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Hollywood Predators vs. Michael Jackson
JUNE 21, 2014
by Vindicatemj (Helena)
tags: Bryan Singer, child abuse, Corey Feldman, David Neuman, Garth Ancier, Gary Goddard, Marc Collins-Rector, Michael Egan
These days we see an avalanche of revelations about sex abuse crimes committed against children.
The Sandusky and Savile cases, the scandal of the Labor party officials hushing up child abuse in the UK back in the 90s, Corey Feldman speaking of pedophilia as the Hollywood number one problem, Woody Allen’s daughter accusing him of molestation and the recent accusations of director Bryan Singer and other top executives of sexual crimes against youngsters – one case is piling up on top of another suggesting that what we
see now is only the tip of an iceberg.
On a background like this a legitimate question arises – if the scope of the problem is that big how come it was only Michael Jackson that the media has always been busy with?
Shouldn’t they have noticed anything else around them besides the allegations against Jackson?
A possible answer to this is that the media was never really interested in uncovering the problem of child sex abuse and was simply making permanent use of Michael Jackson as a means to raise their ratings, entertain the public and make money by publishing something scandalous about him which was not necessarily true but was sure to grab public attention and increase their sales.
The fun they were having while reporting the 2005 trial and recorded in the documentary film about the trial (by Dana Gedrick and Barry Shaw) makes us suspect that the media did know that the allegations were not for real and that the artificial hype created by the media around Michael Jackson was simply a guaranteed source of income for everyone feeding off this cruel business of the daily crashing of MJ’s bones.
Michael Egan alleges that Bryan Singer and three other Hollywood executives abused him at the age of 15-17 AFP/Getty
CORRECTING THE DISBALANCE
While Michael Jackson’s scandals were spinned, exaggerated and faked due to the media agenda and numerous crooks who took advantage of the situation for making a quick buck for themselves, real cases of child abuse went unnoticed, under-reported and silenced by the press.
This resulted in a huge disbalance in the public perception of Michael Jackson and all others who were ever suspected or accused of child molestation – the media hysteria around MJ left a long-lasting impression that there was something tangible to those allegations (though there was none), while the crimes of real abusers were hardly scratched on the surface, were swept under the carpet and the few scrambles that remained in public view only looked like something comparable to MJ’s case due to the ugly habit of thinking bad about Jackson forced on us by the media.
Michael Jackson’s detractors are making use of this disproportion in public perception and in their boundless hypocrisy claim that there is no difference between him and all others accused or even convicted of this crime.
No, there is a difference between them and a very big one at that. Michael was dissected under a magnifying glass for no less than 20 years and was nevertheless found clean and was fully acquitted, while the crimes of all those others go uninvestigated for decades despite numerous complaints from abused children and when someone cares to finally look, everyone freezes in horror with what they see, quickly convict and then hurry to forget.
What I mean is that the rules of the game for Michael Jackson and all others were made different. And because of that the value of his not-guilty verdict is also different. Because what has been learned as a result of 20 years of research can never compare with a study of several months only. And since Michael was under the closest scrutiny for almost 20 years the value of his acquittal is incomparably higher.
In fact it is a sort of a gold standard in comparison with the quick fix done by the justice system for some criminals who were caught red-handed at the final moment of their criminal career.
And throwing him into the same class as the real predators is the same as throwing a criminal and an innocent man into one cell solely on the grounds that both were once suspected of a similar crime.
Despite the obvious injustice of such an approach this is nevertheless what is happening to Michael Jackson on a routine basis.
The last straw that broke my back in this connection was a photo recently published on the Internet. It came with a story about sex abuse allegations made by Michael Egan against film-director Bryan Singer and three more Hollywood executives. The text was quoting Corey Feldman’s book where he said that pedophilia is the number one problem in Hollywood and the photo in question was accompanying the text.
THE PHOTO
This is the photo they saw fit to illustrate Corey Feldman’s words with:
The shameful media manipulation with MJ’s image and Corey Feldman’s words
The abomination of what they’ve done here is simply beyond description.
To illustrate Corey Feldman’s words about the child abuse problem ravaging Hollywood they used the picture of a man who was thoroughly investigated and fully acquitted on all counts and who never did any harm to any of the men depicted in the picture (or anyone at all).
Never mind the fact that Corey Feldman spoke of Michael Jackson never once acting inappropriately toward him.
I have also read untrue statements attributed to me during his trial. Stating that I had said that he showed me porn magazines, or left them lying around his house. Again totally untrue…I never said that. I have also seen countless references to him molesting me or us having a sexual relationship. Let me be very clear 1 more time. Michael Jackson NEVER tried to touch me in an inappropriate way. (from Corey Feldman’s blog)
Never mind that Corey Feldman said that ‘of all people’ Michael Jackson never took advantage of the vulnerable teenager he was.
