Grafitti as Art in Germany

IN THE GERMAN DEMOKRATICK REPUBLICK, or the deutsche nation der welt, or whatever its called these days, there is nicht tolerance for graffiti. At least for now. The germans change speed limits with grossten flexibility, and laws, and governments too, so..stay tuned.

Taggers marking up their mass transit vehicles are not, currently, tolerated. And guess what? They are now using drones, that's right, flying robots with cameras, to scope out the colorful, creative, but nasty pop art, report it back to headquarters complete with  aerial surveillance-guten prooften, and proceeding from there.

Proceeding precisely where is not yet determined; the question is; how to link flying computer pictures with specific culprits with an adequate degree of certainty. Will the artists please stand, look heavenward, pose, smile, and salute the fatherland, bitte?

the latest report is that air to ground missiles and bombs are not yet being deployed; can it be that the germans have failed to learn the lessons so ably taught by their american cousins, instead of the other way around?

Another possible solution would be to simply allow the graffiti to stand upon its own merit, and call it "art". It would save the time required to waschen it off, and, who knows, western civilaztion might discover some new teutonic picasso.

This approach, that of living, let living, and leaving alone, was tried in the new york city subway system a few decades back, and to many it seemed to work perfectly. The old trains became positively festooned with modern squiggly art, the trains still ran on time, approximately, though no less bumpily, and really, no one seemed to mind.

Then, along came rudy guliani, the fun stopped, and back to droll, boring, gestapo normalcy the big apple went. Maybe the germans, after a few drones crash land on a few houses, churches, and public buildings, will arrive back at this simple but truly ingenious attitude. But do not count on it; though highly ingenious and creative, german culture does have a healthy dose of, shall we say, good ole american style puritincal  nayensayen.