Michael Jackson Fights Back

[James S]

Silva,
Sorry if I might have sounded a little peeved in my last post. I don't really care about M.J. one way or another, but Leyla's info prompted me to look into this Mark Shaffel thing a bit, and as mentioned, I've spoken to people who are familiar with the workings of the porn industry, and it ain't pretty.

First of all, search under some of Mark Shaffel's aliases - such as Marc Fredrics, or Fred Schaffel. He's done the lot! Gay porn, straight, teen, you name it! Believe me, I'm not the kind that takes the view of "I read it on the internet so it must be true". I like to make up my own mind about things.

What I think about this matter, IMO, is that Michael Jackson, considering the investigation he has been under, and the bad publicity he has either recieved or generated, really can't afford to be seen as having an ongoing professional relationship with a director that can be linked, wether tentitavely or firmly, with any form of paedophillia, which, as mentioned before is a very unfortunate "behind the scenes" issue with teen porn.

That has to be about one of the longest sentences I've ever written!

I don't consider this issue to be one that should bring about any hostilities in forum members towards other forum members. Parmenion did ask for opinions. Leyla's opinions, from her perspective are just as valid as anyone elses. Yes there is some anger in her comments. This subject may be a bit more personal to her than to others. I don't judge her to be like this in general as I have read some very nice posts from her on other topics, but we all have our axes to grind from time to time.

Just trying to sit in the middle and dodge the bullets.
James.

[Leyla]

I am supportive of those falsly accused of child abuse, like the "West Memphis Three," accused of satanic child rape/murder, to whom I send letters and donate money.

I am also aware that in heated child-custody cases false charges crop up, and must be looked at with the raised eyebrow of suspicion. But outside of that, I think the word of children should be taken seriously.

The police interviews I saw from the cops who investigated the case seemed cut and dried to me. They clearly think he did it.

It all seemed to add up. His "peter pan"  persona, the fear of women in his auto-biography, the incest that runs in his family, the police testimony, his teen-porn associates.

It's not like I leapt blindly to this conclusion. It seems any reasonable person would be compelled by the evidence.  

[Parmenion]

During the 8 months that Mr Jackson was followed by a camera team he had his own camera team following Them. Monday night at 9:30pm on BBC (uk and ireland) he gives his own side of the story, including footage that was 'edited' by mr Bashir. I think everyone who was so quick to slate Jackson should take the time to listen to the OTHER side of the story.Then , by all means,  feel free to form ur own opinions.

Parmenion