He was a self-confessed sex-addict and drug-addict over many years in that 90s-00s period.
He may well have some crimes to answer for: drugs were, and continue to be, illegal in the UK; perhaps sex-addicts are always close to the edge of criminality.
However, all those potential crimes are a long time ago. The police and his accusers have chosen to stay silent for a long time.
Some potentially self-incriminating stories have come from his own rehabilitation narrative.
It remains to be seen if the accusations can be upheld in a court of law, but the timing is suspicious.
It is only after a few years of criticizing the MSM and government overreach that someone has decided to dig up those old potential offences.
I do not like Brand's act or lifestyle. He always appeared to be (and gloried in) the persona of a silver-tongued charismatic saviour, a hippy version of a loquacious Renaissance Jesus, complete with long hair and (now salt'n'pepper) beard.
However, the timing remains interesting, and I suspect, not coincidental with his rising anti-establishment fame - not to mention a YT pot of money to attract plaintiffs and their lawyers.
There is a fading tide of cancel culture, perhaps Brand will be just become some flawed flotsam or jetsam on that ebbing swell.
>He was a self-confessed sex-addict and drug-addict over many years in that 90s-00s period
And even as such, had no complaints against him who bothered to go to the police and file/sue, not even at the height of me-too.
Then only things I've read are things like "he make lewd comments".
Then, on 2019 (? and they release now?) they get anonymous accusations, and even those to the press, not the police (the police merely says they are aware of "media reporting of a series of allegations"), from what the news say, for things that cannot be really verified aside from he-said/she-said anymore over 10 or 15 years after.
>He may well have some crimes to answer for: drugs were, and continue to be, illegal in the UK
Well, if he was investigated (by the police, not the press, like now) for drug use that would be relevant (even though still suspicious due to the timing and the focus on some individual where close to a million people use illegal drugs in the UK every day).
>It is only after a few years of criticizing the MSM and government overreach that someone has decided to dig up those old potential offences
And also where he's a nice "thought crime" target for all mainstream media types.
> One woman alleges that Brand raped her without a condom against a wall in his Los Angeles home. She says Brand tried to stop her leaving until she told him she was going to the bathroom. She was treated at a rape crisis centre on the same day, which the Times says it has confirmed via medical records
Is that not a "complaint against him who bothered to go to the police"?
Such a center is not the same as the police (which would be corroborating the story, running lab tests, bringing the alleged perpetrator in for questioning, and so on).
Dunnow, being cracked out your mind and chasing your ex around your locked bedroom when she's asked to leave, mounting and grinding here, all while your naked is a bit a much ?
The law has Innocent until proven Guilty, and statutes of limitation. If only the court of public opinion had such checks and balances. And it's clear Youtube is following the latter and not the former
He may well have some crimes to answer for: drugs were, and continue to be, illegal in the UK; perhaps sex-addicts are always close to the edge of criminality.
However, all those potential crimes are a long time ago. The police and his accusers have chosen to stay silent for a long time.
Some potentially self-incriminating stories have come from his own rehabilitation narrative.
It remains to be seen if the accusations can be upheld in a court of law, but the timing is suspicious.
It is only after a few years of criticizing the MSM and government overreach that someone has decided to dig up those old potential offences.
I do not like Brand's act or lifestyle. He always appeared to be (and gloried in) the persona of a silver-tongued charismatic saviour, a hippy version of a loquacious Renaissance Jesus, complete with long hair and (now salt'n'pepper) beard.
However, the timing remains interesting, and I suspect, not coincidental with his rising anti-establishment fame - not to mention a YT pot of money to attract plaintiffs and their lawyers.
There is a fading tide of cancel culture, perhaps Brand will be just become some flawed flotsam or jetsam on that ebbing swell.