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Our Church: An Open Letter To The Estate of Michael Jackson
by Syl Mortilla
As I’ve no doubt you are aware, the Michael Jackson fan community is much less divided, as it is obliterated into smithereens; comprised, as it is, of as many factions as to rival the Christian church, with each cohort manipulating the belief system in a way to suit their specific requirements. And within a fanbase as vast as an artist such as Michael Jackson’s is, it is right and an inevitable that these variations will exist. Yet, the sincere worldview of some of these people has to be seen to be believed; with one particular lunatic fringe group adamant in their beliefs of the death of our hero being an elaborate hoax, reading messages, as they do, in the creases of the lips of the images of Michael Jackson that adorn posthumous album covers. The beyond-the-grave (nudge nudge, wink wink) messages vary; depending, of course, upon the native language of the interpreter.
For the remaining ninety-nine-point-nine percent of fans, however, this is by no means the hoax with which we are concerned.
What with his having been the most famous man on the planet, the ripples of Michael’s crash-landing on Earth fifty-five years ago continue to ruffle the leaves and pique the libido of tabloid media editors worldwide, and will long persist in doing so. These perennial returnings to the forefront of the public eye, bring with them a mixed bag of emotions and opinions from the Michael Jackson fan community, and it is during these phases that the divisions become starkly evident.
And one of these ‘returnings’ is imminent. In June, the familiar press frenzy with regards the paedophilia accusations will once again resurface. Wade Robson is due to hear if his trial against Michael will proceed. Whether Mr. Robson’s pursuit of a trial is successful, or not, it is we, the fans, who must defend daily against the compulsory ad hominem attacks undertaken by those happy to be pseudo-educated by sensationalist tabloid headlines and Internet links.
Now. Wouldn’t it be great if we could all get along in the fight against that?
The current cause for infighting concerns the Xscape controversy; yet, when stripped to its bare bones, the conflict appears to boil down to just one point of confusion within the fan community. That’s just one, single point that requires just one, simple clarification from you, the Estate of Michael Jackson:
1) In 2003, Michael Jackson instructed his lawyer David LeGrand to terminate John Branca’s employment contract with him. This was after Michael Jackson discovered that Mr. Branca was representing both him and Sony at the same time. Obviously, this would be a conflict of interest in the best of scenarios, never mind one in which Michael Jackson was actively campaigning against Sony at the time, going so far as to say he would rather burn his music than let Sony have it. So, with this borne in mind, it is, shall we say, a bugbear of the Michael Jackson fan community, that upon the untimely death of our hero, Mr. Branca was named as executor of the Estate of Michael Jackson, executor of a will within which Michael Jackson’s name is incorrect, his children’s names are incorrect, and within which Michael Jackson’s handwritten time-stamped-and-dated signature was scribed in Los Angeles, on a time and date that freely available video evidence proves he was nearly three-thousand miles away, in New York. Protesting against Sony. The same company the Estate of Michael Jackson have now chosen to work in conjunction with to bring us the Xscape album. An album promoted with the tagline, “The Best You’ve Never Heard”, in spite of the fact that seventy-five percent of the tracks have been available online for up to eleven years.
Fan conversation often refers to Michael as having superhero qualities. We had just been hitherto unaware that teleportation was one of them. So, if the Estate of Michael Jackson could do us, the fans, the lifelong loyal servants and defenders of Michael Jackson, the simple decency of clarifying how it is possible that on July 7, 2002, Michael Jackson managed to be in two places simultaneously, we could all then perhaps unite in focussing on the superior task in hand: the protection and promotion of our hero’s humanity.
Do not make the mistake of underestimating our love for Michael Jackson. Our church may well be fragmented, but it is, nonetheless, devout.
http://sylmortilla.com/2014/04/07/our-church/
Edited by Betelgeuse - 7/4/2014, 23:08
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