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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember the day I finally changed my mind about him. I was reading an article about Jerry Sandusky. It was a really long piece that went into great detail about how Sandusky groomed his victims, how people knew, but covered it up, how he convinced the parents he did nothing wrong. It was a great piece; I’ll see if I can find it.

But while I was reading, I kept thinking about Michael. How the grooming behaviors Sandusky used sounded an awful lot like how Michael interacted with little boys. [b]He talked about these things himself in that weird Martin Bashir interview.[/b] And it hit me — wow, I think he really did it. I had defended him for a long time, but that unrelated article changed it for me.[/quote]

Exactly. Put aside the trial, the FBI, all of it... and listen to MJ's OWN WORDS. They are very damning. People who dismiss it by saying, "oh, well he was like a child himself" or whatever are delusional. The things he said in that interview are textbook predator material.

To a degree I do feel some sympathy for MJ. I think he probably suffered a lot of abuse as a child that the world will never know about. We are starting to see the full picture of how seedy the entertainment business is and how dangerous it is for children. I think it's very likely that Michael suffered sexual abuse as a child, not to mention the physical and emotional abuse of his father. So I can see how he became the person he was as an adult. To be clear, I am in no way excusing his behavior and I think he should have been in jail. But it's a sad story all around. [/quote]

The business of kids in this entertainment world is distorted and parents seems somewhat oblivious and star struck. [/quote]

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