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Would You Let Your Kid Bunk With Jacko?
« on: Nov 20^th, 2003, 1:20pm »

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I would have NEVER.....not in a million years. But too many other parents have.

Thursday, November 20, 2003
By Robin Wallace
I dont know how many times over the years Ive watched the relentless coverage of one or another high-profile news story with an almost uncontainable frustration and dismay at the failure of journalists to ask what appears to be the most obvious and pressing of questions.

On Wednesday, as I watched the Santa Barbara authorities field the barrage of questions being fired at them by a media gone wild over an investigation of Michael Jackson on child molestation charges, my percolating blood pressure got some minor relief when, at the very end of the press conference, a reporter shouted out, What advice do you have to parents who let their children stay over at Neverland?

Dont do it! the district attorney and the sheriff replied, laughing at the obvious ridiculousness of the question. Our kids arent there.

The question, as phrased, was ridiculous, but the idea behind it was not. More than a decade after Jackson was the center of another child molestation scandal allegations that went away as the result of an out-of-court financial settlement there are still parents, apparently quite a few of them, who dont see a problem with letting their kids attend Jacksons pajama parties.

So yes, advising parents on how to protect their kids while at Neverland is an absurd question. The correct question is: Whats wrong with these parents who let their kids sleep over at Jackson's Neverland Ranch ( http://search.foxnews.com/_1_2ZYUE7043C9CHU__info.foxnws/dog/results?otm pl=dog/webresults.htm&qkw=Neverland%20Ranch&qcat=web&top=1&start=&ver=19236&nextPageNum=&fastSearch= ), and what are the authorities going to do about them?

Michael Jackson is not a camp counselor or a youth group leader or a little league coach or a Catholic priest who has legitimate unsupervised access to large numbers of kids. He's not an adult with whom your 12-year-old son would naturally come in contact in the course of his daily, prepubescent life. However these families originally meet Jackson they must be invited into his home and then decide to accept the invitation.

Additionally, these parents then decide at some point to leave their kids alone with him, overnight alone and overnight with a man who not only has been at the center of a child sexual abuse scandal in the past, but who has also publicly and shamelessly admitted that he enjoys sharing his bed with children, that he does so frequently and that he doesnt think there is anything wrong with this.

Are we supposed to believe that there is a person on this planet who is not aware of Jacksons history? Perhaps even more revealing about these parents, are we supposed to believe that there is a 12-year-old boy on the planet who is actually a fan of Michael Jacksons and wants to spend his time hanging out with him? Michael Jackson is not a famous athlete or an action hero, nor does he record the kind of music that 10- or 12-year-old boys listen to these days. In fact, this boy was reportedly taunted and teased by other 12-year-olds about his relationship with Jackson. (Eminem doesn't really seem all that bad now, does he?)

Its the parents who are the fans, the parents who want the access to Jackson, to fame, to his money, to the bragging rights of being able to say they know a superstar, and because Jackson is who he is, the kids are the key to the Neverland gates.

Consider the circumstances of the boy accusing Jackson now:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103557,00.html

According to Foxs Roger Friedman, the boy was a cancer patient whom Jackson met through his charity work. Jackson paid the family's medical bills and bought the parents a new house. The price they paid for Jacksons largesse was that their son emerged from the association with Jackson so troubled that psychiatric treatment was needed. He told his psychiatrist about the abuse, and the psychiatrist not the parents went to the police.

As Friedman reported Wednesday, after the boy claimed Jackson molested him, Jackson kept the family at Neverland for a period of time, hoping to convince them to drop their allegations by lavishing them with entertainment and further merriment.

Why would this family still be in Jacksons home after their son claimed to be abused? Why would they have any contact with him at all? Why were they even in a position at that time to be "lavished with entertainment and further merriment?" The fact that the family has so far not sought a financial settlement from Jackson has added a layer of legitimacy to the allegations, but the question is not so much whether the allegations are true but why these parents allowed their child to be alone with Jackson in the first place, and why they remained in Jacksons home for a period of time after their son came forward.

How could you remain under the same roof as a person you believed sexually abused your son? How could you keep your son under that roof?

It doesnt matter if Jackson is a sexual predator or not. The public behavior he proudly exhibits suggests, at the very least, mental instability. The private behavior he openly admits to is, by any reasonable measure, deviant. Jacko is wacko, and I know that as a parent, someone with his peculiarities and predilections would not be my first choice for a companion for my kid and I have a daughter. He may or may not be guilty of abuse, but any parent who would trust him with his or her child certainly is. ( :tup:

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As the news coverage continued Wednesday, Foxs Shepard Smith said on the air that he was waiting to hear about these parents who send their kids to Neverland. Lets hope that this time around, reporters and the authorities seek the answer to that question.

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Re: Would You Let Your Kid Bunk With Jacko?
« Reply #1 on: Nov 20^th, 2003, 4:28pm »

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Any parent that would leave his/her child alone with jacko needs to be locked up as well!
Forget the bed sharing my kids would even be setting foot on the same street!

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« Reply #2 on: Nov 20^th, 2003, 5:54pm »

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An excellent article!

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« Reply #3 on: Nov 20^th, 2003, 9:00pm »

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Michael Jackson: Private settlement, public crimes?

By Lisa Bloom
Court TV

http://www.courttv.com/trials/bloom/jackson_022803.html

This is a long read but worthwhile in view of what's happening today....

This particularly caught my eye in relationship to the 12 yo boy with cancer who's opened the box of Pandora that's Michael Jackson.

In light of Jackson's statements in the 2003 Bashir documentary that he regularly sleeps with children because "the most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone," the 1993 affidavit - http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/mjdec1.html - by Jackson's accuser sworn to under the penalty for perjury is chilling. The 1993 complainant says that while his sleepovers with Jackson began as harmless fun, over time Jackson began to make sexual demands on the boy, such as tongue kissing, masturbation and oral sex. The boy says that when he attempted to reject Jackson's sexual advances, Jackson would cry and insist that there was nothing wrong with the conduct and that "another of his young friends would kiss him with an open mouth" and that if the boy did not comply, he "did not love him as much as this other friend." Jackson still believes that "sharing a love" is accomplished by "sharing a bed." Has he learned nothing in the last decade?

Excerpt: That is, until the February 2003 airing of the Bashir documentary. Amid all the sensational revelations, nonlawyers can be forgiven for finding the following exchange unremarkable. When I heard it, though, I couldn't believe my ears, and replayed it over and over again to be sure I heard the exchange correctly:

Bashir: "The reason that has been given for why you didn't go to jail [in 1994] is, because you reached a financial settlement with the family?"

Jackson: "Yeah, I didn't want to do a long drawn-out thing on TV like O.J., and all that stupid stuff, you know, it wouldn't look right. I said, look, get this over with. I want to go on with my life. This is ridiculous, I've had enough, go."

More than likely, it's being perceived that MJ will try to cojole and coeherce the family of this young boy with cancer as he's done before.

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Would I let my kid bunk with Jacko?
Now what do you think? My answer among other words unprintable is "NO!" Other adjectives are not needed! Lips Sealed

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