I didn't mean to put everyone in the same bowl. I know all of us have different opinions about this issue and we're all going to think differently. I don't feel sorry for Murray. I'm not trying to defend him. What I said here was not just about Murray, but about everyone that is accused of a crime. I don't want the media to treat other people the way they treated Michael. I won't feel bad for Murray if I see him treated unfairly by the media or the police, but I won't feel a sense of pleasure seeing it happen to him either. No one should be treated unfairly.
In Michael's trial, the media reports were filled with inaccuracies and facts that were twisted to suit their own agenda of portraying him to be a guilty man. Even after he was acquitted, they continued to put forth the idea that he was guilty and "got off" because of his celebrity. Why would we want Murray to be treated the same way? Why do we want to hear sensationalised garbage above facts? Why should we have to pile through 5 months worth of court transcripts when the press should be telling us the truth? I want the public to hear the truth, I don't want the media to feed us garbage. I don't want Murray to be labelled an insane killer if he's not. I don't want him to be labelled an innocent little lamb who got himself in a sticky situation if what he did was intentional.
I don't want injustice. I don't want unfairness. I want the truth.
I do agree very much.
See I do have so much love for justice, that I simply know there has to be more to it then only what I feel is true, what I think is true, what I think to know... I would always go for several opinions from several independent ppl, to make sure the so precious value of justice is not in danger.
I do disagree respectfully but very strong with the angle the same what happened to Michael should also happen to Murray.
When it was wrong to do it to Michael, it is simply wrong always and with everybody. So it still is wrong when done to anybody else.
Unless you call the treatment correct from the very beginning. To me it is clearly not correct.
That is not what I call justice.
Do I think Murray is guilty of wrong doing? Clearly yes!
Do I know? Clearly no! It simply is not proven yet! I want to get more facts and I want to get several opinions and maybe best also from some who weren't their life long a MJJfan... because I know for a fact that love, admiration, the pain cuz of the loss of someone so endlessly dear can cloud my own view. I want that because that will give me security I'm not led wrong by my own feelings or what I've combined through reading and investigating. Yes I also want that for my own sake because that's how I'd want to be treated and can accept anyone to be treated.
I've explained already why I need to held up to such high values as fairness and judgements... btw it always also helps me to look at the person in the mirror openly and with love.
I don't know if I will ever get the chance to know what really happened to Michael. However that will not let me jump on any bandwagon to just go for what I in fact only can believe to be true.
Nazi-Germans thought also and even 'proved' to the public often enough they were the one right what they've all thought were true.
It wasn't.
So forgive me for being sceptical sometimes even the most about myself and what ppl explain to me a billion times without having convincing evidence!
Yes I do want justice even for criminals. That means to me punishment when they are proven guilty.
Murray is not proven guilty yet. We have to eat that unless we want to be compared to a mindless lynch mob.
There is... there has to be more to true justice than only that.
If we follow the logic that Michael was done wrong and that's why we want now Murray to get the same treatment. That bares all logic to me.
When one is supposed to be innocent till a judge makes a judgement, and that's why deserving fair treatment then this needs to be valid for everybody unless you want that someone else thinking different than fans can rightfully go for such a treatment for Michael then?
That kind of logic seems very dangerous.
If this is the logic one follows... if this is how it works we all should be treaten like Rodney King was, while walking the streets? As he was as innocent as you and me and everybody walking around?
Gosh I know the justice systems all over the world are all not perfect.
And yes sometimes justice is not really connected to fairness.
Still justice can only exist if it is valid for everybody.
