Michael Jackson, June 25, 2009
Posted on 06/26/2009 4:27:09 AM PDT by kress
I was on vacation with my family in Iceland when my office called and shared the terrible news of Michael Jackson's passing. My wife and children were with me in the van. We could scarcely believe what we had heard. The children all remembered Michael fondly. He had given them their dog Marshmallow who is a member of our family until today. My daughter teared up. And while I was heartsick at the news, especially for his three young children, I was not shocked. I dreaded this day and knew it had to come sooner rather than later.
In the two years that I had attempted, ultimately unsuccessfully, to help Michael repair his life, what most frightened me was not that he would be arrested again for child molestation, although he later was. Rather it was that he would die. As I told CNN on April 22, 2004, "My great fear, and why I felt I had to be distanced from Michael ... was that he would not live long. My fear was that Michael's life would be cut short. When you have no ingredients of a healthy life, when you are totally detached from that which is normal, and when you are a super-celebrity you, God forbid, end up like Janis Joplin like Elvis... Michael is headed in that direction."
I am no prophet and it did not take a rocket scientist to see the impending doom. Michael was a man in tremendous pain and his tragedy was to medicate his pain away rather than addressing its root cause. On many occasions when I visited him he would emerge from his room woozy and clearly sedated. Who were the doctors who were giving him this stuff? Was there no one to save him from himself?
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
“What does KING OBAMA think of MJ’s passing”?
...that idiot won’t comment on North Korea, the Chicoms, Russia or anything else that could blow us to smithereens! He WILL however lament about the unfairness brough to MJ as a result of his being black! It’ll be the same for OJ when he kicks!
“Okay, so Michael Jackson died. Now, can we move on”?
...I couldn’t agree more! My secretary had all the details of this BS this morning, and I knew nothing of it until 10am(EST)!! My response to her was, “I think that the country going to hell in a handbasket is a tad more important to me right now”!
“Drug addicted sex pervert dead at 50.” Any other news about this is a waste of time.
Why? Well, he did save humanity and turn aside that asteroid that was headed for earth. All by himself, too.
Didn’t he?
I like this, found on another FR thread:
“The family has announced that since Michael was already 90 percent plastic, they will be melting him into Legos so little boys can play with him for a change.”
Not sure which thread or which poster.
May they find comfort in a renewed faith.
"Living with Michael Jackson" [MJ on sleeping with children: It's very charming. It's very sweet]
(transcipt and youtube video of the Martin Bashir interview)
Posted on Friday, June 26, 2009 10:03:14 AM ET by ETL:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2279938/posts
He didn’t need tough love so much as he need real love at the key developmental stages of his life. That is love not for his talent, his fame, his money, what he could do for other people, etc. but for his intrinsic worth — the kind of love that in its purest form comes from Christ, not flawed human beings. Boteach is on to something hear about spiritual lessons of Jacko’s tragic life. I see him as a window into the soul of many abused, exploited and therefore damaged people. He had the means/enablers to physically manifest the warped self-image that many keep inside.
I think so.
But this article truly made me cry. I wasn't a big Jackson fan, although I appreciated his talent and understood his effect on music and pop culture.
But his story is really the story of America. Opportunity to all, success, fame, extraordinary wealth, betrayal, idol worship, NAIVITE and...and ultimately, an untimely death...when Shmuley says at the end he prays for America, I totally understand what he means.
Prayers for the family. I've been reading reports about foul play.
Being in the same place, I hope Tiller somehow manages to give Michael an abortion.
Yours and Shmuleys reaction is a good one and very understandable but Shmuley does ask, “Was there no one to save him from himself? Was there no one to intervene?”.
As he says that reaction required real love but what would that love have looked like? I say it wouldn’t have looked soft or comforting. Calling him a pervert wouldn’t have been easy to say but maybe that’s what it would have taken to let him see he couldn’t have his behaviors and real approval too.
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