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comment by b_b
b_b  ·  4891 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Antics Roadshow by Banksy
I don't think that Banksy is advocating all of the tactics, just showing it as a novel form of street art and letting the viewer decide. That said, I think in Europe cops are looked at with even more suspicion than here, as evidenced by the recent violence in London over a single police incident.




mk  ·  4890 days ago  ·  link  ·  
>I don't think that Banksy is advocating all of the tactics, just showing it as a novel form of street art and letting the viewer decide.

I suppose. But including them is advocating of a sort.

The raising dick bridge was really clever. However, if they were really trying to stick it to the KGB, it would have been fantastic if they could have made a more direct reference or allusion to them.

>That said, I think in Europe cops are looked at with even more suspicion than here,

Unfortunately, I think that says more about the European and American people than about their police. The US police probably deserve as much or more scrutiny, but I think they have some patriotic shielding here in the US.