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Wednesday, March 09, 2005
By the wayThe good citizens of Mainz and Wiesbaden did not feel especially honored by Bush's visit last month. For a while there they hardly felt welcome in their own homes, because government agencies basically closed the area down. One correspondent from Wiesbaden writes:1000s of people from mainz and wiesbaden couldn't go to work on wednesday... (OPEL in rüsselsheim for example closed the whole day!) friends of mine who live in mainz said that the police came to every household in their house to see if the people really live in this house ... also the streets and highway were closed until 7 p.m. - it was like on sunday: no people, no cars, they even were not allowed to open their windows for a few hours (not only to stay at home!!!) and a lot more ... (of course most of the shops were closed - even in wiesbaden ... really strange... "I really think their foreign policy goal is to spread irony around the world." -- Jon Stewart
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
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