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We live in an era of masks, only not the fun kind you might find at Carnivale in Venice, Italy.

Something considerably more sinister is going on.

This era began, as almost all of us realize now, with COVID-19 when all of us were told to put on masks or our friends and relatives might die. We might expire ourselves.

How necessary this was has been the subject of much discussion. My โ€œSpidey senseโ€ says no. Others may differ.

Nevertheless, as with all pandemicsโ€”real, imagined, or something in betweenโ€”the need eventually diminished. People were liberated. Sort of.

Only masks are still around us, startlingly so. In some cases they are more around us than ever.

I think it was on Clay Travis and Buck Sextonโ€™s radio show I first heard the masks referred to, ironically, as a โ€œfashion statement.โ€ True enoughโ€”they do often tell us where the wearer stands on a whole raft of thingsโ€”but that was a few months ago. It almost seems like ancient history.

Now masks are upon us with a vengeanceโ€”black ones, miscellaneous scarves, and, of course, keffiyehs. The wearers have various intentsโ€”to scare us; to hide their identities from the police, college administrators, or potential employers; or simply, pathetically, to be a faddist, part of what they think of as an โ€œin crowd.โ€

We have seen this song before during Antifa and Black Lives Matter demonstrations. Exercise your right of free speech but donโ€™t tell us who you are. We could call this cowardly, because it is, but it is also quite dangerous as it expands.

In some ways it reminds me of internet trolls, especially paid ones, who turn up virtually everywhere under assumed names, some obvious and some not. Does the First Amendment give you permissionโ€”legally, or more importantly, morallyโ€”to lie about who you are while exercising your right of free speech? Interesting question.

Many of the masked demonstrators on our campuses, we have been toldโ€”and considering the numbers who arenโ€™t students, it is almost certainly trueโ€”are also paid for their โ€œwork,โ€ not to mention transportation, tents, food, etc.

Byย Roger L. Simon

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