Imagine -

Imagine: the last votes are counted. Your town now has the first  democratically elected Green Mayor and Councillors. Nearby towns feel threatened that your radical ideas may spread so they erect a 5 meter concrete barrier wall around your town. There are armed guards on the wall who have been ordered to shoot  at anyone coming within 3 meters of the wall.

The only gates in or out are closed for weeks on end so  you can't get to work, and incoming supplies are denied entry. Your town's economy soon crumbles. Your Council can't afford to buy electricity from the national grid now so power is rationed and essential service like sewage, and water pumping falter. Your small day hospital can't function without power, the crematorium closes and there's no petrol for the hearse. 

Helicopters patrol overhead looking for known Green supporters and Green strongholds to blow up.  Sometimes they miss and hit a children's playground, but the Greens were only using the kids as a shield - so that's OK.  

You're angry at the way you are treated, no one seems interested in your plight, so hit back with the only weapons you have - you throw stones. 

Welcome to Gaza!