Commentary:

Citizens of Olympia woke up this morning to find that our state captiol building has been vandalized. Some one or some group of vandals spray painted anti-war slogans and the symbol for anarchists on some pillars.

With a typically callous disregard for our state, and the people who live here, they chose to vandalize public property to try to get a message across. The message comes after the milestone of four thousand U.S. casualties in the War On Terror began. A slightly longer news story can be found here.

http://www.theolympian.com/570/story/398892.html

I'm going to get on my soapbox here.

I'm tired of the graffiti. I'm tired of our town being plastered with it. Free walls are just fine and dandy, in fact some are really beautiful. It's the garbage on my neighborhood stop signs, street signs, power utility boxes, local mini-mart, bus stops, and now this crap. Whip out a can of $2.50 Krylon and cause a $1000 worth of damage.

No intellectual discussion here, no sir-ree. Just a rant.

Here is a link to some before and after pics.

If anyone is interested in painting over and needs paint the Habitat for Humanity ReStore (753-1575) has a bunch and it is really cheep.

Recently graffiti has been appearing all around Cooper Point Road and around Evergreen State College. Most recently, a neighbors new fence was tagged with some gibberish about not consuming. It's all some anarchy mumbo-jumbo. THIS IS NOT AN EXAMPLE OF FREE SPEECH!!!! THIS IS JUVENILE VANDALISM AND IS CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR! Adults can express their opinions without destroying other people's property, especially people that are perfectly innocent I'm sick and tired of seeing my neighborhood defaced by this idiot. The family who lives in this house is not wealthy. Its a very small house. They appear to be from India and working hard to make the American Dream happen. They moved in a few years ago soon after I did and have been fixing up their house and yard ever since. They seem to be very friendly - perfect neighbors. What did they do to deserve this vandalism?

We have to catch this guy. He's ruining the whole neighborhood. The neighborhood association is posting a description of a guy who could be responsible. He's white, young 20s, slight build, maybe 6' high, thin beard. He was riding a bicycle and had a red back-pack. He was seen acting very suspiciously at the scene. 15 minutes later, he was gone but the graffiti was there. Does this sound like anyone you know? Please turn him in before one of the neighbors stifles him. John