
When forces in a city want to destroy a person they rig a sex scandal Jane Jacobs wrote in THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES. Forces in Toronto have been trying to destroy me for decades. This is public record. The police were led to believe I was making and selling child porn by the same person responsible for these anonymous flyers. The police did their job. They did it well., The charges were withdrawn after a thorough search of the computers and hard drives seized in my home revealed no evidence to support them. Those charges were reported in THE TORONTO SUN and THE TORONTO STAR. They were then published in other media and on the web. Not published is that they were withdrawn. One day over a beer in her home Jane Jacobs said of the newspaper in front of her, “I hate that paper.” It was THE TORONTO STAR. I do not hate the paper. However as a man in NOTHING SACRED said of newspapermen, “The hand of God, reaching down into the mire, couldn’t elevate one of them to the depths of degradation!”

One day Bobby Naismith walked with me while I was posting flyers for my programs. I had known Bobby since Rochdale College in the 1970s. To my surprise I learned he was homeless. I said, “Come with me.” Bobby said, “I have no money.” I said, “I know that.”
I hear an awful lot about helping the homeless. It usually comes with a plea for government financing. I turned my back on government financing decades ago in my teens. I have been helping the homeless in this city equally as long. Not only that I have stood up for defenceless people when I saw them slandered on the streets with thousands of anonymous posters put up by James Gillis (aka Dr. Jamie) while people in authority keep saying there is nothing they can do.









Olivia Chow’s office was silent in 2010 when I asked her to help stop the anonymous hate poster attacks on street person Terry Ross. Her office is still silent today in 2023. “Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.” “Someone ought to do it, but why should I?” Author and activist Annie Besant identified that sentence as the motto of people who are moral cowards: those who know about an injustice but do nothing to address it. Very few of us have completely avoided that behavior. Most of us, including me, have now and then chosen to serve our need for comfort instead of standing up against corruption or unfairness. But I think it’s more important than usual that you don’t engage in such moral cowardice now. More depends on your integrity and bravery than you realize.—Rob Brezsny