Later on today the UK will host the annual Oxford versus Cambridge University boat race. Last years event was of course disrupted in an effort to promote discussion about security for the 2012 London Olympic games. So this year the UK will be deploying members of the Royal Marines to provide security.
Along with elements of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea's (DPRK) 'threats' against the US this is a reference to that time in 2007 that I successfully negotiated the release of 15 Royal Marines and sailors from Iranian custody. Part of those negotiations was the release of a proof of life video that featured Captain Christopher Air - the senior Marine officer standing in front of a nautical map of the area. This was a scene largely recreated in the photograph released by the DPRK showing Kim Jong Un signing the order authorising the use of missiles against US targets in front of a nautical map of the area.
The release of those Marine and sailors is of course one of the 'crimes' for which I'm being punished. So the US, the UK and the DPRK have clearly been getting together to remind everybody why I'm being treated in the way I am. Personally I think they'd be better off conducting a survey of opinion lest they find themselves out on a limb describing that as an act or terrorism.
Fortunately the DPRK seem to have managed to keep themselves relatively quiet over the last 24 hours. I'd like to say that hopefully this will continue to give US a period of quiet time in order to assess the reality of it's situation. Sadly the US is showing no signs of breaking stride. Their latest move has been to announce that Evan Ebel the now dead lead suspect in the shooting of Colorado prisons chief may have been released early from prison due to a clerical error. Ebel had been serving an eight year sentence for a assault.
This is of course an effort to build tension ahead of Chris Brown's appearance in Court of Friday (5/4/13). After all one thing the Judge could do is sentence him straight to eight years in prison for the original assault on Rihanna whilst indicting him to trial for the subsequent offences. I though think that my suggestion of indicting for all offences whilst imposing strict bail conditions is the best solution. However I fear this is something of a academic discussion because it's quite clear that the US has so much resting on Brown's role in Rihanna's tour that unless a little bit of reality suddenly interjects itself into the situation they're going to continue to protect Brown. Either way I can happily wait until the Judge publicly announces his decision.
In other news clocks in the UK have moved forward 1 hour as we move into British Summer Time (BST). I of course will still be stubbonly using Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
11:30 on 31/3/13.
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