And this has nothing to do with you, but those damn picket sign holding morons (unless you are there)…

The whole reason for the picket sign holding losers is because they failed at life, now they want to “redeem” themselves as moral and just people. The first moment that they stepped onto the sidewalk holding their moronic signs, just signed over their life to the devil. Trying to take away someone’s %$^& right to their own choice is just unreal to me.

Do you think its fair to have a 13 year old girl walking into an abortion clinic, getting called a sinner and being told she is going to hell, when she was raped and is now pregnant with the rapist’s child?

The one thing I have learned from bible classes is God helps those who help themselves. And, No one should pass judgment onto others, for any reason.

I am going to make my signs!

“These protesters are going to hell!”

“Everyone has a choice”

“Who are you to pass judgment”

See how they like being picketed.

Valerie, you talk about graffiti being a way to mark one’s territory, and or communicate. If we were in L.A., Boston, and LARGE cities, yes that would be the case. Here however, in Fitchburg, most are young kids from about 13-21 years of age. Who do it as a way to have fun, or just to be an ass. Even the “Gang” symbols, are not real… As far as “tagging crews” you will not find a very violent one around here.

One great place to give graffiti artists to paint is the Lunenburg street lot where kids skateboard. There is already a number of “tags” there. It is only used by skaters anyways.

I personally paint on some Ply Wood behind my house. I have not done anything illegally in over 7 years. I still paint all the time. Giving these kids a place to go will help a little, but will not stop illegal graffiti. There will always be some dumbass with a can of paint, marker, or whatever and wants to do some serious damage.

And just a tidbit of info, when it comes to removal, the methods now suck. You can still see the tag, and because of the recent “improvements” in removal, vandals got smart! Go on Youtube, and search for “Oink Ink”. This ink is ultra staining, takes over 5 coats of paint to stop the bleeding of the ink, then you are still left with a “Ghost” of the tag. Want to use thinner on the oink ink? Won’t work so well… It will take you hours to remove one tag. AND… You can make your own at home using nothing more than ink from pens, 70% alcohol and yes, paint thinner. They even have ultra staining paints now. So the more people try to stop it, it is just going to happen.

I also wanted to leave you all with another major problem I have. IF YOU REMOVE OR BUFF THE TAG, YOU ARE CREATING A BLANK CANVAS FOR THE NEXT VANDAL!” THINK ABOUT IT! If I was a cop, I’d be able to arrest damn near all of them. But Im not so goodbye and good luck to the stopping of graffiti.