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The Michael Jackson Case: Fingerprints and Tabloids
by K. C. Arceneaux, Ph.D.
December 13, 2004
In yet another example of journalistic bottom-feeding in the coverage of the Michael Jackson child-molestation case, Mike Walker, editor of the National Enquirer, gloated over his latest scoop on the Geraldo Rivera show, on Fox news, December 12, 2004. The "scoop" was that Jackson's fingerprints and those of the boy-accuser were found on a pornographic magazine taken from Neverland Ranch. Walker called the prints "a gift to the prosecution, a bombshell in the case." However, as Rivera pointed out, it will be impossible to determine if the fingerprints were placed on the magazine simultaneously. A bombshell, the discovery is not.
First reported by the National Enquirer, the story jumped species, virus-like, from the Enquirer to Fox news, from Fox to CNN, and the Associated Press. By the time the story reached the AP, the origin of the "news" had dropped away, depriving the public of the knowledge that this was a tabloid story. Mike Walker was disgruntled about CNN and the Associated Press "dishonestly taking it as their own story." Walker may be disgruntled, but the public should be alarmed by the failure of these news outlets to report that their story had tabloid origins. Tabloid magazines typically pay for their stories, a practice that mainstream journalists do not follow, for reasons that should be obvious.
So here are a few questions. First, who is the source for this latest revelation? Is it a fantasizing back-room hack hoping to fill the lull in the Jackson case with -- something? Or, does the leak originate from the prosecution team themselves? The gag order in the case has all but silenced the Jackson defense, but the prosecution seems to have a serious leakage problem that has remained unstaunched throughout. Is it possible that greed has struck Santa Barbara law-enforcement and someone is passing material to tabloids for financial gain? Surely not. Or, was the leak a deliberate attempt to influence public opinion on the eve of the trial, to bolster a case that is already so full of holes that leakages are inevitable? The water-torture of Jackson continues.
The prosecution will no doubt say at trial that Jackson used the magazines to ripen up his "victim" for molestation. The defense will say that the fingerprints prove nothing, except that the boy snooped Jackson's private belongings. Memory problems are rampant in the Jackson case. The prosecution may have forgotten that the accuser's story has mutated, from the first indictment to the second -- the first indictment following Jackson's arrest, and the second from a grand jury over which District Attorney Tom Sneddon presided. Jackson's accuser has had memory lapses, as well. At first, he remembered that he was molested seven times. Now, the boy has said that he was unconscious from alcohol Jackson gave him, and does not remember being molested, three times, with one "attempt." Luckily for the prosecution, the boy's brother has stepped up and said that he was a witness to the misdeeds the accuser now does not remember.
The "fingerprint leak" presents a dilemma for the prosecution, however, as to which story the "evidence" supports. The first story, or the second? Did Jackson arouse his alleged victim with pornography, only to have the boy fall unconscious so that he could molest him at leisure? But if the boy was unconscious, then why would the magazines matter? The lapse of logic here is typical of a case that, in my opinion, would have died months ago from memory failures and other reasons too numerous to mention here, had the accused not been Michael Jackson, and had not the media jumped on tabloid stories as if they were truth. As long as these leakages and scenarios remain unchallenged, the DA must think he still has a case.
Fingerprints on a magazine prove that the owner of the fingerprints. . . touched the magazine. What is suspicious here is not that Jackson had a stash of heterosexual porn, if indeed that is the truth, and it is not that he touched his own magazines, or even that the boy-accuser may have touched them; it was reported by Dawn Hobbs, in the Santa Barbara News Press, that the boy-accuser was at Neverland at times when Jackson was not there and he and his siblings had the run of the place. What is suspicious is the timing of the leak. Over a year after the initial raid of Neverland, Thomas Sneddon, Santa Barbara DA, is still searching, and searching, and searching. Excessive is too mild a word for a hundred six searches and counting.
