It is difficult to escape the media news that 48-year-old comedian and actor Russell Brand has been accused of rape, assault and emotional abuse between 2006 and 2013. Despite the fact there has been no legal trial the government has joined the media in the role of judge and jury. They have assumed Brand’s guilt without evidence and are pursuing the cancellation of him on social media platforms.
The accusations against Brand are not a political issue, nor should they be of interest to the government, but it seems they are using them as an opportunity to silence dissenting voices, starting with Russell Brand who will act as a deterrent to the rest of us.
“This is the type of action we see from the world’s worst regimes,” – Lawyers of Light.
Why Now?
Russell Brand is said to have completely changed his world around by attempting to lead a ‘quiet’ and ‘zen’ lifestyle in the Oxfordshire countryside with his pregnant wife Laura and their two daughters and the accusations against Brand were relating to the period where he was at the height of his fame working for the BBC, Channel 4 and starring in Hollywood films.
While yes, there are all sorts of valid reasons why victims of crimes may take a while before speaking out about what they went through, but why did the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches feel the need for an investigation into Brand at this time?
While most of us will have decided on Brands’ is innocence or guilt already depending on our views of the guy, however, our judgement is entirely immaterial, we were not there, we do not know Russell Brand and we certainly do not know the truth. Nevertheless, we all like to express our views on the world of celebrity at times in a gossipy, social chatter, informal type of freedom of speech.
This is not the “freedom of speech” that our government should enter into, they should instead be expected to adhere to the “formal, legal freedom of speech” as well as the legal “presumption of innocence” yet this was not to be when Tory Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee Caroline Dinenage, completely ignored it and wrote to the BBC, Channel 4, GBNews and TikTok following the widespread unproven allegations in an attempt to convince them to demonitise Brand.
Brand who has who has denied all claims has not been considered innocent until proven guilty, but has been dropped by his agents, his shows are being cancelled, the BBC has removed a handful of programmes featuring Brand from its iPlayer and Sounds streaming service, joining the likes of Channel 4 and Comedy Central in removing archive shows featuring Brand.
Loss of Personal Income
“There has to be a limit here. To what extent do people accused of crimes enjoy the presumption of innocence if they can’t make a living? asks Ben Sixmith from the Critic who adds “Sure, Brand is probably rich enough that he could live for four lifetimes without bothering to work again. But it seems unprincipled to suggest that your treatment, in a moral matter, should hinge on your personal wealth.”
Now, due to the aiding and abetting of Tory Caroline Dinenage YouTube has suspended his ability to earn money on the platform and considering his channel has over six million subcribers, this means an awful lot of money will be lost for Russell Brand, which should not be as a result of accusations, whether we think he needs that money or not.
Industry experts have estimated Brand probably makes between £2,000 to £4,000 a video, which, based on five videos a week, could produce close to £1m a year from YouTube alone according to the Guardian.
State Overreach – The Letters
On behalf of the government however Caroline Dinenage, Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee has written numerous letters: to the BBC, Channel 4, GBNews and TikTok following the widespread allegations about Russell Brand.
- Letter from the Chair to Dr Theo Bertram, Director of Government Relations, Europe, TikTok, relating to standards of behaviour in media, dated 19 September 2023
- Letter from Alex Mahon, Chief Executive, Channel 4, relating to Russell Brand, dated 18 September 2023
- Letter from the Chair to Tim Davie, Director General, BBC, relating to standards of behaviour in media, dated 19 September 2023
- Culture, Media and Sport Committee writes to The Sun and BBC over Huw Edwards media coverage and investigation
The letter to TikTok’s Director of Government Relations, Dr Theo Bertram, asks for confirmation on whether Mr Brand is still able to monetise his TikTok posts, including those related to the allegations against him, and what procedures are in place to ensure creators cannot undermine the welfare of victims.
Correspondence with Channel 4 Chief Executive, Alex Mahon, requests further details about C4, and the production company Banijay UK’s, investigations into the allegations against Mr Brand, including timescales and asks for regular progress updates.
The letter to BBC Director General, Tim Davie, asks for a timescale of the internal investigations and to keep the Committee updated on its progress.
