CITING “CIVIL UNREST” in American cities, the Department of Homeland Security has accelerated new regulations meant to expand the powers of a little-known federal police force.
The new rules drew scant notice when they were first proposed during the twilight of the Biden administration. Now, using language about “rioters” at federal facilities, the Trump administration is fast-tracking the rule changes — which critics say DHS could use as a pretext to go after protesters wearing frog costumes or making a racket on the streets of Chicago and Portland, Oregon.
Among the new rules was the criminalization of protesters wearing masks. The mask ban ostensibly applies only to those trying to conceal their identity during a crime, but the Trump administration has taken an expansive view of criminal behavior in protests that includes an array of First Amendment-protected activity.
Very tangential but:
I’ve always suspected the reason the chuds had such massive pushback over masking up during covid (or just whenever you are sick) is related to this.
People vastly overestimate the effectiveness of even an n95 for defeating facial recognition (as well as facial recognition mattering less if you can trace someone, via cameras, back to when they put the mask on in the first place). But it very much felt like manufactured hatred by The Thin Blue Line.
Chuds are just following propaganda. It’s the wealthy that fed them that obsession, and yes, they definitely want facial recognition.
Yeah, i just wish there was a convenient way for me to change my gait
A small rock in your shoe will change it enough that you won’t be recognizable from gait alone.