Campaign

Laatst aangepast op vrijdag, 09 oktober 2009 02:42 dinsdag, 06 oktober 2009 16:32

Who We Are: Michael Jackson fans and friends from various countries around the world. Several of us were around Michael on a daily basis during the last few months of his life, witnessing several things that concerned us; some of us were fortunate enough to have known Michael for many years; some of us have already run many support campaigns, including the Invincible campaign in 2002; we all knew him personally. This is our last gift to Michael. We think it is what he would have wanted, to speak the truth.

Our Aim: It is our wish to help people understand where responsibilities lie, pertaining to Michael Jackson’s passing, in the hope that if they choose to watch the film, they will do so with critical eyes. We want to celebrate Michael Jackson and his amazing legacy, but we cannot do so until the truth comes out, justice is served, and the lies are exposed. We will do all that we can to achieve those objectives.

How: Conducting an awareness campaign by publishing testimonies of fans who were there to witness the last weeks of Michael’s life and by taking action at the premieres of This Is It around the world.

Although we are all still overwhelmed with grief and shock, we think that we cannot let everything go as smooth as oil for all those who are reaping the profits of Michael Jackson’s death while hiding their guilt. We think we can have enough of an impact to spoil the “good feeling” AEG /Sony are portraying and to remind everyone that Michael Jackson was treated like a commodity and not like a person.

We do not believe in calling for a boycott because we know this will not work. There are too many people who are interested in seeing this movie and millions who will go see it, not because they are MJ fans, but because this is pop culture in the making, grim or not. Some MJ fans on the other hand, may have a natural desire to see him at work one last time. Seeing the movie or not remains a personal choice that we want to be respectful of.

However, we believe we can inform people and help them see the movie with different eyes. We can tell you this did not have to be IT and you could be watching Michael Jackson alive on a stage instead of a celluloid picture. If only those who put so much energy into promoting and producing this great example of cinematic fiction would have put 10% of the same energy into trying to save his life.

We want to be clear that we are not promoting conspiracy theories: we believe that Conrad Murray might have been the hand that caused Michael Jackson’s death by injecting a lethal dose of anesthetic. We hope that justice will be done. However, who paid Murray’s salary? Why did Michael need to take Propofol to sleep? If fans saw Michael in an altered state going in and out of rehearsals, how could his crew and entourage not see it? If fans thought he was too underweight and they staged some sort of intervention, how could others not notice? While wholeheartedly blaming Dr. Murray's gross negligence and criminal practice, we are contending that additional factors constituted a serious case of neglect which largely contributed to Michael's passing. His drastic weight loss, stress and fears, and his drug use were evident, the failure of those around him to stop the greedy tour machine and help a man clearly in desperate need of it, needs to be exposed. If there were conspiracies that go beyond neglect, we hope these will be proven, but it is not what we are doing here. In fact, we do not pretend to know exactly what happened that doomed night in June, that is for the police to establish, but we do know that Michael Jackson was slowly killed by negligence and greed for many weeks before June 25th. This we know for sure and we wish to prove it to you.

It is our hope that many fans around the world will agree to join us and to unite one last time to do something that will shed light on the lies that are being said.

We know that some people might feel sadness reading this, we know that the best thing we have left to do is to celebrate the fantastic artist that Michael Jackson was and the magic he left to the world. But we also know that truth is very important and that this is our last chance to tell it, for him. It is our hope that the truth shall set us all free.

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