Traditionally, executioners, bank robbers, and killers in horror films wear masks. It's easier to do bad things and to frighten others when you cannot be held accountable, when you cannot be recognized as human.
Gangs of masked men are kidnapping people in the United States on behalf of the U.S. government, and refusing to identify themselves. They could be non-governmental criminals, for all anyone knows, and yet refusal to obey them is treated as a crime, even if their victim had not been accused of any other crime prior to that moment.
We're pushing forward three pieces of legislation in the U.S. Congress:
