by sandmann » Feb 7, 2003 @ 6:32am
Disgusted? I can see that. I was more sad. I feel really bad for the guy. I mean, come on, he was abused as a child, no one ever loved him for who he truly was, he never had a real childhood. These things can fuck a person up (and he certainly fits the case). I see no evil in him. He's just a big innocent child. If you look at everything he does, it's all as a child would do; he's easily excited, very friendly, outgoing, love-hungry, but also self-centered, spoiled, and fragile. Sure, he's beyond strange, sometimes unfortunately so, but there's no evil there. He's no pedophile, at least in my mind. I think he just lacks the sense of societal judgement to deem sleeping in the same room as a child wrong. He says the world needs more love, and for some reason I believe him when he says it.
Overall, it's just an extremely tragic story.
[edit] I read that testimony. Perhaps he did do that stuff, perhaps he didn't. If he did... Well, that shit is fuckin disgusting. You've got to understand also, though, that just because the kid signed it doesn't mean it really happened. Michael Jackson is a celebrity, and there are always people willing to take advantage of celebrities in any way possible. Maybe the kid's mother saw a chance to get her money, and took it. We'll never know.
The fates lead him who will;
Him who won't, they drag.
Seneca
