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MadameMarque -> RE: Michael Jackson taken to the hospital (6/26/2009 12:27:35 AM)
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ORIGINAL: mdr080480
Never liked his music, or him. Thought he was a waste of human life and many a time thought about killing myself rather than suffer through any of his music. But I figured he'd kill himself, or die before I ever was forced to listen to any of his music.
Not glad he's dead, but not sad either. Just another one bit the dust.
How pitiful. You call someone a waste of life and piss on him in his grave, because you don't care for his music. Happy to make light of his life and early death, while he leaves three young children behind, and other loved ones. Pitiful you suppose you're the one to judge someone worthy to live.
To those who are pleased to disrespect Michael Jackson and flaunt their judgment of him, even on the day of his death, I realize you're anxious to indulge yourselves, and some of you think you're pretty witty.
I wish you'd just keep quiet. I wish you were able to conceive of a celebrity as a real live person. Michael Jackson worked very hard, seemingly at the expense of his childhood and a normal personal life. He brought many people joy. He did a lot of charitable work. He made a positive difference, while entertaining.
It is a tragedy what happened to him, his being publicly disgraced and reviled regarding unproven accusations that are almost impossible to disprove. Should a man's life have been ruined, just because you "think" he "probably" did it? You can't imagine a reason he might have been falsely accused?
Money, perhaps? Michael Jackson had a lot of money, was very high profile, and let many children and their families into his personal circle. Do you not think it possible that the family of the first boy saw a vulnerability they could exploit? And that the second boy's family came back to the well? I would never blame children, themselves, if they were pressured or confused into saying what adults wanted them to say. The children are victims in that case, too. You don't think it's possible, even likely, that could happen? People do even worse all the time, for a lot less money.
And the other witnesses against Michael Jackson, regarding the first accusation, why would they lie? Money, perhaps? How much do you think tabloids and TV shows pay for a story that goes, "I never saw him do anything. He's a nice guy." - ? How much for a story where you saw him do something suspicious? And one where he did something bad? When the first accusation was made and there was a media frenzy, a couple who did domestic work in his household, told one publication, for which they were paid a bit of money, that they once saw his hand on a boy's leg. By the time they were paid 10 times as much, in another publication, the hand was inside the boy's pants. What would that couple have done, if they'd been called to testify? Would they have risked being sued for slander, for their exaggerated story, by telling the tamer version in court? Weren't they kind of stuck with the worst version of the story, once they told it publickly and sold it? That is how the media manufactures false testimony.
So, if it's you, and you are accused of sexually abusing a child, and you didn't do it but everyone is talking about it, everyone is beginning to have their doubts about you - they always thought you were weird, anyway, and they're searching your house, they're taking statements from everyone you know, the court of public opinion has you convicted: will you let it go to trial, confident that the justice system will do its job and find you innocent? Or will you pay the family off?
And what if it didn't matter that you were found innocent, because your name had already been dirtied by the very accusation, itself? There'll always be that doubt about you, now. Your name and this crime of which you're accused, will go together in people's minds.
If that happened to you, then no matter how much good you did or how hard you tried, at the time of your death, tragically and inevitably, people would be talking about this, the crime that highly motivated prosecutors in two cases, talking to dozens and dozens of witnesses, including other children, could never prove you committed.
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