This good friend of Toronto Police Services, who I’ve dubbed ‘Johnny Guitar’ due to his infrequent guitar-playing at 524 Church Street, was sent in my path yet again on September 10, 2015 at 2:43pm by the Northwest corner of Yonge and Wellesley Streets. I ignored him, crossed against him and walked Southbound on Yonge Street. He must have crossed back Westbound and stalked me for a block before showing me that he was photographing me from behind. At least I had the audio recorder running to document what he said. You might think I’m making progress here, but I’m not. This has been sustained almost daily since 2011, when the drug squad, using the RCMP’s surveillance information, had me followed all over town by the 20 Bloor Street East denizen for years (http://bit.ly/1Qs4jNr). This ‘Johnny Guitar’ is just another informant doing the same stalk-to-provoke routine three years later. His recent intercepts (I’ve had years of them): - Johnny Guitar crossing street towards me, seemingly intoxicated (Church and Carlton Street) [2015-07-04@09-17pm] - Toronto Police officer taunts me on behalf of informant Johnny Guitar (Church and Carlton Streets) [2015-07-18@09-09pm] - Johnny Guitar intercept timed before my LTB Guy Savoie letter delivery (Dundonald Street) [2015-08-11@02-51pm] - Johnny Guitar staged in my path with law enforcement witness (Church Street and Wellesley Street East) [2015-08-28@11-42pm] - Johnny Guitar smiling at me for his 'right on time' walk-by (Alexander Street and Church Street) [2015-09-04@05-03pm] - Johnny Guitar staring at me in panhandler mode at Super Freshmart (524 Church Street) [2015-09-08@12-51am] - Johnny Guitar dropped in my path for my Loblaws exit with a leading tail and tail as witnesses (Wood and Church Streets) [2015-09-09@06-14pm] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The reason for this day’s intercept was that I visited my family doctor’s office in the morning for paperwork to prove that my pharmacy was deliberately overbilling me (more informants). I also explained that a skit had taken place there on August 31, 2015 at 8:40pm with a drug squad informant trying to get my medical information; sticking to me like glue while pretending to be drugged out of his mind. My family doctor's office has been informing on me for the RCMP for years, and would have been prepped in advance when I left a voicemail the previous day that I would be dropping by for the papers. They don’t implement cutting-edge, life-and-sanity-destroying surveillance and monitoring technology on themselves. The RCMP (with CSIS) are so well-practiced at directing informants, helpers and targets as rats-in-a-maze, using ‘cones of silence, sliding doors and partitioning’ techniques, they must have successfully criminalized many people this way. These must be desperate times if police informants are following me for a block, only to run off to their police contacts to file reports on me, filling my police records with more lies and junk. The drug crews seem to train the street informants in to how to please the ear of the regular police, getting them into their pockets with social engineering. Having been in prison briefly myself, the hardened prisoner’s informant tactics are about the same inside the prison pens as they are on the streets. When you report drug activity to the police, the drug squad or major crime unit does not show up at your door. The regular police show and gather information, which is passed to these divisions. From the multitude following me around, the drug crews recruit a lot of ex-junkies. It’s moulded right into their faces, burned into their vocal chords. A life of a junkie is a life of lies, so what could ever go wrong integrating them into crime control? This street panhandler informant scheme has gone on for so many years, is it any form of crime control? It seems to be control OF crime. This may be why 2015 has already ben coined Toronto’s, “Summer of the gun/the knife.” After all, most street violence is drug related. The dirty secret seems to be that cleaning the hard drugs right out of the province could be done in a year if the lavished-over army of informants were put to that task. The whole operation has become a contrivance to make that truly effective process look difficult. After all, less drug-related crime, less need for an expansive law enforcement system. I’ve never done drugs (I don’t even drink). I feel bad for young people that naively try hard drugs, when every dealer is probably directly or indirectly connected to the drug crews. They go on the list as teenagers, and are instantly made a resource to corrupt more people into an informant pool of liars. If you need a reason to tell your friends that you don’t drugs, there’s a good one.

• published: 11 Sep 2015
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