To the readers of Vindicate MJ:

It has been a tremendous privilege and honor to write for this blog and help educate fans around the world about the injustices that were done to MJ. This has been a labor of love for me, and I’ve enjoyed every single minute of it.

My motivation for writing about MJ came from the fact that, after his tragic death in June 2009, I noticed that there were many fans that were looking for answers, and wanted to know how to better defend MJ. I personally witnessed fans who tried in vain to defend MJ, but didn’t know the facts, and they were clobbered by haters and skeptics and made to feel embarrassed to like MJ. For example, I was listening to a talk radio show host who continually played MJ’s comments about sharing beds from the Bashir documentary and 60 Minutes interview, and he would ask people if MJ sounds like someone who is deserving of the media attention that his death was getting, and people would call in and bash MJ, and the few fans who called in were ridiculed. They couldn’t explain why MJ settled the case in 1993, couldn’t explain why MJ had alarms outside of his bedroom, couldn’t explain why Jordan Chandler gave a matching description (even though it obviously didn’t match! But that’s what the media reported), couldn’t explain why MJ was holding hands with Gavin in the documentary, and so on and so forth.

I wanted to do my part to get answers to these and many other pressing questions so that fans would know how to stand up for MJ and properly and effectively defend him without fear of being ridiculed. For almost 2 years I have written numerous posts to do my best to help vindicate MJ, and I based on the feedback that I have gotten from fans, I believe that I have done a good job of doing so.

This blog was very unique to me because it focused almost exclusively on the allegations, and didn’t have any posts about his music, his marriages, etc. It was a research blog, and it was exactly what I was looking for after MJ’s death, and exactly the kind of blog I wanted to write for, which is why I accepted Helena Ovchinnikova’s invitation to write for the blog in 2010.

We had a good relationship until a few months ago, when she sided with a reader who took exception to the fact that I refused to defend the Jehovah’s Witnesses against the criticisms of a Christian blogger whose attacks on MJ I refuted in this post: http://vindicatemj.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/fact-checking-michael-jacksons-christian-faith-part-7-of-7-judging-michael/ If you look in the comments section, you’ll see the spat that we had about this issue.

I took the position that this blog is about vindicating MJ, and not about advocating or opposing anyone’s religious or political views. If I had defended the JW’s against that blogger, I was worried of starting a religious debate on the blog, because most Christians do not consider Jehovah’s Witnesses to be true Christians, due to their heretical theology. You can read this article for more information; and remember, this isn’t my opinion, but the opinion of this author, and most religious scholars: http://carm.org/is-the-jehovahs-witness-religion-christian

In April, Helena posted 2 articles about the Jehovah’s Witnesses that had nothing whatsoever to do with vindicating MJ! The first post was essentially a summary of the theology of the JW’s, and at the very end Helena repeated the very falsehood that I and so many others tried to disprove by stating that MJ was still a JW when he died! http://vindicatemj.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/michael-jackson-as-a-jehovah-witness/

This second post was about the history of the JW’s! Once again, nothing whatsoever to do with vindicating MJ of the false allegations! http://vindicatemj.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/michael-jackson-the-first-true-christian-in-a-pagan-world/

A few years ago, Helena and a few readers got into a heated debate on the blog about her negative views on homosexuality, and things got very ugly, and it was a huge distraction on the blog, so she stopped making those comments, and everything cooled off. I didn’t want a repeat of that regarding religion, so I suggested to Helena that she remove those 2 posts from Vindicate MJ and post them unto her OWN personal blog, which she started a few months ago: http://vindicatemjj.wordpress.com/

To me, posting those articles about the JW’s would be like me posting an article about which album was the best! Both of those topics are irrelevant to the focus of the blog, which is the false allegations!

Helena was “offended” for whatever reason, and ever since then she has had it out against me. During this time, I told Helena that I don’t put MJ or any other human being on a moral pedestal, and she felt that those comments somehow disqualified me from being able to effectively stand up for MJ!

As a result, I was demoted on the blog, and I lost some of my privileges (for example, I was no longer allowed to moderate comments or add links to the blog roll.)

Things took a turn for the worse when I got into a public dispute with Debbie Kunesh, the owner of the Reflections on the Dance website. Debbie claimed that I sent out emails to her friends to slander her, and that those emails were forwarded to her, and after reading them she decided to block me from her FB page. I asked Debbie repeatedly to show me these emails, and she refused, so in my anger I publicly blasted her on Twitter and told her to “Put up or shut up!” Helena read this and immediately took Debbie’s side without finding out the facts first.

This lead to a heated debate between myself, Helena, and several other people on Helena’s FB page, and as a result, Helena has decided that she won’t contribute to Vindicate MJ anymore, and will eventually archive it. (Which means the posts will remain, but comments will no longer be allowed.)

Helena will say that I “disrespected” her by asking her to remove those two irrelevant posts on the JW’s, but the fact is that I have overshadowed her on her own blog, and she is supremely JEALOUS, and cannot stand that fact that I am more known in the fan community, I have almost 1,000 followers on Twitter, I am more knowledgeable about the allegations than she is (she is still clueless about many aspects of the 2005 trial due to her refusal to read the trial transcripts), and was on pace to surpass her in the total number of posts on the blog.

