[Hildy]

I don't know if he ever really truly molested those boys..he should never have been in the same bed, I grant you that...That's just my opinion..no need to start a fight..it's all moot now. He was a sad man-child. I heard someone else say that the reason he hung with children is because he believed they were the only ones who were honest with him.

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.

[Varda]

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.