This is it – sadly…..

Or is it? Ray and I just went and watched ‘This is it’. The movie made from the filming done during rehearsal for Michael Jackson’s world concert tour that was about to commence in July 2009 – until his very sad and unexpected death stopped it from happening.

What an incredible talented and beautiful soul he was. As I watched the movie I remembered the music that I’ve listened to throughout my whole life. The first songs I first remember were ‘Ben’ and ‘I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus’, both when I was about 5 years old.

When the news broke of his death there was much speculation and media hype about him being addicted to opiate painkillers. It was made out that he was an unhealthy, skeletal excuse for a human being and basically that his ability to do his concert would have been doubtful had he not died and it had gone ahead. I am so glad that this movie has been released, as it not only shows that he was as fit and healthy as he had ever been, even at the age of 50, but he was of sound mind also. His talent, his dream and vision for this concert and what he was going to achieve are blatantly obvious. There was no way that he was taking large amounts of opiate painkillers as he would not have been capable of functioning as he did.

In this movie, his ability to bring out the best in the people that had the joy of working with him was incredible. You can see that the music is something that he feels within him – a definite way that it has to be. Perfection so that the audience hears, see’s and feels what he has visualised before the rehearsals even started. Those that were working with him must have felt such a loss at not only his death, but the loss of the dream that they were all caught up in, in the designing and planning of this amazing stage show that the world now misses out on.

The mass media did a lot of harm to Michael Jackson during the past 15 years or more, as did the money hungry leaches that did their best to line their pockets with unearned money. The stories and doctored photos in newspapers and magazines made him out to be a nutter and those without the thinking power to realise that the media makes more money if they create more bizarre and gossipy stories, believed everything that was put in front of them creating a mass of people who dismissed him as a loon and even hated him, even though what he gave the world during his life was only joy through his music and messages of love, peace and a better world.

I find it interesting that once again, (as often happens) after all the media hype and stories at the time of his death, all has gone silent with no news of what has come about since. With a little search of news online, I found out that the coroner’s verdict on his death is homicide by injection and his doctor is being investigated. What was injected into him was mixture of drugs. Why?

I believe that he wanted to do this tour to get a message out to as many people as possible. He was very passionate about the environment and believed that we only have a short time to turn things around before it’s too late (I  agree with him). We have to each take responsibility and change ourselves (as in his song ‘Man in the Mirror) as there is no ‘they’. Everyone is waiting for someone else to fix it – ‘they’, ‘the government’, big business. But it’s us.

Ray was telling me after the movie that he watched a documentary a couple of days ago about big business basically stealing land (I think in South America) from indigenous people and farmers. There are no land titles, and this company is having the land put into their name, paying the farmer a few thousand dollars or just kicking them off if they disagree to plant soya beans I think (not 100% sure on the crop). They’re cutting down the rainforest and putting the tribal people that have always lived there into houses in another area. These people are paid a meagre amount of money, they have no ability to work and so have become a settlement of people living in poverty, they’ve become alcoholics and violent. Those who speak out against this company have their lives threatened.

The people in charge of this company are the ‘they’ and what they are doing I personally believe they will one day pay for – in this life or the next, but it is our demands that are creating these atrocities. Our demands for cheap food, cheap fuel, cheap products and a never ending supply. We are a throw away society that has no regard for the environment, for the people who’s lives are being destroyed by our greed and lack of thought or for the wildlife on this planet that is rapidly becoming extinct due to our mismanagement.

The video below is MJ’s Earth Song. It’s always been one of my favourites and it’s worth listening to, watching and then thinking about the effect your lifestyle and lack of thought, ignorance (lack of knowing) or just plain not giving a shit is having. I’m proud to be a Michael Jackson fan! Always have been and always will be. His death hasn’t created the end – his message is still being spread across the world and his music will live on forever.

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