Recently, she became aware of some harsh criticism that I leveled at MJ last November, when I became aware of his knack for shooting waterguns and throwing waterballoons at innocent bystanders without their consent. Me and Deborah Kunesh got into a big fight last November because I felt she had lied to me about her knowledge of those pranks.

It began when Brett Ratner, who directed Chris Tucker in the Rush Hour movies, did an interview where he stated that he and MJ threw water balloons at a homeless person in the middle of the night. I thought this was another lie, because it seemed antithetical to MJ’s loving personality. However, I remembered reading an interview with Rashida Jones (daughter of Quincy Jones) and she stated that when she was teen (and MJ was in his late 20’s to early 30’s) they went out and shot supersoaker waterguns at people as drove away, and I was very disturbed by this. I found it hard to believe that someone as close to MJ as Rashida would deliberately lie about something like this, especially since she has always defended him against the allegations.

But when I read Rabbi Boteach’s book “The MJ Tapes”, where MJ himself described how he and Frank Cascio once dumped a bucket full of water on people from a balcony as they ate in the middle of the night (and Cascio himself describes that incident here in this interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvKebWmfbP4 ), I was deeply upset and said it was wrong of him to do that.

I asked Debbie Kunesh about this incident that was described in the book, and she said she had no knowledge of it, which I thought was odd because she constantly quotes from that book. I asked her how could she knot know about it if she has read the book, and she said that she did read the whole book, which I didn’t believe at all, so I accused her of lying to me and trying to cover up this incident because it didn’t fit with the holy and divine image of MJ that she tried to portray on her page. This erupted into a big argument, during which I said (in anger) that I would stop defending MJ and writing about him, because I was so upset.

I don’t feel that there is any excuse, justification, or rationalization for any grown adult to throw a water balloon at another grown adult, not even MJ! Just because I’m an advocate of MJ, it doesn’t mean I have to be an apologist for him, and make excuses for every poor decision he made in life. I was more upset with the way Debbie and some of her readers attacked me for saying that MJ was wrong, and for their ridiculous rationalizations of those pranks (“He didn’t have a childhood!”, “So what? He didn’t hurt anyone!”, and “His charitable works outweigh his mistakes!” I never said MJ was evil, or that those pranks defined who he was as a person, or anything on that level; all I said was that he was wrong!

Anyway, Helena cherry picked that entire thread of comments, and chose the one comment that I made where I, in anger at the situation, said I wouldn’t write for MJ, and she now is trying to somehow use it against me to say that I am somehow “unfit” to be an admin of Vindicate MJ, and that she no longer wants to work with me. In fact, she says that if she had known about my rant when it first happened, she would have kicked me off the blog last November!

Let me tell you the utter stupidity in that logic: ever since last November, I have written over 40 posts about MJ! And I’m nowhere done writing about him! I just started summarizing the entire 2005 trial, and I’m about 1/3 finished! And Helena has complimented me and thanked me on nearly every single one! So if you want to know my feelings on MJ (as if they matter), look at the work that I have done since last November, and not at a few statements I made out of anger at certain people in the fan community. Here are all 72 posts that I have done on MJ since 2010, including 40 since last November: http://vindicatemj.wordpress.com/author/sanemjfan/

Just for the record, I stand behind everything that I said about those pranks, but it shouldn’t matter, because I did not write about those pranks, and I never will! The only topic I will ever write about is how to fight the false allegations! And I don’t have to be a “crazy, rabid” fan to do that!

Despite all of the fighting and bickering that has taken place behind the scenes, I have continued to make posts and contribute to the blog, and I asked Helena to just put all of this behind us for the sake of the blog. But she refused to do so, and the aftermath of all of this is the result of her own pride, arrogance, and jealousy. Hands down! Helena has chosen to act like the spoiled brat who didn’t get picked to play a game of pickup basketball, and decided to take her ball home with her and deny everyone else the chance to play. Her actions are denying the other admins from continuing to write for the blog, and are denying the fans from learning!

And now she’s posting all of our dirty laundry on the blog! http://vindicatemj.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/michael-jacksons-pranks-or-the-pains-of-creating-a-new-reality/

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING that we argued over had any effect whatsoever on our ability to write for the blog (as evidence by all the posts I did throughout May and June when this was going on), but as I said before, Helena just cannot accept the fact that I have overshadowed her, and she would rather shut the blog down and hurt fans than work with me again. So be it. To the fans out there, just know that I tried my best to work this out and get Helena to return to the blog, but she refused, so you know who to blame.

If you read her status from May 17th, you’ll see a heated discussion thread with 378 comments, in which we fought and argued bitterly over her stubbornness and jealousy, and she refused to budge an inch. She’s willing to let her disdain for me end her vindication work for MJ. https://www.facebook.com/helena1247

But don’t worry! I will never stop blogging about MJ, and I will continue with my goal of summarizing the entire 2005 trial! Lynette and I have already started constructing our own blog, and we are in the process of copying our posts (and their comments) to the new blog.

This process may take a few days or a few weeks, but once it’s done, we will make the blog public and let everyone know about it. Everything will remain the same, and Lynette and I will keep working hard to vindicate MJ’s name and educate the fan community.

I will keep everyone posted!

sanemjfan

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