Jackson acquited

And then I GET convicted of speeding when I was never on radar. The officer said, "You LOOKED like you were speeding."
Did you get convicted, or did you just pay it? Also, how did he decide how much $$ you paid. It's a base amount per mile over the speed limit. So did he give you a lesser offense (failure to obey a traffic sign?)

As far as Jackon goes, he's wacky. He's crazy. He likes to be around children, and unfortunately that makes him a target for greedy parents. This childs mother is an abomination and should be sent to jail, not Jackson. The prosecution couldn't prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he did anything wrong. I think there's a reason all those people said that he was not guilty on all 10 counts. All 10.

Thomas Jefferson once said that I'd rather let 1000 guilty men walk rather than make one innocent man go to jail. (Paraphrased, wording was slightly different. What he was saying is only do it if you're sure. I feel we need to spend more time doing that in this country. If Jackson was hands down a child molester, put him in jail. However, I want some real evidence. Especially when the kid he "molested" told his guidance counsler at school that Jackson didn't do anything -- you don't have much of a case.

Our jails are too crowded as is and we put people in for puny things. Let's save jail spots for the real criminals, not petty things.

I got charged with reckless driving which was what he "thought" I was doing. I was doing five miles over the speed limit and NOTHING was reduced. It was complete bullshit.

this was a truly flaky case... still, his defense was "sure i slept with a lot of children, but i didn't molest all of them..."

so he stays out of jail, but everyone still knows that he loves touching kids.

Michael Jackson didn't have sex with those children...

...he made LOVE to them.:vomit-smi

This was a case of a rotten complaining witness. The family accusing him had admittedly perjured themselves when suing JC Penney's by falsely accusing a security guard of molesting the same child. That makes them difficult to believe.

Now here's the sick part. Did Michael Jackson seek out a victim who either (a) wouldn't be around to complain - he was a cancer patient, or (b) wouldn't be believed if he did go to the law? I don't know if either of those suppositions are true, but it's a very disturbing thought.

Indeed it is. Just like I was reading in the article on CNN, just because he was found innocent of THOSE charges doesn't mean he's an innocent man.

The bottom line is the prosecution had too many holes in their case. Like it or not, there just wasn't enough to have a guilty verdict.

My question is what's up with the people outside the court house who were celebrating and acting like idiots? Why do people care? Do they know him personally??

Yeah, and it's people who are hardly from his generation. They act like he was the savior to music. There weren't that many people for OJ when he got acquitted and his charges were MUCH more serious.

I guess molesting kids isn't as serious as killing someone.

What I don't understand is why the media is covering the Jackson trial when we've got troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, threats from terrorism, the Bolton hearings, etc.

Seriously. Of all thats that dominate the news THAT should not be one of them...