Dear Mr. Levin,
It is with deep conflict and concern that I write this letter to you. I believe that Freedom of the Press is a cornerstone of democracy and that it allows us to keep truth alive. With privilege comes great responsibility because when that freedom is used immorally it becomes a weapon of mass destruction.
I have been told that you were at the courthouse in 2005, when Michael Jackson was going through his trial and that you consider yourself to be a fan of his. Forgive me, but what friend profits from the mutilation of someone they love? If love seems like too strong a word, I have to say, love is the only thing that exists. What we perceive as hate is really the absence of God’s love in a person’s heart. Albert Einstein taught us that.
On some levels it does not matter to me whether you like or dislike Michael. He is dead now and the point is mute. However, his children are very much alive. They are innocent and precious. Why do you want to violate their innocence more than it has already been? Please do not discount my question. It is a very important question with great consequences.
I have known two men in my life who were emotionally abused as children the cause and effects have been catastrophic. One was raised being constantly reminded that his grandmother had tried to cut him out of his mother’s stomach. The other was a young child in Poland who happened to be born with blond hair and blue eyes. He was separated from his mother as a toddler and raised until the end of World War II in one of Hitler’s camps for boys. It was a camp setup for the sole purpose to condition them to hate. As a grown man in his fifties, at the time I met him, he was a raging alcoholic. He hated himself for the hate tapes that played in his mind. His heart and his mind knew those things he had been taught as a child were wrong, but he could not make them stop. He was five years old when the Americans freed him. He was adopted by an American couple who surrounded him with love and it never erased his mind’s conditioning. Children should be surrounded with love and laughter, not pain and suffering. Please stop this violent emotional assault on Michael’s children. Please let Michael Jackson rest in peace.
God gave us children to nurture and to love, not to fill with lies, pain, and suffering. Only we can stop the hate. President Obama has started a no-bullying policy in schools across America. It is time for us, the adults, to move beyond our own pain and suffering and create a better world for the children.
Sincerely,
Kim Bailey and concerned citizens around the world!