He’s bad, he’s bad, you know it!

Michael Jackson just got off, kinda literally and figuratively. While he wasn’t declared innocent, he was declared not-guilty, and a serial weirdo goes free. I don’t know if the guy is a pederast or not; I think he obviously has an unhealthy attraction to little boys, and I wouldn’t leave my pets alone with him, let alone my children. I think some of the past parents and all future ones, should be brought up on child endangerment charges if they let their kids sleep in the same bed, unsupervised, with someone like that. But either way, another once black man didn’t get justice due to the California courts; that’s three famous court cases in a row. Of course this isn’t really about race. But then neither were other famous “black” cases.

Rodney King was a drug abusing reckless driver, that sped, ran red lights, endangered people, was driving under the influence, and had a history (past and future) of getting in trouble with the law. When pulled over, he got out of his car, charged police officers and knocked them to the ground. He was told to submit to being arrested, but charged them, was tazered, twice, and 50,000 volts didn’t phase him. Cops had two choices; shoot him (lethal force), or baton/beat him into submission. They went out of their way to save his sorry life, and that choice cost the city and country millions if not billions of dollars. Every time they approached him to put the cuffs on, he showed more contempt of cop, and tried to get up, so they beat him more. For this they got labeled racists. That there were 3 other black people in the car at the time, that weren’t beaten (because they didn’t break the law or attack officers), but that was irrelevant. And of course the cops would have done the same to a big, drugged out, reckless samoan, mexican, asian, or white guy; but that was irrelevant too. All of my friends of different racial backgrounds knew better than to do the things Rodney did, then blame the results on racism, as there was a police abuse (or at least perception) problem with the LAPD. But the inner-city Los Angeles black community knew it was because of the color of Rodney’s skin that had all happened. And when the officers were not convicted for doing their job, many dumb people burned and looted local business and homes of their neighbors in protest. Woo hoo. Big win for reason and justice.

The same with OJ. Some guy kills his ex-wife, and leaves a trail of blood and DNA evidence. There was one in a few hundred million chance that it wasn’t him that did it; the jurors felt that was reasonable doubt. As if it is reasonable to assume that there was more than one psychotic control-freak stalker with a history of attacking Nicole, that had been in the same area, cut his same finger, run from the police in a low-speed chase, and so on. Every other color/race would have convicted, but the California jurors would rather believe in conspiracies to frame an innocent black athlete, than in common sense.

So in the grand scheme of things, the Michael Jackson case was a win. At least this time, there was a little common sense behind the decision. Heck, if I had been on the Jury in this case, I probably would have had to let Michael Jackson go too. You can’t convict a guy on prior acts, and while there was plenty of evidence to show a pattern of behavior, you should only convict based on the evidence in this case. Jackson left porn available to children; bad thing to do, and I believe proves he is a pervert — but not necessarily that he molested this kid. The stuff with Jesus Juice, and alcohol spiked coke, happened in prior cases and was weak in this one; again, bad pattern but not evidence. The prosecutor proved that Wacko-Jacko label exists for a reason, and probably that there was a history of bad behavior; but still failed to prove this case. The only real evidence was the testimony of a whiney and self-contradicting kid with a history of false claims, a psychotic money-grubbing mother, loony claims of abduction (while they voluntarily hung around), and a monomaniacal prosecutor. So I’d probably have to let the sick little freak go too. So at least in this case, I can’t find fault with the Jury’s decision — even if we all know that justice wasn’t served. No matter if you think he is guilty or you have delusions of innocence, it is time to move on and let it go. In the grand twisted scheme of the world, this injustice took way too much time and attention — and it’s time to move on with our lives.

Still, I can’t help thinking of some of the lyrics to his song:

Your butt is mine
I’m giving you on count of three
To show your stuff or let it be.
Your talk is cheap
You know I’m smooth
I’m bad – you know it
You know I’m bad
I’m bad – you know it…