What is good for bailee drivers’ is good for lessee drivers, owner drivers and rest of the society. The NSW TDA can not represent and protect taxi mafia interest.
Over the last few weeks, some executive committee members have attended a number of meetings on behalf of the NSW TDA. Meetings of owners, meeting with the taxi mafia and DG of the NSW T&I are a few to mention. My concern as a Secretary of the NSW TDA is:
1.These meetings were not approved by the committee.
2.No one officially reported to the committee in writing, on who have organized these meetings respectively.
3.Who have attended these meetings respectively, where and when?
4.What was discussed in those meetings and
5.What was the agreement of those meetings?
The NSW TDA is an open, fully audited and transparent organization. We can not afford and must not resort in secrecy.
No Personal Issues
The NSW TDA time were consumed because of personal issues involving Anne Turner, Trevor Bradley and Tony Denton.
I have been fighting for taxi drivers’ issues for a long time and I will continue to do so. I do not have any personal problem with anyone. It was Anne under the guidance of Tony made many frivolous and vexatious allegations against me. I have refuted them correctly.
Direction the NSW TDA
Ann, Trevor (Tony)
Do you have any direction for the NSW TDA? Certainly not!
Last committee meeting Trevor’s control freak agenda collided with Anne’s blood thirsty agenda. I have posted a warning then. However, for the sake of peace I kept a blind eye. But, I have to act now.
Blood of Ted
Ted was ambushed at the last committee meeting. Anne Turner and Trevor Bradley were mean, vicious and in breach of law. Ted’s suspension was immoral, illegal, harsh and unjust. Such a suspension was not beneficial for the NSW TDA or anyone for that matter.
I Advice to Rescind Ted’s Suspension
For a number of reasons Ted may take legal action against the NSW TDA. I will prefer to rescind Ted’s suspension. I repeat again, Ted’s suspension is not beneficial for anyone. It is a manipulation of a couple of power drunk people.
My Priority
My priorities are NSW Upper House Inquiry, amendment of the last Taxi Bill, countering media and public attacks against taxi drivers and many burning issues I was trying to raise for a long time. Infighting is the last thing in my mind.
Anne’s Ignorance and Determination to Remain Ignorant
In many times Anne spoke to me about many serious issues based on rank talk. I politely advised her to read posts at the Exec and other documents before making such a big statement. Her responses used to be, “I know what I am doing and don’t patronise me”. Surely, I have to draw a boundary to protect myself from false and fabricated accusations.
Anne’s Threat
Anne has been threatening to resign over Trevor, Tony, Ted and a few other issues! She is free to choose her destiny.
However, in all of those threat and actions I can not see any interest of the NSW TDA.
NSW TDA is our Asset
Due to a few people’s vendetta and power drunk nature the NSW TDA can not and must not be destroyed.
Are you sympathetic to these unpatriotic journalists?
Do you have media in the USA?
120 000 American Journalists lost their jobs over the last three months! Many of them were lacking journalistic ethics. They have ignored the fundamental notion of reporting trustfully and accurately. Most of them have treated people of USA with contempt and they kept America uninformed in order to protect the corporate interests! Many people of USA are getting wiser and rejecting the mainstream media outlets and their inaccurate reporting.
The bosses i.e. people are voting with their feet. The circulations/ratings are dropping. The values of the advertisements are getting smaller! At the end of the day the media outlets are not making money and now they are kicking the guts of unpatriotic journalists!
Do you think it could be a new beginning in the USA?
BLOWIN IN THE WIND was a cutting edge documentary, directed by David Bradbury. It is a wonderful documentary. My public and private conversation with Dr. Daug Rokke and other experts on depleted uranium encouraged me to promote David and his good work.
Who knows! May be a sex craze Australian went for a cheap sex tour in Asia under the guise of “I love Asia and I am the liberator of Asia”!! His Asian photographer girlfriend/partner could have shed some light about this issue. Surprisingly she was absent at the screening night. Many of his subjects (photographs) are not well- known to him and he was not well informed about a few events from his own documentary.
In the documentary Philip ostracised sleepy Chinese mountainous town officials for their failure to provide a “Taj Mahal ” for an unknown Australian photo artist. He also crucified the Chinese workers and their work ethics in that segment!
At the Sydney Hoyts Cinema complex when I expressed my opinion about the documentary both David and Philip were not happy with me and both of them failed to address my concerns properly.
However, a few minutes later my friend who was sitting next to me and personally knows both Philip and David asked a question. At that time my friend made a light hearted reference about me along the lines of “my Bangladeshi friend …. “.
