London to Tear Down Banksy's 'CCTV'? Make Some Money Along the Way?

London, clearly eager to get some of that sweet Banksy cash, has announced that it is threatening to remove the world’s most famous street artist’s “One Nation Under CCTV” mural from a Westminster wall, claiming it to be graffiti and didn’t get a permit to create it, nor permission from whoever owns the massive wall it now resides upon (part of the problem is that, for some reason, the city can’t figure out who owns the building, which seems pretty unusual — don’t they have, like, public records for this sort of thing?).

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