Someone's opinion on DISCARDED LIES website: "Michael is in fact innocent by my reading of the evidence. Here is something I was going to post as a guest editorial here but held back on: I have read the evidence provided by Thomas Sneddon, D.A. of L.A. against Michael Jackson..." "Why do I care, and why do I hope that you care? MJ is a genius, a dancer who kicks and whirls with the spark of Gene Kelley — although I have not listened to his music since he turned 6. He is incomparably weird... He shares one of my dreams — to be a person who is both black and white, male and female – to be everyman... Michael wished to help children, and he made them a fantasyland. ... And we all speculated that his weird passions could have easily turned to pedophilia – when the faucet is blocked, a pipe will burst somewhere. But what if he were just weird? Imagine it. What an awful thing to do to a man. His name is destroyed. He has spent months knowing that each person he sees thinks him both completely ridiculous and despicable. He will never again have the company of children. Probably his fortune is dissipated, and no amount of the 20 hour days he has always put in will ever restore it. Now if you or I were shown to have committed the actions proved against Michael (the grooming, the bed-sharing, the tickling, etc.), it might be a reasonable inference that we were pedophiles. Michael has, however, been a really weird character all his life -- the surgery, the marriages, the gauze masks, the incredibly long hours and hard work on his music and dance -- that I do not believe that it is even half reasonable to draw inferences about Michael from how other people might behave. There is zero credible direct evidence after all of the resources of America's second largest city have been expended in finding that evidence for ten years. There is just a cloud of innuendo. It all reminds me of the story "Hands" from "Winesburg, Ohio." When you look at the websites of MJ's fans, they are gorgeous -- but without a lot of coherent thought which you could describe -- sort of like a lightning bug. And Thomas Sneddon, DA of L.A., would smush a lightning bug." Source: www.discardedlies.com / eMJey CA