Early on Monday morning, a handful of people snuck into Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park to attach a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to the base of a Revolutionary War memorial. It was a daring, if ephemeral gesture: "The artists are fully aware of the bust's inevitable destruction," writes Bucky Turco of Animal in his on-the-scene reporting of the statue's installation.

But given that one of the city's most famous sculptures began its life as a similar act of guerilla artistry, who's to say that the Snowden statue's destruction is really assured? Charging Bull, a bronze sculpture in Manhattan's Financial District that's also sometimes known as the Wall Street Bull, is an icon—the literal embodiment of capitalism.

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