Hot off the presses....

[bio]

Here's Jackson's mugshot fresh from Reuters:


"Pop star Michael Jackson is pictured in this Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department booking mug in Santa Barbara, California, November 20, 2003. Jackson surrendered to authorities on Thursday and was booked on suspicion of child molestation as national television broke into regular programming to show the eccentric "King of Pop" in handcuffs. The 45-year-old singer was freed on $3 million bond after he was booked, fingerprinted and photographed at the headquarters of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department in central California, where he was taken after flying into town on a private jet from Las Vegas. "

It's already on thesmokinggun.com (those boys are fast!)

[mmeowgrl]

Granted, he's a really weird dude, but I think that this probably BS like the first one. I mean really, those of us who are parents - would you accept a huge payoff if your child had been abused and then not cooperate so they had to drop the whole thing, or would you want the guy who hurt your kid dead?

[eddiecanuck]

Well I know I wouldn't, but then seeing some other people's actions in different situations, I could totally see some families taking the money. You'd be surprised at what some people will do for money.
Hopefully justice will prevail, whether on the side of Mikey or the side of the families involved. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the celebrity and/or rich person usually gets out of it somehow.

[bio]

Jackson paid the family of the child 10 years ago 15 million dollars to go away.

That's a damn big chunk of change.

While I'd be homicidal toward anyone who did anything like that to my child, the pure economics of a 15 million dollar payoff would give me pause. The damage done to my child can't be undone, but 15 million would make things possible for him that wouldn't be without it.

They also changed the laws in Cali after that case, making it so the state could force people to testify. This change was because of the previous Jackson payoff.

The current case is also different from the first in that the parents didn't bring the charges up. The child’s therapist reported it to the authorities after the child confided that this had happened. This makes me believe that it's not a "get rich quick" scheme.

It'll all come out after the 45 day gag order induced by the courts passes.

[miftah]

I like seeing so-thought wholesome entertainment exposed as bullshit as much as the next guy, but the story is two days old and I'm already sick of it. I don't care about what he did or didn't do and I don't care if the news comes back that he and the children were really a ragtag commando unit of anti-pedophile assasins, living, learning and loving together.

Our soldiers are dying left and right because of an enemy that we can't kill, the economy's in the shitter and there's an election coming. Now I gotta hear about this waste of oxygen for the next nine months? Fuck him. Just kill him. He damages most people by just existing.

[bio]

Kinda like Princess Di on the front page and Mother Theresa on page 11.

[mmeowgrl]

'child therapist' - see now I know it is BS. I was put in therapy as a child, and they try and put all kinds of bullshit in your head. You wind up telling them total lies, just because you can. They eat it up.

[Nickp]

I'd take it in the ass from Michael Jackson for 15 million.
-Nick P.

[AsaJay]

Personally, I'd lke to know what the aliens did with the handsome young black pop-star of the eighties known as Micheal Jackson. This poor excuse of an ugly white woman they replaced him with is pathetic.

Maybe if they dissect it slowly, they can figure out it's biology, and thereby render a weapon capable of stopping such alien infiltration in the future.

Just a thought.

[purrcat]

ouch Nick

[baldy]

Nick ..... i'm right there with ya



but


dont take that as an offer

if anyone comes up with the $15 mil then i'll think again


Winston Churchil once said to a woman sat next to him at dinner ' Madame, would you sleep with me for 1,000,000 pounds? '
she replied ' why yes sir i would '
' well,' he said ' would you sleep with me for a pound? '
' Why Sir' she exclaimed ' what do you take me for????'
' We already established that madame... we were just haggling over the price! '

so

feel free to haggle, i may come down from the $15 mil

maybe

ouch

anyone got any vaseline?

[Nickp]

Astroglide mate.

I'd haggle too, but I won't dip below 9mil, all non-taxable.
-Nick P.

[bio]

Nickp makes me happy

[Rocketdork]

Nickp makes me happy

POOR, but happy. Dude I had no idea you made that much, I *NEED* to work in network ops!