The public’s utilitarian bent seems to be ‘justifiable’ to some circles, but such logic implodes immediately the moment it is exposed to air. That if public spaces are to be used by the public because they are for the public, then why must we create an exception when public spaces are used for the pursuit of social justice? Paint doesn't spray bullets on vulnerable bodies, nor will it plant proof at invented scenes of crimes. It does not allow the Chinese to take the meat and skin of our bones. It does not allow billionaire drug lords to walk free, after making a mockery of the same justice system that everyone parrots to be the sole decider of everyone’s legal fate in this benighted land. It does not harm indigenous peoples as they are driven from their ancestral lands under the guise of progress.
May the force be with us.
