An ignorant coward?

Wrong! A Federal B.A.T.F law enforcing agent and Catholic religious penitents. That's who!

    I took these photos at a Klan rally in Crawfordsville, In. in the mid 1990's. While standing in the crowd of spectators I noticed that the federal officers were hiding their faces behind masks. Yet, not one single Klansman was wearing a mask. Not even a robe is seen in the photo below. (Resolution of photos was kept low, here, on purpose to protect the innocent.)

    We are always told that anyone who hides their face behind a mask is a coward. That they hide their faces in shame because they are up to no good. That they hide their faces because they are filled with ignorant racist hate. Does that mean that the Negro BATF officer above is a cowardly, ignorant, hate filled racist hiding his face in shame because he is up to no good? You decide for yourself. But if that is true, then why aren't the Klansmen above wearing any masks? Does that mean that they are not ignorant, hateful, cowardly, racist, or up to no good?

    Enough with the satire. Now take a good look at the BATF agent's uniform. Do you see a badge? A name tag? Any means at all of identifying him? Let's get serious. What if this BATF agent were to deliberately violate your rights or even do you bodily harm while you were in the act of exercising your God given rights? How would you identify? How could you bring him to justice for violating your rights or the rights of others? It did say BATF in big bold letters on the back of their uniforms, but that was it. So, who was that masked man?

    A BATF agent is a public servant, like all other law enforcing officers, they are answerable to WE THE PEOPLE. So how can they be held answerable, should they abuse their powers and violate your rights when they can't be identified? Are they hiding behind masks because they fear the people? When a government begins to fear the people, it's time for the people to fear that government.

    In addition to numbered badges, state and local police must wear a name tag. So why not federal agents? When I was in the police reserves in the early 1970's no law enforcer wore a mask. So why are the feds wearing masks now and of all places, at a Klan rally?

    Now, BATF stands for Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. But no one at that rally was dealing in alcohol, tobacco, or firearms in any way shape or form. So, why were they even there in the first place? There were more then enough state and local police there to keep order at this small local event. So why were the feds sticking their noses in it in the first place. Is Big Brother watching you? Are your politics, race, and religion BATF approved?

    Look at that photo and think a minute. Can you think of any other government in which the secret police wore helmets similar to that and black uniforms similar to that? Doesn't the photo remind you of the Nazi Black SS? (A joke considering a Black man is wearing it.) What are we to think. Oops, sorry, I forgot it's not politically correct for, we the people, to think at all in the New World Order. Have you ever seen any old movies in which Hitler calls his Third Reich the New World Order? And now our government is using the same term. If Hitler's propaganda minister, Dr. Goebbels, had come up with the term, "politically correct", he would have had a field day. Politically Correct means mind control and a complete end to freedom of speech and if we lose freedom of speech, we lose all freedom. So why is "political correct" mind control even tolerated in our society which is supposed to be so dedicated to freedom? Why are unidentifiable black clad masked secret police even present in a society that is supposed to be run by it's people and it's law enforcers, politicians, and administrators are supposed to be public servants answerable to the people they govern?

    Also at this rally the police were frisking everyone entering the rally even though that was against a Federal Supreme Court ruling. According to the Second Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, they could use hand held or stationary metal detectors, but, they are not supposed to pat down search the public wanting to attend these functions. So they violated federal law. Then, they confiscated everything they claimed could be used as a weapon. A man in a wheel chair and another man on crutches were not allowed in at all because the crutches or wheel chair could be used as a weapon according to the police. Their rights to attend this free speech event were totally violated. So much for the rights of We The People! Further, when the police confiscate an item, that does not give them the right to steal and keep it. They could take the items from people as they entered the blocked off area. But they have to give you a receipt and give back the items when the people came out of the rally to home. The police confiscated combs, pens, pencils, umbrellas, books, even one man's container of prescription medication! What an arsenal! They confiscated a pen from me and when the rally was over I ask for my pen back. I was told that all that stuff had been gotten rid of. I complained and they quickly passed the buck, meaning I had to go to headquarters and see the chief of police. Well a pen only cost a few nickels and dimes, but it was the principle that bothered me. I went to the chief and let him know in no uncertain terms that I (unlike the sheeple out there) knew my rights and that the police were obligated to make restitution to everyone whose property they took and disposed of. I should have gone to the newspapers over this. But the chief gave me two pens for my one with his apologies. So I let it go at that, but it just bothers me to think that in this country the law enforcers think of themselves above the law and not bound by it. And it bothers me even more that in this country most Americans know nothing about their rights and are letting power abusing government erode our God given rights into dust.

    Parting thought, if the BATF or any other mysterious order of federal agents should claim that they are only hiding their faces behind masks in order to protect themselves (with all their weapons and technology) and their families from reprisals from their perceived enemies (We the People???), just remember, that is exactly why the original Klan said they wore masks! 

   And now for the religious penitents. 

    To a lot of people the eerie photo above looks like a Klansman. They are wrong, however. The masked man is a Catholic in a solemn religious ceremony. During Holy Week men robe up like medieval penitents and march in a procession in Seville, Spain. Called nazarenos they escort floats bearing statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary.

    When Col. Simmons revived the KKK in 1915, he had this in mind. His Klansmen wore masks to show anonymity and humility in doing good works.

    Illustration above left: During the ceremony the penitents also carry crude weapons to fight off the forces of evil. If the Klan did something like that people would really get bent out of shape. The illustration on the right is from the book, "The Ku Klux Klan in Prophecy" by Bishop Alma White, (circa 1920's) of the Pillar of Fire Church in Zarapath, N.J. It clearly shows robed Klansmen assisting Christ in the role of the Apostles.

    So, there it is. People complain about the KKK wearing masks. They call them cowards for doing it. Yet, these same people say nothing when the BATF agents hide their faces from the public they are supposed to serve. They make no complaints about Zorro or the Lone Ranger being cast as heroes wearing masks and they say nothing about Catholics wearing masks and carrying weapons in their ceremonies. But let the KKK wear their masks in their ceremonies and people complain like crazy. So, who's nuts out there?

Updated: May 23, 2008