We have reached a new low when it comes to the Federal government’s overzealous attempts to fight crime. The FBI and police in Westerville, Ohio are going to try and enforce a ban on wearing a hood, hat, sunglasses or use of a cell phone inside local banks.
According to a quote attributed to the local police, would be bank robbers will be easy to spot since law abiding bank patrons won’t be wearing a hat or talking on a cell phone.

From the story:

The FBI said that the majority of bank robbers conceal their identity in several ways, by wearing hats, hoods, sunglasses or partially covering their face with a cell phone. The phones can also be a security risk because many are camera phones that could capture security camera images if someone were casing a bank.

The new policy will help the “would-be” bank robber be more noticeable to staff and customers if they do not comply with the policy, police said.
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Mankind pulled civilization out of the mud somewhere in the ancient past. In creating society, people agreed to a non-spoken compact that required everyone to look out for their neighbor. We aren’t talking about a communist society where the government dictates that everyone work for the collective good, but instead an agreement between honest law-abiding people that made it reprehensible to leave your neighbor to die.

The same holds true, or used to hold true, when it came to stopping common crime, whether violent crime against a person, or a property crime. As the American government grew in power and influence in a citizen’s life, it destroyed the agreement between honest people to care for each other.

Today in America many citizens won’t step in to protect the personal safety of their neighbors because, over the years, everyone was brainwashed by the government to give up freedom for security.

Without martial law, the government cannot, and will not act to make sure a citizen is safe from violent attack. All the government representatives can do is show up in time to make a report and try to catch the criminal.
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