Operation Misery: Week 2, Day 4.5 - An Ecumenical Question

Sub-titled: Stand Back Stoners.

In one of those yesterdays or possibly tomorrow long-serving cast member of the UK soap-opera "Coronation Street" William "Bill" Roache has given a frankly bizarre interview to a TV station in New Zealand. I've not seen the full interview and I'm not really sure I want to.

At one point Mr Roache suggested that sexual abuse victims deserve the abuse they receive because of misdeeds in their past lives. Apart from the obvious reference to Hinduism and Buddhism this of course was a reference to the bizarre interview that Glenn Hoddle gave that forced his resignation as manager of the England football team in 1999. However I believe that on that occasion Hoddle actually claimed the disabled deserved it because they were being punished by a Christian God. As Michael Owen has now finally, formally announced his resignation from professional football the English Defence League (EDL) could be fooled into thinking that this was the UK Crown bravely complaining to FIFA about the 1998 World Cup. Or maybe we mean the 1878 World Cup.

Mr Roach then went on to argue that men in bands can have sex with very young girls (One Direction, The Wanted and a little Bieber we're looking in your direction). Even if I was stone cold sober I would have great difficulty explaining how Mr Roache supported this argument. However I believe it was something along the lines of; "If you believe that you are made of pure love in a universe controlled by a god that is also made of pure love your every action is one of pure love." This is a long and complicated way of saying; "Every Paedoes always got an excuse."

However I understand that Mr Roache may have had this version of reality written for him by the "True Love Movement" who along with the Scientologists, Rihanna's GodLight Productions and those pesky Pentacostalists are some sort of hippy-dippy cult loosely based on Christianity. According to one page on Google the True Love Movement are based on South Korea's anti-fascist cold war hangover the Unification Church (the Moonies). However I must say this is the first time I've encountered the True Love Movement.

The issues of faith raised by Mr Roach's comments could apply to any number of religions but sound most like the ideology of the Protestant Church of England. Jerusalem and all that. In fact it is as the influence of CoE Protestantism has waned in the western world that it seems to have been replaced by all these hippy-dippy, New Agey cults. So much so that the religious amongst us have commented that those who believe in nothing will believe in anything.

Personally I think this is a very long and complicated way of accusing Rihanna of being a false idol. After all the references to sexual abuse do link back to her reunion with Chris Brown in the toilets of a New York nightclub in October 2012. Four days before the Azerbaijan meltdown I seem to recall. The notion that believing that your every action no matter appalling is right does raise questions about why no-one has intervened to stop Chris Brown. Obviously the UK is trying to answer that question by arguing that it is God's will that the Rihanna and Chris Brown must a couple. However the US have certainly been doing a lot of preparation work pushing the issues of local cults and corruption. And it is here that the flaw in the UK's argument is highlighted

You see for Chris Brown and Rihanna to reunite it has taken the action and inaction of many, many men and women. Therefore to believe that it is God's will that Chris Brown and Rihanna reunite you must believe that God is sitting in the heavens somewhere controlling the actions of all these people as if they were pieces on a chess board. This obviously presents lots of metaphysical and ecclesiastical questions about whether is possible for God to play chess with himself but that might count as going off on a bit of a tangent.

As all the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) all believe in the same God this sort of discussion is going to pour gasoline on the fire of Rihanna's upcoming concerts in Morocco and Turkey. After all if Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in the same God why are they always fighting each other? The answer to that is that at the most extreme end of these religions people believe that it is that God's will that they fight each other in an effort to bring about the end of the world and the arrival of paradise. It is these true believers that France and Chad are currently fighting in Mali. Personally I think that when the human mind is under a lot of stress it sometimes goes a bit wonky. See the filming of Rihanna's "We Found Love Video" or Rihanna's trip to Azerbaijan.

As Rihanna is currently in Canada which is part British Commonwealth Realm and tickets for her September concerts in Australia (Commonwealth Realm) and New Zealand (Commonwealth Realm) go on sale soon along with fact that the interview was first broadcast in New Zealand this sort of discussion is going to cause everybody in those countries lots and lots of stress.

So you remember how I said Team Breezy seem more keen on the UK part of the US/UK alliance? Well they seem to have now seconded Rihanna to the UK so she can be used to test the Commonwealth's faith in the Church of England and through that Church the strength of the UK Crown.

Oh course as William Roache has claimed to have had sex with thousands of women in the 1970's, the Jimmy Savile police are still investigating lots of allegations of sex crimes from the 1970's and Roach's Coronation Street co-star Michael Le Vell is currently on trial for various sexual offences against children (under 13) you are supposed to be asking yourself what particular hold does the UK have over the actor to get him to put out this nonsense? However as Mr Roach is apparently travelling to New Zealand this evening (UK time) that strikes me as something that would be very foolish. After all every paedoe's always got an excuse.


Editors note: This originally intended to be posted at around 17:20 on 19/3/13 so I understand that we are now on Week 2 Day 5. Apart from being an effort to turn the document into a tracer by seeing who was able to get copies of it from the intended post time the embargo was a US/UK joint effort to raise speculation about whether Rihanna was able to read this post before her Toronto concert and whether it affected her performance. In answer to the first question; yes she certainly did. In answer to the second question; She's refusing to tell us. After all if she is still in the grips of the fantasy that if she continues to obey the CIA's rules they will continue to protect Chris Brown so they can go off and live happily ever after.

13:50 on 20/3/13.