Tomorrow Never Knows

Russell Brand is in jail. Who would have thought it. After twenty years of his relentless presence on TV, radio, books and social media there's suddenly...silence. Personally, I don't think he was silenced by the elite because he was 'exposing too much about the system' - I think that is a common overstating of the power of celebrities and I really don't think the multi-billionaire overlords of the planet would have done anything other than laugh from their private islands at the warp-speed word-salads delivered by a bloke dressed as a pirate. No, he's in jail because he's guilty as charged. Russell was no regular man in the dock - he has expensive lawyers, publicists, advisors and his own broadcast platforms from which he could spread his narrative to millions of followers daily. His victims would have had none of that and he would have made a formidable foe in the court room. Anyone prepared to step into that arena with the world watching, would only have done so if their case was iron clad. From my own limited experience of my ongoing legal dispute with the police, I have learned this - they don't give you court rooms and judges easily. The idea that you can just 'make some stuff up' because you want money or attention and the justice system just opens its doors up to you and gives you court rooms and judges to play about with, is really not how it works. My case has been going for four years so far and that's before we've even started the jury trial. That's four years of having a lawyer and a legal team (and they're not cheap), four years of form filling, evidence gathering, medical assessments, investigations, deadlines, costs, time and having the thing hanging over your head the whole time. They don't make it easy - you have to really have a valid case. And then there's this - the risk of losing. Having to pay a few hundred grand or several million should you lose, is enough to put most people off bothering - especially if you're up against a rich celebrity or if your evidence is even remotely shaky. So I don't think Russell Brand has been silenced. I don't think he was a threat to power. He is convicted rapist, simple as. Hopefully his victims will find some kind of closure or sense of justice from his conviction and the rest of us can have a break from his relentless motor mouthing, attention seeking, conspiracy spreading and grifting.