"I just don't understand how they could possibly have come to that conclusion other than they were under so much pressure to make this appointment," he said.
"The mayor's decision ultimately came because they were under so much fire and were in danger of getting a federal monitor," said Susan Karten, a lawyer who specializes in police brutality cases.
The main difference between the eras is that in feudal times the peasants knew their place in society, while the Vietnamese people were under so many different rules that all that they were really sure of was that they had no place left to go.
A former social worker himself, Gee said Kids Company didn't have an adversarial relationship with the statutory services, but that those services were under so much pressure that they couldn't afford to recognise the intensity of the need many children were in.
"We were under so much pressure, we missed it," says Ruscetti.
The fall showed staff were under so much pressure they were unable to closely question the holders of potentially forged passports, the passport control officer said.
