(New Orleans,La)
Ted Duplessis
I hope that the Jackson family didn't think that they were going to get away with this scam "public" memorial and no one was going to write about what a huge scam this thing really was. It whole thing ran me about $1200.00 bucks so I really do not want to hear L.A. county whining about cost because they ran enough of scams and price hikes to be well past the 1 million that this "public" memorial cost.(Janet is the Mastermind behind this family and she knew she was being deceptive, which is why she walked her "big bone" self to the Nokia theater and gave that dumb speech)
The corrupt LAPD, that solves no crimes is trying to make this Memorial cost the city of L.A. 4 million dollars! The city wants $100,000.00 so that the LAPD can pay for bag lunches? Give me a fucking break! What was in those bags?....Caviar
Then the British Producers of "Britain's Got Talent" made this into a concert for that fat kid from Whales!
O.K. First, when they gave the tickets away, they didn't say if the tickets were for the Nokia, hold-over area, or for the Staples Center. Meaning I went all the way to L.A. from New Orleans to pay my respects only to find out that this really wasn't a public memorial service. This was nothing but the Jackson family, being Jacksons. I have seen these people, Janet, Katherine, Jermaine on at least 5 occasions in the past 10 years and they are really anti-social and have no friends-so when they with-held 9,000 tickets I knew that there was no way that these people would have 9,000 friends to fill those seats.
This was not a memorial service for the public. I don't care what anyone says. These people used Michael Jackson's fans to get on television and have this grand show of egos and performances but were too good to let the fans sit with them in the Staples Center. There was not even need for an over flow center being that the Jackson family made sure so many stadium seats were empty and everyone at the Nokia theater could have also fit within the Staples Center.
I knew it was a scam when the family, talked about with holding 9000 tickets for themselves. None of the "celebrities" who performed could fill up a stadium BUT Michael Jackson. Not a single one. So, they wanted an audience that otherwise, they could NEVER have commanded...except maybe Mariah.
What they did was put on a shame memorial service. The Staples Center was dam near 40% empty. Then on top of it, the Tow/Cop scam in L.A. county was shameful. I mean, these people were towing cars and stealing radios and the cops didn't even want to take police reports. In that aspects, L.A. has become more corrupt than Mexico.
One lady had her car towed from a legal parking space, in downtown L.A., by some Mexican run tow service and when she picked it up, almost immediately after locating the tow yard, gave her keys to the Mexican Mafia worker to bring her car around from the back, he stole the radio in like 60 seconds! That's a professional thief! Anyone who can steal a radio, from a car in that amount of time is a professional thief!
What exactly was the need for all these LAPD officers, when the only ones committing crimes were the officers! What was wrong with using 10.00 an hour Security Guards from L.A. Platt Security instead of $75.00 to $200.00 an hour cops? New Orleans could have thrown this "public" Memorial Service for like $20,000 instead of $1.2 million that L.A. is claiming it cost the city.
Secondly, the Staples Center supposedly has these Union Workers but not one person, working at the Staples Center was an American. They were all immigrants.
Anyway, it was pathetic that the Jackson family, used fans to get a public memorial, in name only, but really blocked off the Staples Center to the fans because supposedly they had 9,000 friends that they needed to with-hold tickets for and therefore people were thrown into the Nokia theater where you got to watch Mariah Carey, sound bad from a t.v. screen. I have enough connections, in entertainment circles, to know that the Jackson family, set around and wanted the hype but didn't really want the fans to be seated, in the Staples Center, with them and that is the real reason why the Jackson family with-held all of those tickets.
This entire Michael Jackson public memorial was a scam. When the cameras panned through to the audience in the Staples Center about 40% of the background is blacked out-because the seats were empty because the Jackson's really didn't want this to be for the public. All they wanted was the attention and t.v. cameras.
Of course it was a scam. What politician, entertainer or sports person does anything unless it is for ego and attention?
Posted by: Joyce | July 09, 2009 at 03:39 PM