Bond_NightNinja

Love running, exploring, and adventure. Freedoms & rights are worth fighting for. Christian, and traditional family man.

[Bond_NightNinja @Bond_NightNinja]

@saltyreigns We are blessed…

[Brian Tamaki @BrianTamakiNZ]

Thank you, Michael Laws, and @theplatform_nz, for a fair and respectful interview this morning.

It's refreshing to be interviewed by someone who actually gives their guests the opportunity to speak, explain their position, and finish a sentence.

These kinds of interviews are becoming all too rare.

Too many presenters today seem more interested in hearing the sound of their own voice than allowing viewers to hear both sides of an issue.

Whether people agree with me or not, New Zealand is better served when ideas are debated openly, respectfully and fairly.

Take a watch and decide for yourself.

[Bond_NightNinja @Bond_NightNinja]

@saltyreigns Oh, I thought that ended a while ago… we are still be long told we have free speech, but I don’t believe it’s genuine. Pretty sure the Covid days sealed our demise in that sense.

[Bond_NightNinja @Bond_NightNinja]

@shouldveknown11 Sounds great! Wishing you success.

[Bond_NightNinja @Bond_NightNinja]

@shouldveknown11 I had exactly the same recently… IRD decided I was no longer allowed to extend the contributions “holiday”. Fortunately I have an amazing employer who offered to pay the contributions in addition to my previous pay rate.

[Bond_NightNinja @Bond_NightNinja]

@Dame__Jane I can’t stand them… have turned emergency alerts off on my phone.

[Bond_NightNinja @Bond_NightNinja]

@Angel_150913 I wanna know how he gets it back up.

[Bond_NightNinja @Bond_NightNinja]

@Dame__Jane I think it means “we clip the ticket”.

[Bond_NightNinja @Bond_NightNinja]

@shouldveknown11 I’d vote for that, love daylight saving!
I would feel a teeny bit sorry for the farmers though.

[Bond_NightNinja @Bond_NightNinja]

@2ETEKA @MikeNewZ_ NZ First will “oppose” this crap. Somehow I think the rest of our government leaders are too sold out for NZ First to block it alone.

[Bond_NightNinja @Bond_NightNinja]

@NZPoliticalNerd @2ETEKA Wow… “it’s ok, you only get if if you choose to”.
Only morons will fall for that lie.
We all know that “optional” is just a temporary sales pitch.

[Dame Jane @Dame__Jane]

Their man up crew helped so many people after cyclone Gabrielle. While govt funded gangs drove around looting and stealing everything from generators to food to flooded household items..

[Joshua Riley 🇳🇿 @VoteSovereign]

Perhaps if we invested the same effort and public funds into promoting heterosexual relationships our birth rate would rise from the current sub-replacement level of 1.55.

[Kara 🇳🇿 @Being_Kara]

Wake up New Zealand.

Digital ID is being ushered in here under the guise of a social media ban for Under 16s.

The digital infrastructure build is already well underway.

[Bond_NightNinja @Bond_NightNinja]

@NZNationalParty When did this become a parody account?

[Bond_NightNinja @Bond_NightNinja]

@SandeChin No choice… decades of poor leadership has fucked our economy, costs are skyrocketing, debt is ballooning, unemployment is creeping up, and nobody is getting pay increases. National are just as much to blame as Labour.

[Bond_NightNinja @Bond_NightNinja]

@Dame__Jane Last time I was pretty well behaved… if it happens again, I’ll almost certainly be arrested 😆

[Bond_NightNinja @Bond_NightNinja]

@Dame__Jane I think I will intentionally misbehave just to make other people feel uncomfortable.

[Bond_NightNinja @Bond_NightNinja]

@saltyreigns Who knows whether this was planned, or an unintended outcome… but it certainly happened.
Families and communities have suffered as a result.

[Winston Peters @winstonpeters]

It has been reported that police have recently visited Renee-Rose Schwenke about a so-called 'offensive' