It is to gain respect from unknowing underlings, and to possess the image of power that can rule over those who are the fearful or timid nonchallengers of bureaucracy.

And you're scared and insecure and that's why you're sucha fudgebag.” Budgie'sface went blankand I continued tobe the bigger person by ignoring him.The bus cameand we got onandhestill hadn't said anything. He just looked confused.

And let us do it with no show of fear; / No, with no more than if we heard that England / Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance; / For, my good liege, she is so idly king’d, / Her sceptre so fantastically borne / By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, / That fear attends her not.

Later members of the Klans known as Night Hawks, Klarogos, and Klexters wore black uniforms void of robes for ease of movement. They were similar to Gestapo uniforms worn by elite Nazi military officers.