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00:00:52.900The conviction of Russell Brand for one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault is a difficult topic to discuss for a few reasons.
00:01:01.360For one thing, as is often true of these alleged rape cases, it involves graphic details that are uncomfortable to hear and even more uncomfortable for me to say out loud.
00:01:12.500I'd rather not talk about these kinds of stories at all, much less do I want to recount with specificity the kinds of gross sexual behavior that we'll have to talk about today.
00:01:21.140But after sentencing on Monday, Russell Brand is now going to spend the next, the better part anyway, of 10 years in prison.
00:01:27.680So it's a big story and an important one in its way.
00:01:32.820It's also a grotesque travesty of justice for reasons that I will explain, which is the real reason above all else that we need to talk about.
00:01:40.160Now, to be clear, there's no question that Russell Brand is, or at least was, a degenerate sex fiend who bears a large degree of responsibility for his fate.
00:01:50.560Brandt appears to have exercised essentially no restraint at all for at least 10 or 15 years of0.51
00:01:56.880his life. Now, had he been even moderately civilized in his behavior, he'd probably be
00:02:01.880a free man right now. So this is not exactly a Brett Kavanaugh situation where the narrative is
00:02:07.120a total ludicrous fabrication at every level. At the same time, and we need to be able to hold
00:02:14.020these two realities in our heads simultaneously, it's also obvious that the prosecution was a
00:02:19.980mockery and a sham, and Brand did not receive anything resembling a fair trial. Now, he may
00:02:27.240have put himself in a position to be railroaded by a kangaroo court, but it doesn't change the fact
00:02:32.300that he was indeed railroaded by a kangaroo court. Brand may have been a sexual degenerate with the0.70
00:02:38.460discipline and self-control of a chimpanzee, but that's not in itself illegal in this country or0.93
00:02:44.660the UK. And if it were, a huge number of other people would be sitting in a cell right next to
00:02:49.100him, including many of his accusers, as we will see. The fact is that there was more than enough
00:02:55.940reasonable doubt to acquit him of all the charges. There's no question about that. And we all know
00:03:02.160why this case was brought in the first place. Brand broke away from the left during the COVID
00:03:06.320hysteria quite publicly and became a conservative commentator. So they came up with allegations
00:03:12.880from nearly two decades ago and tried to destroy his career and his life, and they succeeded.
00:03:19.100this is what the sentencing looked like just to give you an idea of how absurd uh these proceedings
00:03:24.140were we're going to bleep some of this stuff out because it's it's as will be the theme today it's
00:03:29.960graphic and disgusting but um here it is watch you invited her to your house a few days later0.84
00:03:37.540there you put on a condom at her request and had sex to which she consented0.99
00:03:44.500you then flipped her over removed the condom and without asking forced your into her0.98
00:03:53.180causing her great pain she asked you to stop then asked you again loudly you replied and i quote0.82
00:04:05.240you she was distraught and in severe pain the bed was heavily soiled by blood and faeces
00:04:17.540you told her it was her mess and made her try to clear it up shortly after you went off to get
00:04:25.680ready then went to work she was driven to a nearby underground station by your driver who for some
00:04:33.180reason had tissues ready to hand to her as she wept. So we're talking about claims from the
00:04:42.140first year of the Obama presidency. There's no independent evidence for any of it. But because
00:04:49.280the jury reached a guilty verdict, the woman's version of events is now sacrosanct. The judge
00:04:53.360will pretend, as the jury did, that everything the accuser said is completely truthful. He doesn't
00:04:59.060have to do that, by the way. Judges can throw out guilty verdicts if they're absurd enough,
00:05:03.180But, of course, the whole point of this trial was for the establishment to get revenge on Russell Brand.
00:05:09.080So, you know, you know, that's and that's what was going to happen.
00:05:12.780And that's what did happen. Therefore, we're all supposed to act as though guilt has been established beyond any reasonable doubt,
00:05:19.460which is why reporters in the UK are now hounding Russell Brand's father for some reason and reacting with stunned amazement when he suggests the verdict could possibly be wrong.
