in order to read our homepage, to understand it and maybe to open up new points of view, it is actually not necessary to be a Michael Jackson-fan. Why, you ask? Because this is not what we would call a ‘normal’ fan club! Actually, ‘Fanship turns to Friendship - we care for Michael Jackson’ is no official fan club — not yet. We’re a lot of friends from all over the world who share the same feelings, the same goal and the same opinion. Here we meet to have fun together as well as to discuss and think about certain things.

We have decided to create this website because our message should not be limited exclusively to fan-circles — though fans are our target group in the first place — but also reach the public to make them appreciate the human being that Michael Jackson is at least a bit. Having seen Michael at a couple of occasions, and having seen other people’s reaction to him (and treatment of him), we came to the conclusion that his situation has to be nearly unbearable for him as well as for all other people involved.
How would you feel if almost everything you do is misunderstood by the public, gets distorted and/or passed on wrongly? Can a human being — mind you a Human Being — be happy if he’s not able to simply go outside, in fact not even look out of the window without hysteria breaking out immediately and people losing all their self-control? Can you feel secure on the street, knowing that at every moment someone could rush up to you, scream at you, scratch you, grab you and paw you? Is it bearable to stand in the world’s spotlight 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and this for more than 30 years? How would you feel if the things and persons you love most are used against you, if you are presented as a maniac ? And how would you feel if you had to read a report on how your kids can be taken away from you in the best way in the morning newspaper?

How long can a human being actually bear all that?

It’s the same with Michael Jackson. Loved, adored but yet mostly misunderstood, not even heard by some of his own fans, hated and haunted by the media and critics — that is the way his present situation has to be described. Admittedly, it is unavoidable and understandable that there are controversial opinions about Michael Jackson as well — as there are about every other entertainer. But is it really necessary that  even the slightest bit of respect, the right of privacy and the possibility to live in peace are absolutely forgotten when it comes to him? Is he really the horrifying monster the media proclaim him to be so passionately? And more important: What has he done to be treated this way?

Michael Jackson is a prisoner of his own fame. His behavior and his way of life are just the outcome of nearly 40 years of show business and of what WE made of him. It’s time to get aware of that and to understand it. And so our main goal is not to work for the fans like so many other fan clubs already do. Rather our goal is to do something for Michael, to make everyday people and media alike realize that he is a human being, and as such has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. In order to reach our goal, we work together with the help of reasonable fans and in friendly cooperation with as many fan clubs worldwide as possible. This homepage shall be the beginning for what hopefully will be caused through it: