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A dilly of a human rights pickle in Sydney:
Taxi drivers are regularly refusing to carry blind passengers with guide dogs – including Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner …
[Human Rights and Disability Discrimination Commissioner Graeme] Innes, whose high-powered role makes him a regular cab user, said he was refused service on average once a month, including twice in two days recently.
He has been told on a number of occasions that it would be against a driver’s religion to allow a dog in the cab.
Presbyterians. I bet it’s those damn Presbyterians.
(Via Bill R. in Minnesota, where this problem has surfaced previously)
- So, put a burqa on the dog, and tell the driver you’re keeping your wife on a short leash. Those damned Presbyterians will love that idea!Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 05 23 at 03:20 PM • permalink
- Presbyterians targets, Lutherans polled.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 05 23 at 03:31 PM • permalink
- #1: That scheme looks absolutely flawless to me RJ.
#2: Great link, Cap’n! Somewhere, Wronwright has a case of the wriggly fingers.
I believe the appropriate authorities in Minnesota finally told the cabbies to knock it off or lose their licenses. This is the truly insidious side of Islam, as practiced in western societies: pushing and prodding at every point of tolerance, bending the host country to its will, first in relatively small things, then in greater. There is no more timely message than this.
- Why are these idiots allowed to drive cabs? The people who are denied service should write letters and picket and otherwise make such pests of themselves that the taxi companies will be forced to fire those drivers who refuse fares based on religion (which, to my mind, is the same as personal preference).
- Paco -as in the US, a state matter here in Oz. NSW might do something such as pulling the licences, but Victoria…..? more likely to set up a study to determine if guide dog duties can be done by suitably large cats.
Or smallish goats or sheep which of course would have the extra bonus of many of the drivers being able to take all or part of the fare in kind, as it were.
Cheers
RodC
- #11 Rod C
Yes, they’d probably set up the same committee in Queensland as in Victoria – they announced thismorning that there have been two committees set up, one of which is to investigate the difficulties faced by Muslim youth. The other one was for something also related to keeping the Religion of Perpetual Indignation and Victimhood pacified.Why?
- #3,
powerful stuff paco.You’ve probably seen this clip before, but I can’t watch it without crying. My parents escaped a communist country before I was born. The greatest gift they gave me was to come to Australia.
Every time we give in to these petty yet reprehensible demands under the guise of religious sensibilities, I seriously believe it brings us one step closer to the kind of life depicted in the film above.
Sorry for the early morning rant everyone.
Happy birthday Andrea.
Morning Kae.
- And a further point -Mr Innes, the HR&DDC states this is a regular occurrence. Well one hopes these filth have picked on the wrong bloke, but one might have thought he could have done something about it before now, given his position. Or is he too busy attacking mugabushitlerhoWARd, as that freak show amnesty is busy doing?
Cheers
RodC
- E-cid thank you for your picture. I think I could give you some lessons, but it was pretty thank you. I’ve never been in a communist country. Many who come here still act like communist here in Australia. We have Russians here who appear communist.
Sing song time.
Oh, say! can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In fully glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution!
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust”:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
- No Pog it didn’t link.
Try clicking on the Permalink thingy if there is one, that makes the link to exactly what you want…
Like this, I clicked on the permalink at the right of my posting info,
Posted by kae on 2007 05 24 at 08:29 AM • permalink < there.
- Maybe the Royal Institute for the Blind can start refusing guide dogs to muslims?
And perhaps those who supply bionic ears and hearing aids can put an embargo on muslims with hearing difficulties as the technology does, after all, belong to the Evil Infidels.
Of course, since a large proportion of taxi fares on evenings and weekends would be people who’ve been drinking, perhaps hotels and clubs can stick up a sign for infidel taxis, and those who’ve been drinking can boycott the religious sensibilities of muslims.
I would have thought that a physical impairment such as blindness would trump religion anyway. After all, the religious ones can still get around without assistance.
