1. In the 1993 case, he settled with the kid’s parents, and I have to tell you that what I thought at the time was, “My dad’s kind of a nebbish dink and he definitely needs whatever money he can get (being between jobs at the time), and if any guy tried to fuck me in a literal sense, and then pay my Dad off, he’d rip that guy’s fucking spine out with his bare hands. As opposed to taking the buy out, that is.” So it’s my opinion that real parents wouldn’t take such a settlement if they really believed their kid got violated. Sadly, it’s also my opinion that many parents don’t qualify to be ‘real parents’. But I can’t honestly form an opinion on what happened, except to say what Ron White said — “I know for a fact that people try to scam rich people out of money.” Not saying it happened that way, though.

2. In the more recent case, he was acquitted. You can form your own opinion on this, just as you can form your own opinion on the OJ case. But when I saw the OJ verdict, I sat there for a second, and I considered the case in my mind, and I just said, matter-of-factly, “No.” It didn’t make sense that a jury could take that little time to sift through that much evidence when the prosecution had made its case, in my opinion, very convincingly, and the defense had thrown up a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
In MJJ’s case, I didn’t have that feeling of certainty. Part of me was thinking that yes, Michael is an odd human being, and he was raised strangely, and the ordinary rules of society don’t seem to have affected him. So he could very well have engaged in borderline inappropriate behavior, and gotten in trouble for that.
PLUS, this is the odd thing: Why were so many parents sending their children to Michael Jackson’s home in the first place, after the earlier, definitely shady incident? Time to get controversial here — if someone is known for inappropriate behavior around children, and has been accused of … well, kiddie-touching, and you send your child to that man’s home… again, a REAL parent wouldn’t even DO that. Am I saying that in this case, if the allegations were true, that the victim’s parents were to blame as well as Michael Jackson? … You know, I think I actually am saying they’re partially culpable. I DID get the feeling that after the first allegations came out, a lot of parents who sent their kids to Neverland Ranch were looking for a hush-money check. Which if I’m right, means that they deserve to be shot in the nuts with a Desert Eagle. Especially since that means they can’t breed anymore.
Guess what, though, this doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. This DOES mean that since he was acquitted, legally it didn’t happen. Go ahead and form your own opinion, but I personally think he stayed just a hair’s width on the good side of the law. Maybe half a hair.

3. When I say God will judge him, I mean it exactly the same as I said when Chris Benoit will be judged by God. And that is, “and we don’t know fuck-all how He WILL judge these guys, especially since he knows the story and we don’t, so I WON’T judge them at all. But I loved these guys as artists, so I’ll continue to watch ‘Smooth Criminal’/'The Chris Benoit Story’ and enjoy what they left us here.”

Okay, that’s about all, and possibly too far in spots, but that’s how I see it.

Still, my quote is more a reaction to the fact that it’s funny that the post I quoted comes from an IWC-heavy site. Because, after 2 years, said IWC is still debating whether or not one of “their” talents’ work outweighs their crimes, and whether or not his former employees are history-altering rat bastards for distancing themselves from him due to media onslaughts.

Nonetheless, let those without sin… and all. And I’m just as guilty of being conflicted about performer vs. person. A LOT.

Except maybe murdering someone. Boy am I glad no one’s still defending Chris Benoit and wishing people could still enjoy his matches on 24/7 and whatnot…oh wait.

BTW…

“I’m a child of the 80’s, and if you were too and you say you didn’t like Michael Jackson even a little bit for a little while.. you are a liar.”

My thoughts exactly. It’s just like Hulk Hogan (you can’t rewrite your childhood when you become a smark).