Uponnothing.co.uk

So, Michael Jackson has escaped prison, he remains free but the result of the trial has hardly left him innocent in the eyes of millions who have been subjected to the media hype that surrounded the trial - which made hearing the verdict almost impossible to avoid. So what did proving his innocence really achieve? He has now been blighted throughout his life by very serious allegations of child molestation, allegations of almost complete facial reconstruction, and being in ridiculous debt despite being insanely rich. Rumours circulate and conclude that Jackson has a severe detachment from reality, enabling him to believe that he is Peter Pan in Never land, and because of this he sees no harm in forging close relationships with young boys, including sharing a bed with them.

The result of his trial has supposedly put to rest any accusations that anything untoward happened with the children he slept with, but it wont stop the public perception that there is no smoke without fire. Reading the comment page in the Independent it is almost impossible not to snigger at certain phrases: ‘When Jackson returned home he went straight to bed’ - we presume he was at least alone this time. This is the easy route to take, as a celebrity he is seen as someone to be ridiculed. So people either ridicule him, or take him for a ride by making supposedly false accusations in order to get a slice of his wealth. Surely if Michael Jackson was an ordinary person, he would be locked up as clinically insane, rather than being classed as merely rich and eccentric. Instead he remains surrounded by people who seem to be unable to point out to him that perhaps he needs to seek professional help, he needs a slap around the face, not a collection of sycophants cynically sucking up the last of his credit.

America locks up people without trial for being dark-skinned and in the wrong place at the wrong time, yet Michael Jackson exists beyond all help despite his quite public displays of disturbing behaviour, surely the jury could have at least forced him to seek counselling? Perhaps the fact that Jackson is ‘rich’, suffers severe illusions, and has made himself white enables him to join the same elite club as the other rich madmen currently running (ruining) America.