I could have protested this insulting treatment and gotten by without having to be searched. Yet. the tense atmosphere warned me that such protests would be folly in light of the confrontation that might possibly result. Blockades set up at key points along all the roads each utilized the same pairing processes. All this seemed to accomplish was to stretch out the marchers for miles. With the overcast sky. the soldiers lining the route and armed lorries patroling the route. I felt like I was part of a column of refugees leaving a doomed town. Only our direction was toward the point of possible disruptionnot away
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