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Submitted by The Fire Inside on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 4:55pm.
The Olympia Municipal Code is the way for local government to create and enforce laws which are specific to Olympia's needs.

Over the last six months, we have seen:

This

This (which I do realize is at the state capitol and would require a change to the Revised Code of Washington)

This

This

And this

By now you're getting the point: not only are people coming to Olympia to incite civil disturbances, they are doing so while hiding their identity to carry out illegal activities.

As we saw in another thread, law enforcement must conduct their operations in the open view of the public.

At least fifteen years ago, the State of California added section 185 to the California Penal Code. Section 185 reads:

Section One Hundred and Eighty-five. It shall be unlawful for any person to wear any mask, false whiskers, or any personal disguise (whether complete or partial) for the purpose of:

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