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Michael Jackson’s Child Porn

“Boys Will Be Boys” by James Daly
More than a book review.

In 1975, James Daly published a little book that is one of those books that looks like a children’s book but is written for the child in the adults who happen upon it. It’s a “celebration of the adventurous spirit in every little boy. The definition of a boy graces the back cover… “A Boy is the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.”

Daly isn’t the author for the “author” is the great artists and thinkers of our time in the life of their poems and quotes illustrated by Daly’s sweet pastel works that have us know the boys and the subject matter with a few brush strokes of romantic realism.

This book, “Boys Will Be Boys” is one of the books cited by Thomas Sneddon as a pornographic collection of boys in various states of undress that was seized in the raid on Neverland to collect evidence of Michael Jackson’s crimes against children.

It was placed into evidence as proof of Jackson’s collection of “child pornography.” I wanted to see what this book was about and what it looked like. And I wanted to see what Sneddon saw in its pages—proof that MJ was a deviant.

The cover is a Daly painting on a background of forest green. It depicts a group of boys cavorting in a swimming hole with one suspended in midair soon to join the rest who are up to their necks in summer play. The boy jumping into the water is shirtless and has cut off jeans on and is barefoot— appropriate impromptu bathing attire. There is no nudity.

The inside cover of the edition I purchased is inscribed to a male and female- James and Wendy from a woman and man signing Uncle somebody. It was apparently given as a gift. Harvest House Publishers in Eugene, Oregon published the book and everyone knows Eugene, Oregon is a very forward thinking eco-community and spiritual place.

A caveat on the copyright page says that the publisher has made every effort to trace the ownership of all poems and quotes that include a few from the Holy Bible published by the International Bible Society and used with permission. The text copyright date is 2004 and the copyright is affixed for Daly’s artwork but no dates are given. There is contact information in case of the reader’s interest in securing prints of the paintings.

The only undressed male child in the entire book is on the page opposite the credits page and it is a boy in a diaper holding a hose and filling an old time washtub with water while a beagle puppy in the tub awaits his bath. In the foreground are a child’s trucks and toys. It’s the kind of scene you might see in any front or back yard in the heat of summer.

The accompanying quote is by Mark Twain and it talks about how every boy has a hankering to go and search for buried treasure.

The next plate is a boy dressed in shirt and overalls pulling a wagon uphill that hosts a stuffed teddy bear in the back. The page has two quotes—from Robert Louis Stevenson and James Thurber. They both speak to what boys will do when they are grown—guard their toys and escape understanding.

The next page is a boy fishing in his secret spot and shows a barefoot boy in bib coveralls and the requisite flannel shirt reeling in what looks to be a perch to add to the string of perch he’s already landed.

The next page has a title “First Meeting” and depicts a boy, again in bibs meeting a young colt face to face. This time the boy wears a cap.

The next plate is a misty blue and shows a boy in bib overalls and long sleeve shirt, with his dog at his side at dusk, perhaps? He is flying a kite while his companion, dressed identically but with a sideways cowboy hat repairs his in the grass nearby.

The next page looks like a children’s version of “Beat It” as two boys dressed in bib overalls and long sleeve shirts face of with jutted chins and clenched fists in front of a barn. One wears a straw hat with brim and the other a captains hat and a slingshot in his pocket.

Page 9 is another misty plate—this time green and features three quotes: one from Louisa May Alcott, another from Vice President Hubert Humphrey and the third from the Holy Bible. Alcott speaks of a young boy’s indifference to girls becoming abject slavery to them a few years later. Humphrey says how each child is an adventure and opportunity for change and the Ecclesiastes Bible verse advises to let your heart give you joy in your youth and to follow the ways of the heart.

The next page features Shakespeare warning of boys with bugs and Bradford Angler speaking of the fun of being a kid. A selection from Horatio Alger’s The Cash Boy about humility and starting a baseball club and electing a leader- if you build it, they will come.

The three boys on the next page, a painting alone, appear to be playing rock, paper, scissors to decide who as the caption says, it the “odd man out.” The three are dressed in bibs, one in slacks with suspenders and all in long shirts, one vest and all in hats. The beagle puppy accompanies them.

Next we see a boy in bibs and long shirt shooting marbles on the ground with his straw hat at his side. Louisa May Alcott’s Jack and Jill excerpt is about children skating and sledding in Winter. The two quotes on the page speak to the remarkableness of children: James Whitehead calls them messages sent to a time we will not see and Aldous Huxley says this:

Children are remarkable
for their intelligence and ardor,
for their curiosity, their intolerance
of shams, the clarity and
ruthlessness of their vision.

