzil7403 Maybe not officially, but he's an associate. It's all Khazarian Mafia. Once you understand that, then you'll figure out what Russia vs. Ukraine is really about. We are actually in a World War right now... ever since Trump won. The Cabal knew he was recruited to take them down. The vax is a bioweapon and being used as leverage on the population to get the good guys to submit. The vax is made in Ukraine. Starting to make sense?
@@williamneuzil7403 How? He's not a Khazarian or from Israel. You want me to believe Biden isn't the one destroying the country? How much is gas where you live?
Townshend paid some money to a CP website for "membership" which is wonderful, I hope his research went far in nobly educating the public. What a hero.
@@johngilliam6764 Most people who were sexually abused do the same thing to others that happened to them.Also it's very common for famous rock stars to sexually prefer under age individuals,they know they can get away with it.
Radical Industries Even if what you said were true, it wouldn't mean anything. Wikipedia is written, edited etc by users. So _you_ could go to Pete Townshend's wiki entry and add the arrest. No need, however, because the arrest _is_ included in his wiki entry: _Besides his arrest for assaulting a police officer in 1967 and issues with destruction of property, Townshend was cautioned by British police as part of Operation Ore, a major investigation on child pornography conducted in 2002-2003. Townshend was placed on the sex offenders register for five years in 2003 after admitting he had used his credit card to access a child porn website_
Youve got that rolling stones tongue image.That was Bill Wyman with that 13 year old before he married her but old Bill was OK despite going with a 13 year old
12:42 Pete notified the authorities that he was going to enter the site and at first they denied Pete's claim that he was going to enter the site, but then admitted he did notify them before using the credit card, which is something he did let them know and that is what the whole problem was all about. That was Pete's mistake by rushing in and being reckless. Gary Glitter wasn't enough, so they tried to use Pete as an example and they ultimately failed miserably. His REAL friends, fans and family stuck by his side and that's how he persevered. If you had actually followed the case, you would have known this.
I love it when people with a novels worth of knowledge on the subject are so deep into it they lose sight of the very basic surface optics. Regardless of what you know about the case, you can't deny the surface optics are really, really bad.
@@TheeGlocktopus Of course, it's bad and what Pete did was wrong regardless of his intentions and what he was trying to do, he rushed into it and went about it the wrong way, but the situation was turned into a with hunt. I haven't lost sight in anything, otherwise I would only have a novelties worth of information. The opposition actually came out and confessed that they lied about Pete informing the authorities that he was entering the site. Subsequently, the charges were dropped, but as punishment, Pete was registered as a sex offender making it impossible for him to be knighted as "Sir".
The investigation closed in 2003 with the police finding zero images downloaded on his computer, and that they couldn’t find any child porn on the website he accessed.
Whoever these unknown would-be radio presenters are, they say several times that they're ill-informed, and haven't bothered to ascertain what happened next, etc.They're laughing all the way through this clip, they're _not_ distressed by the abuse of children. Grim stuff.
Wait. Isn’t the “i’m Doing research” line the most common excuse a pedophile makes to authorities? At least most pedophiles have the sense to get a job as a principal, substitute teacher or child therapist; giving that excuse some credence. Why didn’t this guy feel a need to explain why he was clandestinely researching kiddie porn?
@T Collier No he isnt,he`s a talented musician,but because of these incidents where he was proved innocent anyway,his character is somewhat stained,but only by illiterate people with trailer trash brains.
@@tcollier5460 Triggered? Well its jumping on the bandwagon of other peoples ignorant remarks that does annoy.Like i said,if you read the book,you`ll understand that Townsend isnt and never was a voyeur of child porn.Its funny you mention OJ Simpson,from what i remember he never defiled any children,Micheal Jackson did and he got OJ Simpsons lawyers or what it seemed like to get him off conviction!!
The thing watching this now is that Ant is actually much more likely to end up in that same situation Pete Townsend was in than you would have thought at the time
@@exterminateparasites3185 I'd argue he's paying for it by being reduced to being a fringe figure with a failing network full of nobodies and being a guest at AFPAC4 along with a bunch of fringe nobodies who would have been beneath him 10-15 years ago
@@ThaSlymes hes not wrong. simmer down opie hater, nobody cares about your unique and special hot take about the OPster. look. someone has to steer the ship , okay? ant ios pretty gross, without opie to beat up he fell into an egotistical slump of terribel content, and now he looks liek a washed up veitnam vet addeplated on drugs
Not even mentioned Micheal Jackson who abused several kids and got away with it.Oh,he was a kid himself,oh he was a sweet and charitable man.Bollocks.If he wanted to help kids he wouldnt have had them around him he would have made donations to kids charities but him saying he was healing kids was just like another Jimmy Saville type cover.
Nobody wants to see kids buggered. If they can ever prove Pete did that crime then throw the book at him, just like any poor slob. But the amount of resources and fine-tooth combing it takes to ferret out online 'purchasers' of dubious materials, imo could be better spent chasing down violent criminals, drug and robbery rings and potential terorists. Whether they put ol' Pete through the ringer about whatever they surmise here, the fact remains these websites will continue to get patronage regardless.
