bobw said:
Tru, none of us knows for sure, but sleeping with small children, and you think this freak did nothing wrong, after paying $20,000,000 to the last victum that made charges. NAIVE comes to mind.
RuPaul, Elton John, Marilyn Manson and the members of Jim Rose Circus.
These people may be different, but I don't remember seeing any of them involved in anything like this.
Jackson is a sicko and should be put away, in a mental institution, but I'd like to see him passed around a prison first for a couple years.
Anyone who messes with kids should be in prison for awhile with the population there knowing what he did, then have his gonads removed with a dull spoon.
True, Jacko has some weird ways, but until the end of his trial, no one can say whether or not he did it -- yes, we have our very strong suspicions, but you can't send someone to jail on suspicion. How would you feel if, 6 months in the future, the accuser came forward and publicly admitted it was a publicity/money stunt? Chances are that won't happen, but what if...?
We can't send weirdos to jail. Weird people make beautiful things: music, art, poetry, movies, etc. We DO need to send criminals to jail, though, and we can't say someone should go to jail until we've proved that they've crossed the line.
My point is that Jacko has been an influential figure for most of his life. People have some suspicions that he's been doing some nasty things, but you nor I can say for SURE that he did them. Perhaps the parents just didn't like the fact that he was sleeping the same bed with him. Perhaps he crossed the line while the kids were in his bed. You don't know, I don't know, and the courts don't know yet -- hell, all we DO know at this point is that he's weird, and more than one person has accused him of going too far.
We will have to wait and see. If I were weird, I certainly would not like people automatically assuming that I needed some good, hard jailtime, no matter what I was accused of, until I was proven guilty (either in court or out of court). Now, if I were convicted, then people saying I needed some jailtime would be justified. But if we say he needs jailtime before even trying him in court, that's just plain backwards... we will have to wait and see.