Judge William G. Young stated in a court ruling of September 2025, "In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” Indeed, it needs to be acknowledged that we currently live in a construct in which never have the citizens of this nation been more surveilled and monitored then they are at the present time, all done under the aegis that it is for their safety when the reality is that is the pretext, but it is not the reason; whereas, we find that when it comes to certain aspects of law enforcement, with the prime example being the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that these agents of the government are permitted to mask themselves and behave in a manner in which though they are supposed to be upholding the laws of this land they seem to be in far too many cases, imposing themselves upon the population in an intimidating and extrajudicial manner. The fact of the matter is that whenever law enforcement is permitted or allowed to hide their identity, then the upshot is this law enforcement is clearly trending in the direction of taking on the aura of other outlaw organizations that perpetrated crimes upon the people, such as the notorious Ku Klux Klan, who in their cowardice, wore costumes that hid their faces and their bodies.
It is ironic and misguided that agents of law enforcement need to hide their identity for agent safety and so that they won’t be “doxed”. The bottom line is that those that do not feel comfortable in performing their lawful duties without obscuring their identity are the very same that should be relieved of all their duties, and those that adhere to the position that law enforcement officers ought to be permitted to disguise themselves so that they are not easily identified or held accountable, are the very same that should be seen as un-American and thereby a clear and present danger to the Constitution, which is the highest law of this land.
The revolutionary fight waged by the heroic colonists of America was undertaken with the express purpose of freeing the residents of America from the tyranny imposed upon them by Great Britain. This signifies that those that are part of law enforcement, must recognized that their duty first and foremost is to serve the people of this nation, by conducting themselves in a way and manner that is consistent with that Constitution, and the wearing of masks to obscure an identity takes away the accountability that is a necessary feature that law enforcement owes to the general public and thus that lack of transparency is at loggerheads with what America was founded upon.
Indeed, no government of, for, and by the people will tolerate a law enforcement arm that is not accountable to that people and thus behaves in a manner of which those that are exercising their civil rights are unjustly exposed to being arrested, hurt, or even killed, by those that claim to be law enforcement but have not the courage to identify themselves and to be held fully accountable to the people, and whenever this is the case, as it is so today, it is fair to label such as a police state, which, in essence, negates the freedom and liberty that are our birthright.