00:06:52.860Now, it's interesting you'll never hear that question posed to the parent of any, say,
00:06:57.120violent, murderous thug in that country or this one. Carmelo Anthony's parents, for example,
00:07:03.540spent a lot of time on camera in front of reporters over the course of many months.
00:07:07.440And nobody ever threw, is this the type of man you raised at them? Quite the opposite. They were
00:07:12.120allowed to play the victim, basically unchallenged. In the case of Russell Brand, though, once the
00:07:17.220jury reaches a guilty verdict, the allegations must be true. And that's actually how a lot of
00:07:22.280people think. It's like the system couldn't possibly produce an unjust result. So therefore,
00:07:27.020once the jury convicts, you know, you can hound the man's father like a snippy HR lady. Now,
00:07:32.200of course, the truth is that all of these people decided Russell Brand was guilty the moment the
00:07:35.940charges were brought, really before that. Really, they made up their minds as soon as the British
00:07:40.200media establishment, led by Channel 4 and the Times, decided to target Brand for destruction
00:07:44.540because of his political and religious beliefs. This case was tried in the media long before it
00:07:48.680went to court. I mean, there's no universe in which Russell Brand received the impartial jury
00:07:53.380that he was entitled to. The whole episode is reminiscent in a certain ways of the bogus
00:07:58.980Cornell 7 case, where the accuser sent numerous text messages about how much she enjoyed herself
00:08:04.160in the frat house before getting disinvited from a Halloween party and then retroactively deciding
00:08:08.300that she had been raped. Now, Cornell is still in the process of tearing itself apart over those
00:08:12.200ridiculous allegations, despite the presence of what's called affirmative consent many times over.
00:08:18.280The Cornell scandal is obviously a political football, which is why New York Democrats and the media establishment have spent so much time on it.0.97
00:08:25.060They see the allegations as a way to mobilize female voters and strike back at the patriarchy.
00:08:30.180And they don't care about how flimsy the allegations are.
00:08:33.260Now, of course, in the case of the Cornell 7, it's not just that there's no evidence that they committed a crime.
00:08:40.320I mean, there isn't any evidence. It's that there actually is direct evidence that exonerates them.
00:08:45.440And that's what makes that case so particularly egregious. As for Russell Brand, there isn't the
00:08:51.940same kind of exonerating evidence, but in a court of law, even in the UK, in theory, that's not the
00:08:57.980standard. Innocent until proven guilty is still the standard, at least on paper. So the onus falls
00:09:02.860on the prosecution to produce evidence actively proving its case. That's where the burden of
00:09:09.140proof lies and must lie. And no matter what the obviously tainted jury said, that burden was not
00:09:16.740even close to met in this case. So how flimsy is the case against Russell Brand? Well, we're going
00:09:22.900to go point by point through all of the details. And these will be details that, as established,
00:09:30.460will be uncomfortable and pretty gross to hear. But I want to start with a quick primer on how
00:09:37.260all cases involving rape and sexual assault in both the U.S. and the U.K. are stacked against
00:09:42.820the defendant. So think of it this way. If you are brutally assaulted in the U.K. or the U.S.,
00:09:48.340you're not entitled to anonymity if and when the suspect goes to trial. Your identity as a victim
00:09:54.260is a matter of public record. Along the same lines, if you're defrauded or blackmailed or robbed or
00:09:59.220burned in an arson attack or carjacked or injured in a DUI wreck or nearly murdered, your identity
00:10:06.020is not hidden. Everybody will know who you are. The media can report on your name and your
00:10:12.060background. You don't get any privacy on that score. Not because you did anything wrong. You
00:10:16.980are, in fact, the victim of a horrible crime. But in a functioning country with a worthwhile legal
00:10:21.060system and basic protections for the freedom of speech, there's no getting around it. The victims
00:10:26.260of crimes, even really bad crimes, are a matter of public record. It's just the way things are
00:10:32.260in a transparent, open society. But there's one major exception to this rule. Starting around the
00:10:37.9201970s in both the UK and the US, it became fashionable to hide the names of alleged rape
