I believe it is still illegal in Ulster, though, right?

   -----Original Message-----
   From: Ken Brown [[1]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

References

   1. mailto:k.brown@ccs.bbk.ac.uk