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Langham - looks a little sus to me

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    Langham - looks a little sus to me

    Child p0rn as research? Do me a favour. Still, innocent until proven guilty and all that.
    "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


    Thomas Jefferson

    #2
    didn't he say something about needing to feel superior to people who 'did that kind of thing'.....

    ...special wing here he comes

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      #3
      Dodn't Pete Townsend say something about 'research' and get off?
      "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon Musk

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        #4
        Townshend

        That, and the small detail that he wasn't actually in possession of any illegal images.

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          #5
          There is no reason whatsoever to download child pornography as research for a TV show.
          Research would mean the viewing of these sites and the study of the morals of the sexual sadists that use them, and that is what they are "sexual sadists" preying on defenceless children.
          I have an even lower opinion of these perverts than I do of Drug dealers.
          In the case of drug dealers and peodophiles, I believe that a death sentence should be invoked.

          My apologies for overstepping the mark in my previous post SP but my feelings on this matter sometimes overwhelm my sense of proportion.
          Last edited by Diver; 24 July 2007, 20:44.
          Confusion is a natural state of being

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            #6
            Kiddie porn is the new witchcraft. An excellent method to discredit someone.

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              #7
              Mob rule a go-go

              I bet he weighs the same as a swan.

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                #8
                Hmm, downloading and viewing seems a bit suspect for "research".

                However, if he is going to claim "method acting", whereby one has to fully immerse oneself in the subject matter, he *may* get off on a technicality.

                In the Stanislavski System the actor analyses deeply the motivations and emotions of the character in order to personify him or her with psychological realism and emotional authenticity. However, using the Method, an actor will recall emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed.

                I think it's reasonable that an actor *may* want to research explicit material for a role. However, in such sensitive cases, there must be a proper way of researching such information without downloading it on the sly..unless he was embarassed ofc.

                Personally, if I was an actor and had a role of this calibre, it would be completely stupid and illegal to approach the research the way he did.

                A better route would be to spend x months with a Clinical Psychologist who specialsies in such people, and legally talk to him about their motivations and personae. Even have the shrink arrange some 1-2-1's with the actor and the criminal. Read some case notes, books, whatever.

                But download kiddie porn ? What on earth was he thinking if he is innocent.
                And if he's not..well, another one bites the dust.
                Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

                C.S. Lewis

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                  #9
                  If he wanted to view such images as "Research", then he could have approached the Police and asked if he could view some of the siezed material they have.

                  With Paul Whitehouse stating that he knew nothing about this research, Chris is on a real sticky wicket.
                  Do you think people who pack the confectionary into boxes at fudge making factories tell people what they do for a living?

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                    #10
                    Without hearing the full evidence its hard to tell. but on the surface seems very suspect.

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