June 13th , 2005 – Michael Jackson was acquitted on all 10 counts!

The Gardner School, at which he was enrolled as student shortly before his career started, honored Michael Jackson in 1989 by naming the auditorium after him. Therefore he showed up at the ceremony on October 11th, 1989 and thanked personally with a short speech.

While the case was heard the Gardner School has covered his name with a plywood box. Understandable, considering the situation at that time.

But after the acquittal the name wasn’t uncovered (until NOW!). This isn’t only an inappropriate (non-)action of the school, but even a wrong sign in public.

It’s a sign of callousness on the part of the school, a sign of disrespect and intolerance.

It is the duty of such institutions to build the children’s character and to impart knowledge. Therefore it is necessary to handle such issues very sensitively.

Now it’s our part to do something! To point out this problem to the Gardner School and hopefully to uncover Michael Jackson’s name, you easily can print out the logo of this campaign (this should demonstrate the international character of this mission.), glue it on a postcard and send it to the Gardner School. But don’t forget to sign up the online petition!
To sign the petition, click here: petition

Source: mjjsupport

Bashir plans to broadcast damaging new film

on ‘Michael Jackson’s Secret World’

By John Hiscock in Los Angeles
Sunday, 13 February 2005

British television interviewer Martin Bashir, whose documentary Living With Michael Jackson led to the current molestation charges against the entertainer, is putting the finishing touches to another film which is reported to be equally damaging to Jackson.

British television interviewer Martin Bashir, whose documentary Living With Michael Jackson led to the current molestation charges against the entertainer, is putting the finishing touches to another film which is reported to be equally damaging to Jackson.

Called Michael Jackson’s Secret World, it is being kept under close wraps by the ABC network, for whom Bashir now works, but is said to contain video footage showing Jackson with young boys, including the one at the heart of the current criminal trial. Not surprisingly, Jackson did not provide a new interview. The two-hour programme, described by insiders as “still a work in progress” is due to be shown in the US on Thursday.

Jackson, 46, is accused of molesting a 13-year-old former cancer patient, giving the boy alcohol, and conspiring to hold him and his family captive. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Jury selection in the case continues tomorrow.

On Friday ABC broadcast a much-publicised television interview by Bashir with the former child actor Corey Feldman, who talked about visiting Jackson’s home when he was a young teenager and seeing pictures of naked men and women. Feldman, who, like the interviewer, has been subpoenaed by prosecutors to testify against Jackson, told Bashir on the ABC news programme 20/20 that he went to the singer’s home when he was 13 or 14 and saw a book on the coffee table with pictures of naked men and women.

“The book was focused on venereal diseases and the genitalia,” he said. “And he sat down with me and he explained it to me, showed me some different pictures and discussed what those meant.

“I was kind of grossed out by it,” he told Bashir. “But I didn’t think of it as a big deal, and for all these years I probably never thought twice about it. But in light of recent evidence, I have to say that if my son was 13 or 14 years old and went to a man’s apartment and I knew they were sitting down together talking about this, I would probably beat his ass.” Feldman, whose fee for the interview – if any – is unknown, said he hoped the allegations against Jackson were proved false, but felt compelled to speak out.

The former child actor’s statements are inconsistent with previous comments he had made, such as when he told CNN interviewer Larry King in November 2003 that he had never seen Jackson “act in any inappropriate way to a child. Never with me.” Feldman, 33, who starred in the 1980s films Stand By Me and The Goonies and was arrested for heroin possession in 1990, said he was coming forward now because he started “looking at each piece of information … and with that came this sickening realisation that there have been many occurrences in my life and in my relationship to Michael that have created a question of doubt.”

He stopped short of accusing Jackson of molesting him, saying: “He never harmed me and he never harmed any children in front of me.” He told Bashir that he defended Jackson in an interview with the police investigating molestation allegations that involved another boy in 1993. “I did what I believed was right as a friend,” said Feldman. “I defended him up and down. I said, ‘No, he’s not gay. No, he’s not a weirdo.’”

The new ABC film will reportedly use film taken when Bashir was allowed prolonged access to the star’s life. That 2003 programme showed Jackson admitting sharing his bed with young boys and holding hands with Gavin Arvizo, now his chief accuser. Its broadcast and the reaction to it prompted the investigation that has led to the current case.

