Michael Jackson's Soul Will Rest in Peace

Send the Money for Your Casket to Darfur!

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I don't know about you but I have had quite enough of Michael Jackson, thank you. I can list a number of reasons I have had enough.

1. He is not a king.
2. Although not convicted and perhaps in his childlike way there was no pedophilia going on at Neverland, that won't stop many of us from thinking that sleeping with children other than your own is just plain wrong.
3. He died because he was enabled by an entourage of people. He bought these people. Michael Jackson is the epitome of what the haves can get and the have nots so nor get. Going into a store and spending $6 million is obscene when that money can go to children's organizations - the same children Jackson in life claimed to love so much. His "innocence" is beginning to make me sick.

Was Jackson talented? Of course - he was perhaps one of the most talented performers we've had in our lifetime. The fact I don't think that performers or sports players should earn the kind of money they do is beside the point -or not - we have starving people all over the word and right here in the United States.

How much is it costing to bury Michael Jackson? Suffice it to say it will cost millions. My gosh the guy is being buried in a gold coffin carried by a carriage with a motorcade of 30 cars. As I write this the plans seem to be changing by the minute. Everyone wants a piece of Michael Jackson's burial. Where he will be buried is unknown.

Where are the bodies of our soldiers who have died in Iran and Afghanistan buried? We don't want to hear about them. We don't want to hear about deaths of police officers and first responders. No, it seems much of America would rather see and hear how a pop star - ok icon - is being buried. I have seen the tapes ad nauseum. I know them by heart. I happen to like Larry King but I said last night to myself "Not again!"

Has anyone considered that as mentioned above the money this spectacle is costing would go a long way to help the children he claims to love - the innocent children he has mentioned in his interviews or off- the- cuff remarks repeatedly. Why is there nothing being done to stop this madness?

I remember when Tom Brady was a newcomer but not so new that it wasn't clear he would be taking the N.E. Patriots to new heights. I cannot quote what I heard or read or where it was- I can only write it as I recall it and I think you will get the meaning. Tom Bellichek, the Pat' coach, told Tom not to let his ego get to big -not to let his publicity get to his head. After all Brady was just playing a game of football. After all he has not invented the cure for cancer or AIDS.

I applaud Bellichek and I would applaud anyone who has the nerve to come out and say "Michael Jackson was an eccentric, super talented. mentally unwell "man." But that is all he was in life and death. He has not done anything for the betterment of our world. Before you get on me I do know his philanthropic endeavors were admirable. I do know he was one to give more money to charities than most - other than Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey perhaps. Still it isn't enough.

Michael, may you rest in peace. I think your soul will be happier if you had a modest burial and sent the money to Appalachia or Darfur.

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