LOS ANGELES, Oct 22 (Reuters) – A small group of Michael Jackson’s dedicated fans have started an “awareness” campaign surrounding the upcoming movie “This is It,” saying it covers up the grim reality of the dead pop star’s final days.

The group represents fans from at least 10 countries who claim the movie, which hits theaters around the world on October 28 and is based on Jackson’s rehearsals for a series of London concerts, conceals the “dire state” of his health while enriching its promoters that they hold partly responsible for his death on June 25.

“In the weeks leading up to Michael Jackson’s death, while this footage was being shot, people around him knew that he looked like he might have died. Those who stood to make a profit chose to ignore it,” the group says on its website, www.this-is-not-it.com.

Jackson was preparing for the concerts at the time of his sudden death, which was ruled a homicide by the Los Angeles County Coroner and attributed to an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol as well as the sedative lorazepam.

Police have focused their investigation into his death on the entertainer’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray. So far, no charges have been filed.

Kenny Ortega, the director of “This is It” who also was choreographing the concert rehearsals, told Reuters earlier this week that he saw no signs of drug dependency in Jackson, that the singer was excited to be performing and that the film was not intended to make a profit.

In a separate interview on Thursday, Ortega called the movie a “musical mosaic…that I think will help the fans come to appreciate and understand what Michael was putting into “This Is It”, what his dreams were for it, what his goals were for it.”

“It is a story of a master of his craft, a great genius in his final theatrical work and creative process,” Ortega said.

The concert promoters, AEG Live, did not return calls for comment.

The group is made up largely of longtime Jackson fans, some of whom have spent time with the entertainer over the years and attended nearly every day of his 2005 child molestation trial.

They say they became so concerned about Jackson’s health that on June 21, four days before his death, they wrote to him asking him to stop the tour if he was not up to it.

“It is our wish to help people understand where the responsibilities lie, pertaining to Michael Jackson’s passing, in the hope that if they choose to watch the film, they will do so with critical eyes,” the group said in a written statement.

“In fact, we believe that those around Jackson chose to look the other way when it was evident he was having problems,” the fans said.

“We want to celebrate Michael Jackson and his amazing legacy, but we cannot do so until the truth comes out, justice is served and the lies are exposed.”

The fans say they will hand out fliers promoting their cause at the premieres next week for “This is It.”

Little Robert asked his mother for two cents. “What did you do with the money I gave you yesterday?”
“I gave it to a poor old woman,” he answered.
“You’re a good boy,” said the mother proudly. “Here are two cents more. But why are you so interested in the old woman?”
“She is the one who sells the candy.”

Mr. Robinson had to travel somewhere on business, and as he was in a hurry, he decided to go by air. He liked sitting beside a window when he was flying, so when he got on to the plane, he looked for a window seat. He found all of them had already had been taken except for one. There was a soldier sitting in the seat beside this one, and Mr. Robinson was surprised that he had not taken the one by the window; but, anyhow, he at once went towards it. When he reached it, however, he saw that there was a notice on it. It was written in ink and said, “This seat is preserved for proper load balance, thank you.” Mr Robinson had never seen such an unusual notice in a plane before, but he thought that the plane must be carrying something particularly heavy in it, so he walked on and found another empty seat, not beside a window, to sit in. Two or three people tried to sit in the window seat beside the soldier, but they too read the notice and went on, when the plane was nearly full, a very beautiful girl hurried into the plane. The soldier, who was watching the passengers coming in, quickly took the notice off the seat beside himself and in this way succeededin having the company of the girl during the whole trip. 　　

A nervous taxpayer was unhappily conversing with the IRS Tax auditor who had come to review his records.

　　At one point the auditor exclaimed, “Mr. Carelton, we feel it is a great privilege to be allowed to live and work in the USA. As a citizen you have an obligation to pay taxes, and we expect you to eagerly pay them with a smile.”

　　”Thank goodness,” returned Mr. Carelton, with a giant grin on his face, “I thought you were going to want me to pay with cash.”

