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A friend asked if he could show a program of Russian animated films at my CineForum.The Public Enemy.

I said, “Sure.”

He posted flyers for it.

3am on the Tuesday before his first show a friend messaged me that the word “PEDO” had been scrawled on his flyers.

“Did you take them down?” I asked.

The friend said, “No.”

I got up, got dressed, poured some coffee into my self, got on my bike and toured the city.

I brought my camera. I took pictures. I made videos. I took them down.

I’m not going to illustrate this post with them.

Don’t need that stuff polluting the web. However, here is the unpolluted poster.

The next day I emailed the office of Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow.

When this  hate first appeared on the streets in 2000 I saw the man behind it posting a three page attack on myself.

I took it down. It is in my files.

Then I saw an anonymous flyer posted around the city offering $500o have a fellow’s legs broken.

Took that down. It’s in the files.

Then in 2009/2010 I saw posters in the hundreds on every available surface saying a former employee of the man was a rat, a police informant.

Posting stuff like that is an incitement to murder.

I bought a video camera, my first, filmed the posters, took them down, contacted every one from the Prime Minister’s Office on down.

Only got one response.

That was from the office of Toronto Mayor David Miller.

The Mayor’s office acted then. That office is not acting now.

Olivia Chow was one of the people I contacted in 2010.

I got no reply in 2010.

Neither did I get one in 2024.

I supported Olivia for Mayor.

I can’t support her now.

Chow by her silence is a allowing a murderer and a child rapist to run rampant.

I called my Councillor Dianne Saxe’s office.

I got a call back. The person I spoke with hung up.

Well, I sure am not going to support her come the next election.

Rob Ford had his faults as the Toronto STAR ensured we know.

Jesus said, “Love covers a multitude of sins.”

Avast multitude loved Rob Ford despite the publication of his sins by THE STAR.

Why?

Because when we called regardless of whether he was our Councillor or not, Rob answered. He did everything he could and then some to help.

I have learned that very few if any of us are getting that help since Rob went to his grave.

The situation in this city is grave. It is getting graver.

I learned from his former employees that the man behind this is the real monster.

Not only, they say, did he repeatedly have sex with the 14 year old niece of a 14 Division Police officer, he plied her with crack cocaine.

If she is still alive (all this happened twenty years ago) she needs to be found and helped.

Her family needs  know how and why this befell her.

How did it befall her? I have made that clear.

Why? Basically, the refusal of so many to listen.

I’m not naming the perpetrator. His name can be figured out.

We are told he boasted about how many times he had abused her.

I have a real issue with this city’s councillors and our current Mayor.

The whole crew needs to be swept away.

We need people who care, who care to listen and who caring, take care of us.

Despite having his name smeared and his flyers torn down my friend’s shows were packed.

Despite his continued attempts to poison the city against myself the person behind this continues to fail.

The bikes he sells with his used bike flyers are not worth buying.

People report on YELP! and other sites their dealings with the man.

He told the police I was making and distributing child porn.

I went through Hell.

Thanks to THE STAR and THE SUN the world was informed.

What the world was not informed of is that after trashing my name in public the charges were withdrawn because no evidence was found to support them.

I was forced to take a plea deal because material had been planted on my computer.

The person who did it actually boasted of having done it.

Nonetheless, the Crown wanted their piece of flesh.

This city stinks.

This is a city literally being over run by rats.

Why? Because the silly folk in charge decided to rid the city of feral cats.

Bright bunch.

For this reason come the next election I am running for Mayor.

I am not asking for help.

Why?

So I won’t be beholden to those who helped me. So I won’t be in their pockets.

If this city decides to let me do the job Olivia Chow is not doing now I promise one thing only.

That promise is this.

My office will answer your call.

My office will do everything in its power to help you.

Thanks to our Premier the Mayor’s office has the power to do the job with or without support from Council.

I am used to not being supported.

I am used to standing alone.

I am Reg Hartt.

The City of Toronto has turned a deaf ear to almost all of us.

I listen.

Chow down on Chow.

Get a Toronto with heart: Reg Hartt.

I will get the homeless off the streets. I will get them out of the parks.

The money spent on supporting them there will better be spent giving them care where they can get care without robbing us of our public spaces.

In the arts the best are found in the avant-garde, the front lines.

Our police officers are in the front lines.

Our lawyers say we should not talk with them.

Well, I had three lawyers who promised to deliver me, never talked with me and who threw me to the wolves.

In the end I did what Jesus calls us to do.

Jesus that we who trust him will be delivered.

I know that promise is true because I am delivered.

I know that despite the picture painted in the media the men and women and women guarding our city are a first class act.

Don’t count on me to trash them.

Do count on me to toss THE STAR and THE SUN in the trash.

One day on a streetcar I saw an older Muslim woman get on board with probably her son.,

I saw that she was terrified.

I knew why she was trembling with fear.

She was fraught thanks to all the stories I read about how hated by white extremists she is.

I’m not denying there are white extremists. No one can deny extremists come in all skin shades.

Extremists are always the  minority.

What did I do?

I gave her my seat.

Her son said, “Thank you, Allah.”

I didn’t need him to thank me.

The act itself was my reward.

Mass media is a lynch mob. Always has been. Always will be.

Piranha fish and sharks do by nature what they do.

So too does the media.

Ed Keenan, of THE STAR, coming through my door said, “Reg Hartt, you re the only man in Toronto who stands up.”

Think on that.

It means that in Ed’s view neither he nor anyone at THE STAR stands up because if I am the only one than not one there is beside me.

I’m not the only one.

Our numbers, however, are too few.

I stand up for myself. I stand up for strangers.

I stand up for everyone.

As that is not in the nature of anyone at THE STAR it is wholly in my nature.

–Reg Hartt 2024–08–23.

A city that sees value in rules, but no value in letting Reg Hartt bend them, has no right to claim Jane Jacobs’ legacy, writes Edward Keenan.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/06/27/cineforum-deserves-a-happy-ending-to-its-saga-keenan.html

 

Prior posts on this issue:

Petunia: “It’s a pity Reg Hartt had to do it in Toronto.”

https://reghartt.ca/cineforum/?p=38837

 

 

 

However it is about time that man be run out of Toronto.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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