The Freedom Party - 2

2 The Freedom Party
Part One HOW IT ALL BEGAN

To get into this next party, we will go back in time, and some distance in space. We are in the Jewish quarter of a small town in Turkey in about 200 BC. Like the Martian speaking English, you manage somehow to speak fluent Aramaic (the language most Jews spoke at the time). All day long you have been aware of a growing excitement. People shopping in a hurry. People busily going to and fro. It is springtime, and there is a sense of something about to happen. Then everything goes quiet in the street. You go over to one of the houses and knock on the door. A girl comes and lets you in, and brings you to the table, where the whole family is gathered…