Give Me Back My Big Issue Pitch NOW - Day 1. By Uncle Monty.

Day One of My London Big Issue

Public Protest & Petition Drive.

Now Read The Full Story Below:

Give Me Back My Big Issue Pitch NOW!

By Uncle Monty at Day One Protest.

Photos & Graphic By Alex Albion.
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::: NEWS FLASH :::

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Ironically, on the exact same day that The Big

Issue's Peter Bird illegally suspended me from

my Long Acre pitch, the Honourable Crown Judge

Aidan Marron, Q.C., at London's Blackfriars Crown

Court, imposed sentences at the same time on my

convicted immigrant robbers. I received official

notification of their sentences only this Saturday

morning that pleased me no end. Judge Marron,

who was recently in the national news about his

vexation of the release of criminals due to the mis-

management of cases by the Crown Prosecution

Service (CPS), ordered one of my robbers to be

deported after the completion of the 12 months

prison sentence he imposed on the blackguard.

The crown judge also imposed a 60-day curfew

order with electronic monitoring and 70 hours of

unpaid work on another of my robbers, who acted

in illegal tandem to rob me on Bendy Bus No. 25,

some 2½ years ago, after leaving my Big Issue

pitch. I am quite satisfied with the honourable

judge's sentences, although I am far from satisfied

with Peter & John Bird's total injustice toward me.

Thus, I can clearly see another day coming in

another court of justice regarding them

and pretty soon!

+St. Alban, English Protomartyr, 2010.

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Now let me tell you what happened at Day One

of my public protest and petition drive that ended

a few hours later after The Big Issue called the police

on me! Yes, they called the Met Police on me. What?

Never in all my 35 years as a news photographer

has anybody ever called the police on me,

except The Big Issue.

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In the meantime, quite a few of my friends and

Big Issue customers are away on their holidays, so

things have been very quiet since Big Issue’s Peter

Bird had the gall to suspend me from my pitch for no

other reason than my critical views and expressions

on my metablog that has, and will continue, to be

critical of The Big Issue gang and its
two brothers Peter and John Bird.
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I am caught in the Big Issue's callous Catch 22!!

Such is based on its foul and arbitrary catch-all

rule of any vendor charged with "bringing

disrepute on The Big Issue." It can be used,

and oftentimes is, by The Big Issue without it

being challenged in a court of law. Hopefully,

that is soon to be changed forever.

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The "unholy" Big Issue is a law unto itself

and my severe criticism at times against

The Big Issue policies and staffers is a

pain in their rear ends! Such is enough for

vile Peter Bird to then take away without

warning my pitch that I have held without

blemish for 5 years at London's Long Acre

that sits within the parameters of England's

famous Covent Garden.

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The Bird Brothers seem to have a big bone to

pick with me all because of my writings in general

- including one of my more provocative stories

entitled "The Sad Case of Killer-Boy Jon

Venables" - that I am told broke the camel's

back for the Bird Brothers to try to get rid

of me. But not so easy pal, I'm afraid.

My blog is, in fact, a private endeavour of

mine and has nothing whatsoever to do with

The Big Issue. Yet, Peter and John Bird seek

to censor my freedom and my rights to free

speech under the law by taking my Big Issue

pitch away without any due process or any

in-house appeal mechanism to appeal against

their lawless actions. They are a law unto

themselves, I repeat, and they have for all too

long gotten away with inflicting and imposing

mean punishments against their vendors for

years without anybody challenging them

publicly or taking them to a court of law.

That is about to change, if they continue to

either ignore or defy my demand to have my

pitch given back to me without further ado.

I state that as a warning, not as a threat!

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My personal impressioin of vile Peter Bird is that

of a Trade Union-type factory shop steward more

than a so-called business development manager at

the Big Issue. But above all, he sounds and acts so
parochial and seems to have little concept of the

wide world beyond his little Big Issue nose. If it

wasn’t for his big brother John Bird, I suspect

little Peter would be little more than a small time

British factory hand or a low-level shop steward.

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The Big Issue brothers - Peter & John Bird -

think they have a right to censor those like

me who write widely on four blogs/websites

of mine. But they don't and never will despite

their illegal and arbitrary punishment of

me and my protected rights of free speech

under the law. My blog stories and my

constant critical view of all things going on

at The Big Issue will sooner or later go be-

yond my simple criticism to nationwide

news investigation and publicity about

The Bird Brothers. Whatever they

do, they'll not silence me.

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Big Issue's Sam Woolock.

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Sam Woolock stopped by to find out if I was

selling The Big Issue and to find out if I was a

"debadged" vendor, too, as I sat peacefully across

from my suspended pitch collecting signatures

from friends and customers for my petition drive

demanding my pitch be given back to me. My

pitch has now been commandeered quickly by

new Big Issue vendors. Sam and I talked and

she was most informative in telling me the

purported reasons behind my suspension by

vile Peter Bird with the backing of his paid

henchmen and women who have now been

viciously and maliciously invading my blog by

posting their pro-Bird and pro-Big Issue and

anti-me comments that I am more than happy

for the world outside the small fishbowl of The Big

Issue to read. I believe strongly, after all, in the

right of free speech no matter if such concerted

attacks on me is now deliberately organised against

me by those at the behest of The Bird Brothers.

