Surprising!

People are thoroughly fed up with American Military arrogance.

clipped from www.guardian.co.uk Zimerman appears to have been upset by Barack Obama’s decision, announced this month, to maintain the Bush-era policy of installing a missile defence shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. “Yes,” Zimerman responded with derision, “some people when they hear the word military start marching.” “Get your hands off my country,” Zimerman told the stunned crowd in a denunciation of US plans to install a missile defence shield on Polish soil. Some people cheered, others yelled at him to shut up and keep playing. A few dozen walked out, some of them shouting obscenities. So he triggered more than the usual rumble of discomfort when he raised his voice in the closing stages of a recital at Los Angeles’ Disney Hall on Sunday night and announced he would no longer perform in the United States in protest against Washington’s military policies. ‘Get your hands off my country’ … Krystian Zimerman’s outburst stunned the crowd. Photograph: Grzegorz Michalowski/EPA/Corbis