Tuesday, April 26, 2005
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The graffiti sprawl
The lifts (elevators) in our department have long been the site of a small-scale graffiti battle. It's not gang-related nor does it include tagging, bombing or any of the other elements usually highlighted in anti-graffiti publicity. For the longest time the graffiti consisted of swastikas and the initials "BNP" (an acronym possibly ambiguous to some, but definitely notorious in the UK 1), scratched into the painted surfaces. Subsequent anti-Nazi graffiti efforts converted the swastikas into squares, scratched out the BNPs and added reference to the ANL (Anti-Nazi League, rather than my initial false impression). Which were in turn scratched out, new swastikas and BNPs added, and so forth. But then a new player entered the game: BUILDING MAINTENANCE. Suddenly all the pro- vs. anti- Nazi images were gone, replaced by some large blobs of grey paint. Unfortunately this paint was not applied uniformly, so it simply provides a blank canvas for new graffiti. Which appeared yesterday, in a slightly different theme but just as tasteful.

Scratched into one of the lifts are the two words "POOFS" "FAGGOTS" (no rebuttal has yet been lodged, but it's just a matter of time as graffiti seems to breed graffiti). I wonder what the Nazis think of this development.

1The British National Party's current election manifesto (launched in "secret" on St. George's Day, PDF version here) calls for guns! guns! guns!, an immediate halt of immigration (double if you're not white), instant deportation of those who violate immigration rules (I guess they'll use Star Trek-style transporters to beam foreigners out into space)... but worst of all, they promise compulsory musical training for all children between the ages of 5 and 14. The nation would be overrun with pasty white kids, AK-47 in one hand, flute in the other, probably playing out-of-tune marches at all hours of the night.
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:30:29 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [2]  | 
Wednesday, April 27, 2005 2:59:24 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
In addition to the overall creepiness of the parties involved, what's with the lead BNP guy's eyes on the BBC site? And where is Kent and why is it of such importance? Do they feel another evacuation of Dunkirk will be necessary?
Heather-in-law
Wednesday, April 27, 2005 9:06:02 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Griffin lost an eye in a gun accident in 1989, so perhaps that's what you see as "creepy" (cf. Abu Hamza). Kent (particularly Dover) is where the most immigrants are supposedly flooding into the UK through the channel tunnel, ferries, and perhaps even home-made rafts (made out of the skin of white English people no doubt).
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