Die-hard Michael Jackson fans have been trolling me for years. This, because I have continually damned him as a serial pedophile.
I did so in many commentaries, including “Revealed: Michael Jackson’s Pedophile File,” June 27, 2016, “Xscape! More Pedophile Charges Prove Michael Was Not ‘Gone Too Soon,’” May 13, 2014, and “Michael Jackson Cops a Sick Plea,” March 11, 2005.
The last of these includes this damning verdict:
It is clear beyond any reasonable doubt that Jackson is a pathological corrupter and abuser of little boys. What’s more, he fascinates today far more as a walking freak show than he ever did as the ‘King of Pop.’
I wrote that nearly 15 years ago, when the media were continuing to sing his praises. But now they’re damning him too. That this explains headlines like “Michael Jackson doc Leaving Neverland is ‘disturbing and devastating,’” BBC, January 26, 2019, “Leaving Neverland Could Forever Ruin Michael Jackson’s Legacy,” Out Magazine, January 26, 2019, “Michael Jackson, Child Molester,” National Review, January 28, 2019, and “A documentary exposé offers devastatingly powerful and convincing testimony that Michael Jackson was guilty of child sexual abuse,” Variety, January 25, 2019.
The last of these includes this overview of reviews of this HBO documentary:
One reason it’s more powerful than anything we’ve previously encountered on the subject … is that [#MeToo victims Wade Robson and James Safechuck] don’t just describe the sexual activities that Jackson subjected them to (oral sex, mutual masturbation, the viewing of porn). They describe, in abundantly articulate and deeply emotional detail, how the abuse took place within the context of what appeared (to them) to be a relationship of hypnotic warmth and trust.
Perhaps now the media will publish more reports on this diabolical reason for his nickname “Sicko Wacko Jacko.” Because, heretofore, they used it primarily as fleeting funny fodder when reporting on his cosmetic surgery or costume attire.
To be fair, Jackson fans cite his infamous acquittal to dismiss the molestation documented in Leaving Neverland. But this only means that they are just as willfully ignorant as O.J. Simpson fans who cite his infamous acquittal to dismiss the murders documented in O.J.: Made in America. Not to mention the hypocrisy of the ignoramuses who scoff at O.J.’s acquittal but hail Michael’s.
As a lawyer, I respect the jury system. And that includes the adversarial jousting that often sees defense attorneys like Johnny Cochran running circles around prosecutors to spin their client’s patent guilt into tainted innocence.
But I’m on record calling for professional juries as the only way to prevent such blatant miscarriages of justice. Never mind my abiding belief that, had Jackson not killed himself, he would have ended up just like O.J., serving time for some other (pedophile) crime as a form of poetic justice. Of course, if there is a God, escaping justice on earth only meant that Jackson would spend more time burning in Hell.
That said, I appreciate the transformation of consciousness Leaving Neverland is having on so many with respect to his guilt. But I urge these Johnnies-come-lately to reserve a little of their belated condemnation for the parents who blithely pimped out their kids to him.
Some parents clearly wanted to exploit Jackson’s largesse and bask in his reflected glow more than their kids did. This blinded the parents to the textbook way he was grooming and abusing their kids – complete with sleepovers to have his pedophile way with them.
I mean, this predatory freak even performed mock weddings – presumably to consecrate and then consummate his relationships with these adolescent boys. He vowed them to secrecy. But you have to think these boys told their pimps, er, parents about the ceremony – even if they did not go into details about what happened on their wedding night.
Meanwhile, Jackson did little to hide his pedophile proclivities. In fact, he proudly proclaimed his man-child form of love as the most natural thing imaginable during a December 28, 2003, interview on 60 Minutes, the most popular news program in the history of television.
Unsurprisingly, this finally forced the Los Angeles county department of children and family services to launch an investigation. It led inexorably to criminal charges. But Jackson’s spell was still such that his alleged victims, including the two featured in Leaving Neverland, insisted he never molested them.
Incidentally, it’s also worth noting that, for every victim who finally comes forward to accuse a celebrity predator, there are probably ten or more who remain in the woodwork – too wary of the public scrutiny or too content with the private payoff.
Enough!
Except that I would be remiss not to add that Jackson’s sexual abuse of little boys was matched by his psychological abuse of his own children. This black man spent his lifetime trying to turn himself into a white one. Yet he brainwashed the lilly-white kids he adopted into thinking they were black. Think about how twisted that is …
The damage he caused is immeasurable. Nothing betrays this quite like the way his daughter Paris is spending more time in rehab these days than on tour, trying in vain to show that she inherited his musical talents.
Paris Jackson is ‘utterly distraught’ following the release of a documentary about her dad Michael Jackson.
It’s been claimed that the 20-year-old has ‘suffered a complete meltdown’ after the harrowing film Leaving Neverland aired at Sundance Film Festival this weekend.
(London Mirror, January 27, 2019)
I would also be remiss not to note that Jackson’s siblings stood by as he molested children right under their cosmetic noses. But I suspect they bargained early on that they’d rather treat Michael like a cash cow than force him to get the treatment he so clearly needed.
I have damned The Jacksons in many commentaries, including “Proof Michael Jackson Was a Serial Pedophile; His Brothers Venal Parasites,” July 1, 2013, and “52nd Annual Grammy Awards,” February 1, 2010.
The latter includes this heads-up for Paris:
Nothing is more pathetic than watching his siblings on TV going on about how these kids look just like Michael — seemingly unaware that surgically or cosmetically altered features like his pointed nose, bleached skin, and long wig cannot be inherited. [Naturally, an adopted child cannot inherit the genes that made her adopted parent a musical genius.]
Again, to be fair, their sister LaToya was a notable exception.
Thanks to her, we know that their mother routinely slurred Michael in private as “That damn f****t.” What’s more, LaToya showed that not everyone in her family is utterly devoid of basic morals and common sense. She did so in a 1993 interview on the Today Show, which presaged Michael’s on 60 Minutes 10 years later:
What 35-year-old man sleeps with little boys and stays with them for a week or two weeks or whatever? And sleep in the same bed. Most people would say, ‘that’s totally wrong.’
Indeed, no amount of Peter-Pan, Hollywood weirdness could or should excuse this feature of Michael’s behavior. It’s a shame that, like her other siblings, chronic financial woes – stemming from failed professional pursuits – forced LaToya back into the fold. She soon retracted her public condemnations of Michael and began singing the family hymn for her bread.
The Jacksons are blasting Leaving Neverland as fiction conjured up by perjurers and culture vultures. Yet I’d bet my life savings that neither they nor the executors of Michael’s estate will dare sue to protect his reputation. That they are not doing so betrays the venality and hollowness of their protestations.
Enough! For real this time.
[Note: It can only be a matter of time before corporations like Capital One stop playing his music in their commercials.]
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