Peer’s peers to Australian DictatorsPeer Lindholt of
Peer's Peers and the dictators of the so called
Australian Taxi drivers Association are openly campaigning against taxi drivers’ safety. However, they are very keen to use taxi drivers to make money for themselves and hang in to power of taxi politics.
Right now the issue is taxi drivers safety in Victoria and NSW as well as all over Australia. Yet, Peer’s Cabbie magazine, a few media outlets like Ch 9 and a few racist people of the taxi industry have been inciting racism and sectarianism to derail taxi drivers safety and other life and death issues. These people are trying to provoke the Zionist/Jewish establishment against honest and dedicated taxi industry activist like
Faruque Ahmed without any valid reason or relevance whatsoever.
--- In freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com, "Jodie"
wrote:
Re: British Raj to Taxi Mafia (Sanjay or anyone)
Taxi,
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
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 ….. ?
However because of
Australian Values they have turned around these disasters and defeats in to gigantic victory and glory!
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.
