Today, at Southwark Crown Court in London, the rapist and sexual predator Russell Brand was put away for ten and a half years having been found guilty of his crimes. It didn't matter that he was a rich media star, famous "comedian" and "writer". It didn't matter that he had settled down in recent years with a loving wife and their three young children. It didn't matter that he had turned to God or that he wore a crucifix.
Past crimes came back to haunt him and the women he had abused earlier this century at long last achieved some kind of justice. There are at least two other cases against Brand still pending. He may yet have more years added to his sentence.
I began this blogpost in the way I did because I had Jeffrey Epstein and his associates in mind. Numerous other men - mostly wealthy and powerful - were involved in his predation and not one of them has been suitably punished. They used young women like playthings.
Blatant efforts have been made to hide the guilty men's identities through redaction and selective editing of "The Epstein Files". Months and years pass by and yet still they have not been brought to justice. One of Epstein's closest chums still occupies a very, very important role in Washington D.C.. He should certainly not be above the law.
Here in England, we have reduced a prince to a commoner and today a wealthy, wacky celebrity has deservedly been sent to prison. It's high time that the wheels of American justice turned to bring Epstein's associates to courts of law. No more hiding in plain view. No more redaction. No more dodging responsibility with the aid of overpaid lawyers. The oft-forgotten victims deserve retribution and the perpetrators deserve to be branded criminals - just like Russell Brand today.
I agree. May heads start rolling here in the USA.
ReplyDeleteI agree completely. Open those Epstein files and round up the named perpetrators, get them to trial and to prison. Every single one of them.
ReplyDeleteI had hoped he'd get 20 years but 10 is a start.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, it needs to happen more often, on both sides of the Atlantic
I'm hoping that the Epstein files will be released by this new Congress. The women and girls victimized deserve justice.
ReplyDeleteIt boggles my mind that so many people (Congress, etc.) have literally seen the atrocities described and pictured in the Epstein files, and yet nothing has been done. Except for Maxwell being sent away. The men are all still in power, walking around like nothing can touch them.
ReplyDeleteNo surprise that the woman involved was banged up, but no men.
ReplyDeleteI know Brand was very popular, but I never got him at all and I wondered why women found him sexy and attractive.
Meanwhile I ponder impeachment, which sounds serious, but it seems not really.
Always good to see justice prevail.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad he has been held responsible for his actions, if only all men were, even the wealthy and well connected, but they protect each other.
ReplyDeleteProving once again that just because you're a "star" it doesn't mean that you can get away with vile abuse. It is high time for the predators in high places here in America to sit in legal judgement.
ReplyDeleteBrand is a slimeball. I've never understood his popularity.
ReplyDeleteI always loathed Brand and was pleased to hear he's going to be put away. The same goes for his American counterparts. It will be interesting to see what happens after January when the new Congress takes office.
ReplyDeleteI loved what the judge said when handing down his sentence.
ReplyDeleteThey won't impeach LameDonaldDuck because it would only serve to turn him into a martyr for the rightwingnuts. But perhaps once he's out of office and before he flees to Russia the American courts will go after him.
Good post YP. I have been somewhat baffled by how people have been talking and writing about this. Brand has been found guilty of rape. According to one blog I read today he is an ordinary person who has strayed off the straight and narrow and committed crimes such as given into sexual urges in inappropriate ways.
ReplyDeleteAccording to another blog this is just another distraction meant to occupy brain space in people's heads so they are temporarily blinded from the other more serious injustices which are going on….and that morphs into the swarms invading the country.
Then you have people saying this is the Establishment’s revenge because of Brands views on COVID vaccinations.
Then you have people who think Andrew did nothing wrong…irrespective of the £12 million pay off.
Life is strange.
Agreed
ReplyDeleteI remember the Celebrity Bake Off episode (dedicated to raising funds for cancer) where Brand produced a biscuit representing his wife’s vagina. Only a sleazy toe rag with an oversized ego would think that was funny and acceptable. He clearly thought he could get away with anything.
ReplyDeleteTo add to my previous comment, sadly this won’t stop the rich and famous from finding ever more devious ways of getting away with abusing young women and girls (and boys). He got what he deserved but there are plenty that will slip under the radar leaving a trail of broken lives. They are very charismatic people to be around and will always attract young people who want a taste of the high life, to feel important, being drawn in like moths to a flame.
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