Is it open season on CEOs?

In the last few weeks we have seen the sudden departure of a number of prominent CEOs around the World. First it was BPs bumbling Tony Hayward following the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BPs oil clean up efforts may actually have been much more effective than first reported but poor Tony just seemed to step into one public relations mine field after the next. Then at the weekend Blackwell Briggs flamboyant CEO, Sir Ian Briggs, was arrested for murder by Scotland Yard at an event in London following an investigation by a group called the "Conspiracy For Good". It is too early to tell if this will set back Blackwell Briggs new CCTV human tracking system but the arrest was celebrated by many anarchists who fear the technology will be used at the next G20 summit to track their protest activities. Finally Mark Hurd of technology company HP was forced to step down after a corporate scandal involving alleged sexual harassment.

Of the three, the arrest of Sir Ian Briggs is perhaps the most intriguing. The arrest has been reported by virtually none of the main stream media. This has led many conspiracy theorists to speculate that it is all part of an undercover plot by the UK Government to implement elements of a "police state" using technology developed by Blackwell Briggs under Sir Ian Briggs leadership.