So it finally happened: Michael Jackson in handcuffs and about to answer for his many crimes. It’s about time. I believed that the man was guilty ten years ago and I believe that he is guilty today. In fact, I think we might have some of the proof on tape.

Last night one cable channel re-aired the recent documentary by British filmmaker Martin Bashir, entitled Living With Michael Jackson. In that video, we see Michael sitting (and holding hands) with a young boy identified only as ‘Gavin.’ The scene is distrusting to watch: even moreso now than it was at the time. Though he is only briefly onscreen we learn five important facts about ‘Gavin’ in Bashir’s documentary: he’s twelve years old, he’s been diagnosed with terminal cancer, he’s received assistance in his treatment from Michael, he has a younger brother, and his appearance indicates that he could conceivably be from (or have relatives in) South America. Oh, yes, a sixth fact as well: he spent nights in Michael Jackson’s bed.

All of this is important because we have since learned the following about Jackson’s alleged (and so far unnamed) victim: he’s twelve, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he received financial assistance from Michael Jackson, he has a younger brother whom Jackson may have also molested, and according to friends of the boy’s family, he sought to ship them to South America. One is left to wonder many things.

This is all very disturbing. I can recall watching Bashir’s documentary last February and thinking to myself, “there is something very wrong here.” I am left to wonder: why did it take until now, nearly ten months later, for this to all come to light? How many other people (such as Jackson’s friends and employees) watched this and did nothing? Questions abound.

The full power of the law needs to be brought to bear against Michael Jackson. If it were up to me, I’d have him physically castrated and then hanged. Why has this predator been allowed to roam free for so many years? How many other victims are there? No expense should be sparred in putting this trash where he belongs.

Listening to Jackson speak on Bashir’s documentary, I can now hear the distant chorus of the future ‘pedophile rights’ movement that I have long prophesized. Jackson’s words, in which he describes his supposed great love for children, often sound like the self-rationalization of a child molester. They also sound like words lifted from some future university course deriding the prosecution of child abusers as the product of a less-enlightened and bygone age.

The mainstreaming of pedophilia has already begun. Leaving aside the issue of NAMBLA (the North American Man-Boy Love Association and its ties to the gay rights movement, there is the far more pressing concern that child sexual abuse is being destigmatized and legitimized by some in the psychiatric profession. In 1998 the APA Bulletin published a report entitled A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples. Written by Bruce Rind, Phillip Tromovitch and Robert Bauserman the report, according to one press account, “claimed child sexual abuse could be harmless and beneficial.”

I’ve read this report myself and, quite frankly, it was so disgusting that I felt like throwing up while reading it. At one point the authors repeatedly deny that Child Sexual Abuse is harmful, claiming at one point that the, “data do(es) not support the assumption of wide-scale psychological harm from CSA.” Later they warn that, “Classifying a behavior as abuse simply because it is generally viewed as immoral or defined as illegal is problematic,” and claim that, “the history of attitudes toward sexuality provides numerous examples,” before going on to suggest that today’s popular hatred of pedophilia is the same as previous denunciations of practices such as masturbation and homosexuality. At another point they suggest that scientific terms must be redefined so that, “a willing encounter with positive reactions would be labeled (sic) simply adult-child sex, a value-neutral term.” Upon the release of the study NAMBLA issued a press release praising the study which, it said, showed that, “the current war on boylovers has no basis in science.”

Michael Jackson: future martyr of ‘boylovers’ everywhere? Only time shall tell.