Graffiti! Ugly and offensive Yes! Art No!.
Graffiti offenders are out to cause trouble. People deserve the satisfaction of knowing their well cared property won't be vandalised by adolescent rebels.
Graffiti offenders are usually adolescent teenagers who attack people's property and inner feelings. Graffiti trouble makers cost the government millions of dollars each year cleaning up the disgusting, blatant vandalism. A recent article in the Herald Sun has stated an estimated $25 million has been sacrificed each year for the cleaning up of graffiti.
Graffiti is ugly and offensive. Graffiti that vilifies or menaces particular social groups is very common in Melbourne. Usually carrying anti-Semitic, anti-aboriginal, anti-Asian or homophobic messages. Graffiti offenders use spray paint or glass etching, where the scratch their tags into shop windows, giving the criminal impression.
Graffiti ruins property. Everywhere you look ugly graffiti is exposed; train stations, people's property, buildings and street signs. Steve Beardon (RAGE) says very few kids who graffiti have any artistic talent, most are out to do willful damage. Christopher Miller says "If graffiti is a culture, they should bring not take from society.
Opinion has changed towards graffiti. Where some thought it was adolescent mischief, now it is just blatant vandalism. In the early hours of a Thursday morning sixty cars were vandalised in Armadale. Shadow attorney General Robert Dean announced attacks like this might cost the offender their driver's liscense until they are twenty years old. These instances will change opinions everywhere.
Some Graffiti looks good like murals and pictures but it is blocked out by tagging and scribble. Which is ugly and disturbing to the eye. Graffiti needs permission. If graffiti has no permission it is classed as vandalism.
In conclusion Graffiti is ugly and offensive. It ruins and destroys people's property.