On December 3, 2004, Jackson's Neverland ranch was raided again. The media had been tipped off and were in place to cover the raid. Soon after, a story emerged that was hardly the smoking gun the District Attorney must have hoped for, given the extravagance of the search. Fingerprints were found, not from material collected during the raid, but from a magazine that the DA has had in his possession for over a year. Is it possible that the prosecution, if they are the source of the leak, actually think the media-consuming public is as stupid as that? If the fingerprint story is accurate -- and there is no way of knowing that -- then there are various ways the boy's fingerprints could have appeared on that magazine. Jackson and the boy could have looked at the magazine together; the boy could have discovered and perused the magazine on his own, or, the fingerprints could have been planted by a DA desperate to convict Jackson. At the eleventh hour, fingerprints were found. What an amazing coincidence!
Author K. C. Arceneaux, Ph.D., is a Pushcart nominee and winner of a Tara Fellowship from the Heekin Group. First North American Serial Rights, Copyright December 13, 2004.
http://www.mjredemption.com/MJ_News_Files_News_6.htm
The Michael Jackson Case: Fingerprints and Tabloids
by K. C. Arceneaux, Ph.D.
December 13, 2004
In yet another example of journalistic bottom-feeding in the coverage of the Michael Jackson child-molestation case, Mike Walker, editor of the National Enquirer, gloated over his latest scoop on the Geraldo Rivera show, on Fox news, December 12, 2004. The "scoop" was that Jackson's fingerprints and those of the boy-accuser were found on a pornographic magazine taken from Neverland Ranch. Walker called the prints "a gift to the prosecution, a bombshell in the case." However, as Rivera pointed out, it will be impossible to determine if the fingerprints were placed on the magazine simultaneously. A bombshell, the discovery is not.
First reported by the National Enquirer, the story jumped species, virus-like, from the Enquirer to Fox news, from Fox to CNN, and the Associated Press. By the time the story reached the AP, the origin of the "news" had dropped away, depriving the public of the knowledge that this was a tabloid story. Mike Walker was disgruntled about CNN and the Associated Press "dishonestly taking it as their own story." Walker may be disgruntled, but the public should be alarmed by the failure of these news outlets to report that their story had tabloid origins. Tabloid magazines typically pay for their stories, a practice that mainstream journalists do not follow, for reasons that should be obvious.
So here are a few questions. First, who is the source for this latest revelation? Is it a fantasizing back-room hack hoping to fill the lull in the Jackson case with -- something? Or, does the leak originate from the prosecution team themselves? The gag order in the case has all but silenced the Jackson defense, but the prosecution seems to have a serious leakage problem that has remained unstaunched throughout. Is it possible that greed has struck Santa Barbara law-enforcement and someone is passing material to tabloids for financial gain? Surely not. Or, was the leak a deliberate attempt to influence public opinion on the eve of the trial, to bolster a case that is already so full of holes that leakages are inevitable? The water-torture of Jackson continues.
The prosecution will no doubt say at trial that Jackson used the magazines to ripen up his "victim" for molestation. The defense will say that the fingerprints prove nothing, except that the boy snooped Jackson's private belongings. Memory problems are rampant in the Jackson case. The prosecution may have forgotten that the accuser's story has mutated, from the first indictment to the second -- the first indictment following Jackson's arrest, and the second from a grand jury over which District Attorney Tom Sneddon presided. Jackson's accuser has had memory lapses, as well. At first, he remembered that he was molested seven times. Now, the boy has said that he was unconscious from alcohol Jackson gave him, and does not remember being molested, three times, with one "attempt." Luckily for the prosecution, the boy's brother has stepped up and said that he was a witness to the misdeeds the accuser now does not remember.
The "fingerprint leak" presents a dilemma for the prosecution, however, as to which story the "evidence" supports. The first story, or the second? Did Jackson arouse his alleged victim with pornography, only to have the boy fall unconscious so that he could molest him at leisure? But if the boy was unconscious, then why would the magazines matter? The lapse of logic here is typical of a case that, in my opinion, would have died months ago from memory failures and other reasons too numerous to mention here, had the accused not been Michael Jackson, and had not the media jumped on tabloid stories as if they were truth. As long as these leakages and scenarios remain unchallenged, the DA must think he still has a case.
Fingerprints on a magazine prove that the owner of the fingerprints. . . touched the magazine. What is suspicious here is not that Jackson had a stash of heterosexual porn, if indeed that is the truth, and it is not that he touched his own magazines, or even that the boy-accuser may have touched them; it was reported by Dawn Hobbs, in the Santa Barbara News Press, that the boy-accuser was at Neverland at times when Jackson was not there and he and his siblings had the run of the place. What is suspicious is the timing of the leak. Over a year after the initial raid of Neverland, Thomas Sneddon, Santa Barbara DA, is still searching, and searching, and searching. Excessive is too mild a word for a hundred six searches and counting.
