6/13/2005: Not guilty, at least in court
Ten charges, ten not guilty's. The weirdo gets to go home.
I never thought he did the stuff that he was charged with. You only had to watch the tv show about him that put all this in motion, and consider the timing of the show and the charges to know that. Michael Jackson is asexual - he's no more interested in screwing little boys than he is in screwing women or anyone else. If he was guilty, would he have announced happily to those tv cameras in his face that he enjoyed having sleepovers with the kids at Neverland? Not that that's ok, or normal, but it is as innocent as he believes it to be.. almost, anyway.
So he's got some porn in his house.. lots of people do. If that's a crime and enough to send someone to prison, lots & lots of people are in trouble. If he had kiddie porn in there, he would have been charged for that - and convicted - and rightfully so. Didn't happen.
So now he gets to go home.. but unfortunately the reading of those ten not guilty's only counts in the eyes of the law. Wacko Jacko is still considered guilty by millions, and always will be, and that's a shame. An accusation of child molesting is the kind of thing that never ever goes away. Maybe it says more about those who want to believe in his guilt than it does about Jackson. If he was doing stuff to those kids, where are the others? He's hosted thousands of kids at the playground he built for them, and had "special" relationships with dozens of them. Why aren't they coming forward if he was diddling them? Why have there been only two parents out of so many who have made complaints? Because it was as innocent as Jackson has always claimed, that's why. Bizarre and inappropriate, obviously.. but innocent.
The guy has provided us more celebrity weirdness than his quota, and that's been great. If he's smart, he'll just fade away now and lay low. Last time he was accused of this kind of thing and made some kid and his greedy parents millionaires, he did the opposite: he went on tv and told us all about having his penis photographed.. that didn't help him, and it added a whole new level to his bizarre reputation. It'll be interesting to see what he does now.
Meanwhile the current kid's wacky mom is probably regretting having listened to whoever told her to go ahead with prosecuting Jackson. She could have been a millionaire right now and gone on to extort money from the next half dozen celebrities on her hit list. Everything at Neverland was fine with her until the tv show aired, then somebody got hold of her and suggested she turn the tables of what had been said. Talk about child abuse - having let her kid hang out at Neverland for so long, knowing everything that was going on, and then dragging it all into court in her son's name.. she's the guilty party in this particular case if you ask me.
