ICE agents wearing masks while carrying out their activities tells you everything you need to know about Trump’s America. Not even Hitler’s henchmen wore masks and yet here we are seeing them used by law enforcement in America.
The Ku Klux Klan wore masks to carry out their extra-legal terrorist activities against African Americans. Wearing a mask hides one’s real identity and psychologically allows the wearer to assume a much more malevolent personality.
In a democracy, masks are to be used to protect other individuals, not to intimidate them.
Masks promote lack of transparency, a diminished ability to inform authorities about misbehavior, and a lack of accountability.
That is why Ku Klux Klan members wore them. And that is why ICE agents wear them today. It covers up their increasingly brutal assaults against would-be immigrants entitled to a presumption of innocence.
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Kimball Shinkoskey
Downtown
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