CALIFORNIA JUSTICE

 

June 13, 2005

 

12 good persons and true have said that the prosecution did not prove that Michael Jackson committed child abuse.  That is the justice system in California.  That is the justice of the system in California. Time will pass.  People will forget.

 

California is a great place to be from.  Here in South Carolina, we welcome anyone who wants to move from there.  And to be honest, there are only two reasons to go to California:

1.      You have been asked to be in a movie,

2.      You have been asked to be on Jay Leno.

3.      (any other reason can be classified under the definition of "what was I thinking?")

 

But in any case, it can be truly said that Californians got California justice, today.

 

This means that the jury ignored the fact that Michael Jackson admitted, on film, that he, on many occasions, slept in a bed with boys from 9 to 13 who were not his own children.  Every parent has had a sleepy head from time to time who's afraid of lightning.  This wasn't that, and HE SAID SO!

 

Now people, please!  It is NOT NORMAL for a 40 year old man to sleep in a bed with children!

 

There really is nothing, short of the NAMBLA  purpose statement, that could rationalize such a thing.  And it doesn’t matter how immature you are.   It's just plain wrong.

 

Have we totally lost our minds?  Are we such moral relativists that we can honestly say this is justice?  No.  And no.

 

WE have not.  California HAS.  But the Golden State doesn't have any morals and it lives its lives in the shadow of true moral relativism.

 

Don’t think that this sort of thing couldn’t happen here, in South Carolina.  Child abuse happens all the time.  The difference is that, so far, we would have had a totally different verdict from the git-go.

 

Does that make us hayseeds?  Does that make us less sophisticated?  Does that make us less urbane?  Who the hell cares?

 

Turn up the Jimmy Buffet, gimme a beer and a Bible, and hand me a long stem of grass.