Thread by @AndrewGreene864

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty Feel free to read these comments on your next podcast, but after listening to the podcast it appears as though Jamie’s biggest issue may have been MJ sharing a room with people. Allow me to address that for you in this thread as sensitive and forthright as I can:

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty Is the behavior in itself criminal? The answer to that is a resounding “no.”

Is it possible for an adult to share a room or a piece of furniture with a child for sleep without sexual arousal? The answer to this is “yes.”

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty Now let’s clarify a few things: Jackson has never invited any children to his bed. Jackson has never pursued any child, they(and their parents) have only ever pursued him.

Michael Jackson didn’t just share his room with People of a certain age or sex.

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty Michael Jackson bedroom wasn’t an intimate setting like most people’s. He had a “no room off limits” policy, except his office, with 24-hour staff allowed to come and go when needed.

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty Kids and parents weren’t strangers he just met off the streets, they were families he built friendships and bonds with, sort of like friends and relatives that you would allow to babysit your kids.

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty Jackson’s room was a two-story bedroom, larger than my first house. Let’s hear Culkin’s take on these sleep sleepovers.

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty More people have described their experience as being similar to Macaulay Culkin‘s, than those who have falsely accused Jackson of child abuse. To believe the false allegations is to ignore dozens of witnesses, including the likes of Elizabeth Taylor.

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty Some think that Jackson having a home which included an amusement park is somehow proof he is a pedophile. In fact, Jackson owning Neverland is the exact opposite of what a pedophile would do. Jackson has never fit the profile of a pedophile.

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty In 2006, ABC ran a television special that with a line up of psychologists all stating that Jackson’s behavior is unusual for a pedophile.

Dr. Fred Berlin, a psychiatric expert in pedophilia at Johns Hopkins University said Jackson

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty only wants to preserve his childlike demeanor and that he seems proud of it.

Ryan Finkenbine, of West Virginia University Medical School, said “he seems stuck in Childhood himself.”

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty The ABC special also included Michael Borack, a forensic psychiatrist at who has evaluated many pedophiles, who says Jackson does not fit the usual profile.

He goes on to say that, "Jackson eccentric behavior is not typical of most offenders," "Most offenders are 'normal' people

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty who could be your neighbors, not freaky or weird."
Most pedophiles will keep toys or other such appealing items around to lure children, but they do not usually play with the items much themselves, like Jackson.”

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty Richard Lawlor, chief of Outpatient Forensic Child Psychiatry Services at the Indiana School of Medicine, says Jackson's childish demeanor would be rare among pedophiles. "I don't think that kind of behavior is very common."

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty Then there’s Slate's Jacob Weisberg who argued forcefully that Jackson did not fit the typical profile of a sexual predator.

He says, “Child abusers tend to do the same thing again and again. According to one study, the average molester of boys commits 280 crimes over a lifetim

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty And there’s Dr. Dieter Speck, Doctor of psychology, who famously said EXACTLY what Jackson meant. He said Jackson didn’t sleep with children, he slept BESIDE them.

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty This description is supported by Bret Barnes, who remains a stark defender of Michael Jackson today, who says that Michael Jackson slept on one side, and he slept on the other, exactly how Dr. Speck described what Jackson did.

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty Jordan even told Dr. Gardner that in Las Vegas he shared a bed with Jackson and there was no physical contact and it was a big bed.

Even Wade Robson, when he was telling the truth as a child, and his sister Chantal explained that the sleepovers were exactly as Brett described it

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty And recently, in an anti- Michael Jackson special on Discovery Channel, their body language expert concluded that Jackson told the truth when he said him sharing a bed with kids was not sexual.

So, would I allow my children to share a room with with a random adult? No.

@JamieKennedy @DanKaraty Would I allow them to share a room with Michael Jackson? If it’s as Culkin, MJ’s nephew Taj Jackson, and Brett Barnes described, then yes. I would feel like they are totally safe and that they’re in great hands with 24-hour staff and security.