Acting on Accusations
All of this interference from the state we are supposed to believe is due to unproven accusations against Brand who denies the allegations and insists that all his relationships were consensual. This should not be a government issue, but Dinenage who was the MP first responsible for the Online Safety Bill and was recently made a Dame, made it her business and said on Wednesday 20th September:
“This weekend we have seen some very serious and disturbing accusations about Russell Brand’s behaviour and we understand that the police are now looking into some of these allegations. As a first step, our committee has decided that we will today write to media outlets, including the BBC and Channel 4, to understand the actions they are taking as we consider some of the issues around these allegations.
The allegations have been widely described by reporters in the press and on social media as an ‘open secret’ and quite often these secrets are shared between friends and colleagues just to keep each other safe. But my concern is when people in power are aware of rumours or stories yet don’t act, then a culture is allowed to permeate.”
Letters to Tok & Rumble from the Dame are below) (source).
The video sharing platform Rumble however responded differently from YouTube saying that: “although it may be politically and socially easier to join the cancel culture mob, doing so would be a violation of our companies values and mission. and finished with “We emphatically reject the UK Parliament’s demands.”
The Draw of Like-Minded Followers
Back in 2021, Brand had received backlash from the liberal segment of his fanbase who thought he was becoming an alt-right influencer and were upset by his dismissive analysis of “Russiagate,” according to Dan Di Placido from Forbes who described Brand as “a hairier, barefoot version of Joe Rogan, more likely to skin and devour an eggplant rather than an elk,”
According to Placido, Brand was accused of catering to a certain crowd the main backlash seemed to have been sparked by the fact that he had interviewed Jordan Peterson, Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro, “all of whom became internet-famous due to their ability to repackage puritanical, regressive social conservatism into something resembling youthful rebellion.”
However, the Forbes reporter observed that most of these videos showed Brand “saying a great deal, without communicating much at all” and that generally, his videos push back against government control, embodying a kind of vague populism.”
“I don’t think Brand has changed (he’s always been good at making a word salad sound like a profound insight), he adds, “but perhaps his audience has, as high profile interviews with conservative celebrities tend to draw like-minded followers, concludes Placido (source)
Rumble Smear
And there we have the most probable issue which irks the government – Brands’ vast number of followers. He still has 1.4 million followers on Rumble which has become a great resource for “canceled” media figures to make a better living, and for audiences to obtain information that they may not be able to acquire via YouTube.
On Wednesday, the U.K.’s The Guardian published a ludicrous hit piece on Rumble, smearing it as a conspiratorial site rife with “election deniers.” (source) at the very same time, Dame Dinenage, representing the Tory government sent the letter to Rumble clearly hoping that just as YouTube had, Rumble too would demonitise outspoken Brand.
Jordan Schachtel on Substack says that “right now, U.K. government and corporate media has the knives out for Rumble, the upstart online video platform that has positioned itself successfully as a free speech alternative to YouTube.”
Brand is Not The Main Target
It is Scachtels oppinion that the main target of the goverment campaign is “seemingly personalised to delegitimise and destroy Russell Brand […]they definitely want him out of the picture, but he is just a proxy for a much bigger target.” Well that target will be most of us and those who are likely to join us in getting wise to the govenment.
“They clamped down on anti-establishment narratives during the Covid hysteria era Scachtels remembers, “at this time we were hopelessly outgunned by the maniacal, lying, pseudoscientist looters who successfully achieved the fastest roll up of power in modern history.” He explains that now, “The forces for censorship are engaged in a much broader campaign to target our right to speak freely and earn a living by contributing value on the internet and in CCP Social Credit Score-like fashion.”
“They want to establish a Great Firewall of information and shut off the remaining popular “free speech zones” on the internet and Brand is a proxy and just another way to “achieve their end game.”
The UK is a now a Dictatorship
In order to shut off the popular “free speech zones,” Dame Dinenage, has callously bypassed the legal process and has effectively filled the role of not only the judge and jury, but also the executioner and sanctioned an unconvicted man despite lack of evidence of the accusations thrown at him.
This is not because the government gives a monkey’s about the alleged victims, the Brand investigation was to bring a red pilling “ring leader” down in their mission to violate our right of freedom of expression online, and to silence all dissenting voices.
They have shown that in their quest to do so, they are willing to stoop very low which will act as a deterrent to others who speak out against them. Make no mistake, this is not how a democracy looks. We are in a dictatorship, an era more befitting of a dystopian novel.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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Categories: Opinion Pages
Brand is an MI6 controlled opposition shill so his “political dissention” has been only a tool to keep the public rooted in the old guard. But yeah, this drama could also be staged to deter real dissenters if he appears to be persecuted. Many people behind the scenes of British entertainment and media will confirm that the guy is basically a douche. Another possibility is he unwisely started moving in on daughters of the peerage or socially prominent so intelligence services had to move in.
