Post by MaryAnn Layton on Jul 22, 2010 3:31:31 GMT -5
Hi all,
Deborah Ffrench has just informed me and others that someone with a blog in the MJ fan community has taken it upon herself to start a conspiracy theory going, while enlisting the help of many others, to attack Mr. Thomson for colluding with J. Randy Taraborrelli to destroy Michael's good name. This of course is not true, and it's sad to see someone who loved MJ try to start up a war which may be noticed by the mainstream media, and unfairly give Mr. Thomson unwanted criticism he does not deserve. (See Deborah's email below for more info.)
Ms Bonnie Cox started her hate-filled campaign to destroy Mr. Thomson's reputation, without knowing all the facts, and perhaps not even reading Thomson's Huffington Post article defending Michael. Does this all sound too familiar?
Wasn't this DA Tom Sneddon's vendetta as well? Of course, Sneddon's objective was more dangerous... to see Michael go to prison for many years to come, ultimately ending in a death sentence. Sneddon did his utmost to perpetuate horrible accusations and lies against Michael to bring him down, even trying to plant false evidence to get his way, to see Michael convicted for disgusting crimes against children.
Coming from today's headlines, these false accusations remind me of Ms Shirley Sherrod's story, a small-town Georgia executive with the US federal government's Agriculture department who, because she was wrongly accused of racism, was forced to resign from her position. This was absolutely not true; however, because of just ONE accusation and a craftily edited video from a blogger with his own agenda, she became the victim of accusations and innuendo by Fox News and other media, even from the NAACP, and ultimately acquired a tarnished reputation according to the White House. Since then thankfully, the truth has come out due to the whole video, not just the edited version, which explains that 24 years ago, she DID have racist views until she had an epiphany... when she realized that a poor white farmer was just as disadvantaged as a poor black farmer. Since then thankfully, the White House and her boss have profusely apologized to her and offered her a new position.
But think about this... what if there was no 45-minute video to watch? What if she had no proof that her speech had been edited, that the whole truth never did come out? Her good reputation would have been destroyed, she would have lost her government job for good, and she would be forever labelled by all as a racist. How fair is that?
Sorry that my commentary has gone on so long, but it's something I feel strongly about, having witnessed what Michael went through with his trials and tribulations. This is what hatred can do - it can destroy people's lives, reputations and their spirits. Promoting hatred is not what Michael wanted, or wants, for any of us. Please join us in this most worthy cause to vindicate Charles Thomson's good name so that he can continue to fight for Michael's good name!
And now to Deborah's email...
British journalist, Charles Thomson, who you are all no doubt aware, has been working tirelessly for some time now to bring the truth about the gross injustice meted out to Michael Jackson while he lived, into greater public awareness - has been under cyber attack now for the last two days.
A misguided and exceptionally misinformed blogger - Bonnie Cox, author of the 'Michael's Guardian' blog - who is also a member of the ' Tea Party' political group, has maliciously sent out emails and tweets to everyone she knows, claiming that Charles and J. Randy Taraborrelli are 'paid hitmen,' hired as part of a Sony conspiracy to destroy Michael Jackson by writing nasty articles about Michael.
Yes, really.
This blogger has also been encouraging people to harass Mr Thomson on twitter, Facebook and at his own website. This blogger - Michael's guardian - has also asked people to 'spy' on Mr Thomson's twitter account and send her so-called 'evidence' of his Sony affiliations.
This is utter nonsense. The basis for this non-existent evidence of Mr Thomson's alter-ego as a 'Sony assassin' is apparently a picture that appeared on Mr Thomson's Facebook page of him and Randy Taraborrelli meeting in LA in June!
This lie has already led to Mr Thomson taking the drastic measure of removing hundreds of people from his Facebook account and locking his tweets. More action may be necessary. This speculative and false 'evidence' is as unfounded as the 'fact-building' engaged in by Sneddon and his ilk when MJ was alive - and is just as dangerous.
Instead of supporting one of the few credible journalists who supports the reality of Michael's innocence, this journalist is now unfortunately being attacked by 'musicfactorymj' on tweet and by 'Michael's guardian' on her blog and elsewhere.
This is outrageous behaviour and I am seriously concerned about the apparent capacity of some MJ fans to be believe any ridiculous conspiracy that someone who is old enough - but clearly not wise enough - to know better, irresponsibly puts out on the web.
There are consequences for this hurtful and untrue libel, and one of those consequences may unfortunately be that Mr Thomson, someone who has dedicated enormous amounts of time trying to uncover the misinformation and years-old slandering of Michael's name - may simply stop doing his invaluable work.
Can we all focus on the on-going campaign to petition Rev Sharpton's radio show bookers to invite Mr Thomson on for an interview about Michael Jackson's trial by leaving a message at:
www.facebook.com/people/Fatiyn-Muhammad/686841719
and /or emailing:
rachel@noerdlingermedia.com
And if you come across any of this unsubstantiated and completely false information about Mr Thomson being a 'hired sony assassin' on the web, please strongly refute it in no uncertain terms, and direct people to this link where all the information about these attacks is fully explained.
charlesthomsonjournalist.blogspot.com/2010/07/clearing-up-more-nonsense.html
Be under no illusions, these attacks are not being done in 'Michael's' name. They are a totally malicious and outrageous attack on an objective, honest journalist who must be wondering what the hell he's done to deserve all this.
Lets us hope common sense prevails.
