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下面引用由billiehou在 2004/05/07 09:16pm 发表的内容：歌迷见闻（二）圣芭芭拉的老百姓我问了许多当地人对MJ和这个案子的看法，因为我想大概知道一下圣芭芭拉大街上的老百姓是怎么想的。我遇到一个歌迷，她是圣芭芭拉的长住居民。她告诉我此地大多数人不喜欢MJ。　...

对该文的一贴回应：Vstreet, YOU ARE THE MAN!!! I am not saying that because I agree with almost all of your posts, I am not saying that because I am a fan of your posts, I am saying that because you say things that I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO SAY ABOUT THIS CASE for a long time. I have my favorite posters on the board, but if I have to chose one person that I absolutely love on this board, (meaning posts) the person would be YOU. I LOVE the way you go out there and SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH. Search for why this is happening and let the fans know about the situation. Man, THANK YOU for posting this information because this shows me, besides the Dr. S. interview that this "case" is NOT about child molestation this case is about destroying a black man's life, career, and dignity. THAT IS WHAT THIS CASE IS ABOUT. NOTHING ELSE! Let me tell you people something - while processing this information, along with the interview in my head for a few days, I have come to the conclusion that IF this case was about child molestation, PEOPLE WOULD HAVE CAME FORWARD the way the Catholic Church people have. This case this about a land that a BLACK MAN has and the POWER that this BLACK MAN has. This is not about his relationships with children or whatever, it about what this man HAS. I want to comment on a few things that seriously got me thinking: * Why did the police officer arrested a resident who was blasting MJ's music? Because the music was Michael Jackson? If it was anyone else, would the person be arrested for that? NO WAY. Again, another reason why Jackson is disliked there: power. * The police officers from SB county are all white, so where are the black or hispanic police officers at? If they had more diversity, would the mood of the scene change? * It is very unusual and WEIRD that the government is trying to shut down this investigative reporter/journalist if he would have went into detail of the MJ case. Now, this is making me believe for certain that the government is mos def behind this. At first, I was extremely skepitcal because I mean, why would the gov't care what MJ does. However, when I read that part about the journalist, it really got me believing that maybe the gov't does have something to do with the case. * About Sneddon, or Mr. Asshole, being pissed off at the song "D.S", and not being so obsess with Jackson, you might remember that he said in an interview in 1995, where he stated that basically, he did not care WHAT MJ DID. IF that was the case, why the HELL did he kept talking about Jackson from 1993 to 2004? It seemed like EVERY d#amn YEAR IN THE ELEVEN YEAR TIME FRAME, this fool could not SHUT HIS TRAP about a guy that he "claims" he is not obsess about. This is another reason why I KNOW FOR A FACT that this Sneddon idiot had/has a vendetta against Jackson. If he did not have an vendetta, then why did he cared about MJ during that time frame and why did he take "DS" so seriously? Was it because EVERYTHING that MJ said in the song was true?* Oh man, Judge Meville - you know, I knew the beginning that this fool was not going to be fair with MJ. When I saw his face, I just knew it, man. However, what really confirmed my gut feeling was the gag order situation and this is why I believed that this judge is a hater. When the gag order was in motion, that was when Geragos could not go on television and defend his client who was being treated, literally, like dog crap everyday. Also, he (Jackson) had to go through that nonsense constantly. However, for the prosecutor's side, you had people like Jim Thomas and Diane Dimond speaking, literally, in the behalf of Sneddon. Saying all of these things. Yet, they violated the gag order. They were talking about the case. Basically, we and many people who are following this case, had the listen to what these goons were saying and almost, if not, all of the things that they were stating were lies, yet, media took those lies and made them facts. A great example of what I am talking about is the Vanity Fair article. The only people who mentioned both sides of the story was Mike Tabbii and Access Hollywood. The rest totally ignored it and took Maureen Orth lies as facts because she is a "respected journalist". I believe, and vstreet or anyone else can back me on this, Meville planned that to happen because he knew this case was weak. I mean think about it, what judge would even let this thing go this far? This is a trap that MJ has to get out of because he is in trouble. The way I see it here, this judge, who I hated from the beginning, is literally helping Sneddon with this case because he is not releasing the gag order so that Mezzy can refute rumors and if the rumors are refuted, then the people would have both sides of the story and decide for themselves. Then if the rumors are not refuted, it would be impossible to get a fair jury pool, which leads to an unfair trail, which can lead to whatever. That is something to think about. Also, vstreet I was thinking the same thing that you said about Mezzy thanking this insane and retarded judge. I was like, "what is he saying??? The fool hates your client, stop kissing his butt." Then again, Geragos and Brafman did the same thing. * It amazes me that Jackson own residents dislike this man. Why is that? However, almost most of those children, teens, and young adults all when to Neverland and had a good time. I bet you that the parents of these people, wanted them to go to Neverland, but behind the scenes, they were supporting the D.A. The journalist said something interesting about Jackson living in SB - he told him that he should leave. You know what, I could not agree with him more. I mean, just imagine - you live in a community that you call home, maybe you are the only or few black millionaries, and there are people there who are supposed to be your neighbors or residents, who dislike you for nothing. So, basically, you are not even welcomed in your own home. Now, I am beginning to see why MJ said at one time that he did not call Neverland a home, but a house. It is not just because of the raid, but it could be because of how he is treated there. A fan who lived there for years was basically insulted by her own neighbors because that person liked "the different" person who happens to be Michael Jackson. I mean, what kind of world are we living in when a whole man cannot even be welcomed in his own community in which he did everything for? It is a shame, you know, because this man did so much but is treated like he was Saddam Hussien. Pitiful. Also, I want to go back to the comment that the journalist said about he believes that Jackson should leave SB. If I was Michael, I would start looking for homes in the L.A. area, Santa Monica, NYC, Florida, heck, even Africa. There are some parts of Africa, Nigeria, for example, (my parents are from there and they told me this) you can buy your own home and never worry about paying for it or people trying to give you income tax on it because it is your home and land that you worked hard for. If I was Mike, I would start finding some homes in Africa and start living there. * I want to end my post by saying this - it does not matter what you accomplished in America, a so called "free country", if you are black in this country. Now, I am not trying to be racist and I am not trying to be ignorant. I am trying to be realistic because 1. I am realistic and 2. this is real. I am saying this because look at what all of the amazing things that Michael Jackson has done for this country and this world. All of the cds that he sold, the tours that he sold out, the musical achievements, his never ending generousity, the many lives that he has saved through his music, the way music is being played, the way that music is, etc, etc., I could keep on going. Yet, it all does not matter because people still see this man (the mods, you can edit this) as a negro, a black man, the N word. They don't see him as a international pop legend. I mean, look at the coverage of how MJ was arrested. That was the DAY that MJ and all of us who are black, knew that if you are black and you accomplished everything, they are going to still treat you as a N. Period. I mean, I remember thinking about a comment that I thought about. I thought, once hip hop artists were being arrested, i.e. Snopp Dogg, Tupac, Diddy, etc, then soon, they will get Michael Jackson. Soon enough, that happened. I just want you guys to understand that and know that America is a country that still has issues with black people. Look at how the gov't is behind this case. It is obvious. Look at how people who never even met the man, talk about this dude like he was a criminal, like he killed over 2,000 people on 9/11. Also, notice that the so called "experts" on MJ, do not even know him, i.e., JRT, and that insane Diane Dimond. Yet, Flo Anthony knew MJ for over 24 years, and she is not an expert on him. However, she actually talks and knows the guy, and unlike those fools, she is mostly right about Michael. I have noticed that when I was thinking about the whole MJ case. So, fans, what I want to tell you is that we have to be aware and see the whole entire story. Never, ever buy that this case is about child molestation because it is not even about it, not even close. It is about the destruction of a black man. Period.

