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Video DetailsUpdate: 1/29/01 Video can be viewed worldwide except in Germany. Why "Thriller" ? visit: http://byronfgarcia.com 1,500 plus CPDRC inmates of th More Update: 1/29/01 Video can be viewed worldwide except in Germany. Why "Thriller" ? visit: http://byronfgarcia.com 1,500 plus CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines at practice! This is not the final routine, and definitely not a punishment! WHY THRILLER? What made me choose Michael Jackson's Thriller for the aerobics routine is that Michael Jackson was a convicted man to the eyes of those who hated him. He would have been in imprisoned had it not been for settlement arrangements, they would say. Still Michael Jackson's frailty as a human being makes him like one of us -- whether one is a prisoner or not. I saw in the lyrics and video of Thriller much of what jail culture is like. Because of the hideous conditions in jails, prisons are like tombs and inmates are like ghoulish creatures. The only difference is that dancers in the MJ Thriller video come with make-up and costumes. The Dancing Inmates come as themselves. People perceived to be evil. The message of the Thriller is a message for all of us. The funk of forty thousand years embedded in the cycle of sin and punishment is a legacy no mere mortal can resist or is capable of resisting. No prison wall can and will stop evil from lurking in the dark. No shackle can stop the beast about to strike. No punitive or brutal treatment is ever too strong to stop creatures crawling in search of blood. Unless we stop breeding demons in jails, gruesome ghouls from every tomb will seal the doom of nations and civilizations. What I wanted inmates to do in dancing to the Thriller was for them to be convicted to sin. When I uploaded this on the YouTube, what I wanted viewers to see is how evil dances in our lives without knowing its deathly consequences. But then the song and dance number is but a medium to the message. The message is, governments must stop looking at jails darkly. We have to stop being entertained and thrilled by the sting of sin. We have to look at prisons beyond the cycle of crime and punishment and certainly look inside underlying social, cultural and psychological implications of rehabilitation. No matter how jails are called, prisons by any name are still hell -- the corpse's shell. It is a location in the map that governments would like to hide but cannot conceal. It's like the "horror looking right between the eyes, you're paralyzed." This paralyzing reality is such that if we make jails a living hell, we may be breeding the next generation demons or beast and we may be sending out devils once they are released and reintegrated to society. Michael Jackson may have exposed the evils of this Earth in the Thriller but he had a strong message of saving humanity from doom in his "Heal the World" where he said "heal the world, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race." Michael Jackson's message was a message of salvation. "There are people dying if you care enough for the living, make it a better place for you and for me." We may have missed out what Michael was trying to say beyond the lyrics. PEACE TO ALL MANKIND! Byron F. Garcia Less
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loliplaysax :
19.05.2012 20:02
The Philippines is in Asia, dumbass.
loliplaysax :
19.05.2012 20:01
How, exactly? o_O
ZeusDeusEx :
19.05.2012 18:34
You are all racists! You, who are reading this. YOU are a racist!
ngatangs22 :
19.05.2012 07:39
*Facepalm* it's philippine prison -_-
FerrariP4 :
19.05.2012 07:23
Dance or be Shot. Tough call.
RoboticDrawing :
19.05.2012 07:12
r u racist? this was a philistine prison
xXxOrichixXx :
19.05.2012 04:03
are you stupid? THEY ARE ASIANS!!!
Simonsmsn :
19.05.2012 01:52
they need asians to do something like this
dsppegg :
18.05.2012 23:14
2:13 some1 dropped the soap in the back
ChristineLoVeSyOu24 :
18.05.2012 16:37
well the police made them do it thery got forced to do this obviously they wouldnt want to do this os there prisoners, they got the prisoners to do this because its to teach them a lesson and its to humilliate them to the people who watched this (Filippino)
coolermccloud :
18.05.2012 09:03
I bet the first one who was unsynced they probably went up to him and said "Jeeeefffffff'ah! WHAT THE FUCK! YOU RUINED IT! D:" And then they beat him up :I
WizzCudd :
18.05.2012 05:10
Lmao these are some hard Fucking thugs
nikkilover456 :
18.05.2012 03:13
Wtf why would the police let them do this
oregonmilitiaman :
18.05.2012 00:20
More precise than an American airstrike.
sandvichNATION :
17.05.2012 23:06
i wonder if the first prisoner who thought of the idea of this was shanked in the shower
Coolstorybro774 :
17.05.2012 20:36
Who let the bitch out in the bottom of my comment that's been smoking some shit and is probably old and forever alone.(hopefully i don't offend the second top commented person if this gets lots of thumbs up D:)
HTKrisos :
17.05.2012 19:12
I hate this video ...it's has inapropriate issue against human rights ! I think Philipinas has been in Middle Age! It's a shame about Youtube to upload this type of video with action which has torture!
Ovenlord3 :
17.05.2012 11:50
That's one ugly trannie.
SONNY229900 :
17.05.2012 01:55
that muss have been fun?
FreshlySnypes :
17.05.2012 01:33
Better than gettin butt fucked.
TheKYLEdavid :
17.05.2012 00:08
I'll give you one guess at what 0:43 did to get in jail, I guarantee everyone can get it
TheKYLEdavid :
17.05.2012 00:07
The next day, they all got the death penalty and did the real thriller.
12345megan100 :
16.05.2012 18:38
I bet michael jackson watched this video and smiled :D
UV0023 :
16.05.2012 15:38
man, that's cool :)
britishsyrian :
16.05.2012 07:36
Brill !