Jose Lambiet of the PALM BEACH POST reports:
The homes and schools close to Dolphins Stadium are receiving “sex offender advisory” postcards this week warning residents to watch out for The Who’s Pete Townshend, who’ll be performing at halftime of Super Bowl XLIV.
By next week, 1,500 homes will have received the postcard sent by the Brevard County-based Protect Our Children. The non-profit acts as a community watchdog when it comes to sex offenders and sends similar cards to Melbourne residents where known pedophiles live.
Earlier I reported that the 63-year-old guitarist had previously registered as a sex offender in England after admitting to visiting a kiddie porn website.
Child abuse organizations have also petitioned the NFL to cancel The Who’s appearance at Super Bowl halftime and asked U.S. Immigration officials to bar Townshend’s entry into the country.
“Normally, we don’t do anything outside of Brevard County, but Pete Townshend admitted to visiting websites with child pornography,” said Protect Our Children’s Kevin Gillick. “As far as we’re concerned, Pete Townshend could be dangerous for the community. No one who isn’t interested in child sex visits porn sites. And he was on his country’s sex offenders list. Why is he in what amounts to a family event?”
No word yet if Townshend has arrived. Rehearsals at the stadium are scheduled for next week. The game, which pits the Indianapolis Colts to the New Orleans Saints, is Feb. 7.
Really makes you wonder if the NFL vetted Townshend’s background before the show was booked. For an appearance of this magnitude, you would think they could’ve found a band that didn’t have this baggage.
10:52 am on January 28th, 2010
Tempest in a teacup.
11:00 am on January 28th, 2010
do they send these cards to Denny’s employees when Tiger is in town?
11:28 am on January 28th, 2010
Vetted? The man was honored by the Kennedy Center last year and sat next to the Republican President.
Go haunt Roman Polanski, USPOC.
2:51 pm on January 28th, 2010
Obvious is the hyper knee jerk actions of the Brevard County POC group. They do not define what a pedophile really is. Actually, Townshend should sue them.
2:56 pm on January 28th, 2010
Yes, because watching men bash each other violently is a wholesome “family event.”
3:27 pm on January 28th, 2010
Perhaps the NFL didn’t care because he was cleared of the charges
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/petetownshend1.html
4:08 pm on January 28th, 2010
Joshua,
Which is why Townshend agreed to register as a sex offender, because he wasn’t guilty of anything.
5:43 pm on January 28th, 2010
I’m glad to read some support for Mr. Townshend here. That he was literally cleared of all charges doesn’t seem to matter to some zealots. And when you consider the salacious “news” stories from celebrities all over the world, Townshend is perhaps the ONLY international celeb ever officially “cleared” of anything that I know of. Go Pete and The Who!
2:07 pm on January 29th, 2010
They don’t make you register for five years, if you are cleared of all charges. Likely, he plead to some lesser charge.
2:16 pm on January 29th, 2010
He had to register because he was cautioned for using a credit card to access a site that may have had some illegal ads on it. A very minor matter that too people are making way too much of IMO.