下面引用由billiehou在 2004/05/08 11:43am 发表的内容：果真是他，我就说这名字眼熟嘛有没有这种可能就是：Masada从中安排盖文跟MJ认识，但MJ却没见到Masada本人？一定是尸氖灯把盖文安排在MJ身边的~~这小子一开始就装病！！...

http://mjdb.cn/news/main/news/view.asp?id=982MJ根本不认识原告的‘介绍人’ 时间:2004-2-9 Geraldo Rivera 昨天很荣幸地在电话中直接和 Michael Jackson 交谈过，其中一个很重要的话题就是 Jamie Masada。 Masada先生反复被媒体报道说他就是把原告介绍给 Michael Jackson 认识的人。在昨晚的“Geraldo-Geraldo大话题”节目中，Geraldo直接了当的问了Masada先生几个问题。令人惊讶的是，看上去Jamie Masada不仅从没见过 Michael Jackson，还从没和他说过话，Michael Jackson更是完全不认识他！ Michael目前的发言人、著名电台主持人Armstrong Williams（阿姆斯壮·威廉斯）昨天也加入了谈话。他透露Michael很乐观，并打算在管理上做些变动。

也就是这个Masada，案发后一直说孩子身患重病```博取公众同情````````事实上根本不是这么回事情```````

去年11月在Jackson因被控性骚扰该男童而受到拘捕后，这家人的朋友在纷乱的公众面前总是说这男孩病情严重——急需做肾脏移植手术——还说这个家庭家境贫寒姐弟们连张睡觉的床都没有。 在去年年底的一系列采访中,喜剧俱乐部老板Jamie Masada (由他将这名男童介绍给Jackson)都提到了这名14岁男童恶化的健康状况和不幸的生活条件，这让整个国家的人都为之心碎。 “他现在只有一个肾了而且机能还越来越弱,面部也有一部分肿了起来……这让你看了就心疼。”在去年11月底的采访中，Masada是这样对《纽约日报》说的，他还补充到他给那家人送去了床，这样该男童和他13岁的弟弟就不用在睡在地上了。 “他们是贫穷而单纯的人,”Masada说。 去年12月底,他告诉《联合报》，“这孩子的情况不太好。” 仅在Masada不断向媒体发表类似令人伤心的言论后数周，一次深入调查就发现：这个男孩虽有癌病缠身，但他身体状况不错，也够强壮，能跑能跳、会翻围墙，还可以举起来福枪。

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[这个贴子最后由mkgenie在 2004/05/08 10:24pm 第 1 次编辑]BH拿下："Army Of Love" Still Stands By JacksonChild molestation charges don't deter loyal fansBy Norma MeyerCOPLEY NEWS SERVICEMay 4, 2004 SANTA MARIA – Michael Jackson fan Nichole Miller, a 35-year-old aspiring singer with a nice voice and bright smile, went to court two years ago to legally change her name. Now, she's Nichole Jackson. "I wouldn't marry anybody else, so I didn't want to wait any longer," said Nichole, who was playing a keyboard outside the courthouse Friday where her idol was to be arraigned on child molestation charges. Nichole proudly whipped out her Visa credit card, which identifies the holder as "Michael Jackson Fan Nichole Jackson." Sarah Johnson is also smitten. Her long blond hair crowned with an eye-catching glittery tiara, the 21-year-old wept in the courtroom at Jackson's first arraignment in January and from afar whispered "I love you." They dress like the Gloved One, turn their homes into Michael memorabilia-packed shrines, and doggedly demonstrate in his defense. For months, they've traveled across the country and continents to be at court hearings whether he's there or not. He isn't expected to show at his next hearing May 28, but supporters are. The cult of celebrity may never have produced such visible loyalists as Jackson's worldwide band of fans. "We're the army of love," enthused Johnson, who credits the pop star's humanitarian efforts for inspiring her to work with the disabled at a residential care facility. "I'm not saying he's Jesus or anything. But we're like Michael's little disciples." The statuesque Johnson, who wants to be a fashion runway model, was shivering in her Jackson T-shirt and clutching her Jackson photo-collage purse, on a Laguna Beach sidewalk as she spoke. Weeks after her heart-fluttering courtroom encounter, she drove six hours and 300 miles from her central California home in her red 1989 Cadillac El Dorado that is plastered with hand-painted pleas like "Leave Him Alone" and holds "Jackson 5" albums in the trunk. For two bone-chilling hours, Johnson and 15 die-hards held aloft a 35-foot-long banner that proclaimed "Michael Jackson Is Innocent." Only not a lot of others outwardly agreed. Motorists and pedestrians shouted jeers like "He's a pervert!" and "Get a life!" When a dog-walker stopped to berate the bunch for being "stupid" and "supporting a pedophile," one frustrated fan shot back: "You need to watch Peter Pan!" Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is the image that Jackson has cultivated, down to his Neverland Ranch. That childlike innocence – the entertainer even speaks in a falsetto voice – may have something to do with the protectiveness of his flock, who have held nonstop vigils since his November arrest in places ranging from Slovenia to Brazil. Fans who through TV have watched him go from child prodigy to adult superstar insist they "know him" – they point to his charitable donations, his musical messages to heal the world and love one another, and his tradition of opening up Neverland to young cancer patients and special-needs kids. At a party earlier this year for 2,000 supporters at Neverland – where a now 14-year-old leukemia patient says he was molested – one scene spoke volumes: a group of children with Down Syndrome strolled the grounds wearing Jackson "1000 Percent Innocent" T-shirts. Unlike most celebrities, the moonwalking singer is accessible to fans, which cements the bond. He's long kept in contact with fans through the Internet, goes out of his way to greet them on tour, came to his fan-sponsored 45th birthday party in L.A. last summer and signs autographs (after he wrote his name on one fan's neck, she had the autograph tattooed). For years, he's invited admirers into his 2,700-acre Neverland compound. "Everything is free – there's free candy, free ice cream and concession stands in every room," said Erin Foster, 15, recalling a Neverland visit. Even though she knew Jackson wouldn't appear at an early April court hearing, Erin traveled from Las Vegas with her mother to stand outside with 25 other fans. Neverland, with its 20-plus bronze statues of children, casts its own spell. Nichole Jackson gets excited remembering how, at the bash following the first arraignment, she pet Michael's elephant Gypsy. Besides the large zoo with its giraffe and black bear, there's amusement park rides like The Zipper and Sea Dragon and a video arcade with free-flowing Slurpees. James Houran, a Texas psychologist who has done studies on celebrity worship, says Jackson fans may have an "illusion of intimacy" because they've seen or met him and listened to his music for years. With his claims of abuse by a tyrant father and his do-gooder persona, Jackson takes on religious overtones for some. "It's easy to see why some people feel he is a part of their family," said Houran, who began his research at the Southern Illinois School of Medicine in 2000. When family members are accused of wrongdoing, relatives dig in their heels and claim persecution. Michael's faithful are doing just that. They flatly insist the current accuser and his family are out for money, just like the boy in 1993 who settled a molestation case against Jackson for multimillions. Fans shrug off the performer's televised admissions that he shared his bed with children, which he called "a most loving thing to do." "Would I let my kids stay with Michael Jackson?" asked Javonnie Parks-Crisp, 30, an Inglewood mother of three who commissioned an artist to paint a 10-foot-tall mural of Jackson in her living room. "I sure would. He's not capable of it at all. Michael Jackson has given everything he has to kids and the world." Some fans suggest the King of Pop is being persecuted for his physical looks. (Attacks on his countenance aren't tolerated – before the latest molestation case, an on-line ABC news columnist who questioned if Jackson's "nose had fallen off" and someone "used a bottle opener" on his cleft chin was flooded with hate mail). After pleading not-guilty to the grand jury indictment Friday, Jackson in a soft voice read a statement thanking "fans around the world for your love and support." The night before, devotees from as far away as Denmark and Spain gathered outside Neverland's gates for a candlelight vigil. One couple drove up in a car with a vanity "MOONWOK" license plate. "I couldn't sit home," quietly said Tomoko Satomura, 42, an English instructor who jetted in twice from Tokyo for Jackson court dates. This time, she spent more than $1,000 for air fare and hotel. A Jackson impersonator held a candle. So did Lisadawn Marble, 31, who for the fourth time made the 13-hour Greyhound bus trip from Northern California, toting a photo album of her home's 10,000-item private Michael Jackson museum. A life-size statue of the embattled singer stares out her front window. The criminal case propelled the fans to prime-time. But Karen Faye, the make-up artist who has traveled with Jackson for 23 years and washed and blew-dry his courtroom locks, said they've always been there. On tours, she recalls, crowds stood outside his hotel room chanting in the rain all night. Fans are already making plans to show for the May 28 hearing. And so is Donna Hyatt, a Santa Maria grandmother, who will be back hoisting her sign asking for justice for the young accuser. "This is just celebrity worship," Hyatt said in disgust, as she surveyed the banner-waving courthouse contingent. "I'm a fan of Jack Nicholson, but if he was accused of child molestation, I wouldn't be out here like these people."

