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Can I ask you a question?” a fellow said.
I said, “Yes.”
He said, “I saw you the other night around 2am posting flyers for your programs.”
I said, “Yes.”
He said, “You looked happy.”
I said, “Yes.”
He said, “But that is menial work.”
The Supreme Court of Canada, in the Ramsden Decision, defended street postering as freedom of speech for those who can’t afford to use mainstream media )magazines, newspapers, radio, television, etc..)
People who use mainstream media do not have the right to use street posters.
The City of Toronto Street Poster Bylaws are extremely well thought out. They are eminently fair. Posters can’t be larger than 8.5 x 11 inches. It is illegal to cover someone else’s poster.
People who poster for hire (for avocation not vocation) ignore the City Bylaws.
They post flyers promoting stuff already promoted in mainstream media.
They post over size posters.
They cover everyone including each other.
One of them consciously destroys the work of others..
The freedom of speech Kenneth Ramsden won for us now lies trampled over in the street.
One of them secretly slanders his ex-employees myself and others with anonymous posters designed to get them killed.
Once upon a time before a man was allowed to master a swords he had to master his tongue. He had to weave poetry out of the air while in combat. These were WARRIOR POETS.
Then warriors became brutes and poets became wusses.
“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.” ― Annie Besant.