Taking A Stand: Justice blinded by stars in California
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The verdict in the Michael Jackson trial and the freaks who lined the streets around the courthouse in Los Angeles Monday afternoon only strengthened my belief that Lex Luthor should have used a little more kryptonite in executing his plan. I’m currently of the belief that the state of California is not only not part of America but not part of the planet Earth. The constant sun or the salt air on the left coast has obviously done something damaging to their brains out there.
Here we have a grown man who readily admits sleeping with little boys after enticing them to a children’s paradise at Neverland Ranch. Yet, we had a large array of freaks around the courthouse, cheering this millionaire pervert at the top of their lungs, not caring whether he was guilty or not.
Folks, 20 years ago he may have been the King of Pop but in 2005 he is just a wormy, plastic-surgery-scarred has-been with severe mental problems who has a fetish for little boys and deep pockets to pay himself out of trouble. To cheer a grown man who cuddles up with little boys at night is a slap in the face to every kid who has ever been molested.
Was he guilty? A jury of 12 of Jackson’s fellow West Coast freaks says no. However, by his own words we know he participates in sleep-overs that, in Tennessee, would get him either thrown under the jail or killed by the parents of the children.
And, while I’m on the subject, what kind of low-life parent lets their child have sleep-overs with a guy who, for more than a decade, has been the poster child for alleged child molesters. Next time they charge Jackson, they need to charge the parents of the child too for child abuse and neglect.
Granted, parents may just be after Jackson’s millions, but thanks to his little boy fetish, he’s inviting such actions since parents who would let their child stay with a reputed pervert overnight are obviously not the cream of society to start with.
The really bad part about this is that Jackson is now free to go on doing whatever he’s been doing out at Neverland all these years. Jurors may as well have just given Jackson a pat on the back and an “at-a-boy” as he left the courtroom in his customized limo to return to his fantasy life. Wonder how many of those jurors would have let their kids go home with the old King of Pop?
Folks, thank your lucky stars you live in Tennessee, where justice is still justice. I have no doubt this guy would have long since earned a TDOC number, just based on his questionable interludes with little boys over the years.
I guess this tells all of us that if you’re a freak, geek or just like to get jiggy with it, to “Go West Young Man” to a place where it’s not only condoned, but expected, a place where justice is blurred and guilt or innocence is simply as point of view.
If Michael wants to rehabilitate himself, why not just stop sleeping with children? But, then, why should he since the people of the state of California say there’s nothing wrong with it.
I wonder when Lex will come up for parole?
(Duane Sherrill is a reporter for the Standard. He can be reached at 473-2191 or by e-mail at [email protected].)