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originally posted by: Saloon
a reply to: andy06shake
I don't think you guys a being fair with Brand all the same. I could name a gaggle of famous people who rocked the cradle. Most of them rock stars. Elvis, Jimmy Page, Jerry Lee Lewis etc. They never got disrespected by any one for going way
younger than 16 yo.
Not to mention all the young girls that are thirteen go'n on thirty. Who often find their way into a party some where they shouldn't be.Then along comes Benny Buzzed Balls and he ain't thinking about check'n IDs at that particular moment. Next day Benny's waking upwith a freak'n hang over and Johnny law bang'n on the door with some really bad news.
Any way it just seems like the hate come'n off here is only for the reason I described. Liberals hate dissenters more than they hate God. And I say that with no idea what hat you wear. So let the haters hate. I mean hell Brands no hero of mine any way. I've watched him a few times on you tube and he's got a huge base on there.
originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: Itisnowagain
With all due respect, historically there was hardly a culture of encouraging women to come forward when they had been subjected to any sort of sexual attack here in the UK.
Yes, it was a systemic failing and one which we have to improve upon.
I know a couple of women who have confided in me that they didn't report the sexual abuse they endured because of the perceived stigma surrounding such victims.
One of those women is a very good friend of mine; she confided in me quite some time after breaking up with her partner, who was the offender.
She said she couldn't bear the trauma of the cross-examination in court and the thought that everybody knowing what she had suffered and all the inevitable snide and malicious comments being made behind her back.
Justice was carried out eventually, maybe not as recognised by the judicial system but it seemed appropriate to me.
I can't even begin to understand what it must be like for a woman to be the victim of a sex crime, to be raped or to feel trapped in a sexually abusive relationship.
I can sympathise but i'll never be able to empathise.
People can try to take the moral high ground and defend Brand and whine about his alleged public trial by media.
But as I've said previously, he was the very epitome of a media whore - you reap what you sow.
And there can be no doubting he was incredibly misogynistic and emotionally abusive to many of his 'conquests'.
I strongly believe in innocent until proven guilty, but I'm struggling to have any sympathy whatsoever for Brand.
The legal procedure will take its due course and if deemed appropriate both his victims and he will have their day in court.
If a jury of his peers find him guilty I hope he gets lifed off - as I do with all perpetrators of sex crimes.
If he is innocent then he will walk free....but the world will always know that he is a morally repugnant human being.
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: JumpTheGun76
Did you miss his link to Saville?
Doesn't matter if it was 20 or 30 years ago.
You don't know what evidence there might be. There hasn't even been a Police investigation carried out yet.
Yet you think there is 100% proof it's all fake?
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: tanstaafl
Have you seen the complete text?
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: JumpTheGun76
Well, there is his interview with Saville:
www.mirror.co.uk...
"Russell Brand was interviewing Jimmy Savile for his BBC radio show in 2007 when he offered up a naked personal assistant to give Savile a massage"
originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: JumpTheGun76
"the media, they had stuck his photo alongside Jimmy saville! Not one person on mainstream media are saying "hang on! We have to be careful here because countless of celebs have been accused of terrible things like rape, and actually were innocent"
Quite a few were guilty.
So there is that?