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总觉得这篇文章很难。。。。。中英文混排，有错误请指正。————————————————————————————————THE SLOW MURDER OF MICHAEL JACKSON:Fear And The Sexiness Of The UndeadMichael Jackson的慢性谋杀：对不死的恐惧和性by Polar Levine for popCULTmedia, February 16, 2004 John Ashcroft’s thirst for capital punishment aside, America’s thirst for death as catharsis and entertainment still hasn’t gotten around to FOX’s inserting live executions into its reality TV lineup. For the moment we’ll have to be satisfied with the much slower Jacko hunt. I believe the media is chasing a very unbalanced and vulnerable man to suicide to be followed by a year-long explosion of Michael Jackson tributes, posthumous music releases, bioPix, merchandise and -- when all has been said and sold -- soul-searching questions about our own culpability in our victim’s demise. I’ll be amazed if Jackson reaches his fiftieth birthday.先把John Ashcroft特坚决主张实行死刑的事儿放在一边，美国希望有人死，无论是出于净化世界还是纯粹为了娱乐，可这没能让FOX在现实电视广播节目中插播死刑现场。眼下，我们真的应该为追击Jacko的缓慢进展感到满意。我相信在长年讨论过Michael Jackson的才能，死后音乐的发行，生理照片，商品之后，媒体分明就是想让这个精神失常又脆弱的人去自杀。当媒体把这一切都说过，卖过之后，应该扣心自问一下，对于遇难者的死，我们是不是有罪的。如果Michael Jackson能活到他50岁生日，那我倒是要觉得惊奇了。I’d say, “go get him” if I were aware of any serious evidence of child molestation. As a dad of a young kid I take a hard stand on pedophilia. But as far as I’m concerned a 45-year-old man sleeping in the same bed with a child, adult or any other mammal is not the same as having sex. Like having a Bud is not the same as being an alcoholic. Like being a Muslim is not the same as being a terrorist. No specific evidence of sex with children has been publicly disclosed. For that matter I’m not sure Michael Jackson has a history of sex with any human, animal or vegetable. His true crime is being weird. More specifically, his true crime is being weird in precisely the same way that our pop culture is weird -- but he’s a few years ahead of the curve.我得说，如果我想找出儿童性骚扰的关键证据那就得“逮捕他”。作为一个年轻孩子的父亲，我很难站在娈童癖的立场上替他们说话。但就我所知，一个45岁男人和孩子同睡一张床，哪怕和成人或是别的什么哺乳动物，也不一定就是发生性关系。就像你去酒吧不一定就是喝酒精饮料。就行你是个穆斯林不一定就是个恐怖分子一样。并没有任何与儿童有性关系的确凿证据公之于众。因此，我不确定Michael Jackson和任何人，动物或植物有过性史。他真正做的让人不愉快的事情已经被过分扭曲怪异了。更特别的是，他所作的那些事正是精确的沿着我们扭曲怪异的流行文化的纹路走出来的 -- 不过若是画成曲线图的话，他还得领先几年。Alleged pedophilia aside, let’s look at his weird activity. His obsession with his looks coupled with his surgical alterations reflect the same obsessions and alterations found in much of our mainstream youth-worshipping society. Compulsive shopping sprees reflect America’s extreme style of consumerism where buying unnecessary stuff is a mode of entertainment and shopping ourselves into debt has become not just a mundane activity, but our patriotic duty. His over-the-top new age Hallmark rhetoric reflects our own taste for draping doilies in the form of kitsch and sentimentality over our anxiety and terror.有关娈童的控告我们先不谈，我们先来看看他的怪异行为。他强迫自己改变着着装外表，加上不断的整容，这正是反映了我们大部分主流流行偶像社会中的某些强迫和改变行为。强迫性消费淋漓尽致的反映了美国极端的消费主义形式：购买不需要的商品成为了一种娱乐方式，透支也不再是一种庸俗行为，而是尽我们的爱国义务。他那张顶尖新时代的Hallmark卡很好地说明了我们自己的品位：即使带着焦虑和恐惧，也要披上媚俗的装饰。Michael Jackson has lived an extreme life and he acts out his culturally-derived fears and anxieties in an extreme version of the way millions of Americans act out. We’re living in a hothouse of media-projected fear. The entertainment/infotainment industry derives much of its cash flow from the violence it amuses us with in movies, video games, tv dramas and the news. The nightly perpwalk has been a staple of local news broadcasts for decades and the droning headlines and newsmag features on serial killers, pedophiles, terrorists, muggers, scam artists, epidemics and countless possibilities for injuries are as regular as cornflakes. Michael Moore’s ‘Bowling For Columbine’ brings this fear factor chillingly to light.Michael Jackson过着一种极端的生活，他所表演出来的那种塑于文化的恐惧和焦虑就和成百上千万美国人演出来的一样极端。我们就住在一个由媒体炮制出来的恐惧温室里。娱乐产业/娱乐信息产业将暴力注入电影，游戏，电视剧和新闻，取悦了我们又赚到了大把票子。以死亡为卖点早已是附近新闻广播用了十几年的主要手段，这种东西在头版头条和新闻杂志专版更是多如麻：什么连环杀手，娈童狂，恐怖分子，窃贼，网络诈欺犯，流行病，还有和数不清的可以造成受害人数多地向玉米片一样的其他可能。Michael Moore的“美国黐gun档案”把这种恐惧因素很轻松的展现出来了。No study seems to conclusively link this steady diet of violence to a violent society, so it’s hard for people to consciously attempt a movement to put on the brakes. I believe we’ve been focusing all these studies on the wrong question. People may not be more likely to kill as a result of this diet of non-stop media violence but it certainly leads to a pervasive culture of free-floating fear. 好像没有研究把这种稳定的暴力欲望归咎于暴力社会儿联系在一起，所以让人们意识到要去刹车也就很难了。我相信我们的这些研究都是基于错误的问题而展开的。也许并没有人会看上去会死于媒体的这种不停顿的暴力渲染，但是这铁定会导致到处都存在恐惧感的文化变得普及。This unconscious blanket of fear gets played out in a variety of ways, often in rituals adopted by different subcultures. When fear is free-floating, as opposed to based on a specific real threat, we feel compelled to detach from life to some degree to ease the pressure. Drugs are the most obvious escape. But there are other equally destructive roads out of reality. Entertainment bingeing is epidemic: watching tv, playing computer and video games, recreational shopping. The comforting certainty of fundamentalism -- theological, political or philosophical -- has a powerful attraction. The cult of beauty and sexiness, like money, is the requisite currency of happiness. It attracts love, riches and the eternal happy ending. The hipster set has discovered the reality-buffering qualities of extreme irony as though wrapping our fears in graphic dark humor punctuated by a blasé “whatever” will say “BOO!!” and make all those scary issues of mortality, nonprettiness and decrepitude flee from consciousness. Every day we receive information and instructions from prerecorded voices -- the chit chat of the “undead.”