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Florida Governor Questions Jim Morrison's Penis

  • Posted on Apr 11th 2007 7:00AM by David Sprague
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Faced with having to prepare for the upcoming hurricane season, not to mention yet another disastrous spring for both of his state's major league baseball teams, we're happy to hear that Florida's governor is finding the time to rule on an issue that's truly important to his constituents -- namely, whether or not Jim Morrison's penis is indecent.

Governor Charlie Crist is being asked to grand the Lizard King a pardon for his 1969 arrest on charges that he unsheathed Lil' Jimbo during a performance in Miami -- a bust that some folks (those willing to ignore the boozed-up Hallmark blather of Morrison's later poetry, that is) blame for setting off the Doors' downward spiral.

We have mixed feelings about the idea of the pardon itself -- after all, if a clean slate brings Morrison out of hiding and back to the limelight, pizza lovers across Southern California will once again have to deal with Brett Scallions' late delivery of cold pies.

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Jim Morrison is still alive as seen at www.rodeoswest.com. Gerald Pitts can be reached at 541 560 4061. Hundreds of Discovery videos have been sold to happy customers world wide which show actual film footage that Jim Morrison faked his death in 1971 as he said he would. Jim Morrison's brotherinlaw Alan Graham states in his Lizard Lounge website that he called this Oregon Jim and was amazed at the similarities between this person and his brotherinlaw.
The issue of who Oregon Jim is needs to be addressed before we ask the Governor to pardon a dead man who isn't dead.

May 14 2007 at 9:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
mARIL-

If Morrison's penis was deemed to be indecent, wouldn't that carry on to every male in that jusirdiction?

May 03 2007 at 3:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
John

The Doors were a great band of the Era.
Jim in my opinion was not given a fair trial.
There never was any real evidence that the deed was done. There were too many conflicting stories some saying yes he did it some saying no.
The Guy is probley gone now, give him and his legacy a break. And who knows if the charges are dropped many he will come out of hiding. Many that's why he went into hiding. Heartattack at 26.
Not likely. If we had more music that existed in that period maybe everyone would'nt be so angry.
Most of the Culture music that exists today gives me a headacke after about two minutes.

John


April 17 2007 at 8:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Dave Diamond

Inside the Jim Morrison Pardon Quest: Going Back To Miami
By Dave Diamond

There is an effort underway by the Doors Collectors Magazine, a popular
online Doors fan site, to request the Governor of Florida Charlie Crist to
consider an unprecedented full and absolute posthumous pardon for the late
famed Doors lead singer Jim Morrison, a citizen of Melbourne Florida. The
effort was initiated in 1996, when several infractions about the September
1970 conviction of Jim Morrison stemming from the now infamous March 1969
Doors concert put on at the Dinner Key Auditorium were discovered upon
re-review of this case.

Over the years, efforts to make the general music media and many elements of
Florida government aware of these infractions and trying to shed new light
on evidence never before heard or having not been allowed to be presented at
the initial trial, have been met with basic apathy, misinformation, rumors,
speculations and public "arm chair" jurying. The end result of the
unchallenged convictions have come to be accepted by most Doors fans and the
mainstream press as nothing more than the typical myth and mystique that
surround most of the legendary bands from the Sixties, often retold as facts
to generation after generation. Many in the music press over the years have
cemented Jim Morrison's "iconic" outlaw image largely due to the notoriety
of this particular case, thus diminishing his true contribution to popular
American music and literature.

In a true twist of irony, Morrison's actions on that abysmal evening in
Miami served to end what has now become accepted as his "Lizard King"
stature, thus attempting to change his image into a more simple poet weary
of the public excess. Ensuing years saw many fans and historians come to
accept him as a martyr for the 1st Amendment, an outlaw who fought the law,
a pure symbol of freedom against the oppresive and turbulent times of the
Sixties. Many longtime Doors fans, including the band members themselves,
saw this particular concert as the end of all that was legit with this band
and their live performances, an innocence gone. On the other hand, some fans
latched onto the notoriety, largely due to the music press & politcians who
were hell bent on making Morrison the cherry on the cake of the Sixties'
excess.

When the image, the music, the Sixties, Vietnam, the press, individual
historical interpretation, the general apathy and all of those other
elements are stripped away, what's left is the law and the Miami case
itself. The effort of the Doors Collectors Magazine has been examining the
1970 Miami trial for 11 years, without thought to anything outside of the
case itself. Upon in-depth review of the case, several well documented
Constitutional violations were found, violations that very simply denied
true justice in this case. Morrison's defense was barred from presenting key
evidence and witnesses who could have clearly exonerated him. Morrison had
the right to confront his accusers, but the then-Mayor of Dade County and
the officials who brought the charges on did not appear for testimony. Many
of the witnesses that were present had no real consistent recollections of
the Miami concert. Witness accounts varied and memory lapses were frequent.

Forget for a moment that he IS Jim Morrison. We looked at this from the
standpoint that he was a citizen of Florida who was denied true justice for
several reasons. It was a politically motivated case to begin with. There
are musicians, bands and performers over the years who have done far worse
that pop off some profanity onstage and they were never arrested and
charged. The officials involved in the Morrison case were under pressure to
act. If Jim Morrison had INDEED committed the offenses at hand, he would
have been arrested that night during or directly after the Miami performance
just as he was during the now infamous 1968 New Haven concert, where he was
maced in the eyes by a police officer before the show. During the Miami
performance, the police had no probable cause to arrest Jim Morrison and
they didn't. In fact, it was proven that many of the police officers in
attendance that night were seen laughing, joking and hanging out with The
Doors before, during and after the show. If there was no cause for arrest
during that timeframe, then the ensuing charges only underscore the
political pressure that followed.

With regard to the now legendary question of the alleged exposure, there are
no credible witnesses, photographs or any film/video that can prove with
April 12 2007 at 7:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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