THE RUSSELL BRAND SMEAR CAMPAIGN BEGINS!
When Russell and I became friends in 2013, he was inundated by the enemies of our ideas. They are frightened of them. They fucking-well should be. I was shadow-banned years ago (before it was term coined by the same gatekeepers toda - irony unwasted) and smeared across all socials and the MSM - from The Sun to The Times, by journos from Sky, the BBC beyond. Having worked with Twitter, FB and Keir Starmer as Director of Public Prosecution, Head of the CPS, to bring about guidelines for protections online (www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/twitter-should-not-be-a-realm-beyond-the-law_b_2518716/) those same social media outlets then refused to continue to man the floodgates of hate against me.
I was in constant dialogue with Twitter HQ, Sinead McSweeney and their CEO, Jack Dorsey. Had meetings with BBC HR. Kindly asked nasty Islamophobic journalists to stop with falsehoods and smears. I pleaded. I lobbied. There’s now a 200-page dossier with the DCMS UK Parliament Select Committee, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary (a silent Hants & IOW - Police & Crime Commissioner - Discussion Page) and Tory MP, Caroline Nokes.
Recovering from a self well-publicised heart-attack on what some might say was a not-such-a-Good Friday of that year (29th March 2013), the smear mongers knew my health condition all too well. Those who feigned sympathy in the spring were by the winter involved in a vicious smear campaign on a guy recovering from a heart-attack. This should be pretty easy to cut through, even for the dullest of blades. It was a smear campaign: well timed, well co-ordinated and designed to harm. To kill, even.
Kill it did. Just not me. It tore a family apart. It killed the reputations, work, the lives of friends, and associations. They always seek to destroy your support structures and isolate you. To marginalise you. Most of all, as she later admitted, it poisoned my wife’s mind, turned her against her own family and love, and ultimately destroyed her beautiful, fragile, life.
After all, how were they to know that woman had been living with C-PTSD since childhood; or that under the most scurrilous and unlawful of attacks, such a woman can break so badly as to do unspeakable things for which she will be arrested. What smear campaigns also achieve (pretty reasonably foreseeable tortious "fair game" for smear campaigners) is to destroy a decades long marriage. And the children. And a home.
Unmeasurable is the pain. According to scripture, it is said to be a thing most-hated by God; that for a unity of love and power which forms the cornerstone of a virtuous society; for such a blessed thing to be destroyed the heavens are torn asunder. Such is the darkness that results.
Whilst others ran and fled, Russell was there for me — every day. For weeks. When I received emails from the likes of Milo Yiannopololous and other Trumpers and far right networks, encouraging me to kill myself, that I was nothing but a scourge to those we represent - the poor, disabled, voiceless, refugees, migrants, those across divides of identity race and gender, and further afield now into realms of spirituality and belief - Russell diligently checked-in on me. Daily. He knew what these tools of darkness are designed to achieve.
At that time, I did not. But I will come to.
Smear campaigns are used, famously, because they work. And they shouldn't... that's the thing. They are designed to destroy marriages, lives, reputations and beyond. Why? It is not for proper scrutiny or accountability but it is rather the politics of hate. Of oppression. Of evil doing. For sensationalism and column inches. To take out political opponents. To marginalise. To silence. To smear. These are tools of their trade. How often the same establishment interests that cover up for paedophiles and refuse to stop the trafficking of humans, use claims of sexual transgressions against the enemies of their interests. It is a tired, evidenced and well-known strategy. Ask. Ask my collaborator, Julian Assange. Ask my friend, Prof Tariq Ramadan. Ask one of my former Lutonion influencees, Andrew Tate. Same playbook. Same protagonists. All whilst rape and sexual abuse cases are running at almost 99% unprosecuted.
There is vitally important work we all need to do to speak up, to stand up against what we ALL see around us to be false, harmful, untrue; a darkness on humanity which plagues us, devalues us and seeks to stop love and God's light. Enlightenment. Peace. Humanity. Ultimately, to live free.
We keep the fight going. We don't cower. And we never put our head on the ground in submission to darkness. Ever. Speak up, even if it makes your voice shake.
Share his videos. Share his vital messages on community, revolution, humanitarianism and living in peace. We are with you.
Stand with Russell Brand.
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First published 21 September 2023: Medium