Russell Brand CHARGED in the UK

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British police charge comedian Russell Brand with rape and sexual assault

You know, if the police were serious about celebrities exploiting young women they should have arrested Elvis, Sinatra and every second male rockstar, producer, casting director and actor that ever worked.

I'm not actually a fan of Brand, but since he became a popular youtuber his influence is considerable with millions of followers around the world. Unfortunately for him his brand of politics and subject matter might have made him a target with intelligence agencies (not unlike tate or Assange). It wouldn't be hard to track and convince a former female acquaintance (and from what I understand Brand has had hundreds) who has an axe to grind due to his conduct. I am not suggesting these 4 women were not exploited but I don't think it makes sense to selectively target Brand and ignore literally thousands of other male entertainers/performers who virtually do/did the same thing.

So, because they're not going after guys who are literally dead, they shouldn't go after Brand?

One of the biggest factors is that police depend on the victims to report/make a complaint against the perpetrator.

If a hundred people all do the same thing, but only one of them has victims who actually come forward, only that perp is likely to face charges.

It is an extremely underreported crime. Most people do get away with it. It’s good when guilty folks pay the price no matter what their political affiliation might be.

If Russell is guilty, he deserves all the punishment that might be doled out to him.

As with every case of alleged rape, there are always accusers/people who exist to differing severities such as the woman in the following article, who make up stories about men and which have driven men to suicide in many cases.

Which is why such cases should have been settled in court before people make assumptions.

https://news.sky.com/story/eleanor-williams-why-did-woman-who-made-false-rape-and-grooming-claims-tell-such-extraordinary-lies-13098632

Black men are often the victims of false allegations of all kinds, including false rape allegations:

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/blacks-wrongful-convictions-study/index.html

Some of them are wrongly convicted at trial.

This likely isn’t about false allegations, though.

It’s pretty rare for people to make something like this up. The fact that 4 women came forward seems to legitimize this particular case further.

It’s also interesting that it has been investigated for 18 months.

two of the factors in the accusations is a) the veracity of the claims where the burden of proof is on the accuser and b) the dates, if there is a statute of limitations. Its been applied to abuse claims against rocker Brian Warner (Marilyn Manson). Charges could not be filed against Warner (Manson) for either domestic violence or sexual abuse, because the prosecutors "could not prove charges of sexual assault beyond a reasonable doubt", and that the "claims fell outside of the statute of limitations". 95% Of Bill Cosby's accusations also fell under statute of limitations (the one case that incriminated him only got him 2.5 years) . It also permitted current Supreme court judge and trump appointee Brett Kavanaugh to escape prosecution. Otherwise all of the above highly likely committed the acts they are accused off.

It is probably worth pointing out also that celebrities often have a higher number count of people they have had sex with/slept with. The chances of being falsely accused as a celebrity, by someone else gets higher, the more people a person/that celebrity has slept with.

I mean, let us say Russell Brand, as a wild guess/example, might have slept with 100 people over the past 30 years and 96 of them are not accusing him of any crime, the 4 people might be less damning than if the average person had been accused of the same.

I'm not defending him - for all I know he is guilty, we'll see how the trial goes I guess.

There is no realistic way of researching the frequency of non-legal, false accusations in this type of scenario. The majority of people who falsely accuse other people of crimes are typically dishonest in the first place and likely wouldn't be answering truthfully in any research into the matter, were they to be questioned to begin with.