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VT Headlines: Burlington mural vandalized one day after it was painted

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  1. but there are of course no gangs in Vermont. People in custody, caught doing this their first chore would be removing graffiti in Vermont. Here is your toothbrush, get to work. That would be restorative justice.

    • Just put up a camera on any new building, painting……it would be like catching fish in a barrel, they can’t help themselves.

  2. “This mural project is a prime example of community organizing for the beautification and betterment of our City”
    Yup, and the people that defaced this “art” with “art” of their own are also a part of your community. A part which until they crapped on your parade, you folks at the very least, tolerated, if not endorsed by your lack of consequences. I would classify this incident as the chickens coming home to roost.

  3. Shameless promotion of my independent film “The Mural” https://youtu.be/u43WoSbHQP4?si=OoDuwjvEyKU2a2gU, which I created with a grant after the repeated defacement of the “Everybody Loves a Parade” mural by self-identified activists.

    To be honest, this was predicted. After the City’s response to the ELAP vandalism and the slap on the wrist each offender received, the writing was on the wall, (pun intended ) of what was to come.

    While the defacement of art as political speech goes back centuries, tagging is an all too 20th century act, experience across the globe not just here in America. The adoption of VARA rights also complicates matters.

    Why any owner of any building would allow public art onto its walls, is beyond me now; given the expected outcome and the release of your right to remove that art in future.

    I invite you to watch the film. It’s a little long but it raises important questions, many from the perpetrators themselves.

    • Just watched your movie. Thanks for making it and sharing it here. I agree that the city was too soft on the vandals. There are other more effective tactics that the vandals could have used, that would not have created so many hard feelings and wasted so much of other people’s efforts and funds.

    • Thank you for watching Joe and commenting! What I found really interesting speaking with the perpetrators, was that both were white men acting as if their point of view was the supreme point of view. And use Eric Maier’s own definition, that makes Eric himself and Albert White Supremacists. Oh the irony! And later on Mr Meyer asked if it’s okay to punch a Nazi. I’ll put that back on him and say is it okay to punch a Communist? Is it okay to punch a Socialist? Both ideologies are responsible for millions more deaths than any Nazi regime ever was.

  4. Another warped Communist/Progressive taught by the Vermont Gov Ed system did it.