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Itsthetruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:34 PM
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I'm Pleased And Relieved By The Jackson Not Guility Verdict
I'm pleased with the verdict. This will drive the right-wingnuts .... NUTS!

Jackson is certainly a strange bird with bizarre behavior. But, that does not make him a pedophile. He liked pornography featuring adult heterosexual males/females, not child pornography, and I suspect such pornography would not interest an adult male pedophile interested in the same sex. Just a feeling. I don't know if that's a fact.

Michael Jackson, on the advice of friends and attorneys, will certainly end any more activity that could open him up to future victimization by people hoping to strike it rich.

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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:35 PM
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1. Me too.
And it restores my faith in the justice system.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:36 PM
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3. Me three
After they mangled the OJ case out there in CA, it was a relief to see them get this one right.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:38 PM
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5. Me four.
Edited on Mon Jun-13-05 04:39 PM by TahitiNut
I also regarded the OJ criminal verdict as just.
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ConfuZed Donating Member (856 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:44 PM
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18. Me Five
All of these racists can kiss my round black butt
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:38 PM
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8. Oh, I agree with the OJ verdict.
I think it's just like this. They get the right verdict, everybody who doesn't really know anything about the case goes nuts because they had already made up their own mind.
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Itsthetruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:43 PM
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17. I Didn't Agree With The O.J. Verdict
I didn't agree with the O.J. verdict, however, the prosecution just botched that case and the jurors couldn't find him guilty. In this case, the prosecution just didn't have any evidence to back up their claims!
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:47 PM
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25. I should clarify.
Whether or not OJ did it, I did agree with the jury in that the defense raised reasonable doubt during the trial.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:59 PM
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30. I agreed with the OJ verdict
but still believe he killed his wife. It just wasn't proven in court.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 07:16 PM
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33. It restores my faith as well

I'll admit that I believed that he could not possibly get a fair trial in Santa Maria.

He did.

They did not convict him because he was African American.

He was deemed not guilty because of the evidence in the case.

He was represented by a white attorney, not a Johnnie Cochran.

He was still deemed not guilty!

He was branded totally by the media as being crazy, odd, weird and yet a jury of citizens carefully decided that he was not guilty.

God Bless America!
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Nite Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:36 PM
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2. If he was guilty of
anything it was being weird.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:40 PM
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12. And Using Children For His Own Personal Psychodrama. That Is Abusive
Edited on Mon Jun-13-05 04:41 PM by cryingshame
so what he had a rough childhood. It's still abuse to use kids the way he has.

Of course it's not sexual abuse... but tis abuse.
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Itsthetruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:46 PM
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23. He Wasn't Charge With That
eom
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:50 PM
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28. Right You Are. No Argument From Me.
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bagimin Donating Member (945 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:42 PM
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15. I'm gonna get me some boys for tonight!
it's legal.
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:37 PM
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4. 'Activist Jurors' could become their new phrase n/t
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:38 PM
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6. I dunno if he's guilty or not, but the standard is beyond a reasonable
doubt.

The prosecutors obviously did not even come close to that standard in their case.
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Ishoutandscream2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:38 PM
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7. Yes, no "Jacko in jail" stories. Maybe the MSM will cover real news
like, for instance, the continuing quagmire in Iraq, or the DSM.

Okay, okay, I'm sorry. Stop laughing!!
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:40 PM
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9. I join you in your feelings
Much love to Michael.
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Hokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:40 PM
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10. My thoughts also
I had absolutely no opinion about this case until today when I heard that the verdict was in. I do not know why but I thought to myself "What verdict would Fox news love to see?" Obviously the answer was guilty. They want to see anyone who is black or from Hollywood go down. After that I knew what I wanted the verdict to be.

i think the prosecution should have never brought this case in the first place. I sounds like every accuser was tainted in some way or the other.

Anyway it is over. Let's get on with the DSM scandal!
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:46 PM
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24. You know, you're quite right about Faux news.
Never thought about it -- you KNOW they would have eaten a guilty verdict up with a spoon.

I can't opine on the verdict 'cause I wasn't there, but here's hoping justice was served.
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Chipper Chat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:40 PM
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11. I hope this verdict is a metaphor
for the disgust ordinary citizens feel for the right-wing of this country attempting to dictate morality in addition to the ever-increasing political takeover. Maybe the backlash has begun.
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bigluckyfeet Donating Member (559 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:43 PM
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16.  Eat that you corporate whore media
I love it,the media had already convicted him.
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gratefull4u Donating Member (169 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:41 PM
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13. I agree also!
If one could go to prison for being weird I'd be in jail! Thank God 12 people were able to see that Michael is just different.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:42 PM
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14. Add me to that list
time to deal with the Memo now...they are guilty.
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:45 PM
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19. Me too. I couldn/'t watch the verdict on TV. I just learned about
it from DU. My take is that after the airing of that interview, the boy's mother had people in her ear telling her, "girl you could sue Michael Jackson and get muy rico." The prosecutor was out to get him and immediately had children services investigate to see if there was anything fishy. That investigation turned up empty. But they couldn't let it rest. Had to get him anyway.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:45 PM
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20. Michael Jackson who?
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:45 PM
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21. I didn't follow his exploits or this trial closely enough to have...
...an opinion about his guilt or innocence. But I do know that it is a common ploy of pedophiles to show heterosexual pornography to their victims, in the hope that they will become sexually aroused.

I don't even know if he showed it to any boys. I'm just saying that the presence of heterosexual pornography in his home is not exculpatory, in and of itself.
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PinkTiger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:46 PM
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22. I am also pleased.
I hope Michael J dismantles Neverland and keeps himself away from dangerous lunatics from hereon out.
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Itsthetruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:49 PM
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26. Rev. Jesse Jackson Comment
He just said that the mass media convicted Michael Jackson with their slanted coverage.

And Reverand Sharpton just said that this trial vindicated Jackson and that "this is good for America" because a person must be considered innocent until proven guilty.
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genius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:53 PM
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29. Good for them.
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Melodybe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 04:50 PM
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27. That is the stupidest thing that you could think in this case
but by all means go ahead and shoot us in the foot.
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Medium Baby Jesus Donating Member (592 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 05:01 PM
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31. You worry about your foot
and I'll worry about mine

feh
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Itsthetruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 05:02 PM
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32. What's Stupid?
Pleased that Jackson was found not guilty by a jury and that right-wing media and organizations won't be cheering a guilty verdict?
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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 07:17 PM
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34. Me thirty-three.
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Itsthetruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 11:23 AM
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35. kick
eom
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