Michael Jackson Put 'Curse' on Spielberg-Magazine

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[AnAmericanMother]

double-dutch is a cousin of Oppish, which (along with Pig Latin) is the kid's code spoken here locally (North Georgia).

MopI dopaughtoper spopeaks flopuopent Oppopoppish. Opit dropives mope cropazopy.

Or something like that. :-)

[AppyPappy]

It's a TWIN SPIN....TWIN SPIN!!

[aruanan]

Help him? The guy just contracted for the murder of 25 people. A long term in prison is the proper "treatment".

Your assignment is to go back through this thread and

1. locate every instance where someone has assumed something as true because it was published (and because they wish it to be true) and has drawn from it an irrelevant conclusion;
2. compare this behavior to what people on FR regularly excoriate in knee-jerk PETA and Democratic Underground types;
3. try to demonstrate any real difference between the two; and
4. calculate the percentage of your own contribution to this mindlessness.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I have made fun of him quite a bit.. and after I saw the interview on Fox I thought I would refrain from riding on the band wagon any further.

[per loin]

Yes, but this is hardly conspiracy to commit murder

If the story is as reported, it is conspiracy to commit murder. He paid to have 25 people killed, and took action to bring about that killing. The factual impossibility of the conspiracy actually working is not a valid defense.

[per loin]

Yours is to look up the definition of conspiracy, and to find out whether factual imossibility is a valid defense.

[JudyB1938]

You're right, actually. The bottom line IS the same!

[Diva Betsy Ross]

No, if the story is as reported ( which I doubt) then he paid a vodo guy $150,00 to sacrifice cows and cast some vodo. Please get a grip. I suppose you believe MJ also has bleached his skin. The only black person to do so. I think others would folow suit and become white if they could. It is so silly. Have you ever gotten bleach on you skin. If he soaked in it he would not have any skin left.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

So, if you sit in your house and wish someone dead , and they end up getting hit by a car the next day... did you murder them or just conspire to murder them. I would love to see a jury on that one.

[per loin]

...once paid $150,000 for a "voodoo curse" to kill director Steven Spielberg despite being deep in debt, Vanity Fair magazine reported on Monday......

Vanity Fair reported in the article that in 2000 Jackson attended a voodoo ritual in Switzerland where a witch doctor promised that Spielberg, music mogul David Geffen and 23 other people on the entertainer's list of enemies would die.

Jackson, who underwent a "blood bath" as part of the ritual, then ordered his former business adviser Myung-Ho Lee to wire $150,000 to a bank in Mali for a voodoo chief named Baba, who sacrificed 42 cows for the ceremony, the magazine reported.

[per loin]

At least two persons are necessary for a conspiracy. Do you really not know that?

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I already read the article. What is your point. Like I said IF THE STORY IS EVEN TRUE he paid a vodo guy money for a spell, a cuse... You are just making my point.

[Carolinamom]

LOL! Got it. Those pressure washers really, really work!

[per loin]

Are you familiar with the meaning of the phrase "to kill"?

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Oh, okay... So you and your friend are seated inside your house and you wish a person dead. The person then gets hit by a car. Are you guility of murder or conspiricy to murder. Why not answer the question and stop with the dodge ball game.

[Xenalyte]

Ping for some crazy shiznit!

[1Old Pro]

According to the magazine, Jackson's extravagant lifestyle and declining record sales have left him $240 million in debt.

Sweet.

[per loin]

I doubt that any charges could be brought in such a case. But in the Michael Jackson case, we have him going to someone who purports to be a voodoo "hit man", and pays him $6000 each to murder 25 people. Chargeable!

[Oztrich Boy]

We're not discussing what you wish to yourself.
The situation is if you pay someone to exert their best effort to kill someone else, even if such efforts are ineffective you have still committed a crime

[per loin]

Right. I'm glad that at least one other person here sees that law should apply to Michael Jackson.