Word: masking
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Last week, with the naming of Dick Cheney, you could almost watch the Dynasty stagger from one day to the next between wearing a mask and taking a bow. On the same day that the father told the New York Times that he couldn't remember whether he'd talked to his former Defense Secretary about becoming his son's running mate, George W. was telling USA Today that "it's no sign of weakness to talk to your...
Holding one post of the sign was an young woman anarchist with a shaved head and a red bandana mask. Holding the other was a nun in street clothes. She belonged to a group with signs that said, "Catholic sisters oppose the death penalty...
...help the police, local politicians passed a law targeting masked demonstrators. But what they see as a step toward public safety has been criticized as an attempt to put democracy up for sale. The ordinance, which sets a fine of at least $75, allows police to arrest mask wearers who evidence "the specific intent to intimidate or threaten another person...
...While no-mask laws exist in at least 18 states, most were designed to deal with secret societies like the Ku Klux Klan, whose intimidation factor was heightened by members' concealed identities. Philadelphia's law, in language derived from hate-crime legislation, signals a new target: political activists, particularly self-described or suspected anarchists. Ironically, the people protected by the first laws--religious, racial, sexual and political minorities--are potentially the focus of the second wave...
Civil rights advocates argue that the law, aside from requiring ESP to recognize "specific intent," quashes free speech and is a thinly veiled crowd-control mechanism, and not necessarily one that works. Seattle had passed an emergency two-day gas-mask ban to little effect. Detroit passed one too, anticipating trouble at a June meeting of the Organization of American States, but the law was never used. "How in heaven's name can the average officer know what the 'intent' of the masked individual is?" asks Stefan Presser of Pennsylvania's A.C.L.U. "What the officers are going...