A person claimed that he was a hard-core believer of God! He believed that God would save him in any situation, so he needed no one except Hirm. One day, there was a great flood. The water rose so high that he was almost submerged in it. He climbed onto the roof and prayed to God for help. He thought that God would definitely come and save him. Suddenly a boat came along and the boatman shouted to him: “Come aboard quickly! I will take you to a safe place.” The man shook his head and said: “No! I am waiting for God. Hes will definitely
come to save me. In Hirm alone I trust. Hes is the only life-saving force. I am not going with you.” The flood water kept rising until the roof was almost submerged. He continued to pray to God. Suddenly, a helicopter flew near and someone lowered a rope and asked him to climb up. He insisted:”No! No! You are not my lifesaver! You are not the worthy one.
I am waiting for God to save me. Very soon, St. Peter went to get him! Having arrived in Heaven, the man complained to God: “I believed in You all my life. Why didn’t You respond to my prayers or come to my rescue?
You let me drown in the flood.” God replied: “What do you mean I didn’t come to save you? I sent a boat and then a helicopter to rescue you, but you turned them away!”

Two psychiatrists were at a convention. “What was your most difficult case?” one asked the other.

“Once I had a patient who lived in a pure fantasy world,” replied his colleague. “He believed that a wildly rich uncle in South America was going to leave him a fortune. All day long he waited for a makebelieve letter to arrive from a fictitious attorney. He never went out or did anything. He just sat around and waited.”

“What was the result?”

“It was an eightyear struggle, but I finally cured him. And then that stupid letter arrived…”

My First and My Last

When George was thirty-five, he bought a small plane and learned to fly it. He soon became very good and made his plane do all kinds of tricks.

George had a friend. His name was Mark. One day George offered to take Mark up in his plane. Mark thought, “I’ve travelled in a big plane several times, but I’ve never been in a small one, so I’ll go.”

They went up, and George flew around for half an hour and did all kinds of tricks in the air.

When they came down again, Mark was very glad to be back safely, and he said to his friend in a shaking voice, “Well, George, thank you very much for those two trips in your plane.”

Gerogy was very surprised and said, “Two trips?”

“Yes, my first and my last,” answered Mark

An archbishop was visiting a church and suddenly he felt moved to kneel in front of the Cross and say, “Oh God,

have pity on me. I am really no one. Please, have pity on me.” And then the bishop, seeing the archbishop

doing that, knelt down next to him and said, “Oh God, have mercy on me. I am nobody. Have mercy on me.

I am no one.” And then the minister of the church, seeing the archbishop and the bishop doing that, knelt

next to them and said, “Oh God, have mercy on me. I am nobody. I am no one.” And there was a janitor

nearby sweeping the floor, and seeing what they were all doing, he also knelt in front of the Cross next to

them and said, “Oh God, have mercy on me. I am no one. I am humble; I am no one.” And the archbishop

looked at him and said, “Look at who’s saying he’s a nobody here!” How humble, indeed!

There’s a man who took his wife to see the movies. That day was a Sunday and it wasvery crowded, everyone was queuing to buy the tickets. So he and his wife were also in the queue, sweating. Suddenly, someone just punched him from behind. He was so angry, and already so mad and with his nerves on edge. He said, “Are you serious, man?!” The man that stood behind him was an ex-world champion boxer. So he looked at him and said, “Yes, serious, so what?” The man was small and skinny.

He looked back, really looked at him now,studying him, he saw his arm muscles, just bigger than his whole body put together. So, he just kind of smiled and said. “It’s all right, I hate people who are not serious.

There was once a person who was very stingy. One day he tried to cross a river by himself, but he slipped because the current was extremely strong. And then the current swepthim away, down the middle of the river. So he shouted, “Can anyone help me? I’ll give you money!” There was a person on a boatnearby and he said, “OK. For fifty dollars I’ll help you.” But the man in the river replied, “Fifty dollars! That’s too expensive. I’ll giveyou twenty.” So the person on the boat said,”No, no, that’s too cheap.” By now the manin the river was trying very hard to breatheand was even swallowing some of the riverwater. So he said, “OK, OK, thirty dollars!” But the person on the boat said, “No