Jackson was dazzling in this movie. Seeing him engaged with other people was great. I never believed he was a pedophile and the more I hear and read about the “victims” and the time lines and circumstances of the “abuse” the more I am convinced he was not. Of course this requires actually searching out the facts and using some reasoning; not simply believing anything the sensationalized media tells me to believe. I understand though that some people simply can’t do that.

Anyway, if you are someone not blinded by media hype and you want to see the greatest performing artist ever - not surrounded by media hype for once – go see This Is It.

I can't believe that because a jury said OJ was innocent he didn't do it. Jackson was pitiful. Limpassing into court with his pj's on. I don't know though I might have done the same thing if I thought I was going to prison.

Nice post, Deborah, but some people are so ignorant that all the words and facts in the world will not convince them.

A widely-covered court case could not convict Michael of the accusations against him, but heaven forbid that that should factor in to your opinions.

Besides that, people who continue to ask how Michael changed people's lives and "what's the big deal" obviously haven't been paying much attention the past 40 years or so. Apparently to them, if Michael didn't affect their lives, then it's inconceivable that he affected other people's lives.

I used to believe that Jackson was a pedophile, but after reading about the accusers and their sordid past, I began to believe Jackson was the victim.

A respectful message to those who still doubt Michael jackson’s innocence: There is a reason why a depth charge of anger and grief has ignited in the hearts of millions of people. I do not mean to offend who believes the opposite in any way, but I just have to speak up. Does anyone really believe that the millions talking about the miscarriage of justice Michael Jackson suffered would be prepared to overlook peodophilia just because he was talented? Because I certainly wouldn’t. The American people need to know they were effectively brainwashed by the relentless onslaught of media coverage and endless rotation of hearsay and outright lies that so-called journalists like Diane Dimond, Nancy Grace, Maureen Orth and the Smoking Gun online tabloid – amongst others – inflated into a storm of such unprecedented hostility it would convince Mr Jackson’s legal team that it would be better to settle than fight in court in 1993. In hindsight, that decision was a huge mistake. In the 2005 trial, the prosecution introduced the 1993 allegations into the trial evidence to bolster their case, this enabled Meseareau to revisit the circumstances of those allegations. Mesereau was able to satisfy a conservative jury that there was no validity to them whatsoever. Of course, little or no coverage was given to this fact, just as no attention was paid to the facts or motives of Evan Chandler or Janet Arviso. While it is understandable due to the sheer level of misinformation and non-investigation of Michael’s accusers: (Can anyone think of a single article apart from Mary Fischer’s ‘Was Michael Jackson Framed?’ that asked any serious questions about the credibilty of Michael’s accusers?); – that the myth of sexual deviancy still persists about Michael Jackson - it’s just not acceptable for this lie to stand any longer. It has caused so much pain to so many people, including Michael, and it undoubtedly precipitated his dependency on tranquillizers and ended his life earlier than the norm. There is information out there, information, I might add, that has more weight and substance than the nonsense that has been peddled for years by the majority, if not all the American media. I am asking people to please go their local bookstore, order Aphrodite Jones’s book ‘The Michael Jackson Conspiracy,’ read Mary A Fischer’s article, go to the silencedtruth website and read Cory Rooney’s comments in the ‘Remember’ section, read Brian Oxman’s statements about Michael Jackson in The Huffington Post,and read the substantial legal criticism of Tom Sneddon’s years-long vendetta to prosecute Michael Jackson that is detailed in the archive section of the New York Times and many other publications. Millions of dollars of American taxpayers money were spent by Sneddon in an attempt to find corroborating witnesses to the so-called alleged crimes of Michael Jackson;– an extraordinary amount, considering Sneddon found none. Out of the thousands of children Michael Jackson helped, two alleged molestation and one man linked both investigations. For most normal people, a huge alarm bell should surely be ringing. Janet Arviso and her son Gavin both admitted on the stand in 2005 that Janet Arviso had made her son lie to support her false claims that she had been sexually assaulted by staff in a J C Penny store, after she and her children had been caught shoplifting. Unlucky? Or just a family with a unnatural propensity for being in the wrong place at the wrong time? The Arviso v J.C Penny case I mentioned, by the way, can be found by googling it and in American law journals. I could go on, my point is this; people need to be asking questions right now – that is, if they want to know the truth. The movement for Michael’s vindication is about enabling truth to come to bear on something that has needed exposing for a very long time, not about excusing serious crimes because of how well somebody sang. What was done to Michael Jackson must never be forgotten - and all those who talk about him being a child molester know not of what they speak.

He's dead. Good enough for me

Ugh. Just when I thought we'd heard the last of this crazy pedo, somebody has found a way to make another buck off him. The sheep are willing to oblige.

I think the pedophile stuff has pretty much been debunked. Weird yes, but don't think so on the pedophile. Regardless, I loved his music growing up, and I'll miss seeing him in wacky news.

Michael Jackson was many things. He was an icon, a singer, dancer, Jehovah's witness and a pedophile. I won't be going to see " This Is It ".

::slinks off::

I *did* like Thriller back in the day. :)

Twas a fantastic show. I thought the guy lost the ability to actually sing 20 years ago. Quite a surprise, this was.

Deification? How did it change lives? His music molded the sounds of many of our lives growing up, so yea, it was a major contributing factor for the creative arts in all of us.

I know you enjoy and are proud of the "troll" title, but when a statement is totally irrelevant, its best to jump to another article.

Is the deification of a pop star necessary?

How does it change your life, one iota?