AlunFoto wrote:
2009/6/27 P. J. Alling <[email protected]>:
Being acquitted in a court of law doesn't make you innocent of a crime. The
admonition of being innocent until proven guilty is a sanction on the
government, not a requirement that you check your common sense at the door.
I wouldn't let him play with any of my nephews.
Prejudice ox-testicles.
Jostein
He's dead now, but when he was alive you were welcome to let your young
relatives have sleep overs at Neverland. I think you'd be crazy, and
and I think calling caution, prejudice, is just politically correct
idiocy. Listen to yourself for a second and really think about what
you've just said.
Look at the facts: Two different DA's tried to get convictions for child
molestation, there were multiple complaints, out of court settlements,
payoffs recanted testamony.
Geez, Maybe the DA's were being over zealous, maybe all of the
complainants were just trying to get on the gravy train, and the
guardians of those children were trying to set him up, but it would be
very difficult to convince me that I should leave a child in the care of
someone who was so obviously disturbed, even granted that he wasn't
dangerous and I won't grant that. A lot of children are more heavily
protected against less likely dangers.
Jackson was gifted as a child and he lost his gift when he hit
puberty. If you doubt me just listen to /I'll/ /be/ /there/ vs
/Thriller/, as a child he had a natural 3 octave range, after puberty
barely 1 and 1/2, which he augmented by singing falsetto. I can't
imagine what it would be like to have such a gift taken away.
His father apparently beat him and his brothers, maybe his sisters as
well, I find it interesting that a lot of people who give Michael the
benefit of doubt on his alleged crimes won't give do the same for
Michael's father. For the sake of argument I won't give Michael's
father that benefit.
I'll grant he had a bad childhood, despite the fame, and that he lost a
great gift, for those things he had my sympathy. That doesn't mean I'll
trust him with children given his history.
--
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or
drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn
fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a
free man any more than a dog.
--G. K. Chesterton
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