Originally posted by: Harvey
Jacko is Whacko! :|
No middle age guy with any functional brain cells can justify a passion for sleeping naked with young boys, spiking 'em with booze ans showing them homoerotic porn, let alone try to convince the rest of the planet that it's strictly innocent. :roll:
The guy's just freaking sick, and he needs to be kept away from kids.
Where do you get any of THAT! Accusations do not make for reality.
MJ has got some SERIOUS mental health problems, but prsonally I think he's probably innocent of these charges. He's put himself in a precarious position by a) being filthy rich, and b) associating with kids with maipulative and unscrupulous parents. Hell you take a risk associating with kids no matter who you are these days. When it comes to accusations like that it's generally guilty until proven innocent, and adolescents aren't immune to being manipulative, greedy, and cruel.
Jackson is bizzare and kind of "out there", but he's not stupid. And if he REALLY wanted to sleep with 12 year old boys, he (of anyone) could gain citizenship in the numerous countries where the age of consent is that low. He wouldn't be doing stuff in the very community where the heat was on him, with a prosecutor that has been pining after taking him down for years!
The whole thing just doesn't add up, and this family has a proven history of working over people/entities with money, including flat out lying, for financial gain. Their credibility is shot. I haven't heard all the testimony and such, but from what I know about this case, I would not be able to vote guilty if I were on the jury.
Besides, if he's convicted how can we ever enjoy his great classics.
If it *DID* happen, and he's exonerated? Well, then the moral of the story is DON'T lie and manipulate others for money, lest a jury not believe you when something really DOES happen that could net you a crap load of money.