Removing it would also, therefore, be flash freelance expression in a public space, would it not?
I'm a little iffy about this, to be sure.
I remember once (30 years ago), some students had erected (correc verb) a huge 6-foot snow penis in their fraternity front yars, right in the Brookline/CUA of DC neighborhood where there are also seminaries and the Dominican House of Studies. One night I took 2 kettles of boiling water and melted it down.
I suppose I could have named the newly shape-shifted art work, "Detumescence."
:o)
Why should every political statement, or rally, have to have a permit?
That was my anarchist hat, or if you prefer, my anti-big government one.
Now THAT's funny!