Comments on The Pensive Quill: Ben & Billie Jean

Fionnchú and Mick, not much to dsagree with there....

2009-06-30T06:19:27.510+01:00

Fionnchú and Mick, not much to dsagree with there. The power of wealth opened doors for him while closing them for others.

Was he really a boy who never wanted to grow up? o...

2009-06-29T13:13:07.589+01:00

Was he really a boy who never wanted to grow up? or an opportunist adult who took his pleasures where he found them and who was wealthy enough to get others to kick his failings into the long grass.

There are victims in all this, because a child's parents trade there sons hurt for $20 million does not make the child any less of a victim. Whether it was scoring drugs or satisfying his sexual appetite Jackson used his great wealth to circumvent the law.

I have no objection with him doing this when it came to taking drugs, it was his body after all. Although I spit in the face of the politicians who praise Jackson, but deny access to clean pharmaceutical drugs to the millions of poor souls who are addicted to illicit narcotics.

True we should make allowances for those who bring artistic pleasure into the world, but surely we should draw a line when they harm others.

There but for deeper pockets to settle out of cour...

2009-06-28T21:02:48.429+01:00

There but for deeper pockets to settle out of court ambles Gary Glitter! Media saturation of Jacko's demise overwhelms; my son told me in Britain his fame remained less dimmed than it's been in America, among most of us sensible people, the past quarter-century. The clips of his mincing voice and fey demeanor play and play on, strange tributes to the boy who never wanted to grow old. It's a shame that Nada Soltan's image has been so quickly shunted aside for this, but if it was any different, it'd be a different world than that where millions still worship this desperate, pedophilic, freakish, lonely man. Whatever the era, the gods we create remain strange and various.