That broke the camel’s back! Volcanic lava erupted!! Philip seized on this, realized I was from Bangladesh and then he jumped on me by saying, “I have been to Dhaka recently. People earn $1.00 a day over there, if I ask any of you to live in Bangladesh for a week – most of you will commit suicide, …“. My suspicion about Philip developed further and I waited to talk to him personally to clear the air.
My friend Jeff introduced me to Philip. I said, “Philip are you a Clive of India or what”? He had a dumb look on his face. My friend translated the terminology to him.
I could have said, “you are talking about the slums of Dhaka and you know nothing about those millionaires and billionaires of that country. The wellbeing and happiness level of Bangladesh is better than Australia. Most importantly despite the level of material affluence of Australia, comparatively more of us in Australia commit suicide than the Bangladeshis. Only 55 126 square miles area of Bangladesh is providing food and shelter to 160 million people. The Bangladeshi born teachers, doctors, engineers and people of many other walks of life are quietly providing service to almost every countries of the world. They are not demanding compensation for the British Holocaust in Bengal” But I have chosen to avoid an unnecessary verbal wrestle as such that wrestle or tussle is neither productive nor constructive.
I continued: “You see the old Raj used to produce opium at Bihar, processed them at Calcutta near the bank of the river Ganges. Then they used to ship them to China for profit as well as to destroy the Chinese. Similarly, during the Vietnam conflict the different type of “Raj” used to produce drugs at the Golden Triangle, ship them to America and Europe through soldiers’ body bags. They wanted to kill two birds with one stone! They thought the smart blacks in America would become the drug dealers and dumb blacks would become the drug users! Thus in a way the entire black problem would be tackled easily. However, their plan backfired. Yet, they refuse to learn any lesson! In the recent past the bad guys i.e. the Talibans managed to remove 98% drugs from Afghanistan. I say this without offering any moral support to the Talibans. To our surprise, under the protection of the good democratic and humanitarian western forces 97% of world opium is now produced in Afghanistan. Things haven’t changed! Have they?”
Philip was ducking for cover. Nonetheless, we had a few agreements over a number of issues and we parted amicably.
We spoke to a few more people and I am asking myself is Philip a sex tourist or an Asian lover as he would like us to believe? Should the people of Bangladesh and of Bangladeshi origin in Australia demand an apology from Philip?
Faruque Ahmed Moderator Free America Now Mobile: 041 091 4118, Email: union_faruque@yahoo.com.au Monday, June 08, 2009
Peer, your new attempt to appease the Zio-Nazi establishment to hurt me is not going to work and I got every reason to condemn you and your unethical actions and inactions.
--- On Sat, 17/5/08, Peer Lindholdt wrote: From: Peer Lindholdt Subject: Re: Racism vs Taxi Drivers Safety in VictoriaTo: "union_faruque" , "nswtdaforum@yahoogroups.com" Received: Saturday, 17 May, 2008, 10:26 AM
Red is my comment:
> On 17/5/08 2:13 AM, "union_faruque" wrote:
> The issue is taxi drivers’ safety!
Well that's good to know? Do you include "whites" and Jews in that?
>Howcome a civilised society failed to deliver a safe workplace to its taxi workers? How hard is it to share some info from NSW as we do have some earlier research materials?
Nobody anywhere has ever been able to provide a 100% safe workplace for cabbies, security guards, police etc. All we can ask for is "best possible".
>Who introduced RACISM here? Is it the media (who did not know, "why they took their shits off"?!). Who is running the anti Indian stories in the media i.e. no one likes Indian students, … ?
Nobody has been running "anti-Indian stories in the media". Some media, including Cabbie, has highlighted that, especially in Melbourne, a substantial number of foreign students, most of whom are from the Subcontinent, are driving taxis with little or no driving experience, knowledge of the language, the city, the rules and regulations. That has to stop! Not only are they endangering themselves and other road users, they are endangering competent cabbies, especially from their own part of the world, because they anger, irritate and even frighten the public with their incompetence thus turning them against cab drivers in general.
Professional cabbies are used to the phrase: "Nice to have a driver who can speak English (or know where he is going) for a change." They rarely say "nice to have a white driver for a change". Nothing to do with racism, all to do with competence. Given that the public pays for the fare, they have a right to expect a reasonable level of service, but most importantly driving and communication skills.
You Faruque are the true RACIST. You hate "whites" and Jews. You, with your fanatical emails and blogs, are doing more to damage any hope of racial harmony than anyone else I know, and in the process you are destroying the reputation of the NSW TDA. Unlike the countries where you and your 'brothers' come from, here you Have freedom of speech and the right to express your opinion (as long as you don't incite violence or acts of terrorism). However, you have no right to associate your racist slurs and propaganda with an association which does not, I assume, share your views.
