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To think it's tragic if Michael Jackson was indeed innocent

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pregahes · 08/01/2024 21:53

It's a real shame for someone who created incredible music to have their legacy at risk. It’s just tragic, considering the impact his music had on so many. It's tragic either way, if he's guilty for the victims and if he's innocent for himself.

I'm a huge fan and at one point t thought he was guilty but kore recently change of heart. I think there would be more victims if he weee in fact guilty. Somethings doesnt add up.

It's tragic

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JanglingJack · 09/01/2024 00:28

Jesus Christ at The Brits. Why now?
Arse waft.

Sorry Jesus juice! Why now?

He's the only paedophile excused because he was he was misunderstood and talked like a girl.

StopTheQtipWhenTheresResistance · 09/01/2024 00:28

@Gotsomedebt We are trying to look at it from an objective point of view and not an emotional one. We are simply saying we do not know.

KarenNotAKaren · 09/01/2024 00:29

BayCityCoaster · 09/01/2024 00:23

To the Michael Jackson defenders…..

Isn’t it interesting that certain people seem to have many accusations of inappropriate (or much worse) behaviour levelled at them, by multiple sources….

While other people have zero accusations levelled at them?

If people are ‘lying’, or doing it to ‘make money’, why do they all go after the same pool of men?

Donald Trump has had endless accusations of impropriety.

Barack Obama has had none. Even George W Bush has had none.

If the accusers are just in it for the money, why don’t they just go after all and any men, at random?

Funnily enough, they don’t.

They NEVER go after men who haven’t behaved inappropriately. Who haven’t committed sexual assault.

Doesn’t that give you some pause for thought that there might (just might) be something in what they’re saying….?

To the pp, I’m not in the slightest but worried about my DH being falsely accused of sexual assault - because he’s never sexually assaulted anyone, and I know people don’t make shit up, just for laughs and giggles.

On the other hand, sexual assault - wherher low level or serious - happens on the daily. I’ll reserve my sympathy for the actual victims.

Yes isn’t it funny how Bill Gates and Steve Jobs - two men much wealthier than Jackson - never had little boys making up false accusations.

Why is that I wonder. Why did these ‘gold digging counts’ not target the richest men? I’m sure Jackson was stone broke before he died, hardly someone a gold digging cunt of a 12yo would target

StopTheQtipWhenTheresResistance · 09/01/2024 00:31

KarenNotAKaren · 09/01/2024 00:24

Oh FFS pic didn’t post

Thanks for posting, I was searching that link you posted like mad and couldn't find it.

I think it's odd and not something I would do.

ChishiyaBat · 09/01/2024 00:31

Objective my fat arse!! No one was objective over Jimmy Saville so why try and defend Michael Jackson?

nolongersurprised · 09/01/2024 00:31

As a PP said, if this was Mike from down the road having 'sleepovers' with 8 year old boys, there'd be a witch hunt. Why is pedo Jackson any different?

Exactly.

only a paedophile would have acted so much like a peadophile.

KarenNotAKaren · 09/01/2024 00:31

Gotsomedebt · 09/01/2024 00:26

Fucking hell. The amount of pedo sympathisers on this thread.

I genuinely can't believe there are people still defending this man.

What the hell is wrong with you people?

As a PP said, if this was Mike from down the road having 'sleepovers' with 8 year old boys, there'd be a witch hunt. Why is pedo Jackson any different?

I'm sorry, but no one who isn't a fucking child abuser and pedophile would behave the way Jackson did.

I just can't get over the deniers. I really can't.

Me neither. I worry for the average IQ of the country when people are defending the world MOST OBVIOUS pedophile. I mean HOW can they not see it?!

Like you say - Mike who works in Morrisons having little boy sleepover and a theme park in his garden, who walks around holding little boys hands - would the pedo apologists look at him and go “Wow what a guy” or would they be calling the police? They NEVER provide answer when asked this.

StopTheQtipWhenTheresResistance · 09/01/2024 00:32

ChishiyaBat · 09/01/2024 00:31

Objective my fat arse!! No one was objective over Jimmy Saville so why try and defend Michael Jackson?

I can't comment on Jimmy Saville as I didn't follow the allegations and what happened.

JanglingJack · 09/01/2024 00:33

KarenNotAKaren · 09/01/2024 00:29

Yes isn’t it funny how Bill Gates and Steve Jobs - two men much wealthier than Jackson - never had little boys making up false accusations.

Why is that I wonder. Why did these ‘gold digging counts’ not target the richest men? I’m sure Jackson was stone broke before he died, hardly someone a gold digging cunt of a 12yo would target

The thing is you that Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were all in a race to build the best computer with the best software.
They were busy wanking over coding. I see their point.

Accidental Empires.

KarenNotAKaren · 09/01/2024 00:34

StopTheQtipWhenTheresResistance · 09/01/2024 00:28

@Gotsomedebt We are trying to look at it from an objective point of view and not an emotional one. We are simply saying we do not know.

In that case I assume you don’t believe Saville’s victims because it’s not evidence based?

The fact is NO ONE knows anything happened unless they were there. Thankfully the justice system doesn’t work on “Everyone on the world had to be there to prove it happened”. So we use logic, facts, observed behaviour and judgement to draw a conclusion. if my conclusion on Jackson is anything other than ‘massive nonce’ I’d be booking myself on a safeguarding training course pronto and keeping the hell away from children. Our children don’t need apologists in their life

Teasie123 · 09/01/2024 00:34

Honestly, stop the resistance, we don't know. But I would not take the chance. The evidence is overwhelming to show that Michael Jackson is guilty. But because he has passed, he cannot be brought to justice. If he was on trial now? I guarantee he would be found guilty.