尚未发觉这种缺点的恐惧毯子以各种方式被尽情的展出着，通常是在被不同子文化所改变的礼仪之中。当恐惧感随处可见，不是基于那种具体特定真实的威胁而生的时候，我们就觉得不得不让生活放松些来缓解压力。吸毒就是最明显的逃脱。但是在现实之外，还是有其他相等的错误道路。热衷于娱乐就很流行：看电视，玩电脑或者电子游戏，娱乐性的消费。基督教基本主义，神学，政治或是哲学上的慰籍信条真是有强大的吸引力。以美女和性为主导，还有钱，就是当前快乐的必备物品。里面的爱情，富贵和永远一样的好结局吸引着你。时髦一族们发现了极度讽刺的与现实有所不同的本质，就像再说腻了"whatever"之后说了"BOO!"，还打上了幽默的深色图形标点，以此掩盖住我们的恐惧感，并且使我们不再关注那些关于死亡，丑恶又老掉牙的恐怖故事。每天我们都收到信息和那些事先录制好的声音来指导我们 -- 说这那些"不死的人"的闲聊。Our fear and loathing of Michael Jackson is the fear and loathing of our own attraction to the road he’s taken. We’re predisposed by instinct to recoil at the recognition of our own death trip. Jackson is being crucified for the sins of our cult of artifice and detatchment.我们对于Michael Jackson的恐惧和厌恶其实也就是对于我们对他的引诱，让他去走的这条路的恐惧和厌恶。当我们意识到自己的死亡之旅的时候，我们本能的会退缩。Jackson将因为他的罪而锭在十字架上，可这主要都是因为我们的诡计和空灵。Michael Jackson has been living in public since he was ten. He’s the prototype for ‘The Truman Show.’ Imagine going through puberty and adolescence in front of a fleet of cameras. The world gets to see, hear and comment on our sexual awakening and cluelessness, on our bodies going bonkers: zits, voice changing (a singer’s voice), too fat, too skinny, nose too big, not nice enough, not down enough, too politically conscious for Young America, too soft for the streets, too black, too white. Too much responsibility. Not enough fun.Michael Jackson还只有10岁的时候就生活在大众的目光之下了。他是"The Truman Show"的原型。想象着要在一排排的摄影机前面度过自己的青春期和青年期。这世界想看，听，和评论我们的性领悟或是一无所知，我们都快为此发神经的身体：青春痘，变声（歌手的声音），太胖，太瘦，鼻子太大，不够漂亮，不够低调 ，对年轻的美国政治太过关心，对街上的人不够友好，太黑，太白。这引来的是太多的责任感。这，并不有趣。The Jackson 5 hit the charts during the chaos of the anti-war movement and the militant phase of the civil rights movement. Michael was too young and too driven by the commercial demands of his family and his mentor/employer Berry Gordy to tap into the political/philosphical side of youth culture -- a rare sliver of time when young people had goals deeper than fun and status. His major breakthrough occurred in the 80’s as a solo artist during the Reagan era when our lingering humiliation over Watergate and America’s first military defeat sought relief in nostalgia for the certainties of the 50’s. Coupled with the birth of MTV, materialism replaced social consciousness as the reigning aesthetic of youth culture. Artiface and acquisition, vogueing and coke, polyester motorcycle jackets and business suits. Fashion models became superstars just because they were pretty, corporate CEOs because they were rich, and Robin Leach because he publicly swooned over the rich and pretty for our amusement. Jackson was the most famous rich pretty person on earth. The Jackson 5打榜的时候正是反战运动和工人维权运动的混沌时期。Michael还太小了，而且还迫于他家庭经济要求的驱使，以及他的良师益友兼老板Berry Gordy对年轻文化的政治/哲学领域的启蒙 -- 一个罕见的白银时期，年轻人的理想比纯粹为了娱乐和稳定生活要深得多。他最主要的突破就是在80年代里根掌权时期成为了一名独立歌手，当时我们还游离于水门事件的耻辱和50年代美军第一次失败的悲痛乡愁之中。随着MTV电视台的诞生，物质主义取代了社会意识，并且支配了年轻文化的美感。文化遗物和知识，流行和可乐，涤纶摩托车夹克和职业装。时尚模特成为了超级巨星，仅仅是因为他们长得漂亮，合作组成CEO只是因为有钱，Robin Leach的成功也是因为他在公开场合显露出他的富贵及容貌，这也刚好是我们想看的。Jackson当时可是地球上最出名，最有钱，最漂亮的人了。 The pressure to stay young and pretty, coupled with the onset of his alleged skin condition (vitiligo, which causes irregularly shaped white blotches on the skin), must have put this hopelessly exposed and fragile man-child into an ongoing dull roar of panic. The extreme nature of his fame, visibility and the pressure to maintain the winning formula in a formula-bound youth culture must have been crushing to a person who had known nothing but pop music success.迫于保住青春和美丽的压力，再加上他皮肤开始过敏（皮肤色素失调症，造成了他皮肤上面不规则的白斑），必须要把这个无法暴露的脆弱大男孩变成一个能继续呼风唤雨的人。出于他名气和透明度，以及想要在公式化的年轻一代文化中保持胜利准则的压力的极度本能，这一切足以使得一个只知道要在流行音乐中成功的人饱受摧残。The call to surgically derived youth had been answered long before Michael Jackson got to it. But Jackson, unlike his nipped and tucked predecessors, was introduced to the scalpel at a time when the technology of virtual youth offered transformative potential that would have given Mary Shelly the creeps. And few humans of any age had Michael Jackson’s enormous wealth with which to indulge surgery to such monstrous ends. Only in horror stories of the “undead” were these transformations previously contemplated: ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘The Island Of Dr. Moreau’ and zombie flicks like ‘Dawn of The Dead.’ 在Michael Jackson准备整容之前，想整容变得年轻的呼唤也早已有人应答过。但是Jackson和他的那些整容先驱们不同，他当时的外科手术技术甚至都能令Mary Shelly毛骨悚然，这种有潜质的变形术更别说是让你看上去年轻些了。很少有人，无论他们多大，有Michael Jackson的巨额财富，会放纵自己整容，结果还是落了个怪物般的下场。只有在恐怖故事里才有"不死的人",也就是方才说过的那些变形物：'科学怪人弗兰克斯坦'，'人魔岛'还有僵尸恒窜的'僵尸的黎明'。