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Could Jacko Make Live 8 Comeback?

2005-06-14

Michael Jackson is being lined up for a sensational comeback at next month's Live 8 gig.

If I was Michael Jackson's handler, I'd wear elbow-length rubber gloves and possibly a body condom...

No, that's not what I was gonna say...

To rebuild his career, he'll have to seek out all the feel-good charity things he can find. He's home free with his acquittal — unless his next victim dies in his bed with witnesses present he'll never be in court again, but the wider jury of the public's convicted him. He has to ride out the attention span thing, and that means joining the do-good set to increase the number of people who don't view him as just another perv who got off. There are so many who just have to believe...

The King Of Pop has been tentatively invited to appear at the Philadelphia or London gig by organisers, after he was acquitted of child abuse allegations on Monday. Live 8 promoter Harvey Goldsmith says he would consider adding him to the line-up for the July 2 event - but questioned whether he was ready to perform yet. Jacko walked clear from court in Santa Maria looking frail, but he is still believed to want to relaunch his career as soon as possible.

If he's actually got back problems, rather than simply having been on the verge of a nervous breakdown, he's not gonna be doing a lot of dancing...

Interviewed on radio station Capital FM, Goldsmith said: "Obviously we'd consider it." He added: "Whether it's appropriate or not is another issue, whether he's in a fit state to work is another issue, whether he can work is another issue and whether he can work live is another issue." Jacko's close friend Stevie Wonder, who was listed as a potential character witness, is on the bill. The gig is being hosted by Will Smith and the line-up includes 50 Cent, P Diddy, Bon Jovi and the British band Kaiser Chiefs. Jackson co-wrote the 1985 song We Are The World, the US answer to Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas?

Well, there were complaints that the Live 8 concert didn't have enough black entertainers. Oh, wait......

Posted by:Steve

#9 OS - Your post is damned good - generating a *slaps forehead* response from me. Where would double-jeopardy fit into it? I heard some talking head types rattling on about how this verdict puts to rest, permanently because of double-jeopardy, the most serious charges from almost all of his primary accusers - i.e. - he's walking away (from jail, anyway) scot-free.

Then I heard Juror #1 say that he personally believed that Jackson was, indeed, probably a pedo who has done the things for which he was charged, but that the prosecution had failed to prove its case.

As soon as I read your post, it struck me that this Juror would whole-heartedly agree with you. Of course the Social Engineers will never allow serious discussion of the matter, but something along the lines of what you've presented would certainly make the vast majority of Americans feel as if "the system" made more sense, worked for them, etc. because it would address that unsettling realization after a circus like this or the OJ murders that something is seriously wrong with it.

Thx for your post!

Posted by: .com 2005-06-14 20:25

#8 I believe Scotland has the "Not Proven" verdict.

Posted by: Tom 2005-06-14 20:19

#7 This is the flaw in the US system: Peopel treat a "Not Guilty" verdict as if it is an "Innocent" verdict.

Jacks was not "Innocent", nor was he "Not Guilty" - it was that the case was NOT PROVEN.

There should be 4 verdicts available:

Guilty - no doubts at all. Not even fairly unreasonable. These cases are air tight, supported by physical evidence, corroborated by witnesses (and not stoolies), and enable the harshest penalties prescribed for the crime to be applied, up to and including life without parole and the death penalty.

Proven - beyond reasonable doubts although some unreasonable ones may remain (i.e. no death penalty nor no-parole may be issued)

Not-Proven - There was insufficient evidence, or there were reasonable doubts (and if so they should be listed). Or else the case is dismissed on a technicality Basically, this provides a record of arrest and charges, which CAN be brought for sentence consideration if there are subsequent convitions on the same or similar charges.

Innocent - There are no dobuts that the person did not commit the crime. The record is expunged, the person brought to trial has all the legal and court fees paid by the state, and they get restitution for any loss of income during the trial and any incarceration (as does their employer for loss of services). The person gets a letter of apology from the DA as well (makes it personal for the DA to not bring charges carelessly).

This eliminates the forever-appeals for death sentences, and gives a way to add weight to sentences for guys who just scrape by until they get caught again and are finally convicted. They also provide true exoneration for the innocent. And they give death-pentaly opponents on the jury a way to convict a killer and not crossing their conscience, instead of letting one go free.

We need to fix the justice system.

This is one way.

Posted by: OldSpook 2005-06-14 20:08

#6 I suspect the next we hear of M.Jackson will be when he finally loses all pigment and corporeal presence and becomes the invisible man (or lady....this is a while to come, and he's got impulses)

Posted by: Frank G 2005-06-14 19:09

#5 Look, he's like a gory traffic accident, or a circus freak show. You can't help looking, even though you know you shouldn't and you feel like you ought to take a hot shower with lots of carbolic soap afterwards. I think he's gonna fall into the same category as ol' whatsis face... the football player, charged with killing his ex-wife and a friend of hers? Yeah, a jury found him innocent too, but he was poison, as far as endorsements and stuff went, after that. More than poison, more like glow-in-the-dark radioactive. Yeah, he may be free, but he's untouchable, by anyone that might be a means of making a paycheck.

Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2005-06-14 19:00

#4 Hey I read somewhere that he may be defaulting on a loan and that he put up his Beatles collection as collateral, oh yeah.
please please please me

Posted by: Jan 2005-06-14 18:00

#3 I saw at the supermarket today two different magazine cover stories about a "War" between Jessica Simpson and Lindsey Lohan, or a war between Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise and his new gf...

Last week a Saudi blew himself up at a funeral at a mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan. About twenty or so mourners were killed.

I'm beginning to think part of our problem is that we're starting to think the former two manufactured fake-news items are real but the latter is just a police problem.

I don't mean to be snippy to anyone, but I come here to try to get away from the bullshit news items like the Michael Jackson case, however disturbing it may be.

(Hell, it's disturbing that they're still classifying him in the hominids, if you ask me...) OTOH, it is on Page 3... maybe we need a Page 4, for the icky stories that will make you want to take a bleach shower afterwards?

Posted by: Phil Fraering 2005-06-14 17:54

#2 Who gives a shit?

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-14 17:23

#1 Hopefully he went home last night and sucked down a jug of Drano.

Posted by: tu3031 2005-06-14 16:39

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