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Sunday, February 09, 2003

Whilst I am in my ranting mode, I have been thinking of the awesome Mr Michael Jackson. Yes he is rather wacky, that's one of the effects it seems of having vast sums of money. I mean what do you do with it after you have had three square meals, bought yourself a dozen mansions, twice as many expensive cars etc. etc. Mr Jackson is in the same bracket of numerous celebrity weirdos. e.g. Elton John (£250,000 on flowers?), Elvis who seems to have spent half his fortune on hamburgers and Jimmy Savile who is just plain weird to name a few. I mean these characters begin to believe the publicity that the media and we the public create for them. We make them into demi gods, and then are surprised when they begin to behave accordingly. As a qualified social worker, I say the jury is out as to whether Mr Jackson represents a signficant risk to his children. I am worried about those horrible veil things that he insists on putting over the children's heads as he parades them to his gloating public. I am deeply worried by his assertion that they don't need their mothers. How arrogant! Problem is we now live in societies where children have become commodities. We can have them without parents; we can have them and chose not to have one or other of the biological parent involved. We can design them to our exact specification, blue eyes, blonde hair, etc.. We can go abroad to abuse them.

Why is Jackson so reviled? Probably because he is a billionaire Black man. Truth is if he were your average joe bloggs on a council estate, those children would be on a child protection register double quick time; but he is rich, super rich and there has always been different laws for the rich and different laws for joe bloggs. Is he a child molester preaching to paedophiles? No I don't think so. I think he is a very confused 44-year-old man whose vast wealth has been an obstacle in any self-reflection, as vast wealth so often is.

I do believe he genuinely loves children and through them has found ways of reliving the childhood that he never had, his toyhouse, his playground, his over priced pound shop thingy-me-bobs. If people are getting the wrong messages about his attraction to small children, it maybe because of what they already have in their own minds. I watch the programme with apt attention and it certainly did not make feel that I should be out there abusing children, but then I respect children's right not to have their childhood imposed upon by pathetic adults who cannot make adult relationships.

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.: posted by womanist 11:08 AM


It's me again. I was wondering how on earth a blanket bombing of Bagdad is going to seal Mr Hussein's fate. I should think he will be long gone from Bagdad by the time ours and the American bombers start on their assault. Wouldn't it be much more sensible to send in a James Bond style character to get the bad guy? After all James always gets his man.....

.: posted by womanist 10:43 AM


I am niether a christian nor a pacifist, but a Labour supporter since age 17 and a loyal Briton. I am deeply saddened that our Prime Minister has decided to join America in taking us into a war that in my mind is simply not justified. I think Blair and Bush are going to war for reasons that are completely insidious. Like the majority of people around the world, it does sound to me that Mr Saddam Hussein is a thorougly nasty character and should not be in charge of his nation, but isn't that for his people to decide? If America and Britain are so keen on getting rid of despotic leaders, where were they a few years ago when one million civilians, including thousands of women and children were massacred in Rwanda?

Where were they for the 28 years that Mandela was incarcerated on Robben Island and when black people were being murdered in their thousands by a brutal white South Africa Regime? Why are they not present in South America where innocent people are systematically tortured, killed or simply made to disappear by the drug barons who are more ofen than not intrinsically linked to corrupt politicians? And Bush, the man who stole the election by making obsolete the votes of thousands of Black and Jewish people in the Southern States, are we really supposed to trust him now? We apparently have terrorists right here on our own door step. Only a few days ago, the gunmen were at it again in Northern Ireland. We can't sort out own own domestic problems, but we ccan apparently sort out Iraq's.

So-called weapons of mass destruction are an evil created by Western countries. No nation should have them. If America and Britain are really so keen on peace, they should each make a pledge now to start putting their weapons of mass destruction beyond use. Look what some Americans have been doing with guns! Why should we trust a president of a country where one of its citizen is killed by gunfire every 4 minutes. Come on Mr Blair and Mr Bush, stop defending the indefensible.

On a pragmatic note, neither governments have been able to catch Mr Hussein in 12 years, do they have to kill thousands of innocent people not to catch him again? And what of Bin Laden?

.: posted by womanist 8:08 AM