This is in response to the Good Riddance Michael Jackson diary written earlier. I do believe people are allowed to their own opinons but that doesn't mean their allowed to their own facts and make accusations not proven to slander someone who has died.
I want to start off with my personal opinion. For a community who claims to be fact based, clearly some aren't and are EXTRMEMELY hypocritical and chose to deamonize someone based on unfounded ALLEGATIONS never proven and ultimately dismissed because the "evidence" never bared out. Whenever someone is convicted of something as rape or molestation there is usually lots of other people or someone else who comes to say that the same thing happened to them or that there was uncomfortable/innapropriate behavior happening.. In fact the OPPOSITE has always happened regarding Michael, everyone who ever known him and ALL the children he knew have always said that he never would have done anything like that nor had he done it in the past. After all the tests they've taken on Michael on every part of his body which he claimed was embarassing, they NEVER found anything, no pornography, NOTHING! Not to mention, I can't confirm or know for sure right now, but it has been reported that years later the child of the 1993 case admitted that he made it up because his abusive father made him do it for money. That aside it was said in 1993 that the boy made a "confession" while he was under the influence of sodium amytal, while being asked suggestive questions (an unscrupulous but common technique by those who want to get someone who is vulnerable and gullible to have a certain "memory") According to an article that is discussed down further in the diary
Given the facts about sodium Amytal and a recent landmark case that involved the drug, the boy’s allegations, say several medical experts, must be viewed as unreliable, if not highly questionable.
"It’s a psychiatric medication that cannot be relied on to produce fact," says Dr. Resnick, the Cleveland psychiatrist. "People are very suggestible under it. People will say things under sodium Amytal that are blatantly untrue." Sodium Amytal is a barbiturate, an invasive drug that puts people in a hypnotic state when it’s injected intravenously. Primarily administered for the treatment of amnesia, it first came into use during World War II, on soldiers traumatized—some into catatonic states—by the horrors of war. Scientific studies done in 1952 debunked the drug as a truth serum and instead demonstrated its risks: False memories can be easily implanted in those under its influence. "It is quite possible to implant an idea through the mere asking of a question," says Resnick. But its effects are apparently even more insidious: "The idea can become their memory, and studies have shown that even when you tell them the truth, they will swear on a stack of Bibles that it happened," says Resnick.
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People also want to point out the fact that Michael's sister Letoya claimed he abused children, at the time damaging but since then letoya said she only made it up because her abusive husband made her do it. She has since then divorced her husband and stood by Michael in the second trail... And that's been the pattern with ALL these allegations of Michael, it's all been LIES. And the secnd trial was a sham and obvious untrue, the alleged victim and their lawyers could never keep their story straight and after hours and hours and weeks of investigating jackson was found innocent.. Jackson was different indeed and that's what people use against him to convict him in their minds of such henious acts..He never had a childhood and said that because he experienced some horrors growing up he wanted to make the lives of children better which is why he had such a connection to them and that children weren't mean to him and didn't judge him... He had issues YES but he would NEVER abuse a child or harm anyone! And everyone will tell you that about Michael jackson! I admit some of his erractic behavior didn't help people's perception but being demonized and shunned and losing everything made things worse for him these past 7 years and ultimately lead to his death.. Performance was all he knew! And just because someone pays a settlement doesn't make them GUILTY.. Most people, well mainly Americans since his European fanbase has stood by Michael every step of the way, didn't know anything about his life, the media didn't and no one cared to find out because it was just better labeling him different or crazy... Listen to his song childhood :
Have you seen my Childhood?
I'm searching for the world that I come from
'Cause I've been looking around
In the lost and found of my heart...
No one understands me
They view it as such strange eccentricities...
'Cause I keep kidding around
Like a child, but pardon me...
People say I'm not okay
'Cause I love such elementary things...
It's been my fate to compensate,
for the Childhood
I've never known...
Have you seen my Childhood?
I'm searching for that wonder in my youth
Like pirates in adventurous dreams,
Of conquest and kings on the throne...
