Alex, one could argue that if Jackson HAD been convicted, it was a frame-up.
I can't help thinking you would be one of those crying, "frame-up!"
He hung one of his kids out over a balcony in Germany. He said he liked to snuggle with the boys in an interview. He wore make up to look like a girl, but he was 50 years old.
The parents who allowed their underage children to go for unsupervised sleepovers at this freak's "Neverland"(!!) mansion were either paedophiles themselves or dumber than a bag of hammers.
Defending Jackson against being a paedophile is like defending [sic]Madonna against being a whore. No, she wasn't convicted..
Anyway, Alex, you are skating on very thin ice with your fascination by Jackson. Civil Laws are not necessarily God's laws, are they?
And I can't help thinking that you would be one of those crying "Pedophile" to every priest that got accused of molesting boys. There were some innocent priests who were accused of this crime by enemies of the Church, by those who had a gripe with the priest, or by those seeking monetary gain.
If Jackson had been found guilty, then I would believe he was a pedophile because I would trust that there was enough evidence against him to come to that conclusion. The jurors spend weeks listening to testimonies and evidence and came up with not guilty verdict. They could have easily come out with a hung jury, which means that they were unsure if he did molest or not. But no, they came out with "not guilty". I think they know better than you considering that they had all the evidence and you don't.
So he hung his kid out the balcony. The media made a bigger deal of it than it actually was - portraying him as a bad father who purposely put his child in danger. When I first heard the news and saw all the hoopla over it, I thought they were making a bigger deal of it than it actually was. How many times have I seen fathers playfully toss their child (the same age as MJ's was) up in the air and catch them. I always thought that was putting the child in danger because the father could easily fail to catch the child. Do people make a big deal of that when we see it. Just because Michael did something stupid in the spur of the moment over his excitement to show his kid to the fans, it does not mean he is a bad father or even a child molester. How many times have any of us done something stupid on the spur of the moment and then later realized that it was a dangerous thing to do. I for one could imagine myself doing what MJ did. A few years ago, I almost killed my grandmother when I tried to put on a sock on her leg as she was still standing up. She lost her balance and fell on her back and head on the marble floor- ended up having internal bleeding and and broken rib. When the doctor in the emergency room asked me how she had fallen and I told him what I had done, he looked at me with a disgust look in his face and sneeringyly said, "How could you put a sock on her while she was standing. He looked at me like a was a Grandmother abuser. Then when he got on the phone with another doctor to get advice, I heard him tell the doctor, "Can you believe this girl put a sock her her granmother while she was standing" and he did one of those laughs that express mockery and disgust. He saw me as a bad grandchild who purposely put my grandmother in danger.
As for liking to snuggle in the boys, that does not mean that he is a pedophile. He felt close to children because they were the only ones who weren't around him to get something from him. He liked to be around children, since he got robbed of his childhood, he was reliving it as an adult. I can understand that. When I was a child, I longed for a certain toy so bad and wanted it throughout my childhood. But my parents never got me the toy. Now as an adult, I sometimes wish I could be a child again so I could play with the toy. Sometimes what we never have as a child that we want so bad, we grow up still wanting it. So I can understand why Michael who never had a childhood would want to relive it now.
If MJ's reason for wearing make-up was to look like a girl, then how come he wore it in his "Beat It" video where he's a tough gang member fighting other gang members. And all his other videos where he's wearing the make-up showed him pursing a female. The make-up he wore in the videos was the same make-up he wore in real life. Now, Boy George, on the other hand, he wore it to look like a girl. Jon Bon Jovi wears make-up in real life. A lot of rockers do - eye masacara and eyeliner, foundation. Not that I'm saying it's Ok. But it doesn't mean that you a man wants to be a girl. MJ could have worn it for the same reason rockers do or he could have worn it to hide his scars and disfigurement from his surgeries gone wrong.
Why are you even bringing up his balcony episode and his make-up, anyway? What does that prove about him being a child molester?
No, defending Jackson being a pedophile is not like defending Madonna against being a whore. We all know Madonna is a whore because she has publicized her whoreness. In her videos, in her book, in her reality TV show, in public for the whole world to see. So, we have undisputed evidence in abundance that Madonna is a whore because she has made it public to us all throughout her career. But we don't have undisputed proof at all that MJ molested a child. If we did, then the jurors would certainly have found him guilty.
No, Elizabeth, you are skating on thin ice by commiting the sin of rash judgement. Rash judgment is when we
go beyond the evidence available to judge the culpability of the action, attribute evil motives, and decide against the character or moral integrity of the person whose conduct we observed. You are labeling a man as a pedophile based on 2 unproven accusations and the media's sensationalism. It is unChristianly behavior to call someone a pedophile when you don't even have all the facts or evidence. If MJ is actually innocent, then you are also guilty of the sin of calumny since you are contributing to the harm of his reputation. Civil law says "a man is innocent until
proven guilty". God's Laws says, " You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor" (The Eighth Commandment forbids rash judgement, calumny, and detraction). You are following neither the civil law nor God's Law.
I do not have a fascination with MJ. Never even used to listen to his songs (except I do like 2 childhood songs of his I listen to rarely whenever I happen to come across them on the radio). When I would catch a glimpse of his photo standing in the checkout line, I would, however, feel very sorry for him since he led such a lonely existence with no friends to confide in and lean on to make life bareable and only people around him who were out to get something. He's a person to feel sad for not to be hated.
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