King George... Here in New York, I have always thought the Upper West Side looks similar to some of the older parts of Frankfort. Sometimes I walk down Broadway and imagine what it would be like if trucks were parked along the side streets and people herded out of their apartments into the trucks in the middle of the night. My guess is it would be done by troops, while the regular NYC Police stood by. We would be taken to Riverside park where the train comes out of the tunnel and herded into train cars. Or maybe they would put us on special express Number 1 trains to 242 street. Then we could be herded into Van Cortland Park to wait for transit to the camps in Greene County. When the facilities in Greene County filled up, they could truck us out Route 17 to the Otselic Valley, the nearest really isolated area to New York City. I lived in Heidelberg for roughly 9 years in the 1960's and 70's. I looked German, spoke German, and usually passed for Dutch or Danish. I worked at the Opera Company, and spent a lot of time around people who had worked there twenty or thirty years. They talked about the war and years preceding it a lot, the way my parents talked about the depression at the dinner table when I was a child. Just so, whenever we were all sitting around during a break or after a rehearsal, at dinner, or out for drinks, the subject would tend towards those confusing years when everything had been turned upside down. Unnoticed, I sat in the background listening to the stories. No one took the ideas of the Third Reich seriously at first. By the time they began to realize what was going on they were frightened for their lives. If the Government could take the assistant conductor in the middle of the night, the government could take any one of them away.. Whenever a Government gives itself the prerogative to set aside basic human rights at will, we are on a path that changes the relationship between the government and the people. What can be justified in one instance can be justified in all instances. If you can justify rounding up one group of people and placing them in concentration camps without an indictment, a list of specific charges, or an attorney, you can justify rounding up another unpopular group of individuals. If a government can set aside rules against torture for one person then it can basically select anyone out of the population for the same treatment on any “urgent” basis whatsoever. This is what my German friends realized too late, that to the Government, individuals are all the same, and once the rules re set aside for one individual, they have basically set aside the rules for us all.