I don't have a problem with the rich when they're just living their lives.
And maybe this is a topic for another thread, but in the context of this one, I'm really fed up with a ridiculously unfair justice system. Yes, in other countries the justice systems are unfair, but we should have the best because we have so much freedom.
I'm fed up with seeing poor people suffer because the courts are too lazy to give them real justice. They could care less for someone who is poor, and the rich have an easy ride. I have a good friend at work who lost her kids to an asshole husband because he had money, and could afford a high priced lawyer. She is a waitress, and had to represent herself in court, no lawyer at all. God must have been with her for a while, because she did win custody for a short time, but in the end she didn't stand a chance. Yes, people can get public defenders, but I know people who work in the legal system. They tell me of public defenders who show up drunk, or hung over. Or, hell, don't bother showing up at all! All they want to ever do is plea bargain if they do bother to show up to defend you.
Look at Winona Ryder. She shoplifts thousands of dollars of merchandise, gets a celebrity lawyer, has people to massage the press, and she comes off scot free. Now, if that were some janitor or table busser, or any otherwise poor person, who had the exact same problem, and shoplifted that merchandise, their ass would be in jail!
Or look at sports stars and professional athletes - these guys can do whatever the hell they want, and except in rare cases, go away unconvicted. And on and on and on...
Someone mentioned a thought that I felt could nearly disprove God's existence in a thread a while back. Many of us believe that if there is a heaven, and we get there, obviously we will be tickling someone! I mean, come on! We spend half the time tickling, and the other half praising and thanking God that He let us do all that tickling.
Then someone said, hey, wouldn't a pedophile's dream of heaven be a harem of kids? The only way around that is if God sent them straight to hell, or "cured them" before they made it pass the pearly gates - I'll let other's here debate that one.
Well Michael Jackson's living heaven on Earth! I mean, come on! Does anyone else look at that Neverland Ranch, and think my God, this man is living the dream of every pedophile in history! He has millions of dollars, has built a whole ranch! He's not hiding in the corner, or slinking around some back alley. He has hundreds of children visit! How exactly do people get into Neverland Ranch? I've heard it's from invitation.
That's fucked up.
People talk a lot about the parents, ohh, what were the parents thinking? I'm thinking, I see "A" parent, but not a lot of parent"S". I'm seeing a lot of women, but not a lot of dads around Neverland Ranch. Of all the news footage, and footage of Jackson supporters, I see kids and moms. Don't pedophiles usually seek out single moms, because they will take in the man because they think he cares for them, but he is only after their children? And, if the dad were around, he'd shoot them before they could get near his kids. It's mostly, if not all, young boys who visit Neverland, and not girls. An investigator said that after these kids reach a certain age, Michael dumps them, and moves on to befriend other young boys. You don't see him hanging around a lot of people his own age.
If a person is accused of this crime, the LAST thing they should do is pay off the family to silence them like he did in 1993. They should fight this till the day they die. Michael Jackson is really acting guilty.
I'm a real forgiving guy - when someone is remorseful. Rush Limbaugh got hooked on drugs, got off drugs, put himself in rehab - I say Great Job! If Martha Stewart had simply apologized when all that crap with her started, she could have saved her business and shareholders millions of dollars, and quickly repaired her reputation. If the Catholic Church would have handled their own molestation crisis better, and not fought it until they couldn't fight it any more, maybe they would still have revelance in America. They opposed the war in Iraq - everyone laughed at them. The Pope wouldn't even visit America when he was right there in Canada! The public isn't so much quick to forgive, they just get busy looking for someone else to attack. It's no fun attacking someone who fesses up and humbly asks forgiveness.
Michael Jackson should have fessed up a decade ago. And I don't think he has any worries about reaching for the soap if a miracle happens and he is convicted - he'll be dead before he gets to that point. Yes, someone will surely want to be known as the guy who killed Michael Jackson.
