So, yes, they did take a few of us to a propaganda camp ("training center"), as it turned out. As we were being transported, we could see out the windows of the vehicles that all these same kind of military insurgents were fanning out now into the local towns, along the country-side rural communities--on foot, in jeeps, trucks, motorcycles, low-flying planes etc., but I was struck, bemused that they were not being especially brutal; as in, they were not flat-out just shooting the locals on sight. They were very disciplined, but clearly made it plain in their manner and organization, that there would be no resistance. And everybody seemed to just comply and were mainly left alone (for the time) except, I did note that they were specifically harsh on certain individuals, as if they had knowledge/lists of some of us.
While on the transport train, everything was under strict supervision and there was an obvious hierarchy--there were captains in charge and then just general soldier types mindlessly effecting directives. There was no question of resisting, we were resigned captives of some sort (yet to be determined) and while there was no blunt brutality, it was simply accepted that we were under control by an organized lot and for the time being, it was just best to go along and see where it led.
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[Below are my rough notes. I just need/want to get this completed, what I saw, so forgive the roughness of the recitation. The bottom-line experience . . . was one of being swiftly and severely under some foreign insurgence and control--polite but lurking brutality should one not submit.]
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they called it "training" ... forced to do certain menial meaningless tasks... minders always coming around checking work and assigning next task... meanwhile chinese happy orchestral music was pumping out everywhere...sounding, feeling like like the Shen Yun plays and ads and propaganda popping up now on local radio, tv (if you've heard/seen it, you'll know)... there was a floating boat show in the sky, quite stunning, indeed, with exquisite paper life-sized boats as balloons moving, floating above, such that the plebes below would clap and shout in awe at the marvel...
.. various of the minders were children....teens...who kept the commands and order carried on politely (but with truncheon-wielding uniformed thugs lurking, watching in the wings in case one should buck the program).....
oh and note as we were transported to this "mystical magical" training place... I saw towns, rural outskirts and the usual dilapidated malls etc along way still carrying on, that didn't have these military insurgents yet taking over... but the sense was it was imminent everywhere, determined, well executed, and just a matter of time before all was under their control.
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