Well, I am by all means what one could call a "liberal", although I don't vote for the Liberal party of Canada because I think their policies are too right winged (
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Having said that, I think Michael Jackson is a mental case. I have no idea if he is guilty in this very particular case, but I know from his own admission that he is obsessed with children and that he likes to lie down in bed with them. I don't believe for one second that nothing else than sleep happens during these nights.
I think he is sick, and I think his place is not in jail for 3 years, but indefinately in a mental institution.
And about his father: that's what HE claims. But I suspect he is having dillusions. I think he may actually believe it to be true sometimes, but I don't think it's true. His parents, his brothers and sisters, friends of the family, all say that Mr. Jackson is incapable of such things. Oh, he may have beeing way wrong in pushing the Jackson brothers into showbusiness at such a young age, maybe pushing them too hard even (mentally, not physically), and maybe Michael Jackson's mental sickness comes from there originally, but I don't believe his dad abused him physically. I just think Wacko Jacko is really really wacko. Not a criminal, just plain nuts.