Graffiti of crashing planes placed on downtown 9-11 monument

[n2doc]

Lafayette police are trying to find out who placed two cardboard cutout images of crashing planes at the 9-11 Memorial in downtown Lafayette.

The 3D graffiti was apparently placed at the monument overnight. Police say they are in the process of removing it.

The stabilizer on each plane includes a reference to the New World Order conspiracy theory--the Eye of Providence and the initials "NWO." For some, this theory includes the belief that the 9-11 attacks were carried out by the United States Government.

The 9-11 monument is a 1-by-100 scale of both the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It includes three beams from the World Trade Center, limestone from the Pentagon, and soil from the Shanksville, Pennsylvania, field in which Flight 93 crashed.

http://www.katc.com/news/graffiti-of-crashing-planes-placed-on-downtown-9-11-monument/#!prettyPhoto[gallery]/1/

There is also a cutout image of Bush with a detonator in his hand....

[sufrommich]

1. Sigh. Paranoia rules the day.nt

[Xithras]

2. "Graffiti"? Yet another word redefined by the media.

I think that the 9/11 truther movement is tinfoilhattery, but they have as much right as anyone else to voice their opinion and protest nondestructively. Hanging a piece of cardboard on a memorial is neither "graffiti" or "vandalism". It's an idiotic bit of protest art.

[left on green only]

4. I Was Thinking It Was Pretty Cool Too

It probably deserves to be left up for a few weeks, or at least until the rains come and destroy it naturally. But then again, Lafayette is by no means the bastion of liberal thinking in the Bay Area that is, say Berkeley or Marin.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

3. Idiotic,

Yet nicely done. They did spend some time on it so it seems.