Decent Graffiti

It's very important, when you're 'freelancing', to get out of your house at least once a day and do something involving sunlight and the dissipation of energy, otherwise you might find yourself lying awake all night and all morning, watching as the light creeping from under your curtains turns from streetlight brown to lapis lazuli blue to emerald green before settling back to the grey we're all used to, a new day letting you know it's just waiting to go, even if you didn't take your chance to charge up beforehand.

But if you're out there, all bleary eyed and shocked that the trees are green again, you have to be careful or you might miss little details like the moron who's been graffiting power boxes along the canal next to Victoria Park in eest luhnduhn.

I might have just called them a moron, but personally I think they're probably a lot smarter than I; normally street furniture or any old utilitarian urban surface is used graphically for three things - graf, tags and polemic. Usually a political position has to be somewhat marginal for someone to feel that there is no channel open to them other than walls, but this particular person seems to identify with the current 'line' so perfectly that they just had to ejaculate it out everywhere, thoroughly confusing me in the process...

FIGHT COMMUNISM
CLASS HATE LEADS
TO MURDER, TORTURE
GENOCIDE

riiiiiiiiight, if you say so...

NO TO ISLAMIC EXTREMISM

which has had "+CHRISTIAN" scrawled alongside...

FIGHT MARXISM
STOP CLASS HATE

END THE OCCUPATION
OF TIBET

I love the fact somebody has crossed out 'TIBET' and put 'EAST LONDON', which has then been followed up with 'FROM YUPPIES', ah, lovely.

BRAINWASHED INTO BEING
ANTI-AMERICAN FOR YEARS
BY THE LEFT + OTHERS

with a rather ambiguous response:
"an overemphasis on anti-americanism?
have so called progressives imposed
thier (sic) agenda on us without consent?", next to a spurting cock.

the same responder might have written this one:
"NO NO to ho chi min
democracy is gonna win
free laos
free vietnam"

NO TO ISLAMIC EXTREMISM

NO TO ISLAMIC EXTREMISM

I suppose I'm just a little confused as to their motivations; I'm partly imagining a march where all the placards read "Everything is just as it should be", "We support the elites!", or just "Carry On!"