Russell Brand Reacts To Rolf Harris Verdict In Bizarre Video
Rolf Harris is an Australian-born artist, songwriter, and performer - one of Britain’s most beloved entertainers. His comedy and art in the entertainment business garnered him award ceremonies and accolades; an appointment to Commander of Order of the British Empire, Officer of Order of Australia, as well as countless other entertainment industry awards. He worked all over the UK and Australia, on the BBC, and even collaborated with the Beatles during his long and successful career. This was the case until the Jimmy Savile pedophilia investigation Operation Yewtree started to look closely into the claims of abuse stemming back decades.Last month Harris was found guilty of 12 assaults against minors, including seven against daughter’s childhood friend. The 84 year old has been sentenced to five years in jail.
It’s been reported that his popularity made him ’untouchable’ at the time, but in light of many other cases of abuse revealed by Operation Yewtree, it’s becoming evident that the entertainment culture of fame, wealth and secrecy was instrumental in hiding and preserving peadophiles and sexual predators in the entertainment industry.
Radio Host, Activist and Comedian Russel Brand has now come out with a video reacting to the Harris verdict and sentencing. Brand seems to struggle to make sense of the revelations of abuse, but teeters on the edge of defending Harris, suggesting the situation was ’real yet unreal’. He also posits there is no bad or good, just our own human projections. In the video Brand says the reality or truth of the abuses were ’unknowable to us’, the global audience - yet the reality was undoubtedly known to the children Harris abused.
All this from an entertainer himself who has rewritten classic fairy tales for children to ’change how they see the world’.
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Russell Brand Reacts To Rolf Harris Verdicts In Bizarre Video
From: The Huffington Post UK
Russell Brand has intervened in the Rolf Harris case to give his slightly odd thoughts on the fact a man who was a beloved children’s entertainer for decades is now a convicted sex offender.
Giving his opinion via YouTube, Brand said that Rolf Harris’ verdict was "like a graffiti over our consciousness, a graffiti over our grasp of what’s real".
In between explaining why the vilification of Harris was different from the vilification of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and imploring people to considier what the verdict tells us about our perception of reality, Brand said "you can’t get any joy" out of what had happened to the entertainer.
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