But if I choose to dress up as a criminal
Please, pray tell, what constitutes as criminal dress.
We’ll just have the liberals make those items of clothing illegal to purchase.
Wow, some of the statements made on these Waco threads are incredible to hear from conservatives.
If criminals are known to routinely wear specific articles of clothing, and indeed recognize and react to each other based on those articles of clothing, then wearing that style of clothing is by definition dressing up as a criminal.
For instance, in certain ethnic communities, wearing a style or color of clothing associated with gang A into territory controlled by or into the presence of members of gang B can and will result in violent reactions. Even if the person wearing the clothing is utterly unaware of its association with criminality or that anyone might object to his wearing it.
The colors worn by motorcycle gangs/clubs are considered by them to be exclusive, to the extent they will react violently to anyone unauthorized wearing them. It is to all intents and purposes a uniform.
If the organization prescribing the conditions under which that uniform can be worn is, within the meaning of the law, a criminal organization, then that uniform is by definition criminal clothing. Not because there is anything wrong in and of itself with the fibers, dyes, etc. But because the wearing of that uniform expresses allegiance to a criminal organization.
And it's not just a difference of opinion on what did and did not happen on 5/17/15. It's the casual, even contemptuous attitudes I see expressed about some of the basics...like the 4th and 8th Amendements, for a start.
But, there are lessons to be learned. While (if) we still have time.