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Originally Posted by crazyflamingos
I think that he was right that the "Pointers for Life" should have identified that they were sponsoring the display. Otherwise how is one to know that the display itself is not vandalism?
And, yes, crosses stuck in the ground on a state university without permission would be vandalism. Without permission it would be no different than what kids around here used to do that they called "forking" -- sticking forks in the lawn.
If the young man removing the crosses was under the impression that they were an act of vandalism then he would have believed that he was acting within his rights to remove them. Maybe he went a bit overboard. And he certainly should have sought more information first. But I think that some of the onus for this confrontation needs to fall on the group that failed to properly identify what was going on.
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The group did reserve the space, but didn't put up any public display of that fact. I think the reason
may have been tied to the type of display. It was clearly a shock factor work (of visual art ?), meant to do just what (though maybe not
exactly in King's case) it did. Play on the emotions to address a cause.
If this was a display of brilliantly colored kites meant as an eye gift to the viewer, it would have taken from the original intent to have a sign that read "Sponsored by K-Mart."