The difference between graffiti and malt liquor ads is money.

Marketing often damages people to the point of permanently changing the character of the people and the character of the neighborhood.

Painting over advertising is, in some cases, the only way to cover it up.

Advertisers and marketers do turn their lives around and become productive, responsible members of society. When you can engage a marketer in conversation stick firmly to the truth that advertising and marketing contributes to social ills including smoking, drinking and needless consumerism. Once in a while a discussion like this can help turn someone around. Some of the marketers are indeed socially undesirable. Others are just people with an attitude. Deal with the attitude and bring the people back.

You may never eliminate marketing in your town but you can control it through abatement.

Anyone who concentrates on the graffiti while ignoring marketing and advertising in the exact same areas obviously feels that money makes one right and lack thereof makes one wrong.

No excuses are intended but we support any and all graffiti over a Kool or Malt Liquor billboard any day. A tagged train and a city bus featuring some anorexic white girl on an HBO tv show are equivalent.

You want to clean up visual space? Get your priorities straight.