Michael Jackson.. sigh!

[BigV]

Originally Posted by richlevy

Well, I was able to console a coworker. I told him for every guilty man who is found innocent in California, two innocent men are found guilty in Texas, so we are still a law-and-order country.

I used to think you were all serious and stuff, richlevy. But I can see now that you're just really really funny.

[Troubleshooter]

Which doesn't make his statement untrue...

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

Which doesn't make his statement untrue...

EXactly my point. Thank you.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Well,I'm not buying MJ's music anymore.
At least I've still got Cat Stevens.

[Sun_Sparkz]

I will still enjoy his music. Ive never been a huge fan, and I think he is a stupid freak but i dont think he would intentionally hurt anybody or molest them.


I personally dont believe he is gay, or straight, or a child molester, or not a child molester - he doesnt strike me to be a sexual person at all.. i think he just likes the company of kids cuz he too is a kid in his mind, a kind if retardation if you will.

[Brett's Honey]

[QUOTE)=Sun_Sparkz]i dont think he would intentionally hurt anybody
he doesnt strike me to be a sexual person at all.. i think he just likes the company of kids cuz he too is a kid in his mind, a kind if retardation if you will.

I know what you're saying and I understand why you could feel this way about Michael Jackson, but one thing always comes to mind when I read or hear that about him....."He wouldn't intentionally hurt anybody"....child molestors most often would never hurt a child because they love them.....and they do not view molesting them as hurting them, rather as loving them.

[melidasaur]

I just saw the Triumph Insult Comic Dog interview online.... OMG - absolutely hysterical!!!

[Brett's Honey]

I have teased my (now 18 year old) son for the last couple of years about kicking myself in the ass for not ever sending him to visit Neverland - "it would have just been for a few weeks......think of the money we could have now!"
I can't describe the dirty looks he gives me! I always say it in front of some of his friends.....(he knows I'm just teasing)

[wolf]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Well,I'm not buying MJ's music anymore.
At least I've still got Cat Stevens.

I never bought MJ's music. Oh, wait, I do have a copy of the single "Ben" sitting in a box downstairs, but that's only because it was about a rat.

[wolf]

A friend of mine, who prefers to remain anonymous wrote this. He gave me permission to post this for the enjoyment and amusement of others.

Hi parents of America,



This is Michael Jerkson,



As you know, I was just acquitted of some really, really bad & really, really mean-spirited charges against me by what was, till the favorable verdict was read, a really, really racist justice system.



Anyway, to celebrate my acquittal, I am having a really big and really fun party at my “I’ll-never-do-that-again ;-) ” ranch.



You, and especially your little boys, are invited to stop in for some fun!!!



See ya!



Michael

[Trilby]

Now MJ says he's going to punish the naughty public for thinking nasty things about him by NOT ALLOWING BOYS TO SLEEP IN HIS BED ANYMORE! Wow. One brush with the legal system and he's ready to give up. Quitter.

[mrnoodle]

That new year's resolution will vanish in a puff of smoke as soon as he drinks a Pepsi can full of merlot and pops a boner at the kids' underwear page of the JC Penney catalog.

It seems to be really hard to dispel the myth that MJ is some kind of faerie who lives outside the bounds of normal human convention. He's a 40-something year old man with a history of abuse allegations and a penchant for exceptionally weird behavior that is encouraged by being constantly surrounded by yes-men and (until recently) unlimited financial resources. He became famous for singing bubblegum pop while performing quite sexually explicit dance moves (grab your crotch and go "woo!" and see if anyone doesn't know who you're imitating).

I'm not sure why anyone thinks he's even remotely safe for their children to be around. They just take him at his word, and don't even observe the circus that's going on around the guy 24 hours a day.

[wolf]

I don't see that there's any dispute over the notion that Michael Jackson is a very, very disturbed individual.

Now, what's this shit about him possibly being added to the lineup at Live 8 Philadelphia? One of the guys was talking about it at work. Please tell me this is no more than a horrible, horrible rumor.

[capnhowdy]

MJ IS EXTREMELY DISTURBED
just look at him. We all know he was guilty of at least SOME of the charges.
I'll take the fifth on my total opinion due to my fear of being "decellarized".
When he was young, he was good.
When he got older, he was famous.
Now, he ain't worth a shit.

[Tonchi]

OK, just to prove that ALL of California is not simply a gene pool incapable of convicting even the most blatant of malefactors, I present for your education beautiful Fresno in the Central Valley. A Republican stronghold. Kids can't read but teaching assistants share pot with the class. Every nationality and religion under the sun. Unregulated and uncontrolled growth with untimed traffic lights. But nevertheless we managed to convict and sentence to death both Carey Stayner and Scott Peterson. Well OK, I admit we had to shop out the actual trials due to the proverbial "unfair local bias" against the accused, but the job got done. And this week we managed to convict (and I hope sentence to the ultimate punishment) one of the most bizarre pedophiles ever seen, somebody who one-ups MJ on every count: Marcus Wesson. MJ is a wimpy amateur compared to this guy. They really know how to do their sin in the Central Valley. Half the registered voters in the county had to be called up for jury duty in order to winnow out those fine people who finally sat for the trial, and they actually succeeded in doing it

So if you think the MJ situation was over the top, read this:

http://www.fresnobee.com/special/200...11549130c.html and http://www.fresnobee.com/special/200...11530722c.html

"Convicted mass murderer Marcus Wesson is a master manipulator who ordered the execution of nine of his children and deserves the death penalty, prosecutor Lisa Gamoian told a Fresno County Superior Court jury this morning.....

Wesson, 58, was convicted last week of nine counts of murder in the slayings of his nine children inside the family's central Fresno home on March 12, 2004. He also was convicted of 14 counts of rape, oral copulation and sexual abuse of a minor involving three of his daughters and four of his nieces.... Calling himself Jesus, Wesson isolated his family from the outside world - home schooling them and forcing them to life in a tent in the Santa Cruz mountains and on a boat moored in Tomales Bay in northern California, Gamoian said.

Wesson exploited his daughters and nieces, forcing them to have sex with him and have his babies, as well ordering them to have sex with each other, Gamoian said.

Wesson also preached a murder-suicide pact until each family member agreed, Gamoian said, and kept his children in terror with doomsday prediction about the second coming of Christ, or the end of the world....

Testimony revealed that Marcus Wesson was the father of the slain children. The mothers included his wife, Elizabeth, daughters Kiani and Sebhrenah, and nieces Rosa and Sofina Solorio and Ruby Ortiz.

The slayings were sparked when Sofina Solorio and Ortiz tried to reclaim their children from Marcus Wesson, testimony in the trial revealed...."


So the moral is that we may not be able to get roads, public facilities, or a meaningful lifestyle going but we definitely have our priorities straight when it comes to convicting and sentencing here in Fresno. Believe it, no lawyer in LA is every going to ask for a change of venue to our part of the land of fruits and nuts

...Or maybe instead it's just that we don't have enough money and fame around here to properly shock and awe a jury into surrender...