There is. He used a credit card to try and buy it. It’s one thing to stumble on it and immediately close the window and another to put in your credit card info.
Am I the only person actually believes Pete's story?.. they proved he never accessed the site.. just paid to enter then immediately retracted his payment.. without ever entering the site
Yeah.He contacted police before he went to download the child filth but immediately cancelled because the police and the wider population arent interested in credit card companies financing child porn,they only want to get the card users.Thats why there was nothing on his computers but he was put on the sex offenders registar for the attempt to download the child porn without actually completing it which of course he wasnt interested in doing.
@@jaydell4039 There was an accidental download that happpened some 5 years before about 1998 when he wanted to contact a russian orphanage to get the address do a charity gig so he googled childrens russian orphanages but it came up with vile child abuse images which completely shocked him and he logged off.It was picked up by the FBI later on but it was a totall accident.
@@MrEvanNoyes He wasnt paying to watch any child porn because he immediately cancelled the download hence there was no child porn images on his computers.
I tend to believe him, because my reasoning for going on Kaotic is EXACTLY the same as what he said about wanting to know what was really going on in the world. In my case, I think it was in response to my making a comment about how these extremely close and unlikely near misses occurring were a massive challenge to atheism, with someone responding by claiming that there are many instances in which people don't make it. It turns out, though, that 99% of the horrific things that occur do so in third world countries where they don't give a shit about human life, that being the cause of most of it.
are you actually trying to equate atheism with atrocity? you're actually going to sit there, weigh religion vs. the non-religious, and say that the latter is responsible for the worst suffering in human existence? THIS is why you people are a problem.
No I didn't say that, you fucking presumptuous shitbag with no comprehension skills. Furthermore, it is a psychopathic subsect of atheists and misotheists who are responsible for literally all wrongful suffering and death in human history, because they are the ones responsible for the existence of this world system which is totally contrary to natural human life in the natural human habitat. In fact, they blatantly exalt their psychopathy as the result of "semi-divine heritage" from "Sama'el". They also claim they have within them "divine sparks" that are "trapped in matter" by the "evil false god" Who created the universe, because that's precisely what the psychopath's infinitely high self-appraisal and disregard for any and everything and everybody else would lead it to think, because they believe they're infinitely important and should be all powerful and yet, the reality is they're stuck in human bodies and fully at the mercy of nature. That's why they created the world system in which we exist; to exploit the human cattle majority for the sake of "progressing" to the point where they can "conquer nature" and make themselves immortal by way of transhumanism.
i got about four sentences in before you literally said atheists are responsible for all the horrible things in the world. the rest i didn't bother reading. you people are way too far gone. get some help. quick.
Dopie and prat Anthony if they bothered to learn how to read they`d look at Townsends autobiog and look at the index pages where it mentions these incidents. When i first saw Townsend being arrested for this i thought oh no not him aswell.I admit i was having difficulty myself believing Townsend but when i read about this in his book there did seem a logical reason for it and i agree that this whole episode was unfortunate.He is still innnocent,always was.
@@willissudweeks1050 I agree what Townsend did was technically a crime but he still never downloaded any actual images.Townsend was put on the sex offenders register for the attempt but Townsend is no paedophile and never was.
"What do you learn by doing research?" - Opie Hughes Almost as stupid as, "If I die, that's my right!" once said by a guy who probably died from ebola because he ate dodgy bushmeat. And thanks to that guys research, I know not to eat chimp.
When I was in my early 30's I worked with a 16 or 17 year old chick who said she wanted to get into modeling and asked for my opinion on some pictures. I thought it was gonna be some clothes I didn't give a shit about. Instead she pulled out a camera and started showing me full nudes. Nothing left to the imagination. I was like "whoa, I'm a grown man, what are ya trying to do to me here?!?" She still wanted input though, I measured my response carefully. Apparently she stuck with it, another coworker from the time follows one of her social media accounts, she's now an of-age "traveling model," lots of pictures of her tied up and whatnot, he linked a few to me. Makes sense, I remember her talking about having a really strange relationship with her father.
here is the sad point,/ painful truth ...people like and enjoy the who much like micheal jackson.......so.....everyone looks the other way because it fucks up THERE entertainment ....yuck !!!!
But most people who like Michael Jackson are schizophrenic. Either him, Rihanna or Lana Del Rey are a red flag. I met 2 guys who believed they had a romantic connection to Rihanna and a secret relationship with her telepathically.
Well most saw and still see Jackson as someone who was gifted,charitable and always helping the needy.He was that,so was Jimmy Saville.If Townsend was put in court to face a charge of viewing childporn it would have been thrown out through lack of evidence,he chose not to attend court when he was put on the sex offenders registar.Townsend is and always was innocent.
well if there's one thing O and A didnt steal form STermn, it';s his sense of humor. bc holy christ that guy has never been funny in his entire career.