KarenNotAKaren · 09/01/2024 00:35

StopTheQtipWhenTheresResistance · 09/01/2024 00:31

Thanks for posting, I was searching that link you posted like mad and couldn't find it.

I think it's odd and not something I would do.

Why wouldn’t you do it? Presumably because you recognise it’s inappropriate and predatory behaviour and something only somebody with no boundaries towards strange children would do?

StopTheQtipWhenTheresResistance · 09/01/2024 00:35

@KarenNotAKaren What I (and perhaps others) are trying to get across is that someone acting out of the norm and what we would consider inappropriately is a big step away from someone raping a child.

Sitting a child on their knee, as odd as it is, does not equal raping them. Having kids sleepover in his room does not equal raping them. Granted, it's odd behaviour and I would find it concerning but I can't get from A to B in my mind. Perhaps there is evidence out there I've not seen or heard. If there is; I will of course change my stance.

KarenNotAKaren · 09/01/2024 00:36

StopTheQtipWhenTheresResistance · 09/01/2024 00:32

I can't comment on Jimmy Saville as I didn't follow the allegations and what happened.

I’ll gov you the TLDR: about as much evidence as there is on Jackson and almost wholly based on victim testimony. No forensic evidence

JanglingJack · 09/01/2024 00:36

Teasie123 · 09/01/2024 00:34

Honestly, stop the resistance, we don't know. But I would not take the chance. The evidence is overwhelming to show that Michael Jackson is guilty. But because he has passed, he cannot be brought to justice. If he was on trial now? I guarantee he would be found guilty.

No he wouldn't, for exactly the same reasons he was exonerated last time.

KarenNotAKaren · 09/01/2024 00:36

They were busy wanking over coding

😂😂

StopTheQtipWhenTheresResistance · 09/01/2024 00:37

@KarenNotAKaren Didn't all that come out after he died? I wonder what the outcome would have been if it had gone to trial.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 09/01/2024 00:37

Passingthethyme · 08/01/2024 22:48

He definitely was weird, but I'm not sure he is guilty as there were only a couple of kids and they were happy to accept money. I would think you'd not want any money from someone who did this to you.

I'd want tons of money to get shed loads of therapy to cope with what had happened, it's America , therapy is a FORTUNE.

How can people think his behavior wasn't grooming and abusive?

lovinglaughingliving · 09/01/2024 00:38

Wednesday6 · 08/01/2024 23:10

It's like wondering if Marylin Manson or Johnny Depp were abusers of women... either way I can't look at them the same way

Erm. I think you will find that Jonny Depp was the victim and was abused by Amber Heard.
I also think there's been no substance behind the Marylin Manson allegations.

Teasie123 · 09/01/2024 00:39

I genuinely don't think so. Times have moved on. The me too movement means more people are being believed and listened to. No longer is the power in the hands of the abuser, no matter how famous they are.

JanglingJack · 09/01/2024 00:39

KarenNotAKaren · 09/01/2024 00:36

They were busy wanking over coding

😂😂

I see their point.

Mmm coding.... 🤣 At least it's right or wrong.

KarenNotAKaren · 09/01/2024 00:41

StopTheQtipWhenTheresResistance · 09/01/2024 00:35

@KarenNotAKaren What I (and perhaps others) are trying to get across is that someone acting out of the norm and what we would consider inappropriately is a big step away from someone raping a child.

Sitting a child on their knee, as odd as it is, does not equal raping them. Having kids sleepover in his room does not equal raping them. Granted, it's odd behaviour and I would find it concerning but I can't get from A to B in my mind. Perhaps there is evidence out there I've not seen or heard. If there is; I will of course change my stance.

…yeah that’s not how it works

If you knew anything about CSA you’d know that child rapists dont wear their preference for raping children on their t-shirt. safeguarding is about identifying the red flags, and building a picture based on the scenario of a child being at risk of harm. A man with many accusers, who has formerly been charged with sex crimes, who shares beds with little boys and openly grooms then for all to see - that builds a picture to something sinister. It’s Not about catching them in the act of raping a child as that rarely even happens. It’s about using facts to determine someone’s character and preferences.

So whilst sitting a child on your lap is not raping them obviously, when it forms a bigger picture of other inappropriate behaviour, so that when that same child says “he raped me” we have cause to believe and support them

I just wanna say thank fuck people like you aren’t in charge of child protection laws - if you need to catch someone actively raping a charge before you believe they’re a pedophile, the country would only jail 2 people a year.

porridgeisbae · 09/01/2024 00:42

pregahes · 08/01/2024 22:18

Exactly that's the difference between him had glitter and saville. It's not the same.

Also, just two victims no evidence - is it not fair to say it could be true either way? Why so sure he's guilty. None of us know

The thread wasn't about if he's guilty or innocent because no one knows - it's about if he WAS innocent how tragic

Actually, Saville wasn't found guilty at trial, to be fair. Not that I'm defending him, of course.

ChishiyaBat · 09/01/2024 00:42

@StopTheQtipWhenTheresResistance Jimmy Saville was accused of paedophilia, necrophilia and just being an all round evil bastard, people apparently tried speaking out about him multiple times over the years, but were always disbelieved, told to be quiet or just ignored. It's quite similar to Jackson really. No one can prove either of them were guilty, but there is strong victim and witness testimonies in both cases. See that's me being objective.
What I really think is both of them were vile child abusing cunts, but that's not objective is it.

KarenNotAKaren · 09/01/2024 00:43

StopTheQtipWhenTheresResistance · 09/01/2024 00:37

@KarenNotAKaren Didn't all that come out after he died? I wonder what the outcome would have been if it had gone to trial.

For Saville? Yes - many victims can only have the confidence to speak when their accuser is six feet under. They are also only able to speak then without fear of litigation against them

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