I can't believe that he actually had to do the "hard time" for being the compassionate humanitarian that he is. He was pretty much a political prisoner in this "free country" of ours. Sad.

Pretty disgusting really, if you think about the life of this man. He was abused as a kid, but overcame it and became the world's best-selling musician, inventing and popularizing a number of styles in music and dance and changing pop culture. Then some money-hungry ***** got his kid to lie about being molested by Michael, and is on record on as saying, "There's no way I lose. I will get everything I want and they will be destroyed forever. Michael's career will be over."

The allegations alone were enough for the media to pick up on it, and because Jackson was starting to show his vitiligo and was dealing with rhynoplasty from the Pepsi explosion, he looked like society's idea of a child molester (as in, ***** up and scary), which made people believe he really was one. He was creepy looking, incredibly weird, sounded like a girl, and the tabloids all had headlines proclaiming his guilt.

The stress of going through this time in his life made him not only start abusing drugs, but he started getting self conscious about his appearance. His mental abilities fell and fell because of his drug problems, and his career entered a slump which it never recovered from. This when in the early 90's, and he started cancelling tour dates.