Faruque Ahmed vs Radio Terrorists : IMC-SA

Date of hearing: 10.00 am - Friday, December 9, 2005
Administrative Decisions Tribunal, Sydney, Australia

Statement of Facts re: Matter No: 051058 (Faruque Ahmed vs Radio 2GB/Macquarie Radio Network)

By Fax – Tuesday, 6th December 2005

1. I was a long-standing and valued contributor of Radio 2GB. I used to speak on average at least 6 times a week. Radio 2 GB’s own records will substantiate my claims contrary to the mean spirited and evasive 11th June 2002 letter of Ms. Merryn Vincent.

2. Things changed since the election of Arial Sharon, appointment of a New York Public Relations agent to spin for Israel and I went on to expose Israeli war crimes and genocide's in 2GB.

3. Firstly Jim Ball and then other announcers of 2GB falsely started to claim, “we can not put you on the air because of your poor English …. “ yet they did exactly that after 12 years of my contribution with compliment rather than complaint. As I mentioned earlier, Jim Ball and his “Jewish” wife praised me on air on many occasions. However, 2GB changed it’s attitude and refused to give me air time consistent with reasons mentioned in point “2”.

4. Since then, radio 2GB has changed it’s format and went on to incite against Muslims, Arabs, migrants and Aboriginals without any valid evidence or reasons as well as without providing a democratic right of reply. My original two complaints, a number of correspondences between Jim Ball and an independent academic and other available materials of 2GB will clearly substantiate my claim. Tellingly, for predictable reasons the 2GB staff, management and their legal team are desperately doing everything in their power to hide this strategy.

5. Certainly, I would like to cross-examine Ms. Merryn Vincent and Jim Ball to establish the truth and verify a few contradictory claims made in their legal submission and affidavit. I am surprised by the total absence of Jim Ball in the legal procedure and I am getting very suspicious about the reasons and grounds behind the earnest desire of the 2GB legal team to shield Jim Ball who has after all perpetrated the offence in the first place.

6. During the last hearing (5th of September 2005) the 2GB legal team failed to tell the truth. In fact they lied! They said, “we have delivered our legal submission and affidavit to you by courier … “. They also refused to give me a copy of those documents-at that time. I have to stress a few points here. Firstly, they knew I have changed my address and after all they had communicated with me at my new addresses. If their claim regarding an attempt to deliver the “materials” by courier is correct or half correct then the courier MUST have informed them that they did not deliver the documents to me that is to say- to myself or anyone at all for that matter! Therefore they should have refrained from making a false claim at the Tribunal in the first instance- and should have delivered them at the earliest opportunity with an apology. However, with reluctance they gave me those documents and pressed me firmly to absorb them and cross-examine Ms. Vincent. It was not an honest exercise by the 2GB legal team and a very unfair burden to me. They also, made every attempt to take advantage of a serious medical condition of mine at the time. Sadly, they also attacked my integrity over a statutory declaration (original attached).

7. In order to establish the truth, I have been attempting to use available 2GB materials as they are broadcasted on air- and are public materials anyway. In such a pursuit I’ve faxed the 2GB legal team to provide me with audiotapes on 18th July 2005. However, arbitrarily they refused to provide any of them.

8. The 2GB management and legal team¹s evasive behavior, false statements in the Tribunal and cruel personal attacks on me are consistent with their staff¹s and radio announcer¹s deliberate agendas based as they are on false and manufactured evidence.

9. 2GB¹s management and legal team's submission and affidavit and requested materials are essential to my need to verify matters in a fashion that meets basic yard -sticks of natural justice. Their point - blank refusal to deliver those materials is obstructionist the least. For an example, Jim Ball is not an academic, he did not discuss those objectionable and offensive materials for the purpose of research and analysis as he has been doing so every day- without providing what could by any fair minded person be considered a proportionally representative quantum of right of reply. Most of Ball¹s agenda and diatribe is squarely based on false and engineered grounds inexorably leading to detrimental sentiment against the abovementioned groups.

10. I would like to claim and many would agree with me the fact that my activism leads to my being instrumental to many reforms and improvements- such as in the Sydney taxi industry- like taxi driver safety initiatives, vehicular quality, keeping the taxi fares at a low rate, removing unfair $1.00 Flag fall etc. etc. For all of those actions and initiatives, talk back radio played a useful and commendable role. My speech diction is reasonable and known. They are generally supported by many people in the community and eventually the print and other sections of the media and politicians used to accept them. My isolation from being able to communicate on - air with the Jim Ball Mid - night To Dawn Show made it difficult to carry on those good works and such a deliberate and discriminatory isolation is unconscionable the least if not entirely illegal.

11. Jim Ball's pattern of behavior, deliberation, style, point - blank refusal to a right of reply and continuous usage of the faulty Zionist source materials to attack Muslims, migrants, Aboriginals and Arabs despite repeated requests/warnings are obviously in line with his Zionist beliefs or possibly limited to his personal relationships with other people. Either way, those types of behavior and practices are dangerous and divisive for any society.

12. The materials requested in the “summons” are to establish the truth and stop the 2GB lies. I did not know that I have to be present on any day at a particular place regarding the summons. No one told me to do so as well. 2GB’s refusal to provide these and other materials- requested before- establishes a pattern of obstructionist behavior of a deliberately evasive nature.

13. Radio 2GB and it’s reckless shock - jocks who have been railing against Muslims, Arabs, migrants and Aboriginals without any valid evidence without providing a right of reply. We are all 2GB’s long-term victims. Like many others, I am looking for justice with extreme patience. Seeking such a justice is not a crime and no one deserves to be penalised by any ones cruel agenda driven indulgence.

14. On Wednesday, 15th of June 2005, the Honorable Tribunal Member asked me whether I was interested in a settlement of the matter. I responded by expressing a desire for any reasonable outcome with or without arbitration. However, the arrogant 2GB team's point - blank refusal for any settlement at that time, before or after should not now prejudice any other person- or me, whatever the outcome might be.

15. 2GB announcers, staffs, management and legal team knew very well about my “race”, “ethnicity”, “Religion” or “ethno religious” status. They used them over the last four years to discriminate me. 2GB legal team¹s deliberate and dishonest “nit picking” and “semantics” should not be standing in between justice and fairness.

I therefore request this Tribunal to order;
A. Radio 2GB staffs, management and radio announcers to refrain from discriminating against people of my back ground mentioned in point “4” due to reasons mentioned in point “15” and other points,
B. Radio 2GB staffs, management and radio announcers to refrain from vilifying against people of my back ground mentioned in point “4” due to reasons mentioned in point “15” and other points,
C. Radio 2GB staffs, management and radio announcers to refrain from inciting against people of my back ground mentioned in point “4” due to reasons mentioned in point “15” and other points as well as
D. Like any body else I should be allowed to express myself in radio 2GB without any prejudice whatsoever.

Sincerely yours

Faruque Ahmed

Please read the report of David Marr along with John Singleton and
Rupert Murdoch incited this violence if you wish.
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John Singleton and Rupert Murdoch incited this violence
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One-way radio plays by its own rules
By David Marr
December 13, 2005

BY THURSDAY Alan Jones was screaming like a race caller whose horse
was coming home. "I'm the person that's led this charge here. Nobody
wanted to know about North Cronulla, now it's gathered to this."

The riot was three days away and Sydney's top-rating breakfast host
had heaps of anonymous emails to whip his 2GB listeners on. "Alan, it's
not just a few Middle Eastern bastards at the weekend, it's thousands.
Cronulla is a very long beach and it's been taken over by this scum. It's
not a few causing trouble, it's all of them."

Sunday's trouble was brewing all week on talkback, - especially 2GB.
Radio doesn't get much grimmer than Jones's efforts.
He was dead keen for a demo at the beach: "A rally, a street march, call
it what you will. A community show of force."

He assured his audience he "understood" why that famous text message
went out and he read it right through again on air: "Come to Cronulla
this weekend to take revenge. This Sunday every Aussie in the shire get
down to North Cronulla to support the leb and wog bashing day …"

Daily he cautioned his listeners not to take the law into their own hands,
but he warmed to those who had exactly that on their minds. On
Thursday Charlie rang to suggest all junior footballers in the shire
gather on the beach to support the lifesavers. "Good stuff, good stuff,"
said Jones.

"I tell you who we want to encourage, Charlie, all the Pacific Island
people because, you want to know something, they don't take any
nonsense. They are proud to be here - all those Samoans and Fijians.
They love being here. And they say 'Uh huh, uh huh. You step out of
line, look out.' And of course, cowards always run, don't they."

When John called on Tuesday to recommend vigilante action - "If the
police can't do the job, the next tier is us" - Jones did not dissent. "Yeah.
Good on you John." And when he offered a maxim his father had picked
up in the war - "Shoot one, the rest will run" - Jones roared with
laughter. "No, you don't play Queensberry's rules. Good on you, John."

Pity poor Berta - "not of a Middle Eastern family" - who reported
hearing "really derogatory remarks" aimed at Middle Eastern people on
Cronulla beach. Jones cut her off: "Let's not get too carried away, Berta.
We don't have Anglo-Saxon kids out there raping women in western
Sydney."

Yesterday 2GB broadcasters claimed two thirds of calls to the station
supported "what happened" on Sunday. But Alan Jones is not around to
deal with the aftermath. He's having a well-earned holiday.

Source:
http://smh.com.au/news/national/oneway-radio-plays-by-its-own-
rules/2005/12/12/1134236005956.html
or
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freeamericanow/message/28029

Radio man apology for race comment
December 16, 2005

CLAIMS that Sydney's race violence has been stoked by talkback radio were reinforced today when a radio announcer was forced to apologise for on-air comments about Lebanese Australians.

Macquarie Radio station 2GB's late night announcer in Sydney, Brian Wilshire, had accused some Lebanese of being inbred.

"Many of them have parents who are first cousins whose parents were first cousins," he told listeners to his 9pm-midnight show.

"The result of this is inbreeding – the result of which is uneducationable (sic)

people...and very low IQ."

Wilshire's comments were greeted by outrage in Sydney, where thousands of police are preparing to mount road blocks this weekend to prevent a repeat of the race riot at Cronulla beach.

"It reveals an uneducated comment on his part – they are disgraceful
comments," NSW Premier Morris Iemma said.

Wilshire, whose 2GB colleague Alan Jones has also been accused of fuelling racial tensions, emerged today to apologise for his remarks.

"I understand that those comments may have caused offence to some
members of the Lebanese community and I unreservedly retract those
comments and I apologise for any offence that might have been caused," the 61-year-old told Network Ten.

Wilshire, whose station biography declares him to be a fifth generation
Australian descended from the brother of Sydney's second mayor James
Wilshire, has been with 2GB for 25 years.

His apology came as a number of Lebanese community leaders today blamed talkback radio for stoking racial tensions.

"There's been a number of presenters from the same radio station who seem to have fuelled racism," Lebanese spokesman Keysar Trad said.

"They are fuelling racial division."

His comments were echoed as Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders met in solidarity today outside a Sydney Uniting Church, where a hall was burned to the ground on Wednesday night.

About 300 people, including a large group of Muslims from the nearby Omar Mosque in Auburn, as well as representatives of the Christian and Jewish communities, were at the meeting.

A spokesman for Lebanese human rights organisation Cedarwatch, Stephen Stanton, cited 2GB when he blamed talkback radio for helping to incite the violence of the past week.

"Deep in your hearts there are two matters that are hurting you today," Mr Stanton told the crowd.

One example was 2GB.

"The airwaves are useless if they are used by people such as that," he said, to applause from the crowd.

Australian Islamic Cultural Centre president Sheikh Shafiq Khan also criticised
the role of the media.

"The media are the arm of the community," Sheik Khan said.

"The government, the media, the community and police, they are working together like a car.

"If one (of these) is not good, the car cannot work."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17587834%255E1702,00.html

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