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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
Jermaine Jackson: Brother's arrest a 'modern-day lynching'
Friday, November 21, 2003 Posted: 12:49 PM EST (1749 GMT)

JACKSON: We're tired of people -- I'm sick and [expletive] tired of people speaking on my brother's behalf and my family's behalf who do not know us.

So you put these people on national TV, on international TV, and they say these things, and the public is saying, 'Oh, wow, is he really like this?'

My brother is not eccentric.

We had an incredible, wonderful childhood.

And what they're doing is bringing him down with the very thing that he loved, his children and family.

My brother is about peace. They don't know us. But this will reveal itself.

But I'm sick and [expletive] tired about everybody saying these things about my family.

We will fight, and we will stand up. And everybody that knows this family around the world will support us. Because, at the end of the day, this is nothing but a modern-day lynching.

This is what they want to see, him in handcuffs.

You got it. But it won't be for long, I promise you.

PHILLIPS: Jermaine ...

JACKSON: I'm sick and tired.

PHILLIPS: And believe me, I ...

JACKSON: Sick and tired of this.

PHILLIPS: I have no idea what you are going through. I am definitely not in your shoes.

JACKSON: No, you don't know.

PHILLIPS: No, you're right. You are right.

JACKSON: You don't walk in my shoes or my family's shoes.

PHILLIPS: You are absolutely right.

JACKSON: You don't walk in our shoes, but you put these people on national television to say things. They don't know our family.

PHILLIPS: And that's why we have you ...

JACKSON: We are a family and we will continue to be a family. That's my love right there. And we support him one thousand percent.

I have nothing else to say.

Goodbye.

This is the part that I was talking about. He just went bananas all of a sudden. I am not sure what I would do in his position (since I would never be in the position of trying to defend the self-proclaimed King of Pop on molestation charges since I would have done everything in my power to make sure no more babies were spending the night in my brother's house). I just wanted him not to be so irrate all of a sudden. It's like he snapped or something -- saying that his brother is not eccentric was something that got me . . . there is a carnival going on at his house and he honestly doesn't think that Michael is eccentric.