Last week, Geraldo Rivera told his US viewers that Jackson now concedes that sharing his bed with children was wrong. He also said that Jackson plans to “unmask” his three children for the cameras at some point during the trial.

The defence also intends calling former child stars Macaulay Culkin, who stayed with Jackson when he was a boy, and Oliver! star Mark Lester. He, like Jackson, knew fame at an early age, and the pair have been friends for many years. Jackson is godfather to all four of Lester’s children.

Source: the indipendent

Dunlap versus Sneddon

May 10, 2004

Gary Dunlap, a Santa Barbara, California, attorney who has filed a 10 million dollar lawsuit against the Santa Barbara DA’s office, is ideally qualifies to expose the true nature of Tom Sneddon’s character. His 102 page filing alleging 22 counts, is a comprehensive account of substantive allegations, they are not the sort that corrupt DA’s pawn of, in front of malleable, Grand Jurors. In the words of Gary Dunlap himself,

“We filed an action against the County of Santa Barbara and the District Attorney, Thomas Sneddon, and a number of his assistants and deputies, including a couple of his investigators, a 22 count civil complaint alleging various violations of 42 USC 1983, which are civil rights violations, and then a number of state tort actions in addition to that, and then three counts of civil RICO violations pursuant to 18 USC 1961 through 1968.”

When Mr. Dunlap filed his complaint, the DA’s office predictably retalliated by attacking the messenger, but the personal assault failed to deter the pursuit of justice. According to Mr. Dunlap,

“Well, they engaged in a sting operation, which they manufactured and allowed to get out of hand, and it essentially became just a real witch hunt. There were a number of violations of my rights in the investigatory stage as well as during the prosecution stage. And we’ve additionally alleged, because of other cases in which I’ve been involved that in other cases that we have information that he has done the same thing in. We have alleged the civil RICO violations, which are essentially engaging in racketeering conspiracy by public officers.”

Mr. Dunlap ought to be very careful because the DA’s office may very well claim that he is a kidnapper and an extortionist.

It was supposed to be just a joke, but apparently, it’s true. The D.A. charged Dunlap with perjury and witness intimidation, and Dunlap exposed the hot air that motivates Tom Sneddon when he said, “We went to a jury trial and I was acquitted on all counts.” One would think that would be the end of a virtual extortionist like Tom Sneddon, but he evidently now thinks that he is so absolutely untouchable, that he can treat Michael Jackson the way he treated Gary Dunlap. Needless to say, Tom Sneddon is turning into the joke of the century.

Incidentally, Mr. Sneddon has firsthand knowledge in the extortion department, and Mr. Dunlap made that quite clear, when he said, “there is a gentleman in Santa Maria who had announced his candidacy for a public office and shortly thereafter he was illegally detained by sheriff’s deputies on what were pretty clearly bogus charges, and instead of the district attorney acknowledging that, the district attorney attempted to cover up the police officers excessive force by filing charges against him and attempted to prosecute him on those charges and essentially ruined his opportunity to run for public office. He ultimately sued the district attorney as well as the law enforcement officers and won a judgment in the federal court for several thousand dollars and several hundred thousand dollars in attorney’s fees. And in other instances, my practice has been, for the last few years, been specializing in excessive authority cases, or exercise of excessive authority by the district attorney’s office because of what I have seen as a practice of engaging in office that I’ve seen over the last few years, and ultimately I think I became such a thorn in his side that they just decided that the easiest way to handle this would be to take me out of the picture.” Tom Sneddon is evidently an experienced thug, and that makes the suggestion that Michael Jackson is an extortionist so funny, that the jury prosecuting the Jackson case may overdose, on laughter. Indeed, Tom Sneddon sounds like the sort who was spotted in Longview Washington, with Laci Peterson, no wonder her kidnapping was never investigated.