The idea he is controlled opposition makes no sense that I can see, he has opened the eyes of millions of people, who would otherwise have remained in the dark, using irrefutable facts to illustrate some of the lies we are being told in many areas. There are many reasons why people call genuine truth seekers controlled opposition, sometimes the reasons make sense sometimes they don’t, sometimes they are backed up by facts and logic, sometimes they are backed up by unsubstanciated assertions and presumptions.
And that applies to Trump in the US also.
Totally agree with your assertion that he was not the real deal.
He was a false idol set up to be torn down at an apposite time.
What are you smoking? RB an MI6 agent? Yes, they routinely allow their “agents” to be trashed on the capitalist MSM, thrown out of work, & demonised as a sexual monster! You’ve been watching too much of the X-Files.
Very good article, thank you. Since I, and many of my friends and relative agree with all the points made here, it seems to me the stable door is wide open and the horse has already bolted. Me thinks they are a bit late to try and keep a lid on the expanding enlightenment of the UK general public.
I wait for these points to be raised in parliament. I expect to wait a long time.
Thank you Ken. Yes, I expect to wait a long time for that too. Mind you I was pleasantly surprised to hear the speech from Mogg, I actually agreed with a lot of it!
He has been accused of rape or molestation by several women and demonetized by Youtube. Within a couple of days, UK Parliament had sent a letter to major outlets, including Rumble, asking that they act against Brand. By that alone we know this is fake, since Parliament ought to have more important things to attend to than the cancelling of Russell Brand. That shows us this is an important project of MI6, and that MI6 instructed Parliament to play along. MI6 probably drafted the letter themselves. This is all another managed event, of course, since Brand is of the families. Yes, he has been on the right side of some issues recently, but that is all controlled opposition. Remember this? Brand with that little fascist creepazoid from the WEF, Yuval Noah Harari. I suppose they tapped Brand for this stageplay for two main reasons: 1) to sort of salt in and parallel the whole Trump fake conviction for rape/molestation/whatever that was supposed to be. Every famous man in the world has had to volunteer for this split-the-sexes/Men-are-Pigs project in the past decade, so why should Brand miss out on the fun. But his participation is especially silly, seeing that—like Harvey Weinstein and many others—he is gay. Brand has no interest in raping or molesting women, and all his previous high profile couplings with women were just the standard Hollywood beard couplings, meant to sell him as a stud and make the women look straight as well. 2) Like Andrew Tate, Brand’s popularity at Youtube is largely fake. Brand has a larger audience than Tate, since he does have some charm. He is sometimes funny and a fairly good speaker, but like everyone else promoted, his numbers are mainly mist. They just make them up. For that reason he was mostly being wasted, and they needed to get his real numbers up somehow. The only way to do that in Modern America is to manufacture some tragedy or crime, then sell it 24/7 through the controlled mainstream media. With Brand they can also use the alternative media, since he is plugged in through Infowars, Zerohedge, and all those places. Before you know it they can create a somewhat genuine spike in his numbers, drawing your attention off the real world. They can sell him as sinned-against, with the big bad blue boys out to get him, generating crocodile tears and your sympathy, with which they can spin you in the required direction.
M.W.M.
Spot-on, John. Brand has been an obvious shill for some years – the more recent hype around his faux U-turn to a champion of alternative perspectives was always inevitably headed towards the sort of outcome we are now witnessing… and we witless sheeple simply had to wait and see what script they opted to follow.
Yes, but it is not about Brand, or whether we like him, or think he is controlled opposition. It is that it appears he is being used to bring in further censorship for all of us.
the assessment that this action against Mr Brand is designed to be a veiled threat to other truth tellers is spot on .
It seems close to certain that he is being punished and used as an example to warn people of the consequences of speaking out against the lies used in official narratives
bastard british gestapo government, how can you vilify someone when there hasn’t been a shred of proof. They need to look in their own government house and vilify Tony Blair and others for proven cases
LMFAO really … long time ago.
Wrote a letter to the UK government basically implying many in the government needed to be hung. I will always remember some government stooge trying to get me to say I would hang somebody, pointed it out to him also.