We should be more tolerant of physical disabilities.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 05 23 at 06:46 PM • permalink
- Pass a law that makes wearing pigskin gloves a safety requirement for operation of a cab. I assure you that it will greatly reduce these incidents.Posted by Warmongering Lunatic on 2007 05 23 at 08:08 PM • permalink
- Slightly OT, but radical ball-breaker, Paul Kent of notorious feminist journal, the Daily Telegraph on honour killings.
Eva Cox, Germaine Greer, Anne Summers are expected to express their outrage any minute now in the coded form of crickets chirping.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 05 23 at 08:12 PM • permalink
“We asked the driver for his accreditation number and he gave us the wrong one,” he said.
“It was only because an airline staff member had accompanied us that we got the right number and could properly complain about being refused.”
…
NSW Taxi Council spokeswoman Tracey Caine said … “It is illegal to refuse to take a guide dog and all drivers know it.”Airlines know before a plane departs whether or not they’re carrying a passenger with a guide dog.
It should be a simple thing for the airline to find out whether the person is going to need a taxi on arrival and, if so, to let the destination airport people know so that they can delegate a sighted person to accompany that passenger to the cab rank and ensure that any driver who refuses the fare is correctly identified, the police are called, the law-breaker is brought to justice, stomped on and generally made so miserable that he decides to get a job where his religion doesn’t conflict with his legal obligations or goes off to live in some place where his sort of disgraceful behaviour is accepted as normal.
Either that or cab driver IDs should be issued in braille or with audio.
- The big disadvantage Presbyterians have in the “respect my religion or I’ll kill you” race is that those damn bomb belts just stand out like sore thumbs against those brightly colored golf and polo shirts…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 23 at 08:28 PM • permalink
- #47 Richard I don’t think this is the presbys. I’m thinking wesleyans.
#48 Grimmy the only problem with that is that the cabs all have onboard vid recorders, so anyone trying that will probably be charged with assault.
Here in Brackistan they would definitely be charged with assault. After all, that’s picking on a minority.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 05 23 at 09:06 PM • permalink
- Wanted Cab fares who look similar to THIS.
Highly rewarding, renumeration and benefits package second to none. Some special skills necessary.
In cab, incapacitate vid recorder, out comes piano wire, pull hard enough decapitation occurs. Very least, death.
Few of these should have the Islamists a tad shaky.
- Just out of morbid curiosity, how do blind Muslims get around…?Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 23 at 09:50 PM • permalink
- Speaking of human rights abuses, Marxists International Amnesty International has condemned Howard as a short sighted fear monger and a coward in their annual report. He takes prime place alongside Mugabe and Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir. Welcome to the bizarro universe – the forces of good are evil, the forces of evil are good. Hooray for relativism!
- Scene: The Office of the Human Rights and Disability Discrimination Commission
Phone rings: Assistant discrimination investigator Aphrodite Nungawalla-Khouri picks up the phone.
Commish: Aphrodite, it’s Graeme here, quick, we need to get moving, this time its the cabs, they won’t carry me and Deveny (his helper-hound).
Aphrodite: That’s IT! I’ve had it with the Howard junta, this is what happens when we invade Iraq.
Commish: Well, it’s a little more complicated……
Aphrodite:(cuts him off) Right boss, I’m getting a press release out, the ABC will be all over this in no time. We can link Amnesty’s report to this travesty.
Commish: But…
Aphrodite: We’ll have street protests, let that racist bastard Howard tell his driver to run over our wheelchair protestors. God I hate discrimination.
Commish: But…
Aphrodite: But what Graeme? We need to smash all forms of discrimination, any time anywhere, without fear or favour.
Commish: I’ve been trying to tell you, the drivers doing the banning are Muslims.
Aphrodite: Oh.(long silence) Well, perhaps if we say nothing it might all go away.
- #46 Janice
It should be a simple thing for the airline to find out whether the person is going to need a taxi on arrival and, if so, to let the destination airport people know so that they can delegate a sighted person to accompany that passenger to the cab rank and ensure that any driver who refuses the fare is correctly identified, the police are called, the law-breaker is brought to justice, stomped on and generally made so miserable that he decides to get a job where his religion doesn’t conflict with his legal obligations or goes off to live in some place where his sort of disgraceful behaviour is accepted as normal.
