A Special Report by Winston Smith 😎
Photo by Duncan Cumming (license).

I started writing this article without deeply investigating the allegations against Russell Brand. My initial impulse was to downplay this as purely a black propaganda exercise aimed at eroding Brand's reputation. As I see it now, that is still a part of the picture, but after watching the interviews contained in Channel 4's "Russell Brand: In Plain Sight" documentary, I can't hold with the belief that these allegations are totally without a factual basis.

The TV show can be found at this link: 
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/russell-brand-in-plain-sight-dispatches

If you aren't able to log in to Channel 4, you can quite easily find the whole thing on torrent streaming sites, and it's also up on Bitchute and Youtube.

I feel disadvantaged in my comprehension of this affair by the fact that I knew nothing about Brand's TV career prior to becoming an internet celebrity. I haven't watched TV since the 90s, and was totally unaware until today that Brand was the host of the "Big Brother" reality TV show in the UK. Now that I know this, it's obvious that a person with his intensity and narcissistic traits would have been likely to have pushed boundaries with women.

Another thing I was not fully aware of was the level of public recognition that Brand has in the UK. This makes him a high level threat to the establishment and explains why they would go to such great lengths to take him down. He has influence, and is dangerous. This is evidenced by the fact that the government actually put out an official response to this documentary hit-piece, describing the sexual assault allegations as ‘very serious and concerning.’

At the time of writing no criminal charges have been laid, but this could change very quickly as the "me too" allegations start rolling in. Based on watching the documentary I think it is quite likely that he will at some point get charged with a crime, and I think it's quite possible that he is guilty of sexual offences as defined in contemporary law.

One of the more bizarre aspects of this "scandal" is that most of the behaviours of which he is accused, like "sex addiction", were widely known at the time and were admitted by Brand himself. In some ways the Channel 4 documentary is just dredging history to put a new spin on information which was widely known.

There are however, some specific allegations in the show which go beyond what was already known and which, if true, could at the very least tarnish his reputation permanently and seriously undermine the work he did over the past 3 years in bringing truth to power over medical tyranny and the esablishment lies about covid, lockdowns, masks and vaccines.

I think I may have something in common with others who started paying attention to Brand in recent years in that I knew absolutely nothing about his prior fame as a raging, blatant and unashamed sex addict. His history was always likely to catch up with him if he ever tried to do something serious and become an activist of any kind. I didn't know and I didn't care, but the truth is that this part of his life was always going to be a ticking time bomb which could blow up in his face at any time.

I'm quite sure that the main goal of those who orchestrated this media hit piece is simply to dethrone him from his current status as a principled citizen journalist and collapse his popularity. I think they will be satisfied with that outcome, and I think that outcome is the most likely one. The rape allegations are pretty serious, but these purported victims have remained anonymous.

This documentary "hit-piece" was a collaboration between Channel 4 and the Sunday Times. It was dramatic and thrilling to watch and used paid actors for some parts. The whole show was done to a very high technical level and would have cost millions to produce. The last clip shows Brand's refutation of the claims made in the movie from his podcast show, a few days before it was released. It would seem that they approached him with claims from the show before it was released to get his response with the plan of including that in the final movie.

The show ends with a call to action and an email address for viewers to contact the producers, presumably to pile on new allegations.

As a hit-piece I believe this will be very successful. I think that Russell Brand's growth phase as a principled citizen journalist is possibly at an end. In the bigger picture, this will have zero impact on our collective march towards truth and justice. I feel sorry for Brand on one level, but on another level I know that this is something he probably saw coming and planned for, and will not suffer too greatly from.

I do hope that he fights this publicly on his show, rather than hiding behind lawyers. If he manages to come clean on some of the allegations it will vastly increase his credibility and could even catapult him to new levels of popularity. He needs to admit some guilt and show some contrition. He will be swiftly forgiven. 

The most important take away for me is that we should never stop telling truth to power, and never let the powerful silence us through threats and blackmail.