The Danish white supremacist Peer Lindholt

Ted,

I disagree with you. The Danish white supremacist Peer Lindholt has not changed and his Cabbie magazine gradually lost appeal. No one that I know distributes his magazine, reads it or believes in his so-called reporting. It is very hard to find out the physical existence of his and his "cult leader’s" Cabbie!! I think, time has come to inform Cabbie advertisers to re-think about their advertisement at the rejected and self-destructed Cabbie.

Faruque Ahmed
TDA Founding Committee member
23/02/2007 7:45:59 PM (the day a part of Australia turned into Guantanamo Bay, due to the presence of a Skull and Bones member Dick Cheney!).


Ted Hirsch wrote:
( PS. this post is intended for Forum.)

Peer,

After a week of searching I found a copy of Cabbie !

And I'm changing my opinion. Why ? I think Peer has turned a corner and seen some light at last.
A week ago I drafted a not so nice letter to the Editor which I proposed to send next week.

But now that Peer has lost his campaign for Jools, the Cabbie February issue has three TDA related articles which to my eyes are straight, proper, unbiased reportage. This is a major turnaround from the last 9 dark months of deliberately "enlightening", "revealing" and "exposures of truth" articles (refer my draft letter below).

Sure there are some quibbles with the Feb issue. Peer needs a fresh subeditor for his irrelevant headlines. "Last chance …" and "…Comedy of Errors"?
He dissembles about Jools now 'only' driving a Lime taxi, whereas he previously correctly wrote that the severe conflict of interests of consulting (read 'working') for Mac Bank disqualifies Jools from the NSW TDA – and ATDA? - presidency.
He tries and misses for 'balance' by claiming lies and deceit from both factions. Prove that one, Peer. Give examples of any lies by the present Committee. Just one!
And the TDA address for membership applications is the same as it's always been; PO Box 322.

But for some credit Lindholdt comes as close as he stubbornly can to admitting his past bias by writing "It would be pretty obvious …that I hold Jools in high regard".
And to his credit Hamlet's article on racism is one of clear strong condemnation. Notwithstanding that it was Cabbie that stupidly and deliberately "played the racist card for political gain" for Jools. And that there has never been a "threat" of a boycott or "intimidation" of Cabbie from the TDA. (Indeed after meeting with Lindholdt, I wrote to the Committee that, as is well known, Peer is incapable of admitting being wrong, let alone apologizing.)

A week to find a Cabbie copy indicates that Peer's distribution system has all but collapsed. Peer has a misplaced preciousness about past TDA distribution help. But he owes the TDA nothing and vica versa. I have no concern about the TDA helping to distribute and recommending Cabbie, even if its reporting is critical of the TDA, but so long as it's professional, objective, truthful and accurate.

My personal view is that Cabbie is returning to straight truthful reporting.
For the sake of the industry I hope other drivers agree.
Cheers,
Ted Hirsch


DRAFT LETTER To the Editor Tues 12Feb07 NOT SENT

Why are there no copies of Cabbie magazine anywhere?
In part because many drivers no longer bother with it.

All last year Cabbie deliberately printed litanies of disgusting lies about the NSW TDA.
"False emails to Mac Bank", "missing minutes", phoney proxies", "physical assaults", "illegal SGM", "suspensions", "branch stacking", "$17,000 bribes", etc. Any professional journalist would have cross-checked with any of ten other Committee members. Who would have explained these wondrous "exposures" to be total fabrications. Peer deliberately refused to do this in his all out campaigning for ex-president Michael Jools.
And then Cabbie topped off its lies with racist slurs.

No wonder many drivers don't believe Cabbie any more.
And Peer lost his campaign for Jools (who is now "working /consulting" for MacBank MACL GPS taxis), and lost many of his readers.

The second reason for the non-availability of Cabbie is that TDA members no longer bother to distribute it or notify when supplies have run out.

The Cabbie editor now sheepishly admits (privately) that he may have been "misled" by Michael Jools.
Not good enough, Peer.
More than a month ago the TDA suggested some ways for Cabbie to repair its readership.
An apology, or mea culpa, or some honest reporting might start to restore Cabbie credibility.

Ted Hirsch
TDA Founding Committee member