PEER
--- In Sydney_TaxiCorruption@yahoogroups.com, "union_faruque" wrote: Re: British Raj to Taxi Mafia
Further to Peer's wisdom the issue is taxi drivers safety! Howcome a civilised society failed to deliver a safe workplace to its taxi workers? How hard is it to share some info from NSW as we do have some earlier research materials?
Who introduced RACISM here? Is it the media (who did not know, "why they took their shits off"?!). Who is running the anti Indian stories in the media i.e. no one likes Indian students, real estates do not like them ….. ?
Please examine Melbourne Australia Taxi Strike and links at the top of the article for the full coverage of the story and pictures prior to make up your mind.
Should you wish please give us a hand to smash the blockade of a section of Australian media and society who have chosen to live with prejudice and bigotry.
It is the responsibility of civilized society to provide a safe workplace and safer work practices to workers under the Occupational Health and Safety legislation under the Duty of Care provisions. It is also a fundamental right of a worker to work in a safe work place that adheres to safe work practices.
In the state of New South Wales we had the Keatsdale Report, Dalziel Reports and Cook Reports which are relevant to to-days taxi drivers safety initiatives in NSW. I believe the current Victorian taxi driver's safety issues are not too different to their NSW counter parts. You are welcome to contact your NSW counterparts to obtain copies of these reports mentioned for some assistance or guidance should you wish to do so.
The commendable multicultural, Melbourne taxi drivers' spontaneous blockade/strike was a genuine and legal one. No one should dismiss or minimise their great effort with blatant and pseudo racism as we have witnessed recently. For example, taking off shirts on a wintry night as these drivers did was a symbol of their actual working conditions and the industrial reality that they experience. These taxi drivers do not have cameras, a global positioning system, workable safety shields or anything in this so called 21st century Victorian work environment. In terms of safety, they are virtually naked and unprotected.
When super models take their bikinis or bras off in the middle of the town center to high light or draw attention to their causes, there is barely any criticism. That situation is unlike the recent outcry directed to these vulnerable Victorian taxi drivers and the protest style they used. Recent murmurings and attempts to smear Indian students in general, many of whom were involved in this Victorian protest, and their living practices so as to undermine and destruct these taxi driver's spotlighting of unacceptable working conditions are purely racially driven. Many European and American backpackers and students also live in an identical cost effective and uncomfortable manner as some Indian students and by extension Indian origin taxi drivers are purported to do. This is blatant generalization designed to undermine the whole issue, which is the shameful and unsafe standard of working conditions and safety being experienced by Victorian taxi drivers.
Surely, a student or any workers poverty should not deny or diminish their basic industrial and safety related rights.
1.The Zionists are less then 0.001% population of the world. Yet they are responsible for almost 50% of the world conflicts, wars, hate campaigns, crimes and many other problems. "We Jews are going to bring war on Germany." - David Brown, President of American Hebrew, in 1934, quoted in Edmonson's I Testify, page 188. "The Second World War is being fought for the defense of the fundamentals of Judaism." - The Chicago Jewish Sentinel, October 8, 1942.
2. "Generally speaking, Muslims and Arabs used to protect the ‘Christ Killer Jews’ and nowadays they are paying back to Muslims and Arabs very nicely in accordance with the Zionist culture and tradition mentioned in many ancient literatures!" Faruque Ahmed, Free America Now.
3. The Zionists have captured the USA! The Yanks are fighting and dying for Zionism! "Nations will gather together to bring their homage to the people of God; the whole fortune of nations will pass into the hands of the Jewish people, they will march behind the Jewish people, in chains as captives, and will prostrate before it." - Isador Loeb, Le Probleme Juif.
4. The Zionists have enslaved USA, UK, Australia too!! Politicians of these countries do anything for Zionist Israel! "We Jews have spoiled the blood of all the races of Europe. Taken as a whole, everything is Jewdified. Our ideas animate everything. Our spirit reigns over the world. We are the Lords." - Dr. Kurt Munzer, The Way to Zion.
5. "Like the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, an attack on Iran would be totally immoral, illegal and catastrophic. Such a conflict would not be beneficial to anyone including enslaved Americans, Brits and Australian! Most importantly, a conflict of this type will flare up many more conflicts all over the world and the whole world economy, environment, peace and stability will fracture very badly. Every living beings around the world will be paying through their hip pockets to right of existence!" Faruque Ahmed, SMH WebDiary.
