Michael’s clear message against the sexual exploitation of children

This post is written by Suzy (and comes under my name purely for technical reasons).

Suzy says:

A previously unreleased Michael Jackson song has been leaked to the Internet and it became an immediate hit with fans. I’d say much more than the first official release of the “Michael” album “Hold my hand”.  No wonder: it’s a great tune with a very strong message and, unlike “Hold my hand”, written and fully sung by Michael himself.

Despite of all this, this song will not feature on Michael’s upcoming album.  Sony probably deemed it too risky to include because of the lyrics: it deals with the sexual exploitation of children and we all know that subject together with Michael Jackson’s name opens the door for a lot of unpleasant discussion in the media, and the record label likely wanted to avoid that.

They say the song was written around 1990, for the Dangerous album – so before Michael ever got accused of molesting children. It didn’t make on the Dangerous album and after 1993 probably had no chance to make it on any other Michael Jackson album either. Had Michael released a track where he sings against sexual child abuse after 1993, he probably would have been ridiculed, or worse, and he couldn’t have got the message through.

But the problem is not with Michael. He was innocent of what he was accused of, both in 1993 and in 2003. And this song just highlights what was really in his heart and mind about this subject.

The song:

The lyrics of the song:

Father comes home from work and he’s scared to death
Mother cries [for] the kid in that note she read
Father runs to the table, he said “What’s going on?”
Mother cries in disbelief “Our little baby is gone!”

Do you know where your children are,
Because it’s now 12 o’clock.
If they’re somewhere out on the street,
Just imagine how scared they are.

Do you know where your children are,
Because it’s now 12 o’clock.
If they’re somewhere out on the street,
Just imagine how scared they are.

She wrote that she is tired of step-daddy using her
Saying that he’ll buy her things, while sexually abusing her
Just think that she’s alone somewhere out on the street
How will this girl survive? She ain’t got nothing to eat!

Do you know where your children are,
Because it’s now 12 o’clock.
If they’re somewhere out on the street,
Just imagine how scared they are.

Do you know where your children are,
Because it’s now 12 o’clock.
If they’re somewhere out on the street,
Just imagine how scared they are.

Save me, From this living hell
Save me, Coz thats not what i do
Save me, I’m tired of dad
Save me, Coz this is nothin’ (Aoow)
Save me, Coz i’m on the curb
Save me, Coz i don’t wanna go
Save me, Coz terror is rising
Save me, Aoow

Now she’s on the move, she’s off to Hollywood
She says she wanna be a star, she heard the money’s good
She gets off from train station, the man is waiting there
“I’ll show you what the money is, girl, just let down your hair”
He’s taking her on the streets of Sunset Boulevard
She’s selling her body hot, girl that will you far
The police come around the corner, somebody they told
He’s arresting this little girl, she’s only 12 years old!

Do you know where your children are
Because its now twelve o’clock
If they’re somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are
Do you know where your children are
Because its now twelve o’clock
If they’re somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are

As I was listening to it, I thought of the likes of Victor Gutierrez and Thomas O’Caroll and how there is no way that real p-les would ever have it in their hearts or minds to write something like this – something against the sexual abuse of children. Their agenda is totally the opposite! In their sneaky (Gutierrez) or more open (O’Caroll) ways they want to break down society’s moral resistance against the sexual exploitation of children, not to raise awareness about the dangers of it like Michael does! Also, as far as I know, p-les don’t think what they are doing is wrong, so they obviously wouldn’t have it in their hearts to write a song like this.

Listening to this song, what happened to Michael in 1993 becomes even sadder. Before that he was someone who was the voice of children in need, the voice of children who were exploited in any way. But in 1993 Victor Gutierrez and his friends from NAMBLA (and their enablers from the Chandlers through the Sneddons and Dimonds of this World to the Arvizos) killed two birds with one stone: not only they managed to put a stigma on Michael (with the intention of using him as their poster boy), but they also shut him up about this very important subject, so that he would never be able to campaign against the sexual abuse of children without the risk of the media and the public ridiculing him for it. Tragic.