Joe Sims

Russell Brand is quite literally one of the most insufferable, phony spiritual, guru clowns, conspiracy slop peddlers in our culture. I know this, and I can still say without a shadow of a doubt that his conviction is an absolute mockery of justice. Remember when we used to believe that all people had the right to a fair trial and that prosecutors needed to have evidence to prove that someone committed a crime? 10 years (!) for a crime that essentially came down to he said/she said back and forth argument in court is shameful. 10 fucking years! A decade. And for everyone out there saying things like, “well he was a piece of shit he probably did something wrong,” are you listening to yourselves ? If you got convicted of murder despite never murdering anyone but maybe behaved like an abhorrent, cruel and petty monster your whole life in other ways, would it then somehow feel just that you’d be going to prison for decades ? This tabloid spectacle isn’t good for any of us but the reactions that circulate in response to these stories are meaningful because they force everyone to reveal their inner ethics or compass. I don’t long for even the most loathsome and repellant people to do long prison sentences for crimes that can’t be proven one way or another and I always thought that most people living in western democracies felt the same way. That has obviously radically changed over the last couple of decades, now everyone just wants their world view flattered irregardless of the real life consequences of it all. I’m guilty of this myself, but I know I’m not wrong about this.