Michael Jackson

[beatingthis]

Ok, what did you think of his service? I never was a big MJ fan but I found it touching. Fooled the heck out of me.
I was always a rocker and thought well ya know...


Terry

[Mangee]

The man lived and the man died. His choices killed him along with the accusations by a boy who obviously was tutord by his mother as to what to say. The mother had been in countless court cases where she was suing somebody. Her son's trip to Neverland was like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow to her. She saw this as the opportunity of a lifetime and sunk her teeth into it as viciously as she could. Later she was charged with cheating welfare. Michael's lawyers told him that if he continued with the case he would lose out a lot more than the 20 million. So he paid and it was this payment that cast a severe pall on his life. At not time did I believe this about him. Only an idiot would do what he was accused of doing considering the many, many children who were in his bed. Michael was a highly intelligent individual who managed his affairs and that kind of a mind would have seen the consequences of even remotley putting himself in danger. If you will also noe, there were more accusers but only after they saw the big payoff. Where were they before and why did it take years for someone to come forward considering all who were there before? The media sensationlists saw this as an opportunity to make money and ran with it not caring if it was true or false. It was this sort of sensationalism that gave birth to other sensationalists such as Nancy Grace who holds court and tries whomever regardless of the fact that her program will influence potential jurors and the public. Michael Jackson is gone. It is time to let him rest.

[Totsie59]

I so agree...It just makes me sick how society makes these "Stars" heros...I will never understand it...There is only 1 king, and it is not Elvis or Michael Jackson.

[LateAugust]

I wrote this responce to a thread similar to this last week.....   and I still feel the same.



"The death of both Ms. Fawcett and Mr. Jackson, is sad....  I will not presume to know if Mr Jackson was addicted to opiates, however it is well documented he was in treatment at Betty Ford for prescription drug addiction following his accident filming a Pepsi commercial, years ago.  To me, Michael Jackson was a music genius,  eccentric yes, but his talent and contribution to music is  limitless.     We all wanted to look like Farrah and dance like Michael......   but my thoughts go to their families.

I think of the son (Redmond O'Neal), unable to be with his mother, at her bedside  when she passed, due to his horrific drug addiction and incarceration from years of drug abuse and arrests.  Farrah's  son, whom the last time he saw his mother, was shackled at  his feet and in a jail jumpsuit.    I cannot imagine his grief, nor the guilt he will undoubtedly feel to the core of his being, probably for the rest of his life.

I think of three very young children that are left as orphans, the only parent they have known and loved was their father.  Judge the man as you wish, but do you not feel compassion  for the loss and pain  his children  will know for the rest of their lives?

I guess simplistically, I see a young son sitting in jail while his mother is dying., unable to hold her hand or touch her face one last time....  and that must be killing him inside.   Due to his drug addiction.  I see 3 children grieving for the loss of  their father due to possible drug addiction.  And it breaks my heart.

Drug addiction and all of its devastating ramifications is so very  tragic.  May God bless both families."


And selfishly, the addiction is more of a heartache to me,  rather than "did the media do too much coverage on Mr. Jackson".  You're all correct, there is a whole lot more we could be focused on,  if only we lived in a selfless perfect world.....

[LateAugust]

Unfortunately society   (that being all of us) make hero's out of so many celebrities.   I think of this no differently than I do/did of Elvis Presley..... Graceland...... their contribution to the music world huge....   and the deaths so similar or so we are to assume......

[Totsie59]

Ditto...Amen again...well said...There are soooo many everyday heros that we never hear about....I so agree with you Jolly.

[PromisedLand]

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