I don't get this "tag machir", price tag, issue.
Some people are upset at this or that government decision or some activity, and in response they go out and "tag" a building - a mosque or whatever - with spray painting some messages.
The government has completely flipped out over this, finding ways to call it terror, threatening all sorts of punishments...
why is this so bad? Sure, it is bad. It is vandalism, it is graffiti, it is filth.. catch the vandals and punish them as vandals. But to consider them terrorists? a little bit of spray paint has to take up so much of the governments energy and concern?
If these price taggers were going out in the dark of night and beating up Arabs or government officials and representatives, I would understand - but all this just for some spray paint?
Those who care so much about some spray paint should come out to the parks of RBS (and plenty of other places) and see how much graffiti has been sprayed, vandalizing park equipment, walls, benches... walk around the neighborhood and see spray paint on walls of buildings, basketball courts, stores, etc. some of the graffiti is artistic, some religious (usually either something about rebbe nachman or about guarding one's eyes) while much of it is crass and offensive.
what's the difference between this graffiti, that it seems authorities don't give a hoot about, and that graffiti that gets them so worked up?
Government-people: it is just graffiti. catch the vandals, and punish them in accordance with the law. Don't make a bit of graffiti into something more than it is.
By the way, this does not preclude tracking the price taggers and making sure they don't turn into terrorists...
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