<div align="justify"><font color=brown>"I find it interesting that some are quick to say they are convinced Michael Jackson has molested children. I say "FOLLOW THE MONEY"<font color=black>
I find it interesting that you would assume that because his accusers were motivated by money that means Michael Jackson is innocent. Why do I believe he's a child molester? His behavior.
Let's look at what's <u>not</u> in dispute: Michael Jackson sleeps with young boys. Never girls, always boys. He does not sleep with his own children. He keeps magazines of nude male children in his house. He paid someone $15.3 million to keep silent about allegations he molested him and refuse to testify against him. It is now illegal in California to pay somone not to testify against you. The law was passed specifically because of MJ. If he'd been living in New York State in 1993, merely paying the kid not to testify would have been a criminal act all by itself. That's it. I don't need any more evidence because the threshhold for convicting him in the court of public opinion is low. There are also no consequences. Had I been on the jury, in all likelihood the result would have been the same. Not guilty because I take the process seriously and would have followed the judges instructions and not my gut instinct about what kinf of guy MJ is.
<font color=brown>"Jackson made a big mistake by paying this guy off and not going to court the first time this happened. I think he was on tour at the time and probably wanted to get on with his life."<font color=black>
He paid someone $15.3 million dollars and you think it was because he was on tour? It takes a YEAR from indictment to start these kinds of trials. He has the best attorneys in the world. He knows that. You say the first accusation was because MJ refused to finance his father's film? How do you know? That's only rumor and gossip. There was no testimony, remember? MJ saw to that. And even if he was motivated by money, that doesn't make MJ innocent. He paid him $15.3 million for a reason, in my opinion. Admissable evidence? No. And it shouldn't be. This is just my opinion, not "proof beyond reasonable doubt."
I heard a member of the defense team being interviewed by Sean Hannity this afternoon. She said Michael Jackson was "proven innocent". Please. How ridiculous. Any high school student who completes one basic logic class knows you can't prove a negative. He wasn't proven innocent. They failed to prove him guilty. Those are not the same things. Hannity said: "You still wouldn't let your kid sleep over at his house would you?" Her reply: (long pause) "I can't believe you said that. And on that note I gotta go."
From where I sit, it seems as if people either believe he's guilty and should have been convicted, or is innocent and got the verdict he deserved. Am I the only one who thinks he's a child molester yet would have probably have acquitted him myself had I been on the jury?
By the way, I also am convinced OJ killed his wife, Robert Blake killed
his wife, and Bill O'Reilly and Fox News paid Andrea Mackris' a couple of million dollars because she had some evidence to back up her claims. She may have set him up, I don't know. If it was a trap, he walked right into it and the trap slammed shut. I don't believe he paid her big dough because he's too busy to defend himself against scurrilous, false charges.
<font color=brown>"Before this happened people used to joke about Jackson possibly being gay..as he is very feminine acting with a high voice. I don't remember people joking about or claiming Jackson was a child molester before this Father did. Just jokes about him being gay.. If Jackson were very straight acting like say Brad Pitt or Russell Crowe.. I think people would think he was being scammed by the cons in the courtroom?"<font color=black>
His sexual orientation has nothing to do with it. He likes little boys but had he chosen little girls instead, world opinion would be the same. And again, the fact that his accusers are probably con artists does not mean he is not a child molester. Only that he probably didn't molest this particular kid.
<font color=brown>"Since he looks kind of creepy that may give him a quilty look to some. <font color=black>
Kind of creepy? If creepy looks were a crime, he'd be on death row. I truly feel very sorry for him. He is one screwed up individual. But no, that's not something that gets a prosecutor a conviction. Nor should it. By the way, a forensic artist working from a photograph of MJ as a boy "aged" him just as he would to assist police in finding someone who has been missing for many years. Based on that information, he came up with a drawing of Michael Jackson age 45.
Picture here.
At least he doesn't have to worry that all this will hurt his recording career; it was already dead. He'll do just fine in Vegas should he choose to go that route instead of fleeing to Europe as has been rumored.<P ID="signature">______________
"If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague." - Oscar Wilde</P>
