Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Michael Jackson

There was a report released yesterday from radaronline (an entertainment gossip website) with "documents" (allegedly accurate documents) from Santa Barbara police dept detailing massive collections of pornographic material found at Neverland Ranch (Michael Jackson's home).  Immediately, people have jumped on this bandwagon with "I knew it" and "he was a molestor."  I'm attacking my opinion on this right away because it's relatively strong.....

1.  Your choice of what to believe or not believe is up to you.  I'm not going to change that.  What I will say is that I would, personally, wait until a source a little more reliable than radaronline releases this information. I will not decide on whether or not I believe this "fact" until a more reliable source releases it.

2.  If he DID have piles of child pornography and such, shame on him.  It's sick and absolutely mortifyingly disgusting.  I'm sure that there are parents, right now,  hearing this report and wondering if they put their child in a dangerous situation allowing him to go to Neverland Ranch.  This particular report doesn't claim that he molested children.  However, if this report is accurate, I would be having serious doubts as to whether he was rightfully acquitted years before his death.

3.  His kids.  Oh my goodness, his children.  They already had a very confusing life that required complete secrecy.  They already had so much to do to try to get through the death of their father.  Now this.  His poor children.  That's my first and strongest thought on this....his poor, poor children.

4.  Why now?  I go back to #3.  He died in 2009.  Why would you choose to bring this up now?  What good is this going to do?  Why are they still smearing his name?  If this was going to bring forth some positive results, I might see why but I just don't see it happening.  Now his children are left to try to process this information being made public.  Why?

5.  Don't jump to conclusions.  "Entertainment gossip" website and magazines absolutely hammered Patsy Ramsey following her daughter JonBenet's death.  They did it nonstop and even following her death....and they were wrong.  DNA evidence has clearly proven they were wrong.  Don't assume that this is true until you see it with your own two eyes.

6.  If this is found to be an untrue story, I hope a few things happen. I hope that radaronline has to publicly announce their retraction.  I hope that there is a serious apology issued, particularly to his family.  Most importantly, I hope that every single person that posted to social media will take the time to repost the retraction and admit that they were wrong to assume this.

and finally....

7.  I wish they would just let Michael rest in peace.  Maybe he was a sick individual and maybe he was just reliving the childhood he never got to have.  Maybe his childhood warped him so much that he couldn't recover and maybe his childhood simply made him unable to truly grow up.  None of us will ever know the entirety but I can only wish that they would just let him rest peacefully.  

To those arguing that he's a monster and you shouldn't listen to his music, etc, I say the following..... Have you ever had a rumor started about you that completely changed the way people look at you?  Maybe there was some truth in it.  Maybe it was a completely false and unfounded rumor.  Whatever the case may be, you were probably upset that no one took the time to talk to you and find out the truth.  Maybe you should exercise that same idea here.  Wait until a real source (not a gossip website) releases this information and then make your decision.  Go to the source. That is all.

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