On December 3, 2004, Jackson's Neverland ranch was raided again. The media had been tipped off and were in place to cover the raid. Soon after, a story emerged that was hardly the smoking gun the District Attorney must have hoped for, given the extravagance of the search. Fingerprints were found, not from material collected during the raid, but from a magazine that the DA has had in his possession for over a year. Is it possible that the prosecution, if they are the source of the leak, actually think the media-consuming public is as stupid as that? If the fingerprint story is accurate -- and there is no way of knowing that -- then there are various ways the boy's fingerprints could have appeared on that magazine. Jackson and the boy could have looked at the magazine together; the boy could have discovered and perused the magazine on his own, or, the fingerprints could have been planted by a DA desperate to convict Jackson. At the eleventh hour, fingerprints were found. What an amazing coincidence!
Author K. C. Arceneaux, Ph.D., is a Pushcart nominee and winner of a Tara Fellowship from the Heekin Group. First North American Serial Rights, Copyright December 13, 2004.
http://www.mjredemption.com/MJ_News_Files_News_6.htm
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Vanhimmat
Voisitko tehdä jonkilaisen yhteenvedon Suomeksi noiden Englannin kielisten juttujen loppuun? Osaan toki lukea textin niinkuin moni muukin, mutta olisi asiaa jos siinä olisi Suomeksi jutun keskeiset kohdat. Okei?
Yeah!
Kukaan ei tiedä onko nuo sormenjäljet jääneet lehteen samanaikasesti, mutta juttu on paha Jackolle koska häntähän on nimenomaan syytetty siitä että hän on näyttänyt alaikäisille pornoa.
On ehkä mahdotonta todistaa että noin on tapahtunut, vaikka nuo molempien jäljet lehdessä ovatkin? Onhan poika voinut katsella löytämäänsä lehteä ilman Jackoakin?
Toisaalta, voihan olla että MJ on sittenkin toiminut lainvastaisesti? Jos näin on, niin oranssi haalari kuuluu popin kunkun uuteen tyyliin...
Veikkaan että jury vapauttaa Jackon, koska tuo todiste ei edusta mitenkään aukotonta näyttöä Jackoa vastaan?
Jacko saa kai jonkilaiset rapsut siitä että penska pääsi käsiksi löytämäänsä viinaksiin ja pornoon... Tuskin häkki heilahtaa, mutta eihän tuosta jurystä koskaan varmasti tiedä mitä se lopulta päättää?
Jos poika pysyy sitkeästi väitteissään että MJ juotti hänet humalaan ja käytti hyväkseen, voi Jackon käydä köpelösti vaikka hän olisikin oikeasti syytön.
Olisi parasta jos juttu kääntyisi täysin selkeästi puoleen tai toiseen. Spekulaatioiden kohteeksi jäävä ratkaisu ei ole tosi oikeutta. Joko MJ:n maine tahraantuu suotta tai hän istuu viattomana vankilassa, tai sitten syyllinen pääsee näytön puuttuessa vapaaksi. On tietenkin jokaisen oma asia mihin uskoo, fanit uskovat syyttömyyteen, muut pitävät mielensä avoimena myös muille vaihtoehdoille.
Itse en ole fani mutta koska kivenkovaa näyttöä ei Jackoa vastaan ole, on minun pidettävä häntä toistaiseksi syyttömänä.
Ehkäpä Michaelilla on ollut turvakamerat käynnissä
kun nämä kakrut ovat tonkineet hänen tavaroitaan. Mark Geragos totesi puolustuksella olevan paljon video materiaalia.
Tästä porno jutusta vielä, kuinka tosi se on? eikö Michaelia vastaan olisi pitänyt nostaa syyte myös pornon esittelystä, sehän on rikos?
Mitä, onko "Maikkeli" sittenkin MIES, jolla on kätkössä tavallisia PORNOLEHTIÄ, jotka joku poju sattui uteliaisuuksissaan löytämään???