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times, serif" size="2" color="#538f00" style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10;color:#538f00;"><div style="text-align:undefined;">yes - graffiti is self-expression, and thoughtful and thought provoking as well. That's why Monet, Degas, Van Gough, and others used it to express their statements on life .... oh, wait, no, they bought canvas and paint and expressed it in a legal way that did no harm to other people's property. Why do I get that mixed up with graffiti? Weird!<br><br>Law-breaking as self-expression - YES! That's what I tried to tell the officer when recently pulled over for running (in error, I can assure you) a red light in DC. I was expressing the fact that I was dang frustrated at having to stop at 30,000 traffic lights in a row on me way to pick my daughter up from the Kennedy Center. This is what I wanted to express, outrage at the way society was treating me,
and if I had to break the law and damage other's property to do it, I have that right. Correct? <br><br>HA I had the right to pay a $75 fine!! How is graffiti different from this? And when is expressing hate art? If said artists want to paint their own property, yeah! Go for it! But that building in the park belongs to us all. <br><br>Nancy <br><div><br></div>
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