See what I mean about once accused, always labled - regardless of guilt or innocence?
I kind of stayed away from my thoughts on his court cases, but fuck it, here's my tuppence....
Do I think Michael Jackson fiddled with young kids to gain sexual gratification? No, I do not.
Do I think Micheal Jackson put himself in comprimising situations with young kids? I am not 100% sure.
The problem is that Micheal isn't right in the head. His upbringing started it off, his deprived childhood, the abuse. The sudden launch into superstardom didn't help. He IS clearly not all there.
Which is why I don't think he was wrong when he said he thought it okay to sleep in the same bed as young children. It would be wrong if a "normal" thirty/forty year old man did, but I don't think that can be applied to Jackson. I personally don't think he possesses it in him to maliciously abuse a child. Certianly not in the calculating and wrong way a peadophile would. I honestly don't think Micheal is a peadophile - like Gary Glitter is.
Jackson doesn't posess the brain ability to think like that. Nobody would have a problem with two young boys sleeping in the same bed, and not even 10yrs ago no-one would have a problem with two young boys sharing a bath together! Why? Because kids minds don't work like adults do. Kids don't have the knowledge to be sexually deviant.
I personally think Micheals mind works the same way. Through his going slightly insane, I personally think that he DOES think it's okay to sleep in the same bed as a 10yr old boy - in exactly the same way the 10yr old boy thinks it's okay!
Unless of course MJ is the worlds greatest actor and has fooled the entire world into beliveing he is mentally unstable and he is a child at heart etc, when in fact he is scarily calculating and has engineerd the whole thing in order to sexually abuse kids in a malicious manner. But I don't think that to be true.......
Now I am not saying it is right, and it's okay for him to do as he did, but I don't agree that sexually abused kids for his own sexual gratification.
If a normal 40yr old man exposed himself in public he would be arrested and tried. If a mentally unstable 40yr old man did the same thing he wouldn't be - he'd be let off due to his instability. "Aw, he's not right in the head, so it's not his fault - he didn't do it to be nasty"
Thats how I think of the MJ situations.
I also belive that the parents of the kids involved in this also know this, and that they are the evil ones for putting their kids through all the court cases, just to get a name for themselves and hopefully a bit of money. Anyone who can do that to their own child is themselves as bad as a peadophile - maybe worse as they are whoring out their own child to the media for money.....
Now I am not an MJ fan as such. I was once, not so anymore. I have a great deal of respect for the achievements he made with his music, I have HUGE respect for him as an artist and entertainer, and I have a lot of repsect for him as a producer and businessman. I appreciate some of his music still today, and think it is a CRYING SHAME he has ended up the way he is now, and where he is now.
My thoughts.....