Michael Jackson Put 'Curse' on Spielberg-Magazine

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[general_re]

Wasn't there a character on the old "Fat Albert" cartoon that sounded just like that?

Now that I've successfully established my Gen-X bona fides, we can move on... ;)

[PatriotGames]

I have never killed anyone but there were times when I gleefully read the obituaries.

Forgot the author.

Would that be a crime?

[per loin]

With clients paying that kind of money, the witch doctor can pretty much live where he wants. Probably works a few runs down the slope into his rituals.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

"If I hire a chemist to poison 25 people, and what he gives them doesn't even make them sick, does the law say "no problem"?"

How about if, in your deranged mind, you think Magic Fairy Pixel Dust is poisonous. You feed it to people, but they don't die, because MFPD doesn't exist. Is that attempted murder? Is the intent more important than what a sane person would consider the possibility of your plan working?

I don't think he'll be prosecuted for this. However, I think Wacko has finally met his match: all those cows will get PETA on his case.

[PatriotGames]

Now that I've successfully established my Gen-X bona fides, we can move on... ;)

ROFL

[per loin]

If an FBI agent posed as a witch doctor, and I paid him to cast a death hex on somebody, do you seriously suppose I'd be brought to trial? Give it up, mate. This isn't Burundi.

Find an undercover cop, and pay him a few grand to off someone with a voodoo rite. See if you go to jail.

[ArcLight]

I love it! A witch doctor with a numbered Swiss bank account and a mountain chalet. Imagine running into this guy on the slopes!

[ET(end tyranny)]

voodoo blood baths notwithstanding.

He's always wearing a mask. Afraid of germs, is what the story was. More likely to cover his nose. But, the gloves??? So, maybe he is afraid of germs, BUT then I cannot imagine him taking a 'blood bath'!!!

[ArcLight]

Oh, you might be locked up--for your own protection. And then put under psychiatric observation. But there's no way such a person would ever be prosecuted for attempted murder. Not as long as he only asks you to cast a spell. If he throws in a request for, say, a curare=tipped blowdart, all bets are off...:)

[JMJ333]

Speaking double dutch certainly fits with his always acting as if he's about 10 years old. He gives me the creeps.

[general_re]

How about if, in your deranged mind, you think Magic Fairy Pixel Dust is poisonous. You feed it to people, but they don't die, because MFPD doesn't exist. Is that attempted murder?

Oooo, law school hypotheticals - I love it ;)

[nopardons]

Double Dutch is a jumprope game, using two jumpropes; as far as I knew. There where rhymes to say, but one could and did use them, when using one rope, as well. This is the FIRST time, that I've ever heard that it was a created language, like pig latin.

What did you first write ? What's the " Daboo yaboo rebeallabe .... " stuff ?

[Polybius]

Jackson doesn't wanna be black.

So, instead of being a good-looking black man, he chose to be an ugly white woman.

If it weren't for his apparent paedophilia, I would feel sorry for him. I'll leave it up to psychiatrists to decide the exact diagnosis but he must be mentally ill.

[per loin]

The point is that he actively conspired with another to have these people murdered. He paid $6000 each to have them offed. Conspiracy to commit murder is a crime, regardless of the soundness of the plan. Your wishing someone dead is not a crime. But your giving people MFPD, with the expectation that it would kill them, would seem to my non-lawyer mind to be a crime.

Any lawyers here?

[ET(end tyranny)]

If it weren't for his apparent paedophilia, I would feel sorry for him. I'll leave it up to psychiatrists to decide the exact diagnosis but he must be mentally ill.

A friend of mine has always liked MJ. Read all she could on him. She said many years ago she read an article in some underground magazine that his dad had him neutered to keep his voice from changing.

Over the years she would comment on how his acting like a kid, and not wanting to grow up may be indicative of being neutered.

However.... we were talking the other day, and she bought some new book, and she said that after reading it, she wasn't so sure that he was neutered and that he just might be a pedophile.

I expect the next book will be 'From Riches to Rags'

[per loin]

I love it! A witch doctor with a numbered Swiss bank account and a mountain chalet. Imagine running into this guy on the slopes!

Apologize if you do! Those guys are dangerous, hit men for the local "cursesBus" service.

[kms61]

Interesting thought, though: In some cultures--Haiti for instance--the power of suggestion is so strong that merely knowing they've been cursed has been known to cause a person to waste away and die, or so I'm told.

Would that be an actionable cause?

[per loin]

This is from Oklahoma, but may cast some light:

First, the statutory language does not specifically mention any form of impossibility. It simply states that a defendant is guilty of an attempt if he has performed sufficient acts "which would constitute the crime if the attendant circumstances were as he believes them to be." Second, this language, if literally construed, would convict a defendant no matter how absurd the situation or unlikely the success of the attempt. For example, the legally sane but mentally defective individual who truly believes he can effect the death of an enemy by utilizing voodoo magic, so long as the belief in the adequacy of these means is demonstrated, could be convicted of attempted murder, regardless of whether the voodoo rites were practiced hundreds of miles from the location of the intended victim. Note, The Status of Impossibility in Oklahoma Criminal Attempt Law, 31 Okla. L. Rev. 422 (1978).

[ET(end tyranny)]

I would say that anyone paying $150,000 for such service, thinks its possible.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

Is MJ a voodooist? Does the practice the voodoo religion?

But, don't bother answering, because now that I've read the article again I only have one other question: who are the other 23 enemies on his list?

Other possibles:
Tommy Mottola
Kathie Lee Gifford
Mr. Rogers
Bubbles the Chimp