What great questions you raise, Ian. Thanks and welcome!

I think, to your questions, that all the symbols we see, along with the symbols that are hidden, are part of various networks (and which you have now joined by posting here!), all of which may carry with them, or potentially provoke within us, various reactions and responses through their acting as they do. The tape was there as required by the government, either that or don’t see the items in public, which in a way enrols us. That I reacted as I did and raised other issues of freedom and speech and the power of symbols, may or may not be what was considered when the laws were themselves enacted. I suppose the laws may be understood by different people in different ways, though the desires to work within them also helps to maintain a much wider network.

I am not sure what would have been my reaction had the tape not been present . . .

Not sure if you have found it yet, but the ANT group on FB https://www.facebook.com/groups/220398254694166/ may be of some interest to you!

Again, thanks for the comments. What brings you to ANT at all?