I don't think it is a good argument at all. It actually plays into the hater argument that MJ knew in advance that his house would be searched and cleaned the place that's why they haven't found anything incriminating.
But they did find those books which actually prove that he did not clean the house at all!
Why would he eliminate every other evidence but leave those books there?
Just makes no sense at all. It just shows how desperate Thomas and his department was to explain why there was no physical or medical evidence. Instead of admitting that MJ didn't do anything they looked for excuses. It's proof of their extreme bias.
There is no evidence he knew in advance his house would be searched (And what about 2003 then? Why did they not found anything incriminating then?). One can say that he might have assumed just based on the fact Evan threatened him with the allegations but that's not a proof he knew, much less that he cleaned his house and that's why incriminating evidence haven't been found
But if he had been guilty he would have been concerned about a possible raid, don't you think?
And a pedophile would have remembered those books very well for obvious reasons.
A guilty person once he is caught and threatened by the father would clean the house instantly as he would be afraid that the police could come any day. He would not leave those two books there and go overseas knowing that it's quite possible the Chandlers would trigger a police investigation.
It is obvious that those two books in themselves and in the context of MJ's general interest of art photography are not incriminating. .
I agree it's a stupid desperate argument given how many books and pictures MJ got from fans and friends and photographers
and let's face it he was kind of a hoarder too and hoarders own a bunch of things they don't need.
But I don't think MJ was interested in those two books at all, photography or not, he didn't even know that inside there were pictures of nude boys, watch his reaction during the Sawyer interview, it was genuine surprise, he didn't remember those books, period.
I saw a bunch of things about those books which taken together prove he was not a pedophile.
I'd like to know your opinion about these:
1. He didn't buy them a fan sent them to him in 1983. A pedophile would not just wait for a random stranger to send stuff like he would actively
look for such pictures which MJ never did. In fact he kept buying pictures of nude women not boys.
2. He inscribed and signed Boys will be boys which indicats that he wanted to send it back to the fan. One doesn't inscribe and sign a book for himself
like "Look a the at the true spirit of happiness and joy on these boys' faces. " He reminded himself to look? That makes no sense.
He wrote that to someone else. A pedophile wouldn't think about giving away such a book he would want to keep it. There could be a number of reasons why it was not sent back eventually.
3. A pedophile would use those books a LOT over those 10 years 1983-1993 and there would be clear signs of that, wear and tear fingerprints
on the inside pages. No such evidence was shown in court. I always wondered why Sneddon didn't fingerprint analyzed the books just the magazines.
I think he was afraid the result would be negative and it would undermine his whole argument .
4. The police took them in 1993 and didn't find them in 2003. A pedophile would have tried to get those books again or similar frontal nude pictures
but the 2003 raid didn't find a single picture of a frontal nude boy. A pedophile would not suddenly lose interest in that kind of thing in 1993
and then go and buy books like Room to Play and Underworld which had everything but frontal boy nudes.
5. A pedophile would not be satisfied looking at the same pictures for 10 years he would want new stuff. But
police found no other pictures of nudes boys at all. Just those two books.
6. MJ's inscription in Boys will be boys is about the cover of that book which shows four happy boys jumping in a lake.
A pedophile would not have these thoughts while looking at boys in their swimming trunks:
"Look at the true spirit of happiness and joy on these boys' faces. This is the spirit of boyhood. A life I never
had and will always dream of. This is the life I want for my children. MJ"
This is in line with all the statutes and paintings and pictures MJ liked to surround himself: happy smiling kids not naked boys.
Stuff like this:
and this:
He even had a poem in Neverland about smiling babies:
I don't know about any serial boy molester who wants to see happy smiling babies girls and boys all the time.
He wanted to see kids happy not to violate and humiliate them and the public totally missed that, such a shame.
And of course the whole Blanca Francia had the key to that closed file cabinet story doesn't make any sense.
It only shows that they tried to frame MJ and put the books in an "incriminating" place or at least said that they were there
to make them look more important for MJ than they were.