Michael Jackson Treated in Emergency Room

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Oh my...what a shocker!

Michael Jackson Treated in Emergency Room

By TIM MOLLOY, Associated Press Writer


SOLVANG, Calif. - Michael Jackson was taken to an emergency room Sunday for treatment of a back problem that has plagued him throughout his molestation trial. He later left to the thunder of flashbulbs.

Jackson, accompanied by a bodyguard, arrived at the Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital about five miles from his Neverland ranch at about 2:30 p.m., spokeswoman Raymone K. Bain said.

"Mr. Jackson's back has spurred up on him again," Bain said. "It's pretty serious. It was serious enough for him to come over here."

Jackson left the hospital in a sport utility vehicle shortly after 8 p.m. in a flurry of activity. His aides had erected white scaffolding outside the emergency room entrance to block the view of photographers gathered outside.

As flashbulbs popped and dozens of fans screamed, "We love you," the SUV and another vehicle drove slowly through a street packed with reporters and fans. Several chased after the vehicles and one photographer was led away by police.

Bain said stress contributed to the entertainer's back problem.

"He's under a tremendous amount of stress right now," she said at an impromptu news conference outside the hospital. "Other than his back, he is doing fine."

It was unclear late Sunday evening whether Jackson had been admitted to the hospital. Bain had offered no further updates since mid-afternoon.

Jackson's health has been an issue throughout the trial. The 46-year-old pop star appeared gaunt in recent days, and officials at the hospital disclosed Friday that he had visited the emergency room overnight Thursday. They would not discuss the reason for that visit, citing privacy concerns.

Prior to last week, Jackson's case was interrupted twice by hospital visits, once for treatment of flu symptoms. He first reported a back problem in early March, when he went to an emergency room on one of the days his accuser took the stand. Jackson arrived late, dressed in pajama bottoms, after the judge ordered him to come to court.

The singer is charged with molesting a 13-year-old boy in February or March 2003. He is also accused of plying him with wine and conspiring to hold his family captive.

The jury received Jackson's case Friday afternoon and deliberated for about two hours before adjourning for the weekend. They will resume discussions Monday. Bain said Jackson planned to return to his family at Neverland when he is released from the hospital to wait for the verdict.

"His mother is a rock of Gibraltar. So is his father," she said.

Also Sunday, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said in an interview that he has arrived in the area to meet with Jackson.

"I talk to him almost every day, and we have prayer," he said. "We are going to be in prayer as we watch and wait."

Ya know, the man makes a living shaking his bootie and moonwalking and such...how has he ever made it through the years with such awful back pain... ????

oh give me a break!!! back pain.

smells more like extreme terror of being locked up and becoming somebody's girlfriend.

If I were living in Santa Maria, I would be a restraining order waiting to happen.

The sad thing is that I will be in LA next week and I know the roads well.
My friends will just have to restrain me or feed me enough Jack Daniels that:
a) I pass out
or
b) I just don't care.

If he goes to jail we all know he will go to country club prison.

And he will be separated from the poopulation.
Special treatment he will receive.

The one thing that scares me the most everytime MJ goes to the hospital...

Is who got kicked out of their room this time so that MJ could have privacy? One woman died the last time he took her room...(I mean we all know his sniffles were more important than her heart.)

Who was at risk this time?

Dont tell me...someone was gasping for air, but instead of allowing that person air on high tech machines, they kicked the person out of the room and put long straws up their nose and ran the straws outside so that the person could get air that way. Heh.

That is so true Mystic. He should not get special treatment. His pain should not put ANYONE at risk.

If you folks continue with these scenarios, this will be me shortly.

http://home.tiscali.be/cartoo/Nema4/jack%20daniels1.jpg

This may be a tough week or so.

SWTT we will have to send you on a vacation or something.

I am going on vacation next week to LA...it's way too close to Santa maria for my liking.

If you get arrested, we will start a bail fund for you.

Seriously, have a safe and happy vacation SWTT.

Thanks Fuscia, unfortunately my vocation never lets me take very long vacations, but I take what I can get.

One day I will break out and take a whole two weeks and tell them all to drink Jack Daniels.

Of course he is trying to prolong this trial.......This back ache crap would not work if one of us tried it.

You guys are brutal Man no sympathy for MJ whatsoever?

I believe MJ is stressed out, I don’t believe it’s a ploy personally. Let’s face it, he’s a wimp. All he needs to do is man up (if it’s possible) and take his medicine. However, MJ has never had to do that. This is exactly why I believe he paid off past accusers because he didn’t want to suffer the trauma however he should have learned a lesson from them but he didn’t.

