Drdan said:
I don't understand why Mr. Jackson is the brunt of so many jokes; he's just misunderstood...
He sure looks like an alien to me!
Or as DIJ remarked at least a zombie.
Knowing a few rich people, I have found a lot of good, solid people, but there are a few that have the symptoms of Narcississtic Personality Disorder or NPD.
http://www.meta-religion.com/Psychiatry/Disorders/narcissistic_disorder.htm
They really feel that the rules everyone else is supposed to obey do not apply to them. For instance if they are stopped for speeding and they were at fault, they are likely to get mad at the cop and threaten to have him fired for singling them out and ticketing them.
It would appear that Jackson has done some very wrong things. Perhaps in the relative seclusion of his Neverland he felt the rules everyone else is supposed to play by, were suspended for him.
Not that I am accusing Jackson of pederasty, but it sure looks like the media thinks so, but I do have a close friend who is now 77 and was a pederast for almost 40 years before being caught. I had made friends with him before I found this out.
He was a pillar of the community. Multiple degress in medicine, psychaitry and religion. Brilliant and sensitive man.
Burned into my memory is the time he told me. I had asked to visit him and was sitting across from him in his living room when he told me. I must confess that I wanted to kill him right there. I think that pederasty is a horrible crime.
He offered me the chance to pick up and leave. I guess I was to stunned to move, so I talked with him about this. I did NOT want to know details.
He was, at the then age of 70, under house arrest. Forbidden to have a computer that could access the internet. Isolated with only a few, very few friends. His wife of 50 years had left him and refused to visit him during his prison term. She fianlly returned, but watched him carefully and was ready to turn him in if she suspected anything.
The broad brush: He was raised in a boy's school. He was molested at the age of 13 by an older man, a pillar of his community. When the man died, he began abusing younger boys. I did not ask for details.
He knew he had a serious problem, but he kept thinking that he had cured himself becasue he would go for 3 or 4 years without an 'episode.'
He could not seek therapy because they would have immediately pulled his licenses. A therapist is required to turn in pederasts and other serious criminal activities.
He finally began therapy in prison. The therapist, a woman, asked him the same question I asked : "How he could have done such a thing?" He told her that most pederasts consider it an act of love.
He said that she fixed her gaze on him, and said with an incredible intensity, "WHATEVER YOU CALL IT, NEVER CALL IT AN 'ACT OF LOVE!'"
The enormnity of his crimes hit him and he tried very hard to kill himself. He was on suicide watch for weeks.
Regarding pederasts, I do not believe in capital punishment. But I do believe in getting these people where they can not continue their pursuits and into serious therapy. Apparently, once started, there is a pernicious draw to return to pederasty, so anyone convicted should be under permenant supervision.
If this is the case with Jackson and it looks like it is, he needs to be put somewhere that he can not continue and carefully watched. It is also quite possible that some of the plaintiffs are just seeking money. I hope that the Courts can decide and take action.
Apologies for the long ramble.