00:10:43.760victims and sexual assault victims from the public. In the UK, it's a crime to reveal the names of
00:10:49.500these alleged victims. In the US, thanks to the First Amendment, it's easier for journalists to
00:10:53.940publish the names, but courts still try to hide it. And the theory is that without this anonymity,
00:10:58.480accusers would be uncomfortable coming forward. So to accommodate these accusers and their desire
00:11:03.420for privacy as a practical matter, it becomes impossible for journalists and independent
00:11:08.640investigators to look into the accuser's history to see if they have a history of lying or of
00:11:15.480criminal activity or anything like that. It would be impossible to find out if, say,
00:11:20.900they were tied to any specific political movement or activist group, which is not a small thing
00:13:29.140And a woman with a history of behaving in immoral and uncivilized ways may be even more likely to lie.1.00
00:13:36.500So are the women lying in this case?0.62
00:13:38.960that's always a possibility something you have to look into and think about so to answer that
00:13:46.740question let's start with the accusations one by one first it's important to point out that brand
00:13:50.500was actually acquitted of several of the charges against him in particular a woman claimed that
00:13:54.720brand raped her in a hotel room during a labor party conference in 1999 after meeting at a cabaret
00:13:59.820show this woman's identity remains hidden from the public there's no evidence to substantiate
00:14:06.180her claim whatsoever, aside from a photograph that proves they met, which obviously doesn't
00:14:10.960prove anything about the crime. And again, this was more than 25 years ago. Brand says it was
00:14:15.700consensual. She says it wasn't. And that was it. And the jury found that there was not evidence
00:14:21.340beyond a reasonable doubt, so he was acquitted. It's absurd the prosecution even attempted to
00:14:26.620charge the case. And the fact that they did bring that case by itself should make you wonder about
00:14:32.900the strength of the other charges. Speaking of patterns of behavior, we already know they brought
00:14:38.140charges on cases where there's zero evidence of any kind, which tells you they're just throwing
00:14:44.280everything at the wall and seeing what sticks. Which, by the way, you don't do when you have
00:14:50.480one good solid case with real evidence. You don't need to pile on a bunch of other cases where
00:14:55.060there's no evidence at all. Next, the jury acquitted Brandt of attempted indecent assault
00:15:00.220in 2001, where he allegedly dragged a woman towards the bathroom at MTV's London office
00:15:04.840and attempted to sexually assault her. The woman testified that Brand wanted to use the
00:15:09.000bathroom, and when she showed him where it was, he turned aggressive. The whole incident
00:15:12.980allegedly lasted 20 seconds. Quote, this person went from someone jovial and friendly to suddenly
00:15:17.680turning into this wild-eyed maniac trying to pull me into the toilet. His demeanor changed.
00:15:23.580He grabbed my forearm and he was leaning into the door. It was quite forceful, the grip.
00:15:27.120It took me unawares. I wasn't expecting that.
00:15:30.220Now, the problem is that the woman didn't report this incident at the time. There's no evidence to support her claim. He didn't actually do anything sexual aside from supposedly grabbing her arm. And she only made the accusations after watching a 2023 documentary accusing Brand of sexual misconduct.
00:15:49.120So with the benefit of about 22 years of hindsight and a documentary, she finally understood what had happened.
00:15:58.640After watching that documentary, she testified, quote, it brought everything back.
00:16:02.640I thought I'd managed to get away. It could have been very different.
00:16:06.020I thought it was the right thing to come forward.
00:16:09.580Again, this is total nonsense that should not have been prosecuted in the first place.
00:16:14.980And then there was an allegation from the summer of 2004, which is more serious and also more bizarre.
00:16:20.120As the story goes, Brand was at a party at a bar in Soho.
00:16:23.560He was introduced to a young woman who had been drinking heavily, who worked at MTV.
00:16:28.380Without warning, he allegedly lunged forward and squeezed her breasts.0.72
00:16:31.360And the woman put it, as she put it, Brand, quote, literally just grabbed my boobs with a weird, maniacal grin on his face.
