As you all know, it is my opinion that despite all of his musical talents, the legacy of Michael Jackson should be first and foremost that of a child molester. I just want to make some observations on the boneheaded remarks a couple of speakers made at the Jackson memorial in Los Angeles.
AL SHARPTON
Sharpton in addressing the Jackson family said: "I want his children to know there was nothing strange about your daddy, it was strange what your daddy had to deal with." He said that because the media, which he had been lambasting for doing so, continued to report on the pop icon’s bizarre behavior. I’ll give the devil his due. It was nice of Sharpton to try and make the Jackson’s children feel better. But - nothing strange about their daddy?
In a weird desire to be white, Michael Jackson underwent numerous plastic surgeries that left him looking like a macabre horror flick zombie. Jackson also enjoyed taking young boys to bed with him.
Sharpton, that huckster and hoaxter, has little credibility. He has been quick to take advantage of false allegations against white men by black women. Sharpton fed off of the Tawana Brawley assault hoax in 1987 and took up the cause of Crystal Gail Mangum, the stripper who in 2006 made false allegations of gang rape against members of the Duke University lacrosse team. Sharpton’s inflammatory rhetoric during some of the protests he has led turned into deadly violence (Crown Heights Riot in 1991 and Freddie’s Fashion Mart deaths in 1995).
CONGRESSWOMAN SHEILA JACKSON LEE
The congresswoman is best know for her "motor mouth" whenever she speaks on the House floor, in committee meetings, or anywhere else for that matter. Addressing the crowd at the memorial, Jackson Lee said: "We know people are innocent until proven otherwise. THAT IS WHAT THE CONSTITUTION SAYS."
The congresswoman doesn’t know what she is talking about. She either put her mouth in motion before she put her brain in gear or she is just plain ignorant. THE CONSTITUTION SAYS NO SUCH THING! The presumption of being considered innocent until proven guilty is a legal right the accused has in a criminal trial. That trial right was established in 1894 by a Supreme Court decision in Coffin vs. U.S.
In 1993 and again in 2002, Jackson was accused of the sexual abuse of young boys. In 1993, a 13-year-old boy accused Jackson of engaging him in acts of kissing, masturbation and oral sex. Jackson avoided prosecution by paying the family $21 million for his accuser’s silence. And then there was the 2005 trial in which Jackson was acquitted on seven counts of child sexual abuse and two counts of administering an intoxicating agent to another 13-year-old boy.
Does the $21 million payment to buy the silence of his accuser constitute a presumption of innocence? I hardly think so. Furthermore, the District Attorney of Santa Barbara County would never have gone to trial in 2005 if he had not been convinced that there was enough evidence to obtain a conviction. OK, the jury acquitted Jackson. So what! Ditto for the jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
By her boneheaded statement at the memorial, one would have to conclude that in Congresswoman Jackson Lee’s mind, O.J. Simpson did not murder his ex-wife and Ron Goldman. Michael Jackson and O.J. Simpson may be legally innocent, but they are sure as hell morally guilty!
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