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Mr. P & Jen,
Ain't it the truth. You know, it's weird. I've been coming to this site now for about a month and I recently went back to eating KFC because there's one down the street from me and I'm lazy as hell and didn't feel like going somewhere farther or cooking and I've had nothing but BAD experiences getting food from there. The food has been subpar and the service is SOOOOOOOO Terrible! Where do they find these ignorant ass folks who can't get a three piece order correct?
I state this here and now and only becuase I've been involved in the restaurant business and have seen what goes on behind the scenes:

The Fast Food Restaurant Industry
is just a form of high-tech slavery!

Why do I say this? Maybe it applies more to Michigan than other places but these places are mostly in urban areas where there is an underclass of people (mostly black) and you don't find the mid-to upscale types of dining (Bennigan's, Chili's, Applebee's, etc) nowhere but in the suburbs. They won't even open one in the city but what's crazy is their food and kitchens are no better than what you find at McDonald's. It's just over priced, pre-processed garbage that they pass off as semi-fine dining.
We take these fast food places for granted and assume they are gonna do what they are supposed to do and that is a VERY wrong assumption on the public's part. So much so, I now think they are slowly poisoning us with that bullshit they serve. I had left KFC alone for years and for some insane reason gave it another try and now reading these last few posts, my eyes have been opened once again. I'm done eating that garbage! And I mean it this time!

Back on topic,
As far as Michael......He does need a SERIOUS wake up call and I believe this trial is gonna be a STRONG cup of coffee. Regardless if he did it or not, he should NOT be sleeping with kids with his overgrown kiddie ass!

Jennifer,

I live in Harlem and I haven't seen it. If I knew where it was... (I am brilliant enough that it could be on top of my building and I'd never see it though...)

Everyboday...
Yep, he's done some freaky things over the years. Nope, it wasn't the wisest thing to do to have slumber parties with children, especially ones that aren't your own, and especially when you know most of the world will blindly overanalyze and judge anything you do *because* of the freaky things you have done over the years. But if he didn't, during all of that, actually touch those kids in an inappropriate way, then he's not a child molester. At this point we don't know for sure, because we only know what the mainstream media has determined is okay for us to know, and given the unfair, tabloidish way they've treated all of Michael Jackson's "adventures", slanting it to make him even more "freaky" than he may already be, for sensationalism's sake... I don't trust everything I read or see. I know how much money they're making off of him, just on the ad dollars alone for any "breaking news" about him, whether it's him buying socks, or shitting candy canes.

Even with all of Michael's not-so-average characteristics, it doesn't prove the man had or tried to have sex with that boy or any other boy, no more than being a televangelist means that you're actually being kind and godlike when the tv cameras are off. No more than being tied down with rocks and sinking to the bottom of Salem's lakes, proved that anyone was a devil worshipping witch, because they could not float, many a year ago. No more than doing whatever those women were doing to be accused in the first place, meant they had a reason to be tried. Despite evidence to the contrary, the pious already made up their minds that the women were guilty and everything they invented to prove guilt, was already slanted to make everything seem worse than it was. Those women couldn't have proven their innocence any other way, than to renounce who they truly were and to conform to the exact same lifestyles and practices as everyone else. If you dared to be different, you just fucking died. You were murdered by "men and women of God". It also doesn't prove his guilt any more than George W. Bush sitting in office, means that the American people actually voted him in. It can go either way. You don't know until the facts are in and it's just as wrong to condemn him before hardcore evidence is released, as it is to let him go, if it is proven.

If MJ did molest those children, then I'd be first in line to want to see him punished to the highest extent of the law and then some. And If he is convicted, then I feel the kid/s parents should also be charged and convicted as accessory to the crime, as well as neglect of their children. Who here would knowingly allow their children to sleep in the same bed with any adult (broke ass families exempt), regardless of wealth or fame? Then, for Kid #1's parents to settle out of court instead of pursuing a suit, wasn't in the child's interest at all, or any other children. Some things are more important that money, and since money seemed to be more important than justice, in that case, I tend to believe Michael had no reason to be investigated in that case. Likewise, Kid #2's mother knew her child was sleeping in the same bed with the man. If he did touch the boy, no she isn't responsible for making him do something he shouldn't have done, but she's responsible for putting her child in that position. If everyone saw me drop my kid off at Disneyland, leaving him/her on a ferris wheel with total strangers, and something happened to him... my black ass would be arrested for endangerment and who knows what else. The fact that this person in question is Michael Jackson doesn't mean, she had any more reason to leave her kid with him like that any more than leaving him with the wino down the street. Likewise, because this is Michael Jackson who lives, as we all agree, completely unconventionally... it doesn't mean he should get off scot-free if he did it... but if you agree with that, then you also must agree that just because a person doesn't live the way you do and you think he is a "freak", doesn't automatically mean that they're a monster, until proven to be one.

And with or without Michael, if everyone's interest is truly on the children... then I'd like to see people --the media, and the public at large -- get this upset about all the priests who have been molesting children for ages. As well as making sure that all the scummy men in the neighborhoods we live in, who are fucking 11 and 12 year old girls willingly and sometimes unwillingly, are also treated as "child molesters" and "pedophiles". They should be arrested, lose their jobs AND serve maximum sentences AND be completely ridiculed in front of the world, the way that Michael Jackson is being. Difference is, in those other cases, we already KNOW what these assholes some done, Michael is only speculation and sensationalism at the moment. So if you're pissed about Michael, then go to your local Neighborhood Watch Meetings and march down to your local church and make sure they hold ALL child molesters and suspected to the same Roman Gladiator treatment.

Aren't we a nation of supposed equality? Even for criminals?

artforartsake,
Turns out that trial is was much too flawed to be considered "justice being served"!
Free Martha!!

astonamous,
There are too many allegations now---he has spent too much money covering shit up-kinda remeinds me of the Cathoiic Church and all those fucking priests...who pretend to be so moral and do gooders when they are class A hypocrites...

astonamous,

Pardon my french, but Michael is full of shit and guilty as hell! What kind of person sleeps with children after narrowly escaping a child molestation conviction? An incorrigible pedophile, thats who! His behavior is perfectly logical once you take your blinders off and realize he's guilty! His craziness is just a ploy to raise him above suspicion. He's a sick fuck and should be punished. There's just too much evidence against him! So what the first kids' father was a twisted opportunist. Sting operations seldom work on the innocent. I'm with Chris Rock. I'm through with Michael. He stopped being black and a member of the human race a long time ago..

mojones,
RIght on!!!

astonamous,

Hey, I think Dave Chappelle put a good perspective on the situation. "He's not a criminal. How many friends do you have that you can go to their house and get a blow job and a rollercoaster ride. He's not a criminal, he's a helluva friend!" Ok... maybe not....

Anditsdeeptoo,
"what if he had the cure to cancer....."

Jennifer,
Nyce Jen, that was funny and hell............That's true, who is Michael Jackson now????