I have been reading about all this on other forums as well as here, and unfortunately some of them have degenerated into pure disrespect for someone who gave more than he took. People only ever remember the bad, never the good.
No matter what you thought of the guy, and what he got up to, for the amount of enjoyment he gave to people around the world, he deserves the respect of everyone. Not to be turned into a circus side show, which is what is happening in the media at present, dragging up every bit of dirt they can find, just to boost viewing and listening figures. Is it really fantastic, world shattering news, that the removal men have been seen carrying blankets into his former residence. I heard that mentioned dozens of times over many hours when watching the news. Go into any hospital in the world, day or night and you will see blankets being moved about by the thousand. Never any mention of that.
Very little of the real true story ever comes out in situations like this, just little snippets of trivial or pure made up or conjectured garbage, which many people absorb and think it is a thing that should be set in stone and remembered forever. How I pity all the weak minded people who think that way.
I am sure that if someone went around chopping up a few people in public, using just a knife and fork, the Michael Jackson destruction story would be dropped like a ton of bricks, and be totally lost in the new media frenzy. CANNIBAL ON THE RAMPAGE.
So basically, to myself, although I was never a fan, he was a person who brought a little light into many peoples lives, and it can not be proved that he ever hurt anyone. So just let him be remembered as he was, one of the best entertainers the modern generations have had the pleasure to see and hear, wacko or not.
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