tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708859863717325805.post443869519822346211..comments2024-02-13T12:56:46.050-08:00Comments on The Phantom Cab Driver Phites Back: Tariq: Or, "It's True If I Say It's True."Crocker Amazonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14344354862430937003noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2708859863717325805.post-36102521665219284512011-09-19T17:39:14.818-07:002011-09-19T17:39:14.818-07:00I have read this article especially closely and I ...I have read this article especially closely and I find it gives a reliable and complete verisimilutude between word and fact regarding Tariq Mehmood. <br /><br />I was there on the occasion Mr. Healy describes, when Mr. Mehmood convened nine drivers outside, and then re-entered the meeting, saying that unanimity among all the cab drivers in San Francisco had been achieved on all points then under discussion, what that unanimity was, and, once Mr. Mehmood gave his oracular version of things, he seemed genuinely to believe there would then be no further need for any discussion. At all. By anyone. About anything.<br /><br />On that occasion, Mr. Healy asked Mr. Mehmood dryly, "Is that your idea of democratic process?" Mr. Mehmood had no idea what Mr. Healy was getting at.<br /><br />On another occasion Mr. Mehmood shouted in the, as usual, most violent way imaginable that all drivers are "family;" I had earlier heard him say he was "having" to act as the grandfather of us all. I truthfully said in the meeting that no one in my family ever behaved as badly as he did. He seemed momentarily surprised by that. <br /><br />The worst thing about him is that even when he gets his way, as with Miss Hayashi when she reconfigured the electronic data issues according to Mr. Mehmood's preferences, he does not change his remarks. When last I heard him he still acted as though Miss Hayashi were making all the same demands, to which he objected. IT DOESN'T DO ANY GOOD TO TRY TO WORK WITH MR. MEHMOOD. I think Mr. Healy is quite correct in his suggestion of Mr. Mehmood's deeper agenda.<br /><br />Persons who have only heard Mr. Mehmood speak at the SFMTA Board meetings have no idea how violent and uncivil he is at the Town Hall meetings. He is a Pied Piper figure, and a violent one.Christopher Fulkerson, Ph.D.http://christopherfulkerson.comnoreply@blogger.com