Were just dropping like flies yesterday.
I was just a tad too young to have the Farah poster. I got stuck with the Thriller fad full bore. That was just the first of many short sticks me and mine were saddled with, in my opinion.
I’m of the opinion he was guilty of the kiddie diddlings, so no tribute will be found here (though I would like to see the books from his plastic surgeons).
As a non-tribute video here is Moby’s remix of Beat It
One freak picking up the hand-me-downs of another freak, I guess you could say. Starts out with the best part (Eddie Van Halen’s ax solo) though.
My daughter’s boyfriend was one of the kiddies who would have been diddled, and he witnessed all sorts of casual nakedness in the Ranch, but he says it was utterly innocent (and I believe him; he was angelic as a child and if anyone would have been a diddle-target, it would have been he). He recalls Jackson as being a terminally shy, yet very friendly and generous person — and so innocent, that he, a mere kid, thought Jackson the adult to be more than a bit naive.
I’m sure the guy was a sexual freak in many more ways than one, but I’d be willing to bet he didn’t molest any kids.
I have heard the same report as David’s from people in the know – people in law enforcement that were involved in the early investigations. We’ll hear a lot more from these folks before too long, including the families involved in the lawsuit.
The consensus was – he was a freak, was in desperate need of therapy, but wasn’t a child diddler. He went WAY over boundaries that were on the verge of sexual, but innocently, because he was a child grown old.
He did sleep with children, and cuddle them, but didn’t diddle them, and literally could not understand why nobody thought this was cool.
The first people to “come forward” and claim that he molested their child were known grifters. Jackson went to the police first! It just spiraled out of control from there, because he literally couldn’t understand boundaries, and when to shut his mouth. I don’t think that any of the families involved were exactly innocent, either, and yes, their children WERE victims, though largely of the parents.
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You do have a point, and it’s funny.
Of interest is the report that a cardiologist was attending him when he had his attack, not after, and the fact that the doctor’s car was towed as evidence by the authorities!
There’s also talk of painkiller addictions…where have we heard this before?