Operation Misery: Month 4, Week 1, Day 4.

Sitting in a police cell gives you plenty of time to think about what brought you to that point and I don't mean a police van. So as you may have noticed I've decided that I won't be writing up reviews of every concert on the European leg of Rihanna's Diamonds World Tour. That's because I think that it is only through me that Rihanna is considered politically relevant. Therefore me writing constant reviews only adds to the tension and makes the situation worse. I will though continue to be keeping an eye on what is going on and will address any political issues. In the meantime if you want to read a cheeky review of Rihanna's Cardiff concert last night (10/6/13) one can be found here; http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/music-review-rihannas-xrated-millennium-stadium-show-fails-to-hit-the-thigh-notes-8653333.html

Yesterday though was a politically important day of Rihanna's tour because it saw Chris Brown return to a Los Angeles Courtroom for another hearing relating to his multitude of parole violations mainly his failure to complete his original sentence of community service imposed following the 2009 assault on Rihanna. As always details of Chris Brown's Court appearances are hard to come by. However I gather that Judge Gluber simply granted another continuance in the case until 14:00 (local) on July 15th 2013 (15/7/13) - the date on which Rihanna will be back in the UK performing a concert in Manchester. Judge Gluber also seemed to lay down something of a challenge to the prosecution by giving them until today to indicate whether they wish to continue the case. I suspect that they will because they have announced they are continuing to investigate the fight between Chris Brown and Frank Ocean as a probation violation if not a public order offence. Also as far as I can tell Chris Brown has not complied with a Court order requiring him to remove the excessive signage from outside his Los Angeles home which puts him in contempt of court. This is a clear probation violation and actually quite a serious criminal offence in its own right.

Sadly it is also quite clear that Chris Brown's handlers have still not come to terms with the fact that their operation has failed and seem intent pressing ahead regardless. Apart from the continuance being granted until a date on which Rihanna will once again be in the UK Chris Brown's latest Court appearance coincided with the start of the trial of George Zimmerman over the alleged murder of Trayvon Martin. The intention obviously being that people would start looking very deeply into the complex and completely unrelated Zimmerman trial for clues as to what was going on in the Chris Brown case.

Just as the Chris Brown hearing was taking place a Southwest airlines flight from Los Angeles to Houston was dramatically diverted to Phoenix. The idea of course was to create speculation that the handlers had accepted that their plan had been somewhat diverted and could be lifting their protection of Chris Brown. People would then listen very intently to the Southwest airlines story looking for clues that weren't there. This was met with short shrift from the Japanese who responded by diverting a Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight after it developed a problem with its de-icing system. Although this is just Japan giving their US allies a friendly warning that it's really time for them to give up on the Chris Brown operation sadly I think the handlers will find a way to use this to convince themselves that the operation must still be viable because people are still responding.


On the plus side both the Southwest diversion and today's similar incident involving Richmond International Airport in Virginia have been put down to hoax phone calls. This gives the impression that the handlers are at least discussing whether my assessment that the operation has failed is genuine or not. Also much of the discussion about the PRISM leaker Edward Snowden has turned into a discussion about how one man can destroy the efforts of so many people which seems an apt metaphor for my role in the Chris Brown operation. So once again I guess we will have to wait and see what happens on July 15th. Of course I might actually be in prison by that point but do you know what - not even that is going to get the Chris Brown operation back on track.

Also to demonstrate how far removed I am from the anti-G8/anti-Capitalist protests that are currently going on in central London I first heard about them on the news about two hours after they started. I then proceeded to go shopping in Croydon to buy a replacement electric razor and a second hand Blackberry Bold 9780 because the operating system on my Storm is now seriously out of date and I might have ever so slightly broken part of the touchscreen.

16:50 on 11/6/13.