Much capital is made by the organization of the fact that each person who becomes a "citizen" of the "Invisible Empire" is required to take a solemn oath to support the Constitution of the United States. While this is true, the allegiance to the Constitution and the law, is, in my opinion, pure camouflage for the purpose of concealing the deadly fangs of this illegal oath. In considering this point, it should be borne in mind that the members of the original Ku Klux Klan also took an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, which oath can be found in the Prescript of the Order. Just how much weight the original Ku Kluxes attached to the Constitution of the United States when it became necessary to put the fear of God into a "carpet-bagger" or negro is a matter of more or less doubt. They were organized as a matter of necessity for the purpose of policing a section of the country where political madness and hatred reigned supreme. As will be shown further along, a Ku Klux Klan in Beaumont, Texas, in May, 1921, although all of its members had sworn to support the Constitution of the United States, arrested a citizen without a warrant, tried him with a jury, convicted him, and acted as his executioners in total violation of the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution. It has been proven in one instance that swearing allegiance to the United States Constitution had but little effect, in preventing members of the "Invisible Empire" from committing acts of lawlessness. Hence, I believe that the pious and patriotic clause in the oath of "Emperor" Simmons' organization is sheer camouflage, because the very document shows on its face that the Ku Klux oath is considered paramount to any other tie or obligation. In order to prove this latter statement, I call special attention to the following clause, which illustrates fully the relative importance the "Invisible Empire" attaches to the Constitution of the United States and the Ku Klux obligation: "I swear that I will keep secure to myself a secret of a Klansman, when same is committed to me in the sacred bond of Klansmanship--the crime of violating _this_ solemn oath, treason against the United States of America, rape, and malicious murder, alone excepted."