Thank you for your help in this.
Deborah Ffrench
Deborah Ffrench has just informed me and others that someone with a blog in the MJ fan community has taken it upon herself to start a conspiracy theory going, while enlisting the help of many others, to attack Mr. Thomson for colluding with J. Randy Taraborrelli to destroy Michael's good name. This of course is not true, and it's sad to see someone who loved MJ try to start up a war which may be noticed by the mainstream media, and unfairly give Mr. Thomson unwanted criticism he does not deserve. (See Deborah's email below for more info.)
Ms Bonnie Cox started her hate-filled campaign to destroy Mr. Thomson's reputation, without knowing all the facts, and perhaps not even reading Thomson's Huffington Post article defending Michael. Does this all sound too familiar?
Wasn't this DA Tom Sneddon's vendetta as well? Of course, Sneddon's objective was more dangerous... to see Michael go to prison for many years to come, ultimately ending in a death sentence. Sneddon did his utmost to perpetuate horrible accusations and lies against Michael to bring him down, even trying to plant false evidence to get his way, to see Michael convicted for disgusting crimes against children.
Coming from today's headlines, these false accusations remind me of Ms Shirley Sherrod's story, a small-town Georgia executive with the US federal government's Agriculture department who, because she was wrongly accused of racism, was forced to resign from her position. This was absolutely not true; however, because of just ONE accusation and a craftily edited video from a blogger with his own agenda, she became the victim of accusations and innuendo by Fox News and other media, even from the NAACP, and ultimately acquired a tarnished reputation according to the White House. Since then thankfully, the truth has come out due to the whole video, not just the edited version, which explains that 24 years ago, she DID have racist views until she had an epiphany... when she realized that a poor white farmer was just as disadvantaged as a poor black farmer. Since then thankfully, the White House and her boss have profusely apologized to her and offered her a new position.
But think about this... what if there was no 45-minute video to watch? What if she had no proof that her speech had been edited, that the whole truth never did come out? Her good reputation would have been destroyed, she would have lost her government job for good, and she would be forever labelled by all as a racist. How fair is that?
Sorry that my commentary has gone on so long, but it's something I feel strongly about, having witnessed what Michael went through with his trials and tribulations. This is what hatred can do - it can destroy people's lives, reputations and their spirits. Promoting hatred is not what Michael wanted, or wants, for any of us. Please join us in this most worthy cause to vindicate Charles Thomson's good name so that he can continue to fight for Michael's good name!
And now to Deborah's email...
British journalist, Charles Thomson, who you are all no doubt aware, has been working tirelessly for some time now to bring the truth about the gross injustice meted out to Michael Jackson while he lived, into greater public awareness - has been under cyber attack now for the last two days.
A misguided and exceptionally misinformed blogger - Bonnie Cox, author of the 'Michael's Guardian' blog - who is also a member of the ' Tea Party' political group, has maliciously sent out emails and tweets to everyone she knows, claiming that Charles and J. Randy Taraborrelli are 'paid hitmen,' hired as part of a Sony conspiracy to destroy Michael Jackson by writing nasty articles about Michael.
Yes, really.
This blogger has also been encouraging people to harass Mr Thomson on twitter, Facebook and at his own website. This blogger - Michael's guardian - has also asked people to 'spy' on Mr Thomson's twitter account and send her so-called 'evidence' of his Sony affiliations.
This is utter nonsense. The basis for this non-existent evidence of Mr Thomson's alter-ego as a 'Sony assassin' is apparently a picture that appeared on Mr Thomson's Facebook page of him and Randy Taraborrelli meeting in LA in June!
This lie has already led to Mr Thomson taking the drastic measure of removing hundreds of people from his Facebook account and locking his tweets. More action may be necessary. This speculative and false 'evidence' is as unfounded as the 'fact-building' engaged in by Sneddon and his ilk when MJ was alive - and is just as dangerous.
Instead of supporting one of the few credible journalists who supports the reality of Michael's innocence, this journalist is now unfortunately being attacked by 'musicfactorymj' on tweet and by 'Michael's guardian' on her blog and elsewhere.
This is outrageous behaviour and I am seriously concerned about the apparent capacity of some MJ fans to be believe any ridiculous conspiracy that someone who is old enough - but clearly not wise enough - to know better, irresponsibly puts out on the web.
There are consequences for this hurtful and untrue libel, and one of those consequences may unfortunately be that Mr Thomson, someone who has dedicated enormous amounts of time trying to uncover the misinformation and years-old slandering of Michael's name - may simply stop doing his invaluable work.
Can we all focus on the on-going campaign to petition Rev Sharpton's radio show bookers to invite Mr Thomson on for an interview about Michael Jackson's trial by leaving a message at:
www.facebook.com/people/Fatiyn-Muhammad/686841719
and /or emailing:
rachel@noerdlingermedia.com
And if you come across any of this unsubstantiated and completely false information about Mr Thomson being a 'hired sony assassin' on the web, please strongly refute it in no uncertain terms, and direct people to this link where all the information about these attacks is fully explained.
charlesthomsonjournalist.blogspot.com/2010/07/clearing-up-more-nonsense.html
Be under no illusions, these attacks are not being done in 'Michael's' name. They are a totally malicious and outrageous attack on an objective, honest journalist who must be wondering what the hell he's done to deserve all this.
Lets us hope common sense prevails.
Thank you for your help in this.
Deborah Ffrench