A conflict with Iran is beneficial to Israel and Zionist criminals.
Therefore; a conflict with Iran will provide the sorely needed legitimacy to everyone to attack Israelis and their supporters inside and outside Israel morally and otherwise.
The rally was peaceful despite a series of deliberate and ill-motivated campaigns by the both state and federal governments as well the corporate media vendetta against Australian people and people of the whole world!
The creative and colorful anti-Bush protest attracted about 20 000 people from all walks of life. Yet, the ‘honest’ media reported the figure as 3 000, 5 000, small and 15 000! Finally the police report said 15 000!!
The rally finished peacefully and reconfirmed by the organizers and public present.
Somehow Faruque Ahmed was surfing the crowd and engaged in his style of investigations. His investigation became live and entertaining due to the presence of a few cameras. Together they exposed many shortcomings of the aggressive police operations.
Silly police went on to arrest an innocent invalid person. Due to the creative actions of the crowed police had some eggs on their faces. At the end of the drama Faruque shouted to the crowed and specifically to the 50 police present, “good police men and women of NSW, please arrest George Bush for war crimes and genocides, … . It was hilarious.
At one stage he was talking to a refined gentleman who have traveled extensively in Africa and Middle East. Some how a three star Police commander also joined in the conversation. Faruque was trying to expose the ‘skipacious’ Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione and the police commander was trying to maintain diplomacy while he made a few attempts to protect his boss. Then came the trouble! Faruque was wearing a well-made fluorescent T shirt – “Zionist Criminals I love Osama” and holding an equally attractive double sided poster – Stop Bush Free Palestine Stop Genocide In Iraq
A bearded idiot of his post sixties appeared in the panorama. He asked faruque, “Free Palestine – From whom”?
Faruque: People who robbed the land from the Palestinians.
The old idiot continued his idiocy further and at one stage Faruque said, “do you support the existence of a "gaming reserve" like the occupied Palestine where the Zionist forces have imprisoned millions of women and children and murdering them at any time with anything including F18s, Apache helicopters, tanks, machine guns, starvation, frustration, suffocation?”
The old idiot replied: I curse your prophet and your religion (that idiot reminded me Bruce the goose!).
Faruque: Thank you and have a nice day.
The Old Idiot: You have a rotten day.
Faruque: O.K. and now leave me alone.
The Old Idiot: You are an idiot.
Faruque: I can see, you are sewerage outlet and I do not wish to waste my time with you.
The Old Idiot: Why don’t you go back where you come from?
Faruque: Why don’t you go back where you come from?
The Old Idiot: I was born here!
Faruque: In that case please find out your forefathers’ country of origin and then go back to that rotten place immediately and on your way please take your racist and fascist fathers’ grave with you too because this country belongs to Aboriginals.
I think at that stage the Police commander had enough! He signaled Faruque to turn around and which he did. Within a minute, the old idiot was out of the scene and vanished in the wind!
Zionism is worse than Nazism. Yet, some Marrickville Councilors and staffs are muzzled by the Zionist forces. They do not tolerate any creative and tasty stickers like "Free Palestine", "Stop Genocide in Iraq" or "Stop Bush"! However, they are very tolerant of commercial stickers and posters, even though many of them are causing environmental, visual and moral pollution!
I suppose these people love to support the existence of a "gaming reserve" like the occupied Palestine where the Zionist forces have imprisoned millions of women and children and murdering them at any time with anything including F18s, Apache helicopters, tanks, machine guns, starvation, frustration, suffocation, ... Possibly, they have been doing so to take revenge of the European atrocities towards their ancestors in the past despite the fact that the poor Arabs and Muslims used to protect them!
I also wonder what type of sane people would support genocide in any countries of the world and welcome a TERRROIST leader like George Bush?
The forefathers of APEC are admitting, "the APEC is morally bankrupt and intellectually handicapped".
The current APEC is like a `pub with no bear'! They are afraid of people and free speech. They are using F18s, apache helicopters, water cannons and many other terror machines to deter people, democracy and free speech.
It appears they have learned these types of ugly tricks and tactics from Nazi Zionist Israel!
If anyone would like to be serious then I will remind them;
1. 89% of the US foreign funds are used for guns and bullets,
2. 7% for intelligence purposes and only
3. 4% are used for diplomatic purposes!
Because of this APEC tens of thousands workers and businesses in Sydney are loosing money and terrorized every day! NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione is not the best or brightest, but, some how he got the job now. His language and threat of violence to unarmed men and women represents state terror.