6/14/5 - Kamiah, Idaho to Longview

A lot of people were hopin' that Michael Jackson would lose when the verdict was announced on Tuesday...but in the end, all parties, including those who followed the trial through the media, were the real losers.

Michael Jackson - even though he did "win", Jackson is now publically tainted as a pedophile, (despite the verdict) and will be doomed forever to the thousands of jokes, chained to his public cartoon-like character of which seems only to be out-of-touch and sedated. And maybe most frightening, to face his own insignificance as an artist and unsubstantial human being, locked away in a decaying amusement park hidaway a la Charles Foster Kane.
The prosecuting accusers - are really big time losers; now permanently and culturally labled as money grubbing whores who were willing to face public humiliation and witness-relocation just for a chance at money. At the juror press conference, one of the jurors, who is a mother herself, was asked:
"Did you feel that the mother in the case was at fault rather than Mr. Jackson?"
"I'd like to comment on that but I believe at this time I probably shouldn't." Nuff said.
The fans parked out for months in front of the courthouse - I mean, do I have to even comment about these people? What would possess someone to commit both lengthy periods of time and emotional energy to do something like this? Pathetic losers, all of them.
The Media - who fed on this story for all it was worth, because it's not about any real news; it's about viewer ratings equalling big advertising money. This is the only thing our current form of "news-media" cares about. History will prove the Michael Jackson case as a microscopic event. Nevertheless, the media made this trial and resultant verdict the major headline for as long as they could, all-the-while diverting America's attention from actual news of recent devulged facts that the President and current administration lied us all into a war that has killed thousands of American kids for no reason. This, will be remembered historically, I promise.
Those who understand the details - For knowing all minutia about Michael and those involved, (and any other celebrities) when we don't even know our own neighbors. When we don't even know what our own City Council is doing. When most Americans know how Jacko loves to shop and has Elephant Man bones, but can't tell you the name of their own Senator, or what the person living three houses away does for a living.

In the end, this whole trial produced no winners at all. It may have proved nothing more than the fact that the US is populated by an isolated jury of voyeristic losers.
-Tom