General Discussion

Ordinary people are being herded along a street — there’s a small terrified girl out front. Who are they? Jews. Who is herding them? Nazis. Where are they going? Death camps. What is the transport? Cattle cars.

Tried just now to find that photo online — but there are so many photos.

When I was growing up in the years after the death camps were liberated by American soldiers, I thought I knew who we were, and that we were the good guys.

That prison in El Salvador where no one can be found or returned… the land in the US already earmarked for concentration camps… the masked agents in black, no names, no patches, no ID… the nightmare bus trips and charter flights…

Masha Gessen is so right.