Isn’t that exactly what Michael Jackson said about children?

The next page features the title “Close Inspection” and is a painting of a boy in bibs, long shirt and hat examining a Monarch butterfly that just landed on his chest.
Turn the page and find two little girls in pinafore dresses who appear to be looking at a Bible (two columns of verses on the page) under the supervision of an older boy wearing jeans and a flannel shirt—their older brother, maybe?

The next blue dusky plate shows a Huckleberry Finn character raking leaves with his dog and the first quote on that page is by Dr. James Dobson from Bringing Up Boy about the rebellious kid and tells of the tongue-in-cheek definitions of girls and boys—“sugar and spice and everything nice” and “snakes and snails and puppy dog tails.”

George Crabbe’s quote talks about trying to be good but the next quote by Frances Hodges Burnett from Little Lord Fauntleroy is chilling:

But it so happened that nature
had given to the youngest son gifts which
she had not bestowed upon his elder
brothers. He had a beautiful face and a
fine, strong, graceful figure; he had a bright
smile and a sweet, gay voice; he was brave
and generous, and had the kindest heart
In the world, and seemed to have the power
to make every one love him.

The next page is a painting of a boy leaned over on his stomach in a tire swing with a girl at the top of the tire straddling the rope that hangs it from the tree. The boy’s dog is nearby looking upward. Both are fully dressed, however, this plate is a little risqué for… while the boy is studying the ground, the dog appears to be looking directly up the girl’s skirt.

And that peek-a-boo dog is the raciest thing in this little childrens’ book. Boys cavorting carefree with no thought of the heavy responsibilities that will be foisted upon then soon enough as they stand at the threshold of: teenager.

More cavorting. Pimples. Deodorant. Girls. Prom.

For most boys to men, that is. For Michael Jackson this little book would have been an eerie glimpse into “normal male childhood”—something he would never know. “Have you seen my childhood?”

The rest of his seized porn collection would include Playboys and Hustlers and naughty girl movies. For any red-blooded heterosexual male, this would be normal and proof of the masculine libido maturing. It would be fodder for guffaws and locker room back-slapping. For Michael Jackson, those rules don’t apply.

Seems they never will. Now they’re trying to kill him again with newly hyped stories about old news introduced in a courtroom long ago where he was found innocent on 14 (count ’em) charges. How many times to you have to kick a body to prove to yourself it’s already dead? How long will you need to revisit this macabre ritual annually?

But then it’s not any corpse is it; it’s Michael Jackson and anything goes for there is no moral compass for “journalists” when it comes to Jackson, the most prolific artist of the twentieth century and the most famous man in the world who just happened to be black and wealthy—a monumental taboo lest black lives actually– one day– matter.

The annual regurgitation of tabloid swill isn’t an attempt to put it to rest once and for all what and who Michael Jackson really was “so we can admit the truth all move on…” it’s the further mutilation of a corpse. We have already moved on– to loftier thoughts and remembrances. It’s you smut-peddling yellow journalists who seem unable to let go of him. The guilty like to bury their crimes in deep graves with shallow motives. Now comes the yearly attempt to justify the global crucifixion of a man for game and sport and to cover over the guilt of those who marched him to his grave and the complicity of the rest of us. Throw on yet another layer of dirt.

Jackson died because he couldn’t get any rest. He lived with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the relentless bullying he suffered at the hands of those who perpetually and shamelessly used his name to make a name for themselves. They’re still at it. Take a good look at who they are. Criminals often return to the scene of their crime. Sadists revisit the act itself– over and over and over.

8 Comments

  1. Judith Mason said . . .

    Excellent, Barbara. Truly EXCELLENT!

    Posted June 26, 2016 at 3:48 am | Permalink
  2. Dalia Burgos García said . . .

    Given these events, my sister who is not a fan of MJ gave me advice. She said I can not defeat MJ from an enemy powerful as the media. I should give up and settle for knowing the truth while the world ignored. There is no point fighting for a truth that is being manipulated by powerful people who will never stop.

    Posted June 29, 2016 at 3:00 am | Permalink
  3. Dalia Burgos García said . . .

    I mean…when MJ fans we are desparate we share the links of the tabloids to our MJ fan friends to try to do something, commenting on the defaming BUT at the same time we are helping the tabloids to reach many visits to their pages and they profit….

    Posted June 29, 2016 at 3:06 am | Permalink
  4. B. Kaufmann said . . .

    They know you cannot resist clicking because you’re angry and curious- that’s precisely why they begin these smear campaigns. They know MJ fans will react and increase their traffic, their exposure and they will gain more readers. It’s absolutely cynical and evil baiting for gain.