I truly believe MJ has learned this time. If not, they need to strap him down and medicate his skinny little butt and commit him because he’s a danger to himself. However, I think it’s hard to fake the weight loss he obviously couldn’t afford during these proceedings.

However, he has no one to blame but himself.

Jacko is psychotic. Amazing we even waste our time with him. And if anyone supports this then you’re retarded. If you support this guy then you support him molesting little kids. These kids could be your kids. Think about. He should just get a bullet in the head and that’s it. We are wasting our time with this guy.

All I can say is that it’s times like this that makes our judicial system shine despite all its flaws. I hope none of you ever sit on a criminal jury.

Plain and simple.

Michael Jackson is a pedophile.

You choose not to believe it.

And you know what? It doesn't matter what we think. There is Someone far greater who will deal with this situation in His own way.

Maybe he is maybe he isn’t. You all seem to be the ones whom are so sure. My point is simply this. This kid and his family are liars. Knowing they are cons makes it pretty hard for me to send someone away for the rest of their life based on what these cons are saying.

Mike masturbated him even after they launched an investigation into his molesting him and that sounds plausible to you?

I tell you what, just round up a bunch of people, grab your pitchforks and torches and head of to Santa Monica and hang him. After all, this con, I mean kid said he did it right?

I don't need a pitchfork. I don't even need to go after him myself.

Again, there is Someone far greater that knows about Michael's dirty little deeds...all those things done in the secret quiet place of his secured bedroom. And there isn't any alarm that can keep this Someone from seeing these dirty little deeds.

God save his soul and keep Michael's hands off these boys.

Well since God told you personally that MJ did it, I guess that ends the debate now doesn't it?

mystic,

oneofpeace believes this kid is a "troubled liar with a checkered past."
oneofpeace believes the other kids were in a different category...no trouble...
Read on lady

Why is it that all the boys that accused MJ look alike? Because he has a type. What boy would put up with two years of humiliation at that age for money? Not many. I think the kid is telling the truth about the molestation. I think the mom may have made up the being held hostage part.

Fuscia
I have heard on TV court talk that if the prosecution had simply stuck to the molestation type charges and left the conspiracy part out of it, they could have had a better case. There was more evidence for the molestation, and the conspiracy and kidnapping charges detracted from the case.

I think that is true. That would have eliminated the mom as a witness. Still, it is hard to dismiss those boys that got settlements looking like the accuser and telling the same stories of abuse.

You guys are reaching. So if MJ molested a child without a checkered past what would you all be saying then, why would the child be lying? If someone is a con artist and they accuse you of something, you think it’s not reasonable to believe they are conning you?

Mystic, not without respect for your position but you honestly believe that this family isn’t after money? Why is it then that they seem to gravitate toward celebrities? Why is it that Leno and Tucker came to the same conclusion that this family is on the take? Why is it that after Tucker warned MJ to watch this family, MJ finds himself in court?

How is it that we are to believe that the mom made up the part about them being held hostage and didn’t make up the rest of it? Didn’t this same accuser say on the stand that they “escaped” from Never Land 3 different times?

I just don’t buy their story and I buy even less that MJ targeted them because they were ripe for the pickings. You claim that MJ is so smart to pick this victim yet he’s so dumb to molest him numerous times in front of his entire staff? In the shower, at the pool, in the yard in front of everyone at his ranch? Wow, I can see how you all can conclude that MJ is such a genius.

Certainly past allegations and payoffs are something to look at but it doesn’t prove his guilt no more than his innocence. The man (and I use the term loosely) can’t stand up to the pressure that should be obvious by now. His worst enemy is himself.

Lastly, I am by no means “star struck”. I simply think it’s a ridiculous story to believe MJ kept molesting this boy even after the police started investigating him on these charges. You can’t have it both ways. Either MJ is smart or it didn’t happen. I find it hard to believe that he’s so smart to pick out his victims and so dumb to molest the same victim after the police is watching him. The story just don’t jibe.

Just a thought, but does anyone think that the makeup of the jury will follow certain guidlines? I know that my views about children's rights got so much stronger since I became a mom. Once you have kids, you really think "what if that were my child?" and it has a power.

mystic & sowhatsthetruth, all i can say about your posts is "amen." i think, with all due respect, oneofpeace is a little naive. i think he probably believes oj simpson was innocent too.

if you throw out even half the evidence that was legally admissable, there is no question in my mind that mj did everything he was accused of, never mind all the things that cannot be brought in as evidence. if it looks, walks like a duck... etc.

when it comes to sexual abuse, especially with children, many victims are not willing to subject themselves to the emotional trauma of reliving the experience and having to face the ruthless attacks from the unscrupulous defense lawyers. i have no doubt, ZERO, that there were many more children abused by jackson than we have even heard about.