Kidding aside [i hope], the corruption that Dunlap exposed is extremely serious and absolutely relevant to the Jackson case because it exposes the pattern which is responsible for the current fiasco. In the words of Gary Dunlap, “they got a legitimate complaint. They got a complaint, which they had to investigate. However, rather than looking at that complaint and doing a straightforward and honest investigation, they saw it as an opportunity to prosecute me. And what they did, is they tried to add legitimacy to an illegitimate charge.” In the case of Michael Jackson, they got a legitimate complaint when Michael Jackson claimed that he was the victim of extortion,

The illegal bugging and the routine, civil violations that Tom Sneddon’s office practices are extreme and extensive, and there is no question that all their targets, including Michael Jackson, have been victimized by their abusive conduct. It hasn’t been traced to Sneddon’s office yet, but given his history, it would be naive to ignore the probability that Tom Sneddon’s office was involved in the illegal videotaping of Michael Jackson and Mark Geragos, in a private jet. After all, Tom Sneddon likes to suggest that Michael Jackson and Mark Geragos are extortionists, and these are the delusions that make illegal bugging palpable, because, the effort to bring extortionists to justice is not disagreeable. The failure to distinguish the difference between bogus and legitimate complaints denies justice and creates an abusive climate of the sort that Gary Dunlap describes, not becaue he is defending Michael Jackson but because he is a victim of the pattern of abuse that Michael Jckson is currently facing.

According to Dunlap, “it’s a very bad situation here in the north county, and the general public is very unaware of it because Tom Sneddon and his assistant up here have pretty much dominated the justice system in Santa Barbara County for several years. And he has run several terms without even any opposition and he’s very powerful. His office is very powerful and public officials are intimidated by them, court personnel are intimidated by them, I mean, they just have had it their own way, and they pretty much do whatever they want. And the problem with it is, they do not take any kind of a leadership role with regard to law enforcement in the sense of protecting the public interests against excessive force. Rather, they promote excessive force by the various law enforcement agencies, by their attitude of protection and prosecution of cases that are clearly inappropriate.” The horrendous abuse that Dunlap describes in his lawsuit is well documented, and that makes the fact that Tom Sneddon is still in office, absolutely shameful. Needless to say, there is a clear lack of accountability that needs to be sorted out, because Tom Sneddon is making a mockery of the legal system.

Gary Dunlap has gone through everything that Michael Jackson is experiencing, including the ever growing list of bizarre charges that are routinely concocted because “the district attorney in Santa Barbara has a policy that if they throw enough charges against you, the jury is bound to convict you on something.” Gary Dunlap when the DA went after him for daring to tell the truth, and the case should have never gone to trial in the first place because “Judge Andreen indicated that there was, in fact, governmental, substantial governmental misconduct. And, in fact, he said that their conduct, the district attorney’s conduct was so bad that it read more like a John Grisham novel than it did a criminal prosecution.” Regardless, the case went to trial, not because the charges were substantive but because they were serious, and that is exactly what is happening in the Michael Jackson case. Onw would think that Tom Sneddon would not get more than one chance to abuse his authority the way he has in the past, but that is evidently not the case, unless the American legal system corrects a system that appears to be exceedingly unaccountable. Clearly,no jury will convict Michael Jackson on the bogus charges that Sneddon routinely advances, and if that is not clear, by now, it should be.

Tom Sneddon’s has a very bad reputation, and the worst part about it is that the allegations that make him look bad are neither slanderous nor libelous because they have already withstood legal scrutiny. He has survived the wrath of To Sneddon, and his integrity has not been compromised. A thoroughly decent, 62 year old gentleman who has practiced law for 37 years, Gary Dunlap is not financially dependent on his law practice and like any good lawyer, he does not calculate the amount of defense that he gives, based on the size of the fee that he receives. He charged his clients based on what they could afford and preferred to base his decision on the merits of the case. Needless to say, wherever Tom Sneddon was involved, the merits had absolutely nothing to do with the charges. This is what Gary Dunlap said about the Michael Jackson case, and bear in mind that this is before the bizarre, extortion charges that Sneddon has obviously manufactured:

