Development may cover up Banksy mural

“I would like to make a few points about Banksy's work and his art.

It is irrelevant what he can afford. How many people visit the art museums and look at politically interesting works and then think about them and not move on? A few.

How many people will drive past a rat with a sign on the side of an over pass, or will walk by a wall with a bear and some riot police? Thousands.

Art is not something that can be done anywhere and still be the same art. By painting a wall instead of a canvas, he has created a totally different, and more powerful work of art.

As to this being "Hyped up vandalism" no. Just no. Do you clean Einstein's desk because it isn't clean and neat? No. Do you clean the wal of french caves and destroy our history? No. Do you burn an old scroll full of outdated ideas? No. Do you destroy Hadrian's wall because it isn't useful? No.

Do you destroy a message because it wasn't made in the most correct manner? No.

It is threw a arrow mind that one sees this work, or any other of its kind, as "vandalism". So maybe the wall is no longer the burgundy red of its bricks, but it was hardly much better being that red than the art it is now.

As for class divitions? Churchill wasn't exactly working class, was he? Or Martin Luther King Jr., Whom I under stand wasn't too badly off. Boudica was a queen, as was Elizabeth. Victoria I understand came, too, from a good family. Sun Tzu knew the emperor I hear. Leonidas and Dienekes weren't poor. Leonardo Da Vinci grew up in a good house. Numerous revolutionaries, to many to name, who fought for the weak and neglected, were from upper classes. I think I aught now point out that I'm a middle-class student right now fluent in two languages and learning a third, with a classical education. As such I surely can't know about what I'm talking about.

As for false gods? People don't seek false gods, they seek people who get it. and What you claim to be "represented" (by the manner of your writing) is in fact represented by the highest classes, and companies who use the working, middle and even lower rungs of the upper class as fuel for their "machines".

Fredrick douglas once said that "If there is no struggle there is no progress"
Subcomandante Marcos once said "Ideas are weapons"
A World War Two combatant once said "Blood is the strongest paint, the wall the strongest canvas. Everyone sees a wall, and so everyone sees the suffering."

Oh, and Banksy doesn't "sell his wares of millions" but an order of magnitude less. And it is not defacement. Defacement implies destruction. And he isn't a self proclaimed hero, merely a man wishing to say what he wants to say, and to be heard saying it. Because the public has adopted him, he is a hero.

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
So what if it is a criminal act? I can see no way in which it harms the owners of the location. In fact, with Banksy's reputation, his art on a building's wall improves things such as business in the area. He helps the city in the long run by breaking a small insignificant law. And before you say "Oh well, if you can pick and choose which laws to follow" stop. One could argue that, if the police, who are the physical manifestation of the law, do not take the time to prevent the crime then it evidently isn't a crime. It is not the choosing of which laws to follow by the people, but the choosing of which laws to enforce. If artist were caught and punished enough, graffiti would be like murder is, an obvious taboo act that isn't to be done. Inaction shapes society as much as action does. By not preventing the crime, they encourage it. And if banksy is caught, I say let him be punished for his crimes, but it isn't his fault that he hasn't been caught.

Now, more specific replies:
John, of the fish ponds, you'll find that several formula 1 drivers have been let off of reckless endangerment charges (As I believe it”

“Only in your drug-addled mind.....”

“Sad Stan - Rattled, again!”

“Is there any truth in the rumour that Mickey Mouse wears an "Alex" wrist watch?


You ought to cut down on those funny fags, you sound paranoid and delusional. As well as obsessive.

By the way, the twentieth century has been on. They want your "I'm considerably richer than yow" joke back.”

“Too easy, Fireman Sad Stan!

:)

By the way, my job pays considerably more than yours!”

“I take it your obsession with the fire service means you failed the entrance tests then, and stand in abject jealousy as a fire engine goes by?

Stick to flipping burgers Son.”

“It must be very hard in life knowing that your only purpose is to serve as a warning to others.......”

“:) Fireman Sad Stan, or is it just that you like big hoses?!

I left you a little pressie on one of the other news items comments section! See if you can resist replying to it!”

“Been on the funny fags again? Or have you got a fixation with fire engines?

It isn't only me that thinks you are an object of ridicule.......”

“Been busy on the Fire Engine, Sad Stan?”