We can’t prevent the interview from happening, so let’s put effort to get the interviewer informed and get Robson exposed through the interview questions.
Please send the below in email and tweets to NBC and Today Show. Come up with you own subject line, and feel free to modify the preamble. The more of personal emails they get today, the bigger is the chance that they pay attention to the right questions. After all, they have to deliver what the audience wants to hear, right?
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Dear Mr. Lauer and NBC editors,
As a Michael Jackson fan I’m deeply saddened to see that a major TV network like yours provides airtime to a person trying to extort money from the estate and children of his deceased friend. However, since this interview is going to happen regardless of my liking, I would like to hear Mr. Robson’s reply to the following questions:
1. In 2009, Mr. Robson wrote a heartfelt tribute to Michael Jackson (in Opus book published by the Michael Jackson Estate). The tribute read, “We had great times because he was such a caring person. Most of all I'll miss those phone conversations. I still have my mobile phone with his number on it. I just can’t bear the thoughts of deleting his messages.” How does he explain that he felt such strong affection for his alleged abuser all those years? Does he know of any other child abuse cases when the child felt such love for his abuser?
2. In 1993, during the first round of child abuse allegations against Michael Jackson Mr. Robson vehemently defended his friend:
http://youtu.be/NLT3gncZW2k. This is the time when the alleged abuse of Mr. Robson happened. Why did he put so much effort in defending his alleged abuser at the time it was happening? When exactly did his memory get “repressed” and he forgot that the abuse happened?
3. In 2011, Mr. Robson gave an interview in support of Pulse where he spoke of his plans to choreograph a Cirque du Soleil show in memory of Michael Jackson produced by Cirque together with the Michael Jackson Estate
http://youtu.be/mWtvYzsbtjc. As we know, that collaboration never materialized. TMZ broke the news about his child molestation claim and demand for monetary compensation from the Michael Jackson Estate on the very same day of the press-preview of MJ ONE show and the teaser release. Was this a curious coincidence or a deliberate choice of the date?
4. According to Mr. Robson’s lawyer, Mr. Robson suffered a breakdown in March 2012 after which he got a course of therapy and “remembered” what had happened to him. How does he explain this interview called “Master class legends” dated summer 2012 where he spoke about Michael Jackson without any sign of remorse:
http://youtu.be/vWazdCJxTFI?
5. In the past there were a few alleged victims with "repressed memories" that came forward accusing Michael Jackson.
Daniel Kapon
In 2003, 18 years old Daniel Kapon contacted the Santa Barbara Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Department claiming he had been sexually molested by Michael Jackson when he was a child. The claim was that Kapon had “repressed memories” of the molestation and therefore only recently, with the help of a psychiatrist, recalled the abuse. He described horrendously sadistic acts, kept changing his story and he claimed impossibilities. Most importantly, when the police contacted Kapon’s father, they learned the boy had never even met Michael Jackson.
After the police closed their investigation, Kapon sold his story to the tabloid publication, News of the World. He also filed a civil complaint against Jackson. In his case, besides the allegations of sexual abuse, he claimed that a number of Jackson's hit songs had been stolen from him, including songs on Jackson’s Bad album which was released in 1987, when Kapon was two years old. Kapon also claimed that he fathered the singer’s two eldest children; that his mother appeared in Jackson’s Thriller video and that Jackson was “madly in love” with her; that “his mother married Jackson multiple times, and testified that the ceremonies were attended by Elizabeth Taylor, Celine Dion, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Beyonce Knowles and Diana Ross”.
Joseph Bartucci Jr.
In 2004 Joseph Bartucci filed a civil lawsuit against Jackson claiming the star kidnapped and molested him in New Orleans between May 19 and May 27, 1984. Bartucci alleged that Jackson cut him, licked the blood off of his arm and proceeded to snort coke off of the laceration – all while raping him. Bartucci was 18 years old at the time of the alleged assault. As an explanation for why he waited until 2004, twenty years later to report this kidnapping, he too cited “repressed memories”. Jackson was not in New Orleans but in California at the time of the alleged assault, a fact that could be easily proven by the entertainer's attorneys, so the judge tossed the lawsuit.
What proof can Mr. Robson offer that his "repressed memories" are more real and reliable than false memories of said individuals?
Thank you
