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Cab drivers refusing passengers with alcohol (Guess who!!)
KSTP TV5 News ^ | 4/27/06 | KSTP TV5

Posted on 04/27/2006 6:55:59 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

A growing problem at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport is making it difficult for some air passengers to catch cabs.

Some cab drivers are refusing to take passengers because they are carrying alcohol, such as bottles of wine or cases of beer, which conflicts with their religious beliefs.

"He loaded our luggage into the trunk, he saw our box carrying duty free liquor from Jamaica and told us he would have to take another cab,” says passenger Greg Kline.

Kline did not easily find another cab.

"We approached the next cab in line, he just closed the cab and took off without a passenger, as did the one next to him,” he says.

Airport staff say Muslim drivers have refused to take passengers with alcohol 922 times in the past year.

Airport policy does allow drivers to refuse a fare, only if they return to the beginning of the cab line, which can mean a wait of 3 to 4 hours until their next fare.

Airport officials have been meeting with the Cab Driver Advisory Board to resolve the issue. They say they have investigated policies at other airports, but concluded that the problem is unique to MSP.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: infiltration; islam; jihad; jihadinamerica; muslims; terrorists
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Is there any difference in principle between a cabbie who refuses a passenger on religious grounds and a pharmacist who refuses to carry "Plan B" abortifactants? I am hard pressed to think of any.

I presume that like pharmacists, cabbies must have sufficient credentials and apply to government for a license. Government is bound by the Constitution's 14th Amendment to treat everyone who applies equally.

This presents government with a quandary. If the only people who apply for cabbie licenses are followers of the Religion of Peace and would refuse to carry wine or beer, then we could expect that this amounts to a general prohibition of this baggage.

In some states, principle has been ignored and by fiat, the religious convictions of pharmacists have been overruled.

Will the government overrule the religious beliefs of these cabbies? I am not so much interested in the final ruling as I am in how the government presents the case as to why it must overrule them, nor why it cannot overrule them.

If the price of being able to refuse to carry the "Plan B" pills is that cabbies are free to refuse a ride, I think that the cause of liberty demands that the free-agent employee must be free to accept or refuse work. Otherwise, while we say we don't have slavery, we "back-door" slavery by defining the concept of "public convenience" so broadly that we destroy liberty and impose a form of slavery.
81 posted on 04/27/2006 8:49:50 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: Graybeard58

I expressed my opinion of how things should be. The state should not tell Wal-Mart, or any other business, what it must sell. That should be entirely up to the retailer.


82 posted on 04/27/2006 8:55:39 PM PDT by Huntress (Possession really is nine tenths of the law.)
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To: Nova
only if they return to the beginning of the cab line, which can mean a wait of 3 to 4 hours until their next fare.

BS. Guy pulls up with his cab and has to wait 3 to 4 hrs for a fare. I don't buy that.

83 posted on 04/27/2006 8:56:32 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Angus MacGregor

Check out when he created his account, I feel a ZOT! coming on.


84 posted on 04/27/2006 8:59:48 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: Ikemeister
Probably more than a few. I'm sure almost none are citizens. Pull their licenses and deport them. They are mistreating those who don't share their cult beliefs. Since they are licensed, they must provide service equally without discrimination. Their cult encourages the murder of non believers and they are offended by alcohol? They're absolutely nuts. But not in an amusing way. It is an offensive, disgusting way.
85 posted on 04/27/2006 9:02:31 PM PDT by isrul
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To: durasell
Yeah. That was the point. Is it a spontaneous movement among the hacks or is there some guy preaching "no liquor" in the local mosque?

Oakland's (CA) "Your Black Muslim Bakery" branching out? Do the hack(ers) wear black suits, with hats & bowties?

86 posted on 04/27/2006 9:12:41 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Deportación por los todos ilegales ahora: Si, se puede!)
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To: Ikemeister

"Hmmmm, I wonder how many of these cabbies are illegals?"

Why would you wonder about that??


87 posted on 04/27/2006 9:23:23 PM PDT by 2dogjoe (Have a Blessed Day)
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To: chowkster

"Well some cabbies refuse passengers carrying alcohol for religious reasons, while some pharmacists refuse filling prescriptions for contraceptives for religious reasons. Same shit, different religion."

Well said.


89 posted on 04/27/2006 9:24:17 PM PDT by 2dogjoe (Have a Blessed Day)
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To: Yehuda

I do use car service more than yellow cabs. Mostly I use the subway.

Note: car services have gone down hill over the last ten years. The days of the good dispatcher are far in the past.


90 posted on 04/27/2006 9:34:13 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: The Republic is Lost
I wonder if the idiots would have taken the terrorists to their flights on 9-11. They were all in strip joints getting lap dances and getting drunk the night before. What a hipocritical cult.

At some times of the day in the Washington DC neighborhood, where I lived until recently, it was a buyer's market with plenty of cabs plying the street. When fully-bearded, pill-box-hat-and-pajama-wearing cabbies would pull up, I'd just just give 'em a "no" and get the next one.

Didn't particularly feel like giving my money to Hamas, Hezbollah, or to whomever else these folks tithe.

91 posted on 04/27/2006 9:47:26 PM PDT by dagnabbit (George Bush deported my children to Amerexico.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Any cabbie who refuses service should have his/her license revoked. There are plenty of people willing and able to drive a cab. Muzzies who want to discriminate can find work elsewhere with someone else's capital investment (cab and dispatch service).
92 posted on 04/27/2006 9:54:12 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: paul51
"BS. Guy pulls up with his cab and has to wait 3 to 4 hrs for a fare. I don't buy that."

Ever driven a cab? I have; and it's entirely possible.

One way to make good money is airport fares, as they are usually long rides with big tips. The problem with them is that at most major airports, the wait in line, which is a highly regulated affair, is quite long.

Other options (hotels, bars, grocery stores) involve less waiting but are shorter rides with smaller tips.

93 posted on 04/27/2006 9:56:00 PM PDT by Nova
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To: Nova

One way to make good money is airport fares, as they are usually long rides with big tips. The problem with them is that at most major airports, the wait in line, which is a highly regulated affair, is quite long.

Other options (hotels, bars, grocery stores) involve less waiting but are shorter rides with smaller tips.




Ah, the eternal cabbie question: airport or city? I vote for the city...quantity not quality.


94 posted on 04/27/2006 9:59:04 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

They should have their certificates/medallions yanked immediately. They are common carriers, and a condition of their certificate is to provide nondiscriminatory service to all comers.

I hope some raghead does this to me. I used to practice before our PUC, and I'd LOVE to pursue this kind of case.

Of course the PC libtard bureaucrats would probably try to stifle me, but Congressman Weldon and a few conservative media outlets would make good use of the resulting kerfuffle.


95 posted on 04/27/2006 10:05:32 PM PDT by mondonico (Peace through Superior Firepower)
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To: LauraleeBraswell

"It's their prerogative. The cab drivers take a loss too. as long as they aren't leaving people somewhere dangerous in the middle of nowhere."

Sorry, it's not. They operate cabs pursuant to certificates or licenses that impose "common carrier" obligations on them, one of which is to serve all customers without discrimination.


96 posted on 04/27/2006 10:07:05 PM PDT by mondonico (Peace through Superior Firepower)
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To: Ikemeister

Maybe they will be the next immigrant raid??? LOL!


97 posted on 04/27/2006 10:09:34 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Huntress

"Comment 15 was removed (for profanity, I guess), but the poster made this point: the actions of the cabbies in this story are similar to those of pharmacists who refuse to dispense birth control pills on religious grouds. IMHO, an independent cabbie can decline whatever fare he chooses, as an independent pharmacist can refuse to sell whatever drugs he chooses. If either is working for someone else, he needs to follow his employer's policy or risk being canned."


Sorry, in every state I know providing cab service is a privilege, not a right, and can only be done legally pursuant to a certificate of public convenience or similar license, a condition of which is that the cabbie must operate as a common carrier (like the phone company or an airline) and carry all passengers without unreasonable discrimination.

Don't put up with this crap. If some muslim does this to you, report his ass to the relevant authority--either the state PUC or the municipal taxi or livery commission.


98 posted on 04/27/2006 10:09:38 PM PDT by mondonico (Peace through Superior Firepower)
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To: durasell
"I vote for the city...quantity not quality."

I'm with you. Waiting for hours at an airport, and even then possibly getting burned, didn't work for me.

As far as making money goes though, "runaway" hooker/junkie fares from bars/clubs at times left me just as broke.

99 posted on 04/27/2006 10:09:41 PM PDT by Nova
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To: Muleteam1

"A privately owned taxi business should be able to carry whoever they want to just like the Boy Scouts can say who can belong to their club. However, if the discriminating taxi company is blocking traffic or causing a safety hazard at the airport when they refuse passengers, the airport should have the right to correct this situation any way they can."

Sorry, they're more like the phone company or a railroad. Think Verizon has a right to pick and choose its local customers? Or AMTRAK? Think again.


100 posted on 04/27/2006 10:13:15 PM PDT by mondonico (Peace through Superior Firepower)
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