The only people counting down the days to the Michael Jackson ‘Moonwalking For Justice’ manslaughter trial, are members of his immediate family and his slightly psychotic followers.
Oh, how we look forward to seeing scores of Jackson fans with badly scrawled banners, candlelit shrines and people walking around in monkey costumes.
And poor ol’ Dr. Conrad Murray – who's accused of administrating the lethal drugs that caused Michael Jackson to go in to cardiac arrest – has a few hurdles to mount before the trial even begins.
Over in Cardiff, an ill-timed tribute to the King of Pop will be taking place and somehow, the American authorities have the comedic task of sifting through jurors, so they're totally impartial. Despite the focus of this trail not focusing to the times Jackson allegedly spent with children, it's great to see Jermaine Jackson dragging up this grey period of the families? life for us to ponder over again.
Whatever your opinion on Michael and his sleepover trial, which involved accusations of more than just holding hands, it seems there's always a Jackson member around to remind us of the incident. The bloke didn't face court appearances just the once – he had allegations thrown his way twice. To most outsiders like us, this didn't look good at all. Surely if Jackson got off the first time he wouldn't make the sloppy mistake that got him caught again? Apparently so it seems and brother Jermaine Jackson was fearful that things could get bad. He said:
‘If they were going to sit and crucify my brother for something that he didn’t do, America deserves us not to come back here. At the end of the day, this is supposed to be the land of the brave, home of the free, democracy, freedom of speech. The way they were treating him, none of that existed. Why should he go to jail for something he didn’t do?’
As we all know, the courts decided that despite his name being tarnished forever, Michael Jackson was cleared of all charges in 2005. But why did the Jacksons have a Plan B in place in case everything went belly up? Again, it has been reported that:
?A private jet financed by a friend was on standby to whisk the King of Pop to Bahrain if Michael was convicted in his 2005 court case. The former Jackson 5 member said his younger brother was not aware of the escape plot, but would have agreed to flee America ‘in a heartbeat’ because he would not have survived in jail.?
Not being able to survive in prison? We?d agree on that point. Looking at the frail and skeletal figure of Michael Jackson, he wouldn't have the energy to bend over in the shower and pick up the soap. He?d only anger fellow inmates with his constant whining and requests of someone to do it for him. Once again, questions have to be asked why Jermaine Jackson has decided to post this statement that?ll please mental fans of Michael?s that he wouldn't be thrown into the slammer.
It seems that Jermaine Jackson has a book out! How about that, a piece of merchandising conveniently planned for the Murray trial and weirdly placed tribute show in Cardiff. This is where we?d finish off with a tasteless joke, but the title of Jermaine?s book is better than anything we can muster up:
You Are Not Alone: Michael Through A Brother’s Eyes.
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