Nothing changed and the same concept still needs to happen to return the government back to the people away from the globalist WEF.
People really need to call them out, you may end up like Brand … remember the movie Spartacus? … I am Spartacus, no I am Spartacus bit? At that point the Roman empire was over.
Well I am Brand, no I am Brand would be the same …if people could only see it. Right now how Brand is being treated is red pilling ordinary people and there are 2 outcomes.
1.) Those with everything to lose stay silent.
2.) Those with nothing to lose can say all they want.
Funny though the UK government has chosen people for 2.) and somehow thinks it is going to keep control.
AS Paul J Watson has pointed out – really interesting that Dinenage’s hubby is head of the 77th brigade! Small world eh? Well it is at those levels and worth more research for sure. Brand was always a lightweight deliberately promoted as an idol and now hey presto, he’s also a great ‘tool’ to use to taint freedom’s cause by association espaecially in the minds of the wavererers, the nearly awake – the resolutely asleep dont need keeping in their pen – they stay there whatever. It’s all desperate stuff by ‘the controllers’ that’s for sure. In the end it matters not what they do now – they will control precisely nothing!
MY THOUGHTS!!! you do not need to be Einstein to see what this is all leading to!!! A true guru, a arrow to the heart of the evil truth, that is what Russell is, and these sick mongrels are shivering in their pathetic boots!! With Russell all the way!!! I am a conspiracy realist!!!!!
Come out of your hiding woman, and prove it, or is it….. “that money talks and bullshit walks”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Several years ago, Brand proved himself to be a genuine critic of the NWO self-appointed elite. This attack is pure victimisation and persecution to silence the man. His accusers should be facing serious prison time. One day they will.
>One day they will.
i doubt it..
if anything, they will be dealt with by real human beings, outside of the control of their own broken system.. the law of the jungle is much more suitable for their kind anyway.
A 17th Century style Witchhunt, coordinated by the CIA and MI5, using their stooges in the capitalist MSM. The targeting of RB is part of a generalised assault on Freedom of Speech & Freedom of Thought by the US Evil Empire and its many satellite regimes, including Britain. Julian Assange is the most conspicuous victim of this creeping authoritarianism and assault upon fundamental human and legal rights. Russell Brand is but the latest high-profile victim of the same sinister, anti-democratic, and unaccountable capitalist State agencies. They want to destroy him because, like Assange, he has challenged, questioned, and attracted POPULAR SUPPORT for an entirely different narrative to the one being pumped out day-in, day-out by a completely corrupt, venal, and obedient capitalist MSM. Don’t forget it was the Murdoch empire that launched the Witchhunt against Russell Brand in tandem with the middle class, pseudo-radical woke/joke fanatics at C4. These are the same unscrupulous propagandists who relentlessly smeared and defamed Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters, and invented the fiction of “anti-semitism” in the Labour Party as a convenient hook to hang their anti-Socialist agenda on. Innocent until Proven Guilty is a cornerstone of a rational, fair, mature, and democratic society. These repeated “Trials by MSM” are leading capitalist societies under the domination of US Imperialism towards authoritarianism and fascism, where human and legal rights will be determined by Dictators and their Police and Army. Defend the principle INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY! Release Julian Assange, and innocent political prisoner! Stop the Witchhunters, and put THEM in the dock for lying and wrecking lives with unsubtantiated, untested, and unproven allegations!
I’m with you, Jimmy. Unfortunately, I don’t see a downfall coming to the powers that be until they run out of money. That entails crashing the economies of, well, every country. May well happen, but it will certainly be unpleasant for the rest of us.
Yes, the govt and controlling leftie elite are using Brand to deter others from carrying out proper investigative journalism and generally reporting the truth, and in a silly attempt to bring his (correct) findings into disrepute. Surely anyone who follows his blog can see this.
Like Alex Jones the …”take down” of Brand is simply street theatre to send a message, shift the narrative and set a precedent. If the deep state wanted him sklent he would be bankrupted, suicided and blacklisted… at the very LEAST he would be kicked off Youtube. Jones was supposedly fined a gazillion dollars but lives to tell the tale. Yet scientist and doctors and whistle blowers died to expose the covid hoax.
Since the mechanism to keep genuine grassroots alternative voices from rising, but if they need to character assinate a high profile to s send the desired message, there IS no alternative but use hour home grown Brands (pun intended).