Before you judge me, try hard to love me,
Look within your heart then ask,
Have you seen my Childhood?
People say I'm strange that way
'Cause I love such elementary things,
It's been my fate to compensate,
for the Childhood (Childhood) I've never known...
Have you seen my Childhood?
I'm searching for that wonder in my youth
Like fantastical stories to share
But the dreams I would dare, watch me fly...
Before you judge me, try hard to love me.
The painful youth I've had
Have you seen my Childhood....
One article written years ago that I constantly go back to which gives unparalled insight that the media continues to ignore and will never report because they would never admit a mistake nor would it help the image their trying to portray is " Was Michael Jackson Framed? The Untold Story" by Mary A. Fischer GQ, October 1994
She begins:
It is, of course, impossible to prove a negative—that is, prove that something didn’t happen. But it is possible to take an in-depth look at the people who made the allegations against Jackson and thus gain insight into their character and motives. What emerges from such an examination, based on court documents, business records and scores of interviews, is a persuasive argument that Jackson molested no one and that he himself may have been the victim of a well-conceived plan to extract money from him.
More than that, the story that arises from this previously unexplored territory is radically different from the tale that has been promoted by tabloid and even mainstream journalists. It is a story of greed, ambition, misconceptions on the part of police and prosecutors, a lazy and sensation-seeking media and the use of a powerful, hypnotic drug. It may also be a story about how a case was simply invented.
I do truly belive that a lot of the hoopla is mainly based off the fact that because Michael acts crazy and likes children then he must be guilty and the media being hungry for ratings go with it while the truth gets lost and lives are destroyed. Their are both sides to every story and I feel a lot of it needs to be put in context. She goes on to show other accusers of Michael (former employees) who said they saw Michael act in innaporpiate behavior only later to come back and say they lied and were bought off by others to lie, one example:
On December 15, Hard Copy presented "The Bedroom Maid's Painful Secret." Blanca Francia told [Diane] Dimond and other reporters that she had seen a naked Jackson taking showers and Jacuzzi baths with young boys. She also told Dimond that she had witnessed her own son in compromising positions with Jackson-- an allegation that the grand juries apparently never found credible. A copy of Francia's sworn testimony reveals that Hard Copy paid her $20,000, and had Dimond checked out the woman's claims, she would have found them to be false. Under deposition by a Jackson attorney, Francia admitted she had never actually see Jackson shower with anyone nor had she seen him naked with boys in his Jacuzzi. They always had their swimming trunks on, she acknowledged. The coverage, says Michael Levine, a Jackson press representative, "followed a proctologist's view of the world. Hard Copy was loathsome. The vicious and vile treatment of this man in the media was for selfish reasons. [Even] if you have never bought a Michael Jackson record in your life, you should be very concerned. Society is built on very few pillars. One of them is truth. When you abandon that, it's a slippery slope."
Lots of other such accusations from employess that were debunked are also presented in the article.. People have always said of Michael that he was too naive and therefore he would trust the wrong people and surround himself with wrong people and never realized he was being used and was a target.
The article is indeed long and you can read it in depth here
She concludes:
Given the slim evidence against Jackson, it seems unlikely he would have been found guilty had the case gone to trial. But in the court of public opinion, there are no restrictions. People are free to speculate as they wish, and Jackson’s eccentricity leaves him vulnerable to the likelihood that the public has assumed the worst about him.
So is it possible that Jackson committed no crime—that he is what he has always purported to be, a protector and not a molester of children? Attorney Michael Freeman thinks so: "It’s my feeling that Jackson did nothing wrong and these people [Chandler and Rothman] saw an opportunity and programmed it. I believe it was all about money."
To some observers, the Michael Jackson story illustrates the dangerous power of accusation, against which there is often no defense—particularly when the accusations involve child sexual abuse. To others, something else is clear now—that police and prosecutors spent millions of dollars to create a case whose foundation never existed.
I think it was important to give a different perspective.