The enormity of his talents has only been surpassed by the depths of his preventive isolation. His pathological drive to stay young for his adolescent market and his lack of intellectual curiosity and maturity precluded evolving into a “mature” artist like Al Green, Sting, Mick Jagger and Robert Plant, whose records are no longer guaranteed to sell multi-platinum but allow for longterm creative careers. The audience that grew up with Michael Jackson would certainly forgive him for aging along with them. He could have let the teeny boppers serve the teeny boppers. Instead he chose the reality-defying strategy of being a teenager for life. Steven Tyler proved that a popstar could remain a teenager in the head for life. Committing one’s body to this goal is a hard wall to bang and Jackson is a banged up old guy for trying. 唯一能够超越他非凡才能的只有他出于保护性的孤立程度。他的病态驱使他为了青年市场而保持年轻，缺乏智力上的好奇和成熟阻碍了他成为一个像Al Green，Sting, Mick Jagger和Robert Plant这样成熟的艺术家。而考虑到长期的创作事业，他们的唱片不能保证热销。和Michael Jackson一起成长的歌迷当然能够谅解Michael Jackson同他们一起衰老。Michael Jackson很可能让这些青年乐迷互相协作。然而他却相反地选择了逆反策略，作为一个青年人活一辈子。Steven Tyler证实一个流行歌星可以保持青年人状态走在生活的前面。用自己的身体去实现一个目标犹如猛击一堵坚硬的墙，对衰老的Michael Jackson来说更难以尝试。Fear is a soul-twisting thing; but no fear is as distorting as a generalized fear of reality. The cult of fear and its antidote -- artifice -- leads to a dead end. Artiface is a facsimile of life -- the aesthetic of the “undead.” Death metal, fashion models posed and lit to look starved and devoid of consciousness, serial face-lifting that renders a person’s face a cadaverous mask, the Tarrantino fetish of graphic violence as comedy.恐惧是一种心灵扭曲的产物；但是没有恐惧如同一种普遍的现实恐惧一样被扭曲了。对恐惧的崇拜以及它的对策、策略没有止境。文化遗产是一种生活仿制——一种不死的审美艺术。从死亡金属，时尚模特中提出并阐明如何去看待一个饥饿的、缺乏意识的、一系列面孔。它们把一张张苍白无血的面具带到人们面前，这也是Tarrantino最喜欢的用于喜剧的暴力画面。I have no aesthetic or principled objection to a bit of nip and tuck and a bucket of hair paint. But taken too far, the effect becomes self-defeating. A person who’s had a dozen face lifts looks more dead than vital. A face that’s been marinated in Botox looks more like a wax museum replica of a young person than a living one. The fact that we identify these deathly faces with youth and sexiness rather than sickness says much about our growing confusion over reality and artiface. The eroticism of deadness is everywhere. The punk era popularized the black lipstick and mascara look of a cadaver. A woman’s face with so much makeup as to obscure emotional expressiveness is generally associated with sexiness as is the dissipated manequin-chic that typifies so much fashion modeling. The exquisiteness of design and the fact that much of this aesthetic has a nudge-nudge-wink-wink aspect doesn’t lighten its weight in the overall cultural lexicon, particularly as it filters down to younger generations who are unaware of the original ironic allusions.艺术上或原则上我不反对一些整容手术和大片的染发。但要过了头，就会产生自我挫败感。一个整容过多次的人看起来更像一个死人而不是显得精神；一张在Botox液体中浸泡过的脸看上去更像是蜡像馆一个复制品而不是一个生动的年轻人。事实上我们是通过青春和性别来确定这些看似死人的脸而不是大量病人所说的，我门对现实和文化遗物的不断增长困惑。恋尸癖到处出在。朋克时期推广的涂有黑色口红和睫毛油的脸貌像一具尸体。当一位妇女的脸化了太多的妆以至遮蔽了她的情感表达的时候，人们就会自然而然的把她和性联系在一起，这就好像是用漂亮的女模特去表示多种流行样式如出一辙。细腻的设计以及绝大部分在美感上的事实都是一种 轻推-轻推-瞬间-瞬间 的微小方面，并不会在整个的文化词汇学中减轻它的分量，显著的就像在那些并不关心原先的讽刺典故的年轻一代中慢慢传开。If all of us could afford the excesses of Michael Jackson, how abnormal would he then be? Could I go that far and not know it? That’s the scary question we ask ourselves when we rubberneck our tv every time he appears. It’s our own cult of necrophilia that causes the air to vibrate when we see that face and hear that voice recite the Peter Pan platitudes in a woozy soprano. We’re terrified but can’t look away. His music is now merely an asterisk on his resumé. Removing him is the only way out of our discomforting addiction to sensational coverage of his ever-evolving creepiness. And pedophilia is the silver bullet.如果我们都经得起Michael Jackson的过分要求，那他有会变得多反常呢？我们是否能够知道这个或不知道这个？当我们每次好奇地看着他在电视出现的时候，那是我们反问自己的一个可怕问题。当我们看到这张脸听到这个嗓音以眩晕的女高音重复着Peter Pan的陈腐时，这是我们对恋尸癖的崇拜致使空气在颤抖。我们害怕了，但我们不能回避。他的音乐现在仅仅是他人生简历上的一个星号。除去他是我们唯一能够脱离这种令人不适的对于他轰动一时的新闻报道的热中。恋童癖就是一枚银制子弹。Last year I watched the BBC documentary on Jackson. It was a truly repellant experience. The only thing more horrifying was the parade of coverage and commentary that revealed a bizarre giddiness in its malice. Whom did he murder? Whose life savings did he scam? Whose job did he outsource?去年我看了关于Jackson的BBC纪录片。那真是一段令人厌烦的经历。更加恐怖的就是炫耀他的勇气，报复似批评了他怪异的草率。他谋杀了谁？他这么做能救了谁？他是在为谁卖命？Why are so many people so sure he’s a pedophile despite the absence of any reported clear evidence? Would we so readily believe Oprah or Derek Jeter to be guilty of pedophilia? We believe what we’re comfortable believing. And we want to believe Michael Jackson is guilty. We want to believe that it’s impossible for an adult to lie in bed with a child or adolescent without any sexual activity or motivations. 即便是在没有任何确凿证据的情况下，为什么还有很多人深信他是一个恋童者？我们是不是也能爽快地同意Oprah或Derek Jeter是恋童者这一提法？我深觉我们会很随便的就相信了。而且我们也会相信Michael Jackson是有罪的。我们想要相信的是，一个成年人和孩子或是青少年同睡一张床的时候，想要没有一丁点儿性行为或是之类的动机，是不可能的。Is it possible that a young kid with cancer who’s been told by the medical authorities that he’ll soon die has moments of sheer terror? That he’s had his youth stolen from him and is alone in the world while other people float outside in a festival of normalcy? Could he have wanted his sympathetic famous benefactor to lie next to him and maybe even rock him to sleep? Is it possible that Michael Jackson knows exactly who this kid is and wants to give him some peace? 