From today’s Mirror comes this quote, uttered by British Prime Minister Theresa May in response to the Muslim fatal bombing at Manchester Arena yesterday following the Ariana Grande concert:
“We struggle to comprehend the warped and twisted mind that sees a room packed with young children not as a scene to cherish, but as an opportunity for carnage.
“But we can continue to resolve to thwart such attacks in future. To take on and defeat the ideology that often fuels this violence….”
I don’t know how much comfort the bereaved families of the 22 dead victims and the scores of grievously injured can, should, or will, take from Ms. May’s words.
But, we can all rest assured that Britain’s Prime Minister struggles to comprehend it.
I do have a question for her:
Madame Prime Minister: Pray tell us, exactly what is this ideology that often fuels this violence?
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.
From today’s Mirror comes this quote, uttered by British Prime Minister Theresa May in response to the Muslim fatal bombing at Manchester Arena yesterday following the Ariana Grande concert:
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I’m gonna help you out here, Theresa, ’cause I’m your pal. It’s called Islam. See, not that tough to comprehend after all. There, now that you understand the twisted mind, maybe you can admit it. Our President did and he got elected after 8 years of denial by the left. You might want to cogitate on this before the election. Just sayin’……
She wants to keep on lying. At this point you *know* they want it this way. If they wanted to stop these attacks, they’d stop importing the perps. They hate common Brits. Bastard.
Well-said, Caroline!