Activists ticketed for putting Snowden bust on NYC monument

[MADem]

12. Well, putting it on top of an existing memorial wasn't the smart way to do that.

It only "certainly got" my attention because it was discovered in hours and IMMEDIATELY taken down, and people posted the story HERE. It "certainly got" my attention because their choice of monument to deface was a dumbass place to put their little statue. It made me think "Gee, what a rude and tone-deaf thing to do," not "Wow, now I have an awareness that I never had before. Onward, Christian Snowdens!!!!"

Like I said, you do something on the backs of others, it's not cool. Expect pushback. When you're grafting your cause onto a memorial for people who died in war, who can't pipe up and say "Gee, I agree with your defacing of that monument" it's unfeeling--almost selfish, IMO.

They could have gone to a little more trouble and crafted their own monument, made it look like part of the landscape, gone to the effort of making it look like it had been in situ for awhile, instead of gluing their crap over the work of another. That said, they aren't getting chained and beaten for their act--they got ticketed. It's all a big "meh" at the end of the day.