那么，一个患了癌症的孩子被医学界权威告知他将不久与人世，生命中只剩下完全的恐惧，这是否可能？而他的青春就这么的被夺走了，当其他人都在外面沉浸于正常化的节日喜悦中，他在这世上确是只身一人。我们是想让这个世界上的人都去同情他，还是帮助他，躺在他的身边，甚至是轻轻晃他直到他睡着？Michael Jackson是否可能确切地知道这个小孩到底是谁，是否想去给他一些平静？I have no way of knowing what Jackson did or didn’t do. I do know that our slow collective public murder of this man is one of the ugliest non-military media spectacles I’ve ever witnessed. If we’re not ashamed, then we truly are the undead.Jackson是否这么做了，还是没有，我无从知晓。我知道的就是，我们对于这个人的慢性聚集公共谋杀是我所从未见到过的，最丑陋的，非军事的媒体奇观。如果我们不唯此感到羞愧，那么我们真的可以算是"不死的人"了。Polar LevineEditor, popCULTmedia.comwww.polarity1.com/bla1704.html——————————————————————————————————后面还有一大堆。。。。都是评论什么的，要翻译吗？

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被控同谋将推翻指控--MJEOL快讯        有关MichaelJackson“案件”中最新的“同谋”指控有引起了不少纷扰，而着都是那些懒得不顾指控本身的记者的悲观预测造成的。但是，这样来展开这一自称的“案件”就真的能使这场起诉有所转机吗？一些人说，这一增加的同谋指控确实表明了控方无法找到任何有力证据证明有关猥亵和向儿童提供酒精饮料的指控。    许多法律专家认为这一指控对该起诉有利，因为他们现在可以提出并不应该出现在法庭上的一些道听途说的信息。但他们却忽视了这一指控同时对 Michael的辩护团也极为有利。    消息称Jackson的辩护团其实一直都希望有这样一个控告，并早在2004年4月30日的听证会这些指控正式提出之前就开始为之准备辩护。让这个“案件”往这方面发展，控方可能会允许Jacskon的辩护团也提出一些之前不能在法庭上呈现的证据。    同时可能不利的就是圣芭芭拉警署将他们对这家人所做长达两个月的调查也一并收入了控诉当中。据媒体报道，这一调查从2003年2月18日持续到2003年4月16日。然而要记住的是，控方提出的同谋行为在2003年3月31日终止。所以那场调查什么也没获得：“没有任何犯罪行为”，没有投诉证人，也没有其他指控。    另外值得注意的一点是，如果被控“同谋”能证明他们并没有任何不法行为，他们通常不会对主被告造成任何不利。虽然你会看到本案同MarthaStewart案件和JaysonWilliams案件有相似之处，但这同那两起案件却是毫无可比之处。这一复杂的指控--结合早期Jackson一些雇员对这家人动机的怀疑--会致使这一同谋指控不会像前两起案件一样照陈规进行。消息称，这是由控方发起的一场不可思议的赌局，它很可能在他们面前爆发。    很快我们会发现提出这一坚定的同谋指控的控方会否输在辩方手里。由于改变了时间和有关猥亵的指控，这在一些法律专家眼里显得非常另人不安。在FindLaw.com的一篇文章中，JonnaSpilbor指出控方通过提出这一指控来制造影响或得到他们缺乏的证据。她还说Jacskon并没有做那些所谓的同谋罪行--诱拐儿童，非法禁锢和勒索--也说明了这一事实。    “更奇怪的是，Jackson并没有受到同谋罪的任何一项指控。换句话说，诱拐儿童，非法禁锢和勒索不是单独提出的指控--它们甚至算不上企图罪行。    那到底是怎么一回事？也许没有就此提出指靠说明了即使有证据，大陪审团也不愿提出指控。或许是因为控方不能向大陪审团提出足够的证据来支持这些指控--因为可能Jacskon雇员中的同谋者不愿或没有做出任何对他不利的证词。也许并没有这种证据而这些雇员仅仅是说出事实而已。”    Spilbor更精确地指出如果控方早就知道这一事实，指控的内容可能就大为不同了：“同时，另外一个有关同谋罪潜在的问题在于同谋罪的罪状看起来就像张选择题试卷。通常情况下，控方如果相信同谋罪确有以下罪状的话，应该以这种方式对之提出指控：“同谋诱拐儿童”的罪状，“同谋非法禁锢”的罪状，之后便是“同谋勒索”的罪状。    对一个单一罪状提出指控但同时有包括三项可能的罪行说明了控方对同谋罪的了解有限，而且他希望提出的证据至少能证实其中一项孔罪。”    选择题式的同谋罪指控？改变时间？改变指控？这些可谓荒谬。而且更糟的是，有消息称，不少人一直在警告控方注意，如果他们继续跟这件“案子”，特别是这些所谓的诱拐/禁锢/同谋指控的话，他们将注定失败。    两位所谓同谋的律师，JoeTacopina,已无数次发言说明他的委托人是完全无罪的。他也提到，许多文件和其他证据将推翻同谋指控和其他控诉。    Tacopina出现在美国广播公司2004年4月12日的《早安美国》节目同CynthiaMcFadden进行了交谈。他说他的委托人都是清白的而且他们都不知道Jackson拿酒给任何未成年人喝。当被问及他其中一个委托人FrankTyson像指控中那样威胁指控男孩的弟弟时，Tacopina说：“天啊，事实绝非如此。FrankTyson是你可能遇到的最沉默的一个人。我认为他不会说出这样的话，这是第一。第二，他不知道，绝对不知道Jackson让小孩喝酒。如果有的话，他是应该知道的。”    自Tyson15岁时，他就认识Jackson了，所以他现在能知道这些事。事实上， Tacopina说，就算Jackson或任何人要求他们参与同谋或威胁指控者家庭。他们也不会这样做。该律师告诉McFadden指控男孩的母亲由于Bashir的记录片而受到朋友嘲笑于是到Jackson那里寻求庇护：    “这个女人，由于着部记录片的播放受到朋友的嘲笑和奚落，他们说她不是个负责任的母亲。她想离开当时生活的社区。于是她去找MichaelJackson寻求帮助和他的慷慨并利用了他的好意。”     Tacopina同时还对控方及其调查员在找寻有关本“案件”事实真相时的公正性提出了疑问。他在4月18日对RitaCosby（福克斯新闻现场）说：“我认为这一案件的调查员和指控者一开始就持有自己的偏见。他们只相信自己对案件的看法，也不管这是些什么观点。我觉得没有任何人能改变他们（控方）的看法。我知道FrankTyson和VincentAment的证供能改变他们的看法。他们俩坚信MichaelJackson的清白。他们有关于指控男孩母亲的一些信息。”    他再次否认了他的委托人同指控家庭不断变化的故事有任何关系。他还声明，如果他必须与他的委托人一起面对这些指控的话，他倒想搞个“野餐”。    “我希望，我真的希望，Rita,我能在这儿就马上开始这个案子。我想揭开我所知道的所有证据。老实说，我想来个野餐。如果这些指控强加在我的委托人身上，我会很乐意去面对这些指控。这实在太荒唐了。我知道绝对没有任何可靠证据能支持那些对Frank和Vinnie提出的指控。他们并没有做任何违背她意愿的事。她所得到的任何东西都是因为她想要得到。她还很直言不讳地列出了一张单子。而现在才来指控我的委托人，我们决不会容忍这种行为。幸运的是，我们现在还不用对此费心。但如果有一天我们得在陪审团面前打破沉默的话，我们也将非常高兴能提到指控者的行为。”    Tacopina还出现在4月22日的《亚伯兰斯报道》节目中，说道他的委托人手中的证据将推翻一切认为他们与绑架和威胁这类指控有关的看法：“如果我得替我的委托人回应这些指控的话，Dan,我有信心我们一定会赢－－我不想自己听起来很傲慢，因为我很重视这案子。但我认为我们回推翻所有认为Frank或Vincent做了任何不合法的事的看法。我的自信不仅来自我同我的委托人的交谈和同证人们的交谈，还来自那些绝对能粉碎这些指控的文件。”　　在不断公开警告控方提出“同谋”这一无稽之谈是严重走错方向的同时，Tacopina于２００４年４月３０日同DebraNorville进行了谈话。他说到地区律师的位置已经僵化而且他当然不会在偏袒控方的大陪审团诉讼过程中让控方有机会对辩方进行任何出其不意的预测：“大陪审团是偏向控方的，在我看来，这个案子的地区律师在某种程度上让自己僵化了。而且，说实话，我的委托人不会让他们偷窥到我们将如何辩护，如果，事实也如此，他们被控有罪，我相信他们也会没事。如果我们陷入控方的攻击之中，要是那两个很棒的孩子（他们都非常才聪明非常亲切）也被牵如这场混乱，我将尽我所能让那位做此决定的人后悔他的这一决定，而且是极度后悔。”　　虽然控方会否决定重拾理智并调查指控家庭在目前还是未知数，但就现在是情况来看，这是不可能的。很可能发生的是，他们会做决定迎面撞上那面Tacopina和其他人一直在警告他们注意的砖（底盘岩？石墨？金刚石？）墙。    自

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接着昨天的，一些回应，不过还没完，还有几段最后Polar Levine的回答，明天再翻译。——————————————————————————————————Here are a few reviews of this article. (http://www.polarity1.com/bla1704r.html) to check for yourself以下是一些回应：This is an excellent piece of writing which has changed my way of thinking regarding this topic.Well done Polar Levine and thanks to Music Dish for such an interesting and informative site.-- wilz 这篇文章写的棒极了，它改变了我对这个话题的想法思路。Polar Levine干得好，也谢谢Music Dish信息丰富，有趣的网站。-- wilz I've seen this picture. My 24 year old cousin with cancer (fatal) took enormous comfort having his father curl up at his backside and just hold him.-- aromacat 我看过这些图片。我的24岁的堂姐患了致命的癌症，当他父亲从后面抱着她，蜷起来的时候，她的确得到了极大的安慰。-- aromacat Isn't there enough to write about, without leaping to the defense of Michael Jackson? Child molesting is not one bit funny; and it seems to be the state sport of California. Get a grip.” -- Anna Taylor难道就不该写些别的，而不是一下子就跳到为Michael Jackson作辩护？儿童性骚扰可是一点都不有趣，好像这都快成为加州的州级运动了。想想吧。 -- Anna TaylorPolar Levine responds:Anna: Yes, there's plenty to write about and this is one of the many issues and non-issues of the day I find worthy of comment. I'm in total agreement that "Child molesting is not one bit funny" which I state very clearly in paragraph 2 of my piece: "As a dad of a young kid I take a hard stand on pedophilia." That statement was in no way gratuitous. But while the entire planet is watching "noted authorities" discuss the case and smirk through reams of personal data about Jackson -- much of which is irrelevant to the case -- it must be noted that he's not been convicted of any crime and no convincing evidence has been brought to light by the prosecution. That is because actual evidence is revealed, not on FOX News, but at a trial before a judge and jury. In the 1980's there was an epidemic of child molestation cases where many day care workers served long prison terms for charges that turned out to be untrue. The media dug up whatever trash it could find on these "monsters" to stoke public anger and draw ad revenue. 是啊，该写的很多，这就是其中的一个，可是现在我没有发现任何材料值得我去评论的。我完完全全的同意“儿童性骚扰一点都不有趣”，我在文章的第二段里面也已经讲得很清楚了：“为一个年轻孩子的父亲，我很难站在娈童癖的立场上替他们说话。”这个观点可不是随随便便说出来的。然而当全世界都看着那些"知名权威“讨论着这个案子，并且对大叠大叠的Jackson私人档案露出得意地笑 -- 其中还有很多人都是对这案子的态度极为不公正的 --必须要指出，监察部门还没有把任何确凿的证据，能够证明他犯了罪的东西公之于众。这是因为揭露证据的，不在于FOX新闻，而是在判决和陪审之前的庭审中。在80年代，儿童性骚扰官司风行一时，可是当很多人服了长期牢狱之后，人们发现他们的案子全是假的。媒体在这些"怪物"的身上发掘出各种垃圾，来引起公愤，还有，收广告税。 Why don't *you* get a grip, Anna, and wait until a verdict is announced. By the way -- if you have in your hand a list of all the child molesters who are participating in "the state sport of California" -- please pass them on to the authorities. 所以为什么*你*不好好想想呢，Anna，并且乖乖的等到判决出来。另外说一句 -- 如果你手头上有那种参与到"加州州级运动"的儿童性骚扰者的名单的话 -- 请把它交给权威部门。WOW!!!! One of the most intense commentaries I've ever read!!! There's no way you're wrong on every "bullet-able" point in your article. It just backs up what I've said for years ... that old thing about a man, his money, and public contempt. It's about GODd#amn time someone actually stood up and said it!Kudos my friend,-- John Foxworthy, Chief Editor, Garage Radio 喔！！！！这可是我读到的最激烈的几篇评论文章中的一个了！！！在文章中的几个像子弹般有穿透力的论点真是一点不错。这刚好应合了我几年前说过的。。。还是那些关于人的老看点，他的钱，和公共蔑视。现在正是应该有人站起来，说这些话的时间！Kudos我的朋友,-- John Foxworthy, Chief Editor, Garage Radio Polar Levine, you're one of the most prolific, thought provoking writers i've ever read. Thank you for painting such a grand picture of the 'truth' of our culture's blatant and heartless attack on this issue of Michael Jackson.Polar Levine，你是我读到的那些最多产，思想最有启发性的作家之一。谢谢你为我们描绘了那么一大幅，关于在Michael Jackson案子上，我们文化的无理喧哗和无情攻击的“真相”画面。But, regardless of the subject, you are a phenom and i'd like to applaud your work and gifting!但是，即使不看这些，你也是个天才，我为你的作品和你的天赋叫好！-- Ray Fuller Impressive self-aware article about our current society. More please!-- giac这是关于我们当今社会，令人印象深刻，引起自觉意识的文章。请多写点儿！-- giacThe Michael Jackson editorial was powerful: the tears are coming down my face in recognition. In 1993 I wrote an editorial for Sexual Perspectives on Michael Jackson, also, only then I was foreseeing that the public would not believe that he could be a pedophile and that we would change our views on man/boy sex. Here we are again, and yes, we are fascinated. This current view is more perceptive than mine was, and probably much more likely.-- Sally Miller Sally@SallyMiller.com.对Michael Jackson的社论很有力：我看的时候都哭出来了。在1993年，我写过一篇对Michael Jackson性丑闻的社论，同样，我当时就预见到大众不会相信他是个恋童者的，而且我们能改变人们对男人/男孩的性观点。现在又来了，是的，我们都被蛊惑了。现在的想法比我当时的还要有感觉，也很相近。-- Sally Miller Sally@SallyMiller.com.Whether Jackson is guilty or not, this is very insightful and I sincerely hope it's read by enough people to make a significant positive difference in the current world of thinking. You never make anyone guilty just by wishing it so. -- D Jackson 无论Jackson有罪与否，这篇文章都很有洞察力，我真心希望大家都能看看，对当前世界的思维方式来一次巨大改变。光是想，是没法把任何人变成有罪的。-- D Jackson Robert Kramer writes:In as far as the Michael Jackson flap goes, maybe sometimes a duck is just a duck. Whether Michael Jackson is found guilty or innocent will be a matter for the courts to decide. In spite of Polar Levine ís colorful pop-ish idiosyncratic diatribe, there are a few points I tend to agree with. Fear has long been a motivating factor in the publicsí judgement of artists, musicians, actors and an endless parade of those whose 15 minutes of fame lasts way longer than tolerable. And our morbid fascination with cultural icons being roasted over by the media has been present at least since the invention of the supermarket tabloid. Like the gapers block at a car accident, you canít look at it, and you can't look away.就Michael Jackson拍着翅膀前行而言，没准有的时候一只鸭子就只是一只鸭子。Michael Jackson是否会被找出有罪，还是无辜，这都是由法院决定的。尽管Polar Levine对流性特异的谩骂，对其中的某些观点我还是有赞同倾向的。长期以来，恐惧早已成为我们判断的推动因子，公众判断着艺术家，音乐家，演员和他们无休止的夸耀，他们名气维持上15分钟看起来都是难以容忍的。我们那种对于文化名人的病态蛊惑也至少在超级市场小报发明的时候就被媒体所扭曲了。这就像拥堵在汽车事故当中，你不想看，可你又不能看别的。We tend to abhor that which is different or strange, or not to our tastes or cultural, social or religious comfort zones, and our hatred comes from a fear of not fully understanding these things, as well as not having all the facts.我们倾向于去厌恶那些不一样或陌生的，不对我们的胃口或是不与文化，社会，宗教的慰籍方式不对路的东西。