A better result would be if he gets a religion that doesn’t conflict with his legal obligations.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 23 at 11:37 PM • permalink
- At least they bounced this prick from driving for three years- conviently he has an acute case of PTSD (as big a scam as RSI, and harder to disprove) so income won’t be a worry for the canine cringer.
Personally I’d rather have either of my dogs drive a cab I was in than some khat addled, surly Sub Saharan subhuman atavist- I’d also soon have them as passengers- they have better manners, aren’t as bath shy and are fare less likely to suddenly give vent to an irrational outbust of violence (unless they spot a four-legged, hairy infidel that needs a jolly good thumping).
For once, I must concur with this array of garlic whiffing, snail scoffing, frog mutilating compulsive capitulators.
- The youtube link for that vid is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyUu-8nbd58.
Tt contains links to other ‘tributes’ to communism, well worth a look.
- #32
<a href=”http://dogblog.dogster.com/uploads/2006/10/Taxi dog.jpg”>Rover’s Cab Co.</a> – muzzies accepted.
What about the fleas?
He’ll get used to it.http://dogblog.dogster.com/uploads/2006/10/Taxi dog.jpg
If linky NBG
- There are two alternative points that I urge readers to consider:
1. What sort of a prick, blind or not would force his dog to get in a car with one of these types? (unless it is of course to “get hold”)
2. What sort of shit house dog training goes on these days? They are supposed to stop at “don’t walk” signs, lead their masters out of burning houses etc and they can’t even direct their owners to the proper taxi?
I’ll no longer be donating to Guide Dogs for the Blind if they don’t even teach them the basic stuff.
- Says a lot about a culture that hates hounds and worships suicide- 60-odd years ago similar types were loading up on crystal meth and charging en masse at machine gun posts, or flying a Zeke full of HE onto the deck of an aircraft carrier- we all know how we finally had to put the bag on those recalcitrant rascals.
Somehow though I can’t see a nuked Somalia or Iran turning around in twenty years and knocking off some of the worlds biggest economies.
- Wish they’d ban it everywhere, particularly by white idiots with dreadlocks. I used to use the pipe off my mum’s vaccuum cleaner as a didge when I was a kid- I blame Rolf Harris. (And to a lesser degree Charlie Drake- how come no-one’s ever done a cover or remix of My Boomerang Won’t Come Back?)
- Ha! Saw some bloke from the taxi industry on the ABC tonight and he said something along the lines of: “If they don’t want to carry blind people and their dogs, they can get another religion or get another job”.
He was pretty blunt about it. I almost fell of my chair in shock. Imaginge broadcasthing domething like that on the ABC! Feel like writing a letter to the ABC complaining about their bias against muslims (ha ha ha).
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 05 24 at 06:33 AM • permalink
- Doesn’t the Muslim “religious aversion” to dogs stem from Mohammed’s personal phobia about them?Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 24 at 12:17 PM • permalink
- #87: Lowers the Times with a loud, rattling noise, causing other Members to cast stern glances and make “shushing” noises
Wot? Wot’s that, you say? Feller disliked dogs, did he? Well, I’ll bet I know why: dogs can tell, you know. They . . . Jenkins, another brandy, please, and look slippy about it . . . they can tell the difference between a gentleman and a cad, and this feller . . . What’s the name? Mohammed, you say? Ghastly moniker! Not one of the County set, is he? No, no, he wouldn’t be . . . In any event, a dog whose olfactory sense is still in working order will spot the rotter in the room nine times out of ten. Wouldn’t give ha’pence for a feller who didn’t like dogs. Mohammed, indeed! Probably one of those merchant wallas who sells brass pots and ceramic elephants and peacock feathers to Indian restaurants. “By appointment to Her Majesty”, no doubt. Humph! “Merrie England”, wot?
- Men of No Appearance Ghastly Monikers.
Genius, paco, sheer genius.
=^D
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 24 at 03:57 PM • permalink
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