SIR,
However strongly a person feels about an
issue, graffiti is vandalism and should not be
championed as a method of drawing attention
to planning, or any other, issues . Imagine if
everyone caught on to this idea and all our
walls and fences ended up daubed in political
slogans, philosophical points, etc.
On top of the original sorry act, it is a sad situation
when a member of the community feels
it is quite OK to write to the Beacon to applaud
such criminal and antisocial actions ('Angered
by garden grabbing', 10th February).
The planning system, random though it can
often seem, is the correct forum for people
with comments to make; vandalism is cowardly
and dishonest, and is no alternative to
existing democratic systems.
Ironically, in this case the graffitti degrades
and disfigures the very environment the objector
pupports to be concerned about.
Rosemary Whaley
(Monmouth)