Letters of the Wrong Kind
by Obiechena

Days following the surrender of Michael Jackson to Santa Barbara authorities on charges of child molestation, the tantalizing tale of the infamous "love letters" he allegedly wrote to his now fourteen-year-old accuser began its circulation in the international press. Without as much as a blink of the eye, the American news media picked up the outlandish story and ran full speed ahead. There was no shortage of talking heads ready and willing to analyze this new "discovery" and crucify Jackson over a rumor that was still unsubstantiated...that was until a certain self-proclaimed reporter opened her big, fat, erroneous mouth to confirm the yarn.

On November 24, 2003, flibbertigibbet Diane Dimond was on "Larry King Live" (LKL) proclaiming her knowledge of these supposed love letters. When host King asked if anyone knew for a fact the existence of these letters, Dimond exclaimed, "I absolutely know of their existence!" According to what she had surreptitiously heard through the slandervine, Jackson realized at some point that allegations were going to be made and remembered letters he had written to his accuser.
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"I hear that he realized allegations were on the way. He remembered love letters -- that's how they're described, love letters -- that he had written to this 12-year-old boy that were in the boy's home. At the time, the boy, the mother, the family was up at Neverland. Someone somehow was dispatched, I'm told, by the Michael Jackson camp down to their Los Angeles-area apartment, and suddenly, those letters disappeared. That's what Mr. Sneddon and the sheriff were looking for when they went into Neverland, that stack of love letters." -- LKL, 24 Nov 2003.
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She hears a lot of things, doesn't she? Quite a fascinating story. It always helps when you have a squawking demagogue like Nancy Grace present to assist with the facilitation of the notion that Jackson wrote said letters without any evidence to back up your claim.

The source of the media's information, The Daily Telegraph of Australia, stated that these letters were seized by authorities during the raid of Jackson's Ranch. A source cited by the Telegraph said that "the boy told investigators about letters and poems and their precise location inside Michael's home," and that these letters and videotapes that were seized are "very explicit and intimate and show a degree of familiarity. Basically, they appear to be love letters from Michael to the boy."

Would it be safe to say that what one man sees as money, another sees as green paper?

It is quite amazing how no one stopped to think of the implausibility of what Dimond and her counterparts overseas were presenting. Maybe it would help reiterating. Anticipating allegations of sexual misconduct, Jackson dispatched someone to reclaim the purported love letters from the accuser. This someone does just that, but does not destroy them. He instead decides to take the incriminating evidence back to Neverland.

Yeah, real smart.

Since these letters were considered potentially damaging, why would Jackson keep them? The man was smart enough to have the letters removed, but not smart enough to have them destroyed?

The reiteration doesn't make the tabloid version of the matter any less confusing.

Arguing over the existence of these letters would be moot, for the hysteria surrounding them imploded at a rate much faster than its explosion. Following a conversation with Santa Barbara District Attorney Thomas Sneddon, Kansas City prosecutor Nola Foulston appeared on "On the Record with Greta Van Sustren" with a bombshell of her own.
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"Well, I can tell you tonight that in my discussion with Mr. Sneddon within the last hour, there are no love letters that have been found ... the information that is being disseminated is not from law enforcement .... So I'm telling you this evening, there are no such animals. The New York Post has the wrong story and Diane Dimond has the wrong story because it is not correct." -- On The Record - 24 Nov 2003.
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It is necessary to point out that this statement was made an hour after Dimond had proclaimed on LKL that she knew so absolutely of these so-called love letters.

So much for spreading the eagle.

The issue of the letters has again resurfaced, this time in relation to the raid of the office of private investigator Bradley Miller. Miller had been hired by former Jackson counsel Mark Geragos, and it was he who reportedly took statements in February 2003 of the family denying that anything ontoward had happened between any of them and Jackson.

According to the prosecution's opposition to the Jackson defense "Motion to Suppress" evidence seized during the office raid, the accuser's mother alleged that "Jackson people" had stolen certain letters written by the entertainer to her son. She claims that the letters had gone missing when her stored property was returned to her. Prosecutors apparently believe that Miller acted on behalf of Jackson when he allegedly placed the accusing family's belongings into a storage unit and illegally snagged the letters. This allegation is one which would place Miller squarely in the position of being a co-conspirator to covering up a purported crime.

Before continuing down the line of conspiracy, there is still a problem with this current story. The first version has Jackson dispatching someone (supposedly Miller) to the home of the accuser to retrieve the letters. The Telegraph reported that the accuser told authorities "their precise location inside Michael's home." It has now been learned via the prosecution motion that the accuser's mother is alleging that Miller stole these letters when he had their possessions placed into storage.

Which one is it? Jackson had the letters removed from their home or he had them removed from their things in storage? Or are both one and the same? Even if you believe either scenario, the Telegraph and their unnamed source would like to have one believe that Jackson then turned around and told his accuser exactly where he kept these alleged letters in Neverland??

Please don't insult my intelligence.

The prosecution's belief that Miller was involved in the "unlawful taking" of these supposed letters is the kind of speculative reasoning that garnered the warrant used to break into Miller's office with a sledge hammer. Allegedly. If it is the theory of the prosecution that Miller did as he has been accused, why hasn't he been named as one of the infamous Jackson Five: the alleged co-conspirators? What about Mark Geragos? Surely the still unindicted quintet cannot be named while Geragos and Miller are not, particularly when they all reportedly acted under the direction of Geragos.

So, what gives? Do these "love letters" exist at all? Are the earlier reported letters and those mentioned in the search warrant affidavit one and the same?

Considering the 54 known executed warrants to date, one would expect that these letters (or evidence thereof) would have long since surfaced and been passed on to Diane Dimond by now. The denial of the documents six days following the megalithic raids allows for the speculative to wonder whether the accuser's mother mistook letters from a mental institution for letters of endearment from Jackson. It is also a possibility that said letters had all been a figment of a highly overactive imagination.

This is mere speculation, of course.

As the Jackson saga continues to unfold, more will undoubtedly be revealed about this case and its players. In the meantime, here are a few letters for you: E, S, X.

A special prosecutor and his rabblerousing pet would agree that those are the real love letters.

Reportedly.

? 2004 ANP


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