Jules Vasquez reporting
"We want our country back, we'll take our country back" - that was the emphatic chant hollered out by the firebrands leading today's peaceful protest through Belmopan. They led a far more laid back crowd through Belmopan and took the message right up to the Prime Minister's Office - where plainclothes police blocked the door. But they couldn't block Raymond Rivers and Geovannie Brackett's outbursts:

Geovannie Brackett. President - COLA
"We may have started with a few today but the next house meeting, this campaign will be there and the next house meeting this campaign will be there."

They took this message all through Belmopan where, in front of the Ministry of National security they at least got a curtain to peep open.

In total, it was a six stop protest, form the National Assembly, to the PM's office to the NEMO office where they hurriedly closed the door as the crowd approached - But there wasn't any commotion, just more speeches - which would be a recurring theme on this day - a few of these folks had a whole lot to say.

And from NEMO and the PM's office it was back to the National Assembly building, where we observed the crowd of regular citizens, activists, and politicians all co-mingled listening to an above average number of speeches under a blazing sun.

Yes, speechifying was a recurring theme on this day with the last stop being an assembly in in front of the National Security Ministry at the end of it, the protestors were spent after walking a Belmopan circuit for an hour and a half.

Luis Wade, #iwantmycountryback
"We need an international independent investigation into the murder of Pastor Llewelyn Lucas. Top brass police officers are telling us 'Luis we are incapable of going everywhere the evidence is leading'. we do not juts want to know who held the knife and slit the throat, this is the kind of policing that we're doing right now but there needs to be the wider complete unnerving un-removing of the entire web and net of circumstances that allowed Pastor Llewelyn Lucas to be drawn in and then murdered and then his head decapitated and then presented as either some kind of trophy or proof."

But that likely won't come out of this march:

Jules Vasquez
"Sir in the calculus of a politician's mind, 135 people, I heard you but I don't have to listen because I have thousands who vote for me."

Luis Wade, #iwantmycountryback
"Precedence have shown that not only have they not listened, but they have also gone on to do exactly the opposite."

Jules Vasquez
"So then are you wasting your time?"

Luis Wade, #iwantmycountryback
"I am not wasting my time because precedence has demanded that they must tighten the structure. But I think the Prime Minister sitting at the top of that pyramid must look down and say 'man I am doing an injustice to this country'."

Jules Vasquez
"This crowd, I counted, was 135 on a Tuesday morning will not shake the foundation of power in Belmopan. The politicians can easily ignore a crowd like this."

Geovannie Brackett. President - COLA
"I like the movie 300, but then again you would say it's a movie. But I like stories that begin small and end big. I really believe in this movement."

Luis Wade, #iwantmycountryback
"The "iwantmycountryback" is a hashtag, a hashtag allows us to make contact with every single person who uses that hashtag. So every person who uses that hashtag will know exactly what we'll do the next time we'll do something."

Jules Vasquez
"But is it something you want to sustain, that you want to keep up the pressure? Because we know that we have many events that happened, but they don't have continuity and then the public interests just falls by the wayside side and it's abandoned."

Luis Wade, #iwantmycountryback
"That is exactly why it is a hashtag. That is exactly why we are not going to say what the next thing is going to be, because we have studied all of the movements be it "rod of correction" - every single one of them and we are going to move in the opposite flow of everything that they have done. It's a hashtag, a hashtag is a powerful thing."

A powerful thing, and it is powered by the imagery of a Pastor stripped of his life in the cruelest way:

Jules Vasquez
"Pastor Lu was not just a man of the book, Pastor Lu was an enterprising man. He was introduced by Mr. Mason to the Mennonite as his accountant and advisor. I'm saying isn't it somewhat complicated to use him as the unifying force or as the unifying symbol in this, when he may have had nefarious dealings with Mr. Mason, as an ally of Mr. Mason."

Luis Wade, #iwantmycountryback
"but how I judge the issue of Llewelyn is based upon what the Mennonites say about him, what they said about him and what they said was that he had called them, spoke to them and asked them 'did you get your corn?' or 'did you get back your money?'. And when he heard about the kidnaping and the other issues, he went to get their money back. That is not me saying that, that is the Mennonites saying that."