Entertainer Michael Jackson died from an overdose of the powerful sedative propofol, the Los Angeles coroner has said in a preliminary ruling, based on toxicity analyses of the singer’s blood. The drug, which requires close supervision and is used primarily in operating rooms, was administered by his doctor, Conrad Murray, who had been treating him for insomnia for six weeks. News agency AP reports that the coroner’s office is calling it a homicide, but CNN says the coroner’s office would not confirm this. CNN, BBC, Los Angeles Times
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August 25th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
We have to give the man his due: Michael Jackson was – beyond a shadow of a doubt – a great artist whose recorded legacy will endure for decades, maybe even a century or more. But an examination of his life is riddled with questions of all that might have been; all that should have been. It is more than likely that this was a severely mentally ill human being who never sought the treatment he so desperately needed; surrounded by fawning sycophants who enabled his sickness by constantly reassuring him that he could do no wrong. As John Lennon once said in the same context about Elvis Presley, another victim of the excesses of fame: “It’s always the courtiers that kill the king”.
The sad, inescapable truth is that for reasons we will probably never be able to fully understand, his talent and his career were ultimately wasted. Like Charlie Parker, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland and Lenny Bruce before him, his brilliance as an artist would be overshadowed by severe, psychological torment and an unexplainable desire for self-destruction. Therein lies the real, unspeakable tragedy of Michael Jackson.
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September 6th, 2009 at 8:17 am
All of these conspiracy theorists that state the Mossad and the Jews killed Michael Jackson are totally anti-semitic and a lynch squad. These idiots are still parroting on and on about how they think that now that Michael Jackson’s death has officially been called a homicide, that they freaked out and arranged to pay off Dr. Conrad Murray an obscene amount of money to take the fall, like some “patsy” like Lee Harvey Oswald, with the promise that they would line up the best lawyers/corrupt judges to preside over his case in Los Angeles, thus ensuring that he would ultimately walk away from the whole thing with no real jail time. These racists and anti-semites go on an on about how it was actually Dr. Neil Ratner, a member of the Mossad’s “sayanim” network who actually did the killing because Michael Jackson dared to perform and practice the very anti-semitic song “They Don’t Care About Us” tons of times days before he was killed, against the wishes and threats by the Anti-Defamation League ten years ago, and against the Jewish communities’ warnings to him to never sing that song again, every few years. What a bunch of racist myopic losers.