It could have been America

Anyone who thinks that the Gestapo and the Bataan death march or other unspeakable things could not happen in America has a distressing lack of knowledge about human nature. That nature is the same the world over. Men are no better in one place than in another. The difference is the culture and the laws that restrict the conduct of men. It has been said that constant vigilance is the price of freedom, and no where more than in America.