Corey Feldman: I’m saying that there are people that did this to both me and Corey Haim that are still working, that are still out there, and they are some of the richest and most powerful people in this business.
Walters: Are you saying that they are pedophiles?
Feldman: Yes.
Walters: And that they are still in this business?
Feldman: YES. They don’t want me here right now. They want me dead.
Walters: You are damaging an entire industry!
Feldman: I’m sorry, I’m not trying to. I’m just trying to say it’s a very important, serious topic.
Sherri Shepherd: There is one gentleman in this industry who did NOT take advantage of you. He was not a pedophile. You said it was Michael Jackson.
Feldman: Of all people!
Never mind that after the horrors of abuse Corey sustained in the hands of other people Michael Jackson was actually the one to whom he turned for normalcy and it was Michael Jackson indeed who brought him back to his innocence.
Feldman’s childhood was so troubled that he looked to his friend Michael Jackson, introduced to him by director Steven Spielberg, for normalcy. “Michael Jackson’s world, crazy as it sounds, had become my happy place,” he writes. “Being with Michael brought me back to my innocence. When I was with Michael, it was like being 10 years old again.” Feldman stresses in the book that Jackson never once acted inappropriately toward him.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/22/showbiz/...k-ew/index.html
Never mind that when questioned by the Santa Barbara sheriffs in 1993 Corey Feldman actually gave the names of his real abusers but no one paid attention to them as the sheriffs were solely after Michael Jackson. Radaronline has the tape now and even knows the names of these people but for some reason does not think it possible to reproduce the recording in full:
We have uncovered a recording of the Stand By Me actor’s interview with Santa Barbara sheriffs, recorded in December 1993 when he was aged 22, during which he told them: “I myself was molested. Shockingly, Feldman actually named his alleged abusers — we have excluded them from the excerpt, below — but the detectives expressed little interest in investigating the monsters, lasering in on the “King Of Pop” instead.
“I know what it’s like to go through those feelings and believe me, the person who molested me, if this was him that did that to me, this would be a different story,” Feldman told Sgt. Deborah Linden and Detective Russ Birchim.
“I would be out there, up front, doing something immediately to have this man given what was due to him.”
The frustrated star is now questioning why his report went nowhere. “All names were given to police before statute had run out but they did zero,” he wrote to a fan on Twitter recently, who had asked why he did not report the men to authorities.
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to Radar’s request for comment and questions as to why it did not investigate the matter.
Never mind that Corey Feldman said that the problem of people who use, abuse and discard youngsters as damaged goods is an overwhelming one in Hollywood:
“Feldman claimed on a 2011 episode of Nightline and repeats in the book that the “number one problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia.”
“Corey and I were pegged as the scapegoats,” said Feldman. “People need to know the reason Corey and I were swept under the carpet like the beaten dogs that were sent to the pound so no one had to deal with us anymore. I stood up and said there is a bigger problem, that I’d lost Corey and that I didn’t want to see any more kids lost to these sick perverts.”
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012...busers-new-book
Never mind even the fact that the subject of the article is actually Bryan Singer, Garth Ancier, David Neuman and Gary Goddard and absolutely not about MJ.
Despite all that they are still using the picture of Michael Jackson to illustrate the problem and even add to it Macauley Culkin who always strongly spoke in the defense of Michael’s innocence!
What they are doing is a complete disgrace.
Of course it is an intentional attempt to smear Michael’s name – for an umpteenth time, and let us not explain it by a simple blunder or downplay its damaging effect. Dirty media tricks like that are extremely damaging and it is as a result of these manipulations that the public vision of Michael Jackson is heavily distorted. This is why each time molestation issues are raised his ‘case’ is regarded as something big (while it is virtually non-existent) while real abusers, even those who were convicted of their crimes, still look like a tiny spot far on the horizon.
I am asking you to take off these distortion-vision spectacles and restore the reality to its right proportions. To help you with the task I suggest looking at others accused of similar things and making a quick check-up between the evidence here and there as well as imagine how the same would look like had it been Michael Jackson in their place.
An experience like this is indispensable, especially in a situation when several years after Michael’s death Wade Robson and Safechuck suddenly recalled their own abuse. For telling fiction from reality there is nothing like the sad experience of real sex abuse victims and a chance to compare them with stories like the one told by Robson now is priceless.
BRYAN SINGER, GARTH ANCIER, GARY GODDARD, DAVID NEUMAN
By way of introduction of the lawsuit filed by Michael Egan and another young man against their alleged abusers Bryan Singer, Garth Ancier, Gary Goddard and David Neuman, here is a photo taken at one of the parties hosted by director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, 2012) and frequented by X-Men director Bryan Singer.
http://vindicatemj.wordpress.com/2014/06/2...ichael-jackson/
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