“All right, well, first of all, let me say I have no opinion one way or the other whether or not he is guilty because I don’t know, I don’t really know very much about the facts. I don’t think any of us do. But what I will tell you, the very fact that he’s being prosecuted by Sneddon’s office does not cause me to have any reason to believe that he’s guilty in that, because of what I know about the district attorney’s office, I know that they do vindictive prosecutions on a routine basis. And I know that Sneddon has been, you know, chafing at the bit because he wasn’t able to prosecute him ten years ago. And so I don’t think that there’s any question that he’s being over targeted. Now, you know, whether he did whatever it is that they’ve charged him with, I don’t know. I’m highly suspicious of it. I mean, it does not fit in my experience, and I have defended some cases of similar, you know, of similar nature. And he does not fit the pedophile profile regardless of what Greta Van Susteren and Diane Dimond can talk about on their Court TV program, he does not fit the profile of a pedophile. I know that he has had hundreds and probably thousands, but certainly hundreds of young people at his ranch, and I know personally that scores and scores of those kids have stayed overnight and have had personal relationships with him. And when you take that into account and then you only have two allegations in ten years of this kind of activity, it’s highly suspicious to me. Does that answer anything?”

That’s not bad, but the bizarre, absurd, preposterous allegations have changed everything. In the beginning, it was quite alright to question Michael Jackson’s guilt or innocence. It is now time to wonder about how long Tom Sneddon will be granted the opportunity to pervert justice?

source: jackson.alturlo.com

For more informations and link on sneddo, go to D.S. page or click here: DS page

Abbiamo deciso di pubblicare ciò che dice la rivista Rolling Stone, in merito alla presunta vittoria  del giornalista Ian Halperin ( colui che ha sparso la voce FALSA della presunta malattia di Michael Jackson, e che pare stia scrivendo un lirbo NON AUTORIZZATO sul Re del pop), del preimo “Rolling Stone magazine Award for Investigative Journalism”

Biographer Claims Michael Jackson Seriously Ill,

MJ’s Reps Deny It

12/22/08, 2:15 pm EST

It started as a U.K. tabloid report sourcing an unofficial biographer, but it’s grown into one of today’s most talked about news items — Michael Jackson is rumored to be battling an illness that has left him half-blind and in dire need of a lung transplant. According to Jackson biographer Ian Halperin, the singer is suffering from a disease called Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, or A1AD, a genetic disorder that depletes a protein that protects both the liver and lungs. Jackson is reportedly suffering from chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, 95 percent blindness in his left eye and emphysema, one of the major symptoms of A1AD. Halperin says the illness has left Jackson barely able to speak and adds, “He needs a lung transplant, but may be too weak to go through with it.”

This evening, Jackson’s “official and sole spokesperson,” Dr. Tohme Tohme, issued a statement on the singer’s behalf that paints Halperin’s assertions as a mere publicity stunt: “The writer’s wild allegations concerning Mr. Jackson’s health are a total fabrication. Mr. Jackson is in fine health, and finalizing negotiations with a major entertainment company & television network for both a world tour and a series of specials and appearances.”

Rolling Stone did some digging today and determined that many of Halperin’s other assertions don’t hold up. The first line of Halperin’s biography reads “Ian Halperin is also a former winner of the Rolling Stone magazine Award for Investigative Journalism.” This came as news to us, so we looked in our own archives and discovered this claim has been greatly exaggerated: He did win an RS honor, but it was the College Journalism Award in 1985 and it was split among the staff at Concordia University’s student newspaper in Montreal. Halperin also co-wrote a pair of “Kurt Cobain was murdered, maybe” books, scandalous biographies about James Taylor and Celine Dion (title: Behind The Fairytale – A Very, Very, Unauthorized Biography) and a new book called Hollywood Undercover: Revealing the Sordid Secrets of Tinseltown (not exactly The Greatest Generation).

Still, Halperin’s claims are intriguing: Jackson was seen in a wheelchair earlier this year and The Sun quotes his brother Jermaine saying, “He’s not doing so well right now. This isn’t a good time.” Plus, Jackson did claim to be sick when he was avoiding that whole Bahrain lawsuit trial in London. We put out calls to Halperin but have yet to get a response.

fonte: rolling stone

Dunque, anche se l’articolo è prettamente centrato sulle dichiarazione di Halperin, sulla presunta malattia di Michael Jackson, è interessante leggere che Mr Halperin NON HA MAI VINTO IL PREMIO CHE DICE DI AVER VINTO , MA SOLO UN PREMIO DEL COLLEGE.

PS:Ian Halperin collabora anche con il canale televisivo Court Tv