The rhythm of their words and their false assump-

tions appear to be that of very closed-minded and

horse-blinkered individuals. Indeed, the more they

attack me, the more they help me to make my case

against The Big Issue in court! And, the more it

makes me determined to speak out and to

state my case publicly against such nefarious

folks. I don't have to justify a thing to them

and I never will ... so bye, bye, babies, then.

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She, Sam, also raised a number of questions with

me about my blog and especially the story I wrote

called "The Sad Case of Killer-Boy Jon Venables,"

that my Big Issue distractors have now suddenly

seized upon as a reason why The Big Issue should

get rid of me. I have since "re-indexed" my Jon

Venable story to my website at Toronto, Canada.

It is safe there to read openly and is beyond the

organized bashers of the Big Issue mob! They

are trying to intimidate and smear me, but

all they do is to show their true colours and

their wicked motives. I welcome more

feedback from them since it will be even

more helpful for me once Peter Bird must

answer for his vile actions inside a court of law

when he is ultimately sued for £100,000- for

punitive damages and civil defamation.

I cannot wait to see him defend himself!

It should be quite a Big Issue spectacle ...
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After Sam Woolock had left, I continued

my public protest and petition drive that

I thought would result in about two dozen

signature for my Day One. In fact, I got

43 signatures by the time I suddenly

saw Big Issue's swaggering Billie with two

uniformed women British police constables

coming right at me. I discovered that where

I was sitting had been made an official Big

Issue pitch, even though in all the five years

at Long Acre such had never been a pitch!

What they'd done was to declare it was an

official pitch in order to remove me from my

public protest and petition drive right next

to my Cafe Nero pitch. Billie was her usual

mouthy-self when I asked her why she had

not told me earlier that I was now sitting in

an "official" pitch. Billie said she didn't tell

me "because I have been told not to speak

to you!!" Then in front of the two constables

she declared I "should not be seen in the West

End, if I was you" due to my blog! How crazy?

I have, of course, previously written about

Billie and her admitted status as a former drug

addict and who has declared she also carries over

95 previous criminal convictions in her name ...

She is an open lesbian, too. She was chuffed to

be walking along side the police as she took glee

in bringing them to me on behalf of The Big Issue:

THEBIGGERISSUE.ORG: Then Came Billie. By Uncle Monty.

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Among other places I shall hold my public protest

and petition drive will be outside the British House of

Commons, outside of BBC Bush House, and outside

The Big Issue Headquarters at 1-5 Wandsworth Road,

London, SW8, that is situated across from Vauxhall

Station. Hope, perhaps, to see you all there!
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JUST ONE LAST QUESTION FOR NOW TO
PETER BIRD: How's that investigation going

that you said you would conduct while I am under

gross suspension by you? Not heard a word yet

about the results of your fabulous investigation?

I anxiously await your FINAL DECISION, I do!!

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- Unsolicited Letter In Support

of Me From Zud or South Africa -
"Dearest Monty, I honestly think you should turn

your back on both Mr. Birds. They are no good for you
I honestly do believe. The reputation they want to pre-

serve is down the drain already. Mr. Bird has no shame

and never will. Dearest Monty stand tall as you always

do. I was laughing out loud when one of the Big Issue

supporters said both Mr. Birds had shown "great virtues."

What poppycock! So great are their virtues they've

thrown you away like trash!! No, Dearest one, it is

time for you to turn your back on them. Then, you're

even freer to expose them for all you can in the future.

What both Mr. Birds have done is to make even more

enemies and not more friends. They have now turned

you into a dedicated enemy. Instead of silencing you,

Dearest one, they have made you even more vocal

and critical of them. You don't need them. Dearest

Monty, I shall be back in London before your next trip

to Rio. Please, please, be sure that we get together

again. We can stand in the empty and lonely spot

that was once a joy and is now dead due only to both

Mr. Birds and the Big Bad Issue magazine. I will never

buy another one in London or here in Durban after

what I see the rats have done to you. The two cold

Mr. Birds have also thrown away all of your many

customers out of their big spite against you, Dearest

of the dear. ALL MY LOVING, DEAREST,

DEAREST MONTY, as I cry for you!!!"
Elizabeth Middleton, D.B.E.

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She Signs My Petition To The Big Issue.

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My Delayed Moscow & St. Petersburg Stories.

My apologies to my blog readers for my temporary delay in presenting my upcoming stories on my trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Due to the on going situation with The Bird Brothers of The Big Issue, it is imperative that I focus primarily on my public protest and petition drive for the rightful return of my Covent Garden pitch. Hence, I am devoting my time to that for the time being. But please be assured, my Russian stories will go online. Take care ...

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Vexed, but determined, Uncle Monty.
+The Eve of English Protomartyr St. Alban,
2010.
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Since some nasty folks at The Big Issue have now suddenly raised the question of the title of thebiggerissue.org, let me tell them right here and now that they are most welcome to take me to civil court to state whatever dubious reasons they can find to claim it is "trading" on The Big Issue trade name. It is not! The Big Issue is a commercial and godless entity, while thebiggerissue is a non-profit and non-commercial megablog that claims no business association with The Big Issue nor any claim that it represents such a registered company or charity. No advertising is found and no corporate donations are sought at thebiggerissue.org, unlike The Big Issue.

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