    Posted June 29, 2016 at 5:11 pm | Permalink
  5. vulcan said . . .

    [This is not your original comment/s.] ~ Rev B

    Posted June 29, 2016 at 11:19 pm | Permalink
  6. B. Kaufmann said . . .

    Actually the media panders to its readers. And the media responds to public opinion and especially to something that is going to impact its bottom line- which is $$$ money. Media is based on consumers so if you don’t tell them what you want, they will produce more of the same. They employ psychologists and focus groups to predict what they think the “public” wants. And they are not above using subliminal suggestion to get you to “buy” something– a product or “truth” they’re peddling. YOU are the public.

    We live in a time of transition. The world is a compilation of what is living inside the human psyche. In terms of evolution of the species, there are 2 measurements– the evolution of the human being or physical manifestation and human consciousness. There is always a micro-cosmic and macro-comic representation of all things or the singular and the collective. Singularly, we are individuals doing our own thing and collectively, we are the sum of human consciousness. The race, just like the individual human grows through stages– gestation, birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, mature adulthood, etc. The collective race is struggling through its adolescence and trying to come into adulthood. If you look at the race in general, you will see the recklessness and cavalier attitude of adolescence playing itself out in the world– we have been reckless, juvenile and irresponsible with our attitude toward life (the sanctity) and toward weapons. We bully others and have a hard time finding our own identity and get defensive when called out on behaviors. That is all reminiscent of a teenager with tight britches. There are some areas where we are beginning to show our maturity as we grow into it as a race.

    So we are all engaged in “growing ourselves up” and that is a messy business. Name calling, bullying, making fun of those who are different, rebellion, “otherizing” people in order to make self feel important or superior are characteristics of a being in the throes of adolescence. There are those leaders on the planet (not necessarily in political leadership positions) who influence the race toward maturity, benevolence, empathy, compassion, community and unity– which are characteristics of wisdom and maturity.

    The media is going to reflect the status of the racial maturity. The race is waking up. The media will shift as the race awakens to the values of unity and community. There is evidence of it everywhere but since the “vibe” is one of rebellion, disruption, attention seeking, sensation and adolescent “drama,” the media still reflects that. But it is changing. When a paradigm is getting ready to change, you will see a push back and a strong resistance to the change that is trying to be born. Civility in social media is at a low and when that gets tiresome and the paradigm is filled up (we cry enough!) it will change.

    We each has to ask ourselves what we stand for, what we believe in, what we will tolerate, and where we will be leaders or bystanders. We have to ask: “Am I part of the problem or part of the solution?” And our answer must be brutally honest. That doesn’t mean we get paralyzed by any guilt but that we make an honest and heroic effort to BE THE CHANGE WE WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD.

    The tabloid industry is dying. They know they are destined for death. The endeavors, businesses and industries that support the adolescent stage of human development are destined to fail because we can’t go backwards (although we can delay or digress for a time) because we are growing toward our own wisdom and brilliance (enlightenment.) Every dying entity makes a grand heroic effort to survive– call it a last gasp if you will. And we are seeing that now. If you believe we have had enough of looking at our own shadow, then be vocal about that. Help it die. Meanwhile, it’s chaotic out there– and chaos theory says it needs to be chaotic before change can occur. Growth is work.

    So- give up if you want to or vow to be the change and role model it to others. Your choice, Your world. Just remember it is an outcropping of the collective and decide which collective you wish to be a part of– death or growth. The old ways are dying. Our choices are– hang on to the old ways for dear life or embrace the new way of being. When enough people embrace the new way, a shift in consciousness will occur which will play itself out in the world. Changemakers are always frustrated and overworked– that’s the nature of that mission. Patience is not the virtue of a changemaker, urgency is.

    Posted June 30, 2016 at 4:33 pm | Permalink
  7. B. Kaufmann said . . .

    Vulcan: Your comments about the “pornography” is copied and pasted from a recently written article and is not your own and you are incorrect about the book “Boys Will Be Boys.” It was indeed seized and on the list of exhibits Sneddon introduced into evidence. Your IP address is not verifiable nor did you respond to your email address. You don’t get to come here and misbehave or insult my readers with F-bombs; that is not allowed at Inner Michael. You are welcome to check your facts and write an original comment while you bring civility to this space.

    Posted June 30, 2016 at 4:50 pm | Permalink
  8. B. Kaufmann said . . .

    Thank you Judith. How you doing?

    Posted July 3, 2016 at 4:24 am | Permalink

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