ABOUT TIME The Michael Jackson "trial" went on-and-on for a period of fourteen weeks or so.
A jury took about a week deciding in Jackson's favor and were over - and we all breathed that traditional "sigh of relief" because we anticipated a return of TV time and talents to subjects other than Jackson's alleged doings and Iraq, perhaps and few teasers concerning events of concern Aruba and other such places of interest.
Little has turned out the way we thought it would.
The nation and, I assume, the world in general was concerned the famed dancer, musician, news-maker M. Jackson had fared so well in the ten major charges against him..
When the jury cleared him on all ten counts, many people were shook-up -even disappointed because this trial was to be a bit more permanent than that. I ,for one, was among those who were glad it was all over because we innocently thought TV programming time would revert to other subjects. were defeated. The airways are more completely filled with Jackson trial and "rejuvenated career" talk than before!
I have never been one who kept close account of events in the life of M. Jackson as an individuals. He is, I suppose, in some ways, typical of many within his generation called entertainers who, after a fashion, do, indeed "dance" or cavort in types of mathematical conceived and even poetic forms. Some others either hold,or actually play instruments. Jackson set forth an amalgam to please many eager seekers after vague goals. He packages lighting-fast gymnastics, twisting and turnings in to dance; he takes patches and swaths of swamp decor and then yells at them, berates them with fury seeking to make them flow uphill to become, melodies with meaning. And back of it all there is an uncertain vapor of doubt free to flow concern any and all of the truisms of living a human life.
Michael Jackson's conduct over the years has puzzled me to no end and partly because he has such a large following of people of all ages who believe as he does - apparently. I could not have served on such a jury as the one which just completed the case at hand. In my way of thinking, they did their job very well. I think they made the only judgment possible in the case. Fortunately, there seems to have been someone in their midst who set the path clearly so that they dealt with the case at hand and did not get bogged down in events of year ago. We should be most grateful for their services.
It is my hope that some of this will "sink in" at the Jackson camp and that plans for the future will be more in keeping with the second chance opportunities this affords their hero.
A.L.M. June 14, 2005 [c484wds]
