(Copying from
my livejournal)
Personally, I don't think he was "guilty".
Yes, we all know that Jacko is about as screwed up upstairs as you can get and still be considered legally sane. But I don't believe it's his fault. Emotionally, mentally, everythingly (except musically), he's stuck as a perpetual 13-year-old, or younger. He's a pre-teen stuck in an adult body. In some ways, I wouldn't even call him adolescent. I think he really doesn't know the difference between right and wrong.
He grew up in the spotlight of the Jackson 5, and was always under *intense* pressure from his father to perform exceptionally well. An obsessive father is one thing, but an obsessive and abusive father is another. Thank heaven I can't speak from experience, but I would think that it having someone like Jackson Sr. as a dad would be a pretty damning factor in my intellectual growth.
Think about it. Michael Jackson is obsessed with being a kid. To prove it, he's built himself mini-disneyland over at Neverland Ranch. He was upset when he didn't the part of Peter Pan in some movie. He really believes that crap. Someone like that I have serious doubts over his capacity to judge right from wrong.
So yes, perhaps he did do all the things he was accused of. But I think it was the right thing to let him go.
And another thing, about that woman and her son who were the ones that started all this.... She's so full of crap. Look at her history. Look at all the things people have found out about her. Of the two (Jackson and her), she's the one that should be in jail. Expert con artist, she is. Too bad we actually have a semi-fair legal system in this country, or she might've gotten away with it again.
OK, end rant.
Dave