Zubin Mehta Waits For Order To Be Restored
The photo above was taken during the night of September 1, 2011, when the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra’s concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall, conducted by maestro Zubin Mehta, was interrupted by an anti-Israel protest. The BBC cut from the performance’s live broadcast and went to a pre-recorded program from an earlier event.
With thanks to Vlad Tepes for the link, click here for the path to Richard Millett’s Blog, which covered the protest during the performance, along with video footage of the chaotic episode. I’m not aware that something like this has ever occurred during a performance in that venue.
http://richardmillett.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/why-did-the-bbc-pull-last-nights-live-transmission-of-the-israeli-philharmonic-orchestra-at-the-proms/
The incident goes to further illustrate the sinking into the abyss of Muslim and leftist mob rule that is in progress in the United Kingdom. There is also video and a photographic display of a contemporaneous protest that took place outside the concert hall.
This is very ugly and disheartening, that the artists of Israel are also under the braying, Orwellian assault of the London political left and its partner, Islam. Europe, especially the United Kingdom, is once again apparently descending into anti-Semitic madness the likes of which have not been seen since the 1930s and 1940s.
Protest Outside Royal Albert Hall - Photo: Richard Millett's blog
About John L. Work
John Lloyd Work has taken the detective thriller genre and woven an occasional political thread throughout his books, morphing what was once considered an arena reserved for pure fiction into believable, terrifying, futuristic, true-to-life “faction”.
He traveled the uniformed patrolman’s path, answering brutal domestic violence calls, high speed chases, homicides, suicides, armed robberies, breaking up bar fights, and the accompanying sporadic unpredictable moments of terror - which eventually come to all police officers, sometimes when least expected. He gradually absorbed the hard fact that the greatest danger a cop faces comes in the form of day-to-day encounters with emotionally disturbed, highly intoxicated people. Those experiences can wear a cop down, grinding on his own emotions and psyche. Prolonged exposure to the worst of people and people at their worst can soon make him believe that the world is a sewer. That police officer’s reality is a common thread throughout Work’s crime fiction books.
Following his graduation from high school, Work studied music and became a professional performer, conductor and teacher. Life made a sudden, unexpected turn when, one afternoon in 1976, his cousin, who eventually became the Chief of the Ontario, California, Police Department, talked him into riding along during a patrol shift. The musician was hooked into becoming a police officer.
After working for two years as a reserve officer in Southern California and in Boulder, Colorado, he joined the Longmont, Colorado Police Department. Work served there for seven years, investigating crimes as a patrolman, detective and patrol sergeant. In 1989 he joined the Adams County, Colorado Sheriff’s Office, where he soon learned that locking a criminal up inside a jail or prison does not put him out of business. As a sheriff’s detective he investigated hundreds of crimes, including eleven contract murder conspiracies which originated “inside the walls”.
While serving on the Adams County North Metro Gang Task Force and as a member of the Colorado Security Threat Intelligence Network Group (STING), Work designed a seminar on how a criminal’s mind formulates his victim selection strategy. Over a period of six years he taught that class in sheriff’s academies and colleges throughout Colorado. He saw the world of crime both inside the walls and out on the streets.
His final experiences in the criminal law field were with the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office, where for nearly two years he investigated felonies from the defense side of the Courtroom.
Twenty-two years of observing human nature at its worst, combined with watching some profound changes in America’s culture and political institutions, provided plenty of material for his first three books. A self-published author, he just finished writing his tenth thriller.
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