and what frosts me the most is the stupid legal system we have in this country that gives more rights to criminals than it does to victims.

for the umpteenth time, i say that nothing is all black or all white. victims often are less than perfect themselves. the fact that this victim's mother is an apparent liar, cheat and nutcase, DOES NOT automatically mean that her son was not the victim of a crime. yet, the defense knows that all it has to do is demonstrate those facts and, therefore, voila! mj must be innocent. i have news for them. they are NOT mutually exclusive!

poor little mj. he had a rough childhood. so did millions of others. no on can tell me he didn't know right from wrong. he thought he was king of the world and exempt from our laws, especially in the shelter of his little children's paradise. then of course, if there was ever any trouble, all he had to do is come up with another twenty million or so and buy his way out again. hopefully (against all hope, i fear) he will not get away with this one. what's good for anyone else who did the same thing he has done should be good for him as well! i'm sick and tired of seeing celebrities and otherwise wealthy people living by a different set of rules than the rest of the world.

once again, jury, PLEASE use your common sense. there's no question what really happened. don't be fooled by the defendent's well-paid legal eagles loophole-finding tactics to divert jurors from seeing the truth and to coax a "reasonable doubt" verdict once again. let's have JUSTICE!

what you're not seeing, oneofpeace, is that jackson is under the microscope, unlike the typical child predator. he can't escape the fact that he sleeps with little boys, especially since the world is well aware of it after paying off the kid ten years ago (or whatever it was) and after the Bashir documentary. His attempted way out of the whole mess is to fabricate a story about being overly fond of children. he has been seen by staff in aroused states. even if that is unrelated to sleeping with a boy, at the very least, he is guilty of that and displaying pornography in the presence of children. but c'mon, oneofpeace, deep down, don't you know full well that it went far beyond THAT?

again, i say that it doesn't matter if the mother and/or the kid are liars, connivers, cheats, lowlife scumbags, and/or anything else undesirable that you want to say about them. it's painfully obvious that they just kept their mouths shut for a long time, availing themselves of all the favors jackson was willing to grant, then at some point, got disenchanted and decided to blow the whistle and maybe get a little money out of it. two wrongs don't make a right. the mother and the kid deserve no rewards from this.

and michael jackson deserves to go to prison for several years and have his illustrious career brought to an end.

It's peeps like oneofpeace that promote the acquittal of guilty criminals. There probably isn't a case in the world, where the best possible evidence (video tape, fingerprint, DNA, and the like) can't be challenged by the defense. There is a flaw in virtually everything that happens in life. A cunning lawyer can demonstrate that there is doubt about almost anything that can be presented as evidence by the prosecution. Almost anything! I have seen it time and again. That is what's happening here, and it disgusts me.

Years ago, a business acquaintence of mine demonstrated to me, using algebraic formulae, that one plus one did not equal two. There was no trick to it. I knew my algebra well at the time and every equation was factored perfectly, yet the net result was that one plus one did not equal two.

So that's how criminals escape justice and, mark my words, this diversion of proving the boy's family as less than upstanding people will, as oneofpeace says, be enough to convince jurors that every single thing that family said cannot be trusted. So sad. I just saw on Court TV that MJ already has a multi-million dollar contract waiting for him in Las Vegas, once he is acquitted. This is our jutsice system at work, eh?

Mothers, lock up your kids.

Oneofpeace, please keep in mind that many victims of child abuse never tell. They feel fear, guilt, and shame for what happened.

I agree fuscia but then if they aren’t coming forth how can you hold someone accountable for molesting them in the past?

My reasons for doubting the accuser has more to do with him and his family, the story they’re telling and how they were surfing for celebrities than the belief that MJ is innocent. In good conscience even though I’m not convinced MJ is innocent, I could not convict him based on their shabby account which is obviously full of lies.

For some it doesn’t matter if their lying or not but for me I can’t put someone behind bars for years knowing that the story they’re telling was a load of bs.

If that makes me the bad guy, so be it.

They could have been trying to get money from celebrities, but the kid also could have been molested too. Both could be true.


Holding to your beliefs does not make you a bad guy. I admire that you stand up for what you believe even when we don't agree.

Well yes both could be true and I am not blind as most others believe I am nor am I naive. However it’s good to know that there are those who can agree to disagree. Thanks Fuscia.

oneofpeace, if i am ever put on trial for a felony indictment and the prosecutor has a videotape of me committing the crime, plus three eye witnesses, I'd sure want you on the jury for my trial, especially if it could be shown conclusively that my victim once lied.