00:16:40.280And then maybe you're noticing a pattern in these accusations.
00:16:42.800brand allegedly pulled her towards the toilets all of this happened in a crowded bar and somehow
00:16:48.120no one noticed or cared and then in the privacy of the bathroom brand supposedly attempted to get0.93
00:16:53.220her to perform oral sex on him using force and then she leaves the bar in brand's car where he0.82
00:16:58.820supposedly pressed her to engage in more sexual activity within hours the woman tells a friend0.99
00:17:05.940and a producer that brand had attempted to sexually assault her uh and uh not that he had raped her
00:17:11.380Then over the years, her story changed in conversations with various acquaintances, and she began to become more certain that he had actually raped her.
00:17:20.220And after the documentary aired in 2023, she finally filed a police report nearly two decades after the fact.
00:17:30.640Now, what's amazing about this allegation is that the jury rejected the rape allegation because according to her own contemporaneous statements, she was not raped.
00:17:39.280She never even mentioned it for years.
00:17:41.380And on top of that, there was, of course, no physical evidence whatsoever.
00:17:45.680Nevertheless, the jury still convicted Brand for sexual assault for supposedly grabbing the woman's breasts in the bar without her consent.
00:17:54.980So they reject her claims that he raped her in the bathroom, but they believe her claim that he grabbed her breasts without consent.
00:18:05.560coherent. Again, going back to patterns of behavior, you're saying she lied about the one
00:18:10.460thing, but you believe she didn't lie about the other. That makes no sense, especially when you're
00:18:17.020so a woman, according to you, the jury lied about one thing, didn't lie about the other.
00:18:23.020And there's not even reasonable doubt about the other thing you didn't think she lied about.
00:18:28.060I mean, the fact that she lied about the second thing does not at least create some doubt that
00:18:33.800a reasonable person might have about whether she was telling the truth about the whole story?
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00:21:03.120slash Walsh. Never mind the fact that the prosecution had precisely zero eyewitnesses
00:21:08.380to this alleged sexual assault, which is pretty odd, since they're claiming it happened in the
00:21:13.060middle of a packed bar in Soho. Instead, to the extent the prosecution had corroborating witnesses
00:21:17.600at all. It was people the woman contacted after she left the bar. Maybe you're seeing the problem
00:21:24.260here, right? If I claim something bad happened to me and then I call 10 people and say something
00:21:30.320bad happened to me, tell them about it. Those 10 calls are not additional evidence to support my
00:21:36.540claim. Now, the fact that I made a call at all right after it allegedly happened may amount
00:21:43.120to weak circumstantial evidence of some kind. Okay. It proves at least that I didn't make it
00:21:50.380up years after the fact. Right. So it's, it's something. Um, but, but it doesn't,
00:21:58.460it certainly doesn't qualify as definitive evidence because it doesn't prove that I
00:22:02.800didn't make it up immediately after the fact. I told someone right after, so that means I didn't
00:22:07.200make it up, you know, 20 years later, but I could have still made it up then.
00:22:10.280But at any rate, if the fact that I made a call at all amounts to arguably weak circumstantial
00:22:18.660evidence, not enough to convict anyone of anything, I cannot strengthen the evidence
00:22:24.040by making 20 additional calls. It really doesn't matter how many calls I make. 20 witnesses may
00:22:31.260amount to 20 times the evidence of one witness, but 20 people who heard me recount my version of
00:22:37.900events does not amount to 20 times the evidence of one person hearing me recount it. And things
00:22:45.100get worse when you look at what this accuser actually told her friends after leaving the
00:22:48.420bar. Again, she later changed her story about being raped. First, she said Brand had merely
00:22:52.780groped her before changing her story to rape. But even the groping allegation is suspect because
00:22:58.040she wasn't very specific when she talked to her friends. This is from Sky News recapping witness
00:23:02.320statements or alleged witness statements relating to this incident. Quote,
00:23:06.700A man who also went to the 2004 party at the Soho Bar says he recalled Brand exiting the toilet followed by a woman who could not remember her demeanor.
00:23:14.860He said hello to Brand, who looked straight through him with a blank expression, the witness said in a statement.
00:23:20.700The second statement came from a witness who said the third accuser called him distressed on the night of the alleged rape.
00:23:26.780He recalled seeing red and telling the accuser to go to the police, but she didn't want to at the time.
00:23:31.060In a third statement, the man who held the 2004 Soho Bar Party described a conversation he had with the complainant in the week after the alleged rape, during which she told him Brand had got pushy and aggressive towards her.
00:23:43.740The last statement of the day was from another friend of the alleged victim who had called her on the phone saying Brand had attacked her.
00:23:50.040So we have claims that Brand was pushy and aggressive, even that he attacked her, but nothing specific about what he actually did.
00:23:58.340And that didn't come until nearly two decades later after a documentary, a collaboration between Channel 4 and Times, aired on television.
00:24:08.720Just as a general rule, you're bringing up allegations and claims of a crime 20 years later because you saw a documentary that inspired you.
00:24:17.880Already, at the very least, your allegations are extremely suspect.
00:24:24.160And you better have very, very, very good evidence.
00:24:28.340no reasonable person could look at this case and say that there was anything approaching
00:24:32.720very good evidence. So this is another theme of these allegations. They all came out after this
00:24:39.1202023 Channel 4 documentary, which set the narrative. And that includes the most serious
00:24:44.060charge Brand was convicted of, which allegedly took place in 2009 at Brand's house. Now,
00:24:51.160before we go into that allegation, here's a clip of this 2023 documentary. I've referenced it a few
00:24:55.880times. So I want to give you a sense of what it actually looked like. And so here it is. Watch.
00:25:02.780I met up with him. We walked through the door. And then again, things got very intense, very,
00:25:11.160very quickly. He was like, so how many people have you had sex with? And I said, no one. Like,
00:32:43.840is it possible she was under the impression that the victim had consented to this whole
00:32:49.400encounter and was more upset about the condom issue is it possible the nurse believed that
00:32:54.640the accuser may have regretted a consensual encounter these are not rhetorical questions
00:32:59.820why did everyone stay quiet about this until 2023 when the police report was finally filed
00:33:07.220this is very similar not only to the cornell seven case but also to the case out of canada
00:33:13.040where those hockey players had their lives destroyed.
00:33:16.100Just like in those cases, as uncomfortable as it may be to admit,
00:33:20.580it's entirely possible based on the evidence we have
00:33:23.100that this woman felt disgusted by her own behavior
00:33:25.720and how Russell Brand was discarding her
00:33:28.460or treating her like an animal, as she put it.
00:33:31.440And to cope with those feelings, it's possible she told her friends
00:33:34.440that she was a victim as a way of getting sympathy
00:33:37.620after an uncomfortable but not illegal sexual encounter.
00:33:40.220this would also be consistent with the fact that she didn't go to the police she recognized at some
00:33:45.240level that she voluntarily went to his house even though she had a boyfriend she voluntarily engaged
00:33:51.440in degenerate repulsive sexual conduct and she suspected that based on her pattern of behavior
00:33:57.240nobody would believe her story now it's a totally plausible version of events
00:34:01.560she could also be telling the truth can't rule that out but again in a court of law
00:34:10.240she could be telling the truth is not even close to enough to convict if there is a totally
00:34:19.540plausible alternative scenario that the prosecution was not able to rule out with any
00:34:27.060degree of certainty, then you cannot convict by definition. And if a jury does convict anyway,
00:34:38.340the judge should throw it out. It's not a valid conviction. A jury is not allowed to just
00:34:45.500dispense with, you know, reasonable doubt as the standard. And if they do, you could throw the
00:34:51.920conviction out. Now, the closest the prosecution got to forensic evidence with respect to this
00:34:58.820charge was the fact that Brand had apparently labeled this woman in his phone contacts with0.97
00:35:02.720a code indicating that she was a memorable experience, a woman who was open to anal play0.99
00:35:08.740and also a casual sexual contact. That doesn't really tell us anything one way or another,0.91
00:35:14.620at least in terms of crimes. If anything, it suggests that she was
00:35:19.000receptive to all this and actually gets even worse. As Irish News reports, when the accuser
00:35:24.780was thinking about telling her story to a journalist, she wrote in an exchange on Facebook
00:35:28.740the following. This is what she said in Facebook message. I'm not sure my story has much in it. I
00:35:35.820feel I was an idiot. I was young and stupid. And then she went on to say that she is probably as1.00
00:35:40.040much to blame. So that was what this accuser was saying about her own story as recently as a few
00:35:48.640years ago. By her own version of events, until it changed, there was no crime committed and she was
00:35:56.520as much to blame as he was. If that doesn't at least amount to reasonable doubt, then the term
00:36:04.720reasonable doubt has no meaning. By the way, in case you're confused, there is another allegation
00:36:12.780which was not charged as a crime involving a woman who says Brand raped her in Los Angeles in 2012.
00:36:17.320this allegation also didn't come out until the 2023 documentary, but this allegation
00:36:22.020does have some actual evidence. So for one thing, the accuser did go to a rape treatment center
00:36:28.320shortly afterwards. And secondly, we have these text messages. Brand says, I'm sorry, that was
00:36:34.100crazy and selfish. I hope that you can forgive me. I know that you're a lovely person. X. And later
00:36:40.840that morning, the woman writes back saying, Brand is scary and dangerous and adds, quote,
00:36:44.320when a girl says no, it means no. Do I have to go and get myself tested? Last time you asked me
00:36:48.460condom or no condom, when I say condom, that doesn't mean it's optional. Brand then replies,
00:36:53.080I'm very sorry. You don't need to get tested. Not my original idea, which was more sex. I'm
00:36:58.200embarrassed by my behavior. Now, the irony is that this is the best evidence that's ever been
00:37:03.580produced against Russell Brand. It has nothing to do with the charges he was just convicted of.
00:37:07.900So he has not been charged in that case. Now, you can make the argument that Brand is apologizing for violating the woman's consent, which would obviously be rape. He says, I'm sorry, and that was crazy, and she replies by calling him scary and saying no means no.
00:37:25.780Now, on the other hand, in that exact same exchange, she's upset that he didn't use a condom.
00:37:30.720So it's also fair to read the conversation as Brand apologizing for not respecting her wishes about the condom.
00:37:38.440And that's probably why, again, she didn't go to the police and why this was never charged as a crime.
00:37:43.100And the statute of limitations has expired on this, so it can never be charged.
00:37:47.140At least under California law at the time, if two people are having consensual sex and one person disregards the condom preference of another person,
00:37:54.380it's not necessarily rape because rape requires using force or threats or duress or incapacitation
00:37:59.600etc none of that seems to apply here based on the text messages but this is all irrelevant to the
00:38:05.560alleged crimes that just sent him to prison for a decade now there's two other convictions to talk
00:38:12.080about one of which relates to an alleged episode where brand quote had put his head in a woman's
00:38:16.280groin area after insisting on a massage this allegedly happened in 2009 and once again the
00:38:22.520allegation only surfaced with the documentary and there's no forensic evidence to support it
00:38:26.600but the jury may have found it more credible because the woman apparently made a formal
00:38:30.980report to her employer at the time about the incident with her version of events
00:38:34.400brand was also quote found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman found a second woman at a
00:38:40.080radio station in 2004-2005 after the woman said brand had kissed her and groped her while people
00:38:45.600watched now this allegation like all others was only brought to the police after again the
00:38:51.320documentary. And once again, there's no contemporaneous evidence, forensic or otherwise.
00:38:57.340Even though this supposedly happened with other people watching, there was no publicly reported
00:39:01.300testimony I could find in which they corroborated her account. Nevertheless, the jury apparently
00:39:06.160thought that Russell Brand had decided to sexually assault someone in full view of several witnesses.
00:39:11.680And that's how desperate he supposedly was, even though women were throwing him themselves at him
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00:43:21.380But that was the whole purpose of the documentary, to kickstart a moral panic. This is from the Guardian of 2014 in their article labeling Russell Brand a hero of 2014.
00:43:32.320Quote, Brand's openness about his flaws make him a good leader and allows those who admire him to be good followers. He's the best thing that has happened to the left in years.
00:43:41.740A year earlier, the New Statesman, another left-wing publication, named Brand as a guest editor.
00:43:47.780They were building him up as a serious revolutionary thinker on the left.
00:43:52.540The issue of the magazine included contributions from Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, other high-profile figures.
00:44:00.700But Russell Brand was leading the charge. He was the main event.
00:44:05.440And then he made the mistake of thinking for himself once the COVID lockdowns began.
00:44:10.380And in the left's mind, that's when he had to go. And these are lockdowns that everybody,
00:44:17.440even the public health establishment at places like Johns Hopkins, now admits were a complete
00:44:21.860waste of time. They destroyed lives. They destroyed the economy for no reason. In 2020,
00:44:27.220Russell Brand was one of the few people who was saying that out loud. And he was also pointing
00:44:30.960out how COVID was being used to create a surveillance state. He was correct about all
00:44:35.740that. But this is what led to the eventual hit job. Stuff like this from 2020 Watch.
00:44:43.480The pandemic has taken surveillance of workers to the next level. We are being observed while we
00:44:49.280work more than ever, even though people working from home has achieved more efficacy and better
00:44:55.700results. Is the pandemic being used as a tool to create a surveillance state?
00:45:01.940now by 2021 brand was routinely publishing videos about the worst abuses of power during the lock
00:45:09.460at lockdowns and you have to keep in mind for europeans this was stuff you were simply
00:45:13.620not allowed to say out loud you know they don't have a first amendment over there they throw
00:45:19.540people in prison for jokes criticizing the lockdowns was blasphemy now it was the left
00:45:26.700in this country, didn't like it if you did that. But for them, it's a whole other, it was heresy.
00:45:33.940And so they simply couldn't let it stand. And Russell Brand knew that.
00:45:37.620And he did his show anyway. And an audience of millions of people watched these episodes. Watch.
00:45:44.720You won't be going nowhere if you're in Australia, though. You can't move a muscle.1.00
00:45:48.200Let's have a look. Stavrula Pabst and Max Blumenfall in the gray zone, right?
00:45:52.060Though statewide lockdowns have eased in Australia, the country is constructing internment camps for those who test positive for COVID, along with their COVID negative close contacts.
00:46:02.220Harley Hodgson, an Australian held for 14 days in one such camp, despite repeatedly testing negative for COVID, said of her experience,
00:46:08.920You feel like you're in prison. You feel like you've done something wrong. It's inhumane what they're doing.
00:46:13.820I suppose that the argument is that the coronavirus is so lethal, so deadly, any measures necessary in order to protect human life must be taken.
00:46:25.220Some people would contest that that brings to the forefront a lot of questions about liberty, the standard of life, potential hypocrisy in other areas.
00:46:33.240Are we always concerned about preserving and respecting human life?
00:46:37.220And what about the qualitative component of life?
00:46:40.620I don't know. These are questions for all of us to consider.
00:46:43.820now these uh videos drove the left-wing establishment insane uh in 2022 the independent
00:46:51.880wrote quote how did russell brand go from stand-up stardom to peddling youtube conspiracy
00:46:56.580theories with a series of alarmist videos tackling issues like covid and the russian-ukrainian war
00:47:01.120comedian has reinvented himself as a popular online current affairs guru when did russell
00:47:05.820brand decide comedy wasn't enough for him he couldn't believe he wasn't staying in his lane
00:47:10.500And in fact, by 2022, he was starting to openly embrace Fox News and right-wing populism.
00:47:16.140And the elites in Europe were not going to tolerate that.
00:47:18.580So in late 2023, the Times, the Sunday Times, and Channel 4 released that documentary based
00:47:23.240on anonymous and unsubstantiated accusations that had been circulating for years.