THANK YOU!! I would be ticked off myself if I was being treated by the people who are supposed to be running my dead relative's estate like the Jacksons are being treated.
Michael knew his family before Branca, McClain and any others came into his life over the years. Many people on here automatically want to dismiss the Jacksons as greedy and opportunistic when they raise certain issues or do things without the estate's say so. While some members of the family have made questionable (yeah and even stupid) comments and actions, the entire family loved Michael, they are grieving for Michael and the way they are being treated as if THEY killed Michael is totally disrespectful. And for the record, even though Michael may have been carrying the load for the family at times, alot of Michael's more serious problems came from outsiders who successfully played the divide and conquer game. They knew of Michael's problems with Joe etc. They knew Michael outgrown being part of the Jackson 5/Jacksons. Even though in the beginning, Michael had a few good people within the industry working for him, as he gotten from being just a famous singer to the most famous entertainer in the world many of these people in the entertainment industry slithered into his life taking advantage of his kindness, naievity and insecurities and put that man through hell....MORE hell than Joe could ever put Michael through. And I'm not just referring to ones who were obvious snakes, I'm also referring to the ones who were wolves in sheep's clothing. Upstanding on the outside and sinister and calculating on the inside. These ones who were smiling in Michael's face while stabbing him in the back, while setting him up, while serving as sources for alot of salacious and harmful gossip about Michael which has been spread and accepted as truth for the past 17 or more years...even NOW a year after his death.
People want to talk about Joe and the rest of the family seeing and treating Michael like a cash cow? What about these vultures in the industry, who although they had and have money, there can NEVER be too much money to have? What about Michael's OWN words when he called alot of these people "charlatans" who steal from and cheat their artists and strong arm them with a 'rule or ruin' philosophy? Not to mention the media, who were and still are willing participants and who are always on call for the next 'expose' and 'scandal' they can make on Michael for the right price. Michael has made alot of these people in the industry and in the media rich. These jerks are the ones who REALLY saw Michael as nothing but a cash cow. And don't get me started on the people who entered into Michael's life only to falsely accuse him and ruin his reputation and put his life and freedom in jeopardy. People on here are so busy spouting off and looking at the Jacksons with a critical eye, the Jacksons are the LEAST to worry about when it comes to greed and crookedness and the ability and THE MEANS to do real lasting harm to Michael. People on here can say what they want, but Michael's family did not put him in his grave. THAT is a fact!!
I had to let it out because I for one have had enough of this crap!!