我们的憎恨来自于恐惧，来自于对这些东西不完全知晓，同样也处于把握不到真实情况。Truly, we, the public, don't have all the facts in the MJ matter yet. The prosecutors who levelled the charges claim they do have facts. Enough facts that they believe support their motivation for filing charges and bringing the whole matter out in court to determine the truth. Innocent until proven guilty. That is our judicial systems motto. What the media and subsequently the public think they know or believe about the facts is really immaterial. Yes, it is a shame how the media slams, defames and shames certain people in the court of public opinion.诚然，我们，也就是大众，现在还没有MJ案子的真实情况材料。能左右这场指控的检察官们声称他们有。他们相信有足够的材料能支持他们的想法，撑起这场官司，并且能把事情的全部情况带到法庭上并终结这一真相。直到找出罪证，你都是无辜的。这是我们司法制度的座右铭。媒体和紧随其后的大众所知道的，或是他们相信的那些事实，都是不成材料的。是的，媒体以公众的观点来抨击，中伤和侮辱某些人的行为的确是可耻的。Too bad. If you object to free speech, don't read newspapers, donít open your email, and don't watch tv. Let's face it. The only way the media can truly offend those who are offended is thru direct contact with the medium.太遭了。如果你指的是那些自由言论，不看报纸，不打开你的电子邮箱，又不看电视。我们还是面对它吧。媒体能够真正冒犯别人的方法，也只有是他们直接与媒体相接处这一条路。Too often, the media has been called to blame for the sins of morbid curiosity; sins that truly fall upon us, the public. You don't like what you read or hear? That's a shame. To be sure, someone is right and someone is wrong in the dispute over whether Michael Jackson, a 45 year old man with the emotional maturity of a ten year old, and questionable stable mental faculty, was acting inappropriately with children. It is at this point, however, we need to separate the man from the myth. Would this story have the same impact if Michael Jackson were a janitor, teacher or a cook at McDonalds instead of a world famous performer? Would it even have made the ten o clock news? Many would say no, but I disagree.很多次的，都说媒体要为病态的好奇心所犯下的罪负责；这罪都在我们身上，大众身上。你难道不喜欢你看见的和你听见的？那真是太可惜了。准确点说，在争论Michael Jackson，这个情感上只有10最小孩那么成熟，存在着稳定的心理问题的人，是否对孩子有不正当行为的时候，总有些人对有些人错。然而基于这点，我们也需要拨开这个人的迷雾。如果Michael是个门卫，教师，或者麦当劳的厨师，而不是一个世界著名表演家的话，这个事情还会不会造成一样大的冲击？是不是甚至还会做成10点新闻？很多人都会说不，但我不这么看。I truly believe that our society has matured to the point where we can now understand and recognize there are certain types of behaviour that automatically show up as a red flag in our conciousness. ANY 45 year old man sleeping with children NOT HIS OWN, demonstrating a blatant disregard for the safety of a child that WAS his own, and showing no conscience or remorse for endangering a childsí life would TEND to make people think that perhaps you were dealing with a potentially dangerous and unstable individual. If Joe Nobody, who lives across the street, were seen dangling an infant from the third floor of his apartment, there would be SWAT teams with rifles trained, and police surrounding the building trying to talk him into surrendering. But because itís Michael Jackson, self-proclaimed king of pop, it only mildly annoys some, with others claiming while it was somewhat strange, there was no real harm done. It was not the medias fault why Michael Jackson turned into the ! self-indulgent freak he has become. It was his own fault. He chose the life he now lives. He alone made the choices that put him in the eye of the media storm that now rages. It is time to admit that each of us is wholly and entirely responsible for our own actions.我十分相信我们的社会已经发展到了一定的度数，我们能理解也能认得出来，有一些行为无疑就是自动的在我们的意识中竖起了红旗。任何一个45岁的男人和不是他亲生的孩子睡觉，又一个劲儿地说自己的孩子安全得不到保障，当孩子的生命处于危险之中的时候他又满不在乎，这绝对会让人觉得他是在和一个潜在危险人物，不稳定的个体打交道。如果住在街对面的Joe Nobady被人看见在他公寓三楼上面拎着个小孩晃荡着，那肯定训练过的SWAT拿着莱弗枪就来了，还有警察包围整个建筑物劝他投降。只是因为他是Michael Jackson ,自称为King of pop的人，所以也就惊动了一点儿人，还有很多人说这只是有点怪，不过没造成什么实质伤害。Michael Jackson转变成一个自我放纵的怪物，可这对媒体来说没一点错误。这都是他自己的错。他自己选择的生活方式，而且他也正按这个方式活着。他把自己推到了现在加剧的媒体风暴的中心，这是他自己做的决定。要承认，我们每个人都完完全全的要为我们自己的行为负责。Whether or not the man can sing and dance is besides the whole point here. Hitler and Gacy were painters. Their talents did NOT, in any way, reflect the measure of who they were in total. Nor do you hear anyone coming to their defense, or blaming ìthe mediaî for hounding them and indulging in public assassination of their characters, trying to use the extreme stress they were put in from having ìtoo much media exposureî as a reason for their ìquirky behaviourì. No, I know, Michael Jackson didn't kill any children..that we know of. But maybe there is reason to consider him as potentially dangerous, given what we have heard and seen so far. And maybe it is time for the public to assume responsibility for pre-judging someone before all the facts are known. In either case, it is clearly the time we, as a society, stop indulging in the kind of blind fan-worship that causes us to ignore inappropriate behaviour. Our noses, in retrospect, may be uglier than anything MJ ever! did to his.这个人是否会唱歌，跳舞都先放一下。希特勒和连环杀手Gacy还都是个画家呢。不管怎么的，他们的才能都没有反映出他们本质上到底都是个什么样的人。你也没听到任何人出来为他们辩护，或是指责媒体对他们的追缠并动用公众去中伤他们的人品，还对他们大幅的曝光施加极端压力；因为他们有怪癖的嗜好。不，我知道，Michael Jackson没杀过小孩。。。我们也就知道这些。但是也许我们把他当成一种潜在的危险也是有理由的，就我们截至现在所听见和看见的而言是这样。也许现在在所有真相出来之前，大众应当有责任对某些人进行预先审判。另一方面，也很明显，我们的社会，应该停止这种让我们忽视不正当行为的盲目崇拜。纵观来看，我们的鼻子比MJ对他自己所做过的还要丑陋。Robert Kramer ————————————————————————————————

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