Posted on 08/24/2009 1:47:00 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of breaking news that Michael Jackson's death was the result of "lethal levels of propofol," a powerful anesthetic.
MSNBC is reporting Jackson's death has been ruled a "homicide" . . . . (Watch Video)
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.com ...
Um, yep, still don’t care....
But he’s still dead, right?
ummm, yep dittos.
Homocide? Michael Jackson was a homo?
Something smells here.
But he’s still dead, right?And if indeed he's a murder victim his killer should be brought to justice, right?
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A search warrant affidavit says Michael Jackson had lethal levels of the powerful anesthetic propofol in his system when he died.
The document unsealed Monday allowed officials to raid the Houston offices and storage facility of Dr. Conrad Murray last month.
It says Murray told a Los Angeles police officer he administered several drugs to Jackson the day he died, including 25 milligrams of the sedative, which he gave intravenously.
The affidavit says Murray never ordered, purchased or received any of the propofol but that the doctor found about eight bottles of it in Jackson’s home along with numerous other vials and pills.
Was he that guy that danced with one glove on?
Then why did you open the thread?
Right, and there seem to be a lot of people who have some responsibility for his dive, and his drive, toward death, whether legally responsible or not.
I think the correct term is “Homo-cide.”
Political pressure? Family pressure?
I haven’t read anything that medically or factually supports this.
Was it criminal for his doctor to prescribe such medication alone or in combination with the others? Courts will have to decide. Will your doctor be next? Some folks get a lot of prescriptions.
Is the riot squad ready?
budee-ah budee-ah budee-ahh...That’s all folks!
He was a dead creep walking a long time before the JAMA juice froze his ticker.
Right, and there seem to be a lot of people who have some responsibility for his dive, and his drive, toward death, whether legally responsible or not.One problem with that knowledge is that, for better or worse, only the actual, physical perpetrator can be prosecuted simply enough. When we speak of "responsibility" for his path to his death, we speak often as not of intangible factors---psychological, spiritual, professional, emotional pressures, few if any of which can be mulcted into a legal responsibility.
Assume for the argument that the doctor in question landed the fatal punch, so to say. He could be tried (apparently, he will be arrested and tried in due course) and, if the evidence warrants, convicted. That would put a legally public face, and secure a legally responsible entity, upon Michael Jackson's death, but it would not begin to isolate and bring to account the sources of the aforesaid intangibles that launched him on the tragic final path.
While I'm at it, I'd like to say this much for the record here: Whatever Michael Jackson did that was wrong---I grant "wrong" may be an understatement, given the gravity of some of what he was accused of having perpetrated, but I'd bear in mind further that a) he was never convicted of any crime; b) there was only too much about which to be suspicious regarding his accusers and their charges; and, c) out-of-court settlements are not by absolute or final definition acquiescences to guilt (nor, for that matter, are plea bargains in cases that are dubious at core---there are many, particularly in the so-called War on Drugs---and result from, say, a defendant's own attorney convincing him or her that going to trial, no matter how innocent you are, might be an exercise in futility . . . )---he was a man who made music that made millions of people around the world happy. Which is one hell of a lot more than a lot of us can claim about our work.
I thought Michael Jackson's behavior and performing to be more animalistic, but . . .
His lifestyle and trend of life patterns made him vulnerable to the “necessity” of drug use, whether those drugs were prescribed or not (like Elvis’ life). It was a pathetic life; not normal by any stretch of reason. It led to a “give me drug to deal with my anxieties” mind set.
The physician(s) Jackson chose to have around him might succumb to the same philosophies as Jackson. This one that administered the lethal doses(if the criminal complaints are correct - we wouldn't know at this point) might have thought just like Jackson. Who would want to be a close personal physician to such a man unless they agreed with his life style . . . unless, of course, they merely intended to use his personal vulnerabilities to get rich off of him?
Anyway, now I find myself posting about a man that I believe to have been very destructive to young people and to American culture. Never could I consider him an artist, unless they were arts of a very evil sort. Those evil arts are prevalent in the entertainment world. . . and political world.
There is a spiritual domain vigorous in those professions: entertainment and politics. There is much happening above our heads where the eyes of mortal men cannot see. Drugs can open the mind to a portal to that spiritual dimension, and there people are often trapped. And even without an injected or ingested chemical, entertainment and politics themselves become a kind of drug. When the entertainment or politics are put together with the chemical sort . . . an “other than human” power is active, and it has an objective; an objective that is nothing but evil and destructive.
Who are you arguing with?
And if OJ wasn’t doing 5 to 10 he could track down the real killers.....
(end sarcasm)
Of course Jackson was a homo - human being! His behavior was more of a suicide in progress than a homocide!
Get a life!
Who are you arguing with?*chuckle* I didn't think I was arguing with anybody. (Yet.) I probably meant to say, if I'm reading the line to which I think you may refer, "Assume for the sake of the argument," without meaning concurrently to suggest I was "arguing" with you rather than engaging a discourse.
Propofol isn’t supposed to be used outside of a hospital setting. And only with strict supervision.
I’d say everything went wrong here. and that Dr. Conrad is going to jail.
That is something I didn’t know. Thank you.
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