I believe it is still illegal in Ulster, though, right? -----Original Message----- From: Ken Brown [mailto:k.brown@ccs.bbk.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 4:43 AM To: Ray Dillinger Cc: Mark Allyn; Jim Choate; cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com Subject: Re: Masks [was: Re: About 5yr. log retention] Ray Dillinger wrote:

It is illegal in Georgia, and a number of other Southern states of the US, to appear in public wearing a mask.

Not that it's usually enforced on anybody but the Ku Klux Klan.

Dunno about other countries and other states.

Not at all illegal over here in UK. Banks & some other offices have signs up requesting visitors to remove masks & especially motorbike helmets. Lots of cyclists wear little filter masks or bandanas round their mouths - I suspect it is a style statement more than anything else. In London & some northern cities it isn't at all rare to see Muslim women going completely veiled (though the vast majority don't - it seems to be cultural - some Arabs & East Africans go completely covered, a lot of south Asians & also European Muslims wear headscarves, but don't actually hide their faces. Turks almost never seem to wear veils but then Turks seem to dress more or less the same as Western Europeans these days, at least the ones from Istanbul & Cyprus do, who of course are the vast majority of Turks we see in London (perhaps 5% of the population of the area I live in), maybe things are differnt in Anatolia) I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was a law that says the police can tell you to take a mask off. Ken