Reply #2: Sheila Jackson Leigh [View All]

made a wonderful tribute at the memorial service, reminding people that a person in this country has to proven guilty and until then, which never happened in MJ's case, they are innocent. MJ was acquitted on all counts in the trial that a good prosecutor, having investigated the accusers, would never have pursued.

In the first case, a child who had consistently denied that anything bad ever happened, was kidnapped by his ambitious and greedy father and his incredibly ethics-challenged lawyer, and that's putting it mildly (in the middle of a custody battle) and then given a drug, supposedly, according to his dentist father, to have a tooth extracted, known to cause people to become programmable. It was only after that that the child changed his story.

If there had been a winnable case, if the prosecutor believed a crime had been committed, no settlement between the two parties should have prevented him from pursuing the case. Yet, he did not.

Today, the vile Republican Congressman from Nassau Co. LI, Peter King, the same one who predicted a Bush win in Ohio because they were doing the counting, slandered Michael Jackson calling him names I will not repeat here. I hope his family sues him. I believe that was what prompted part of Rep. Sheila Jackson Leigh's comments at the memorial, reminding him of how our system of justice works, something so many Repubs appear to be very ignorant about.

As a result of those tasteless attacks on the day of the funeral from Rep. King, fans of MJ have set up a fundraiser to support someone to run against him next year. It's long past time to remove this man from his comfortable job and elect someone who represents the people and who, hopefully DOES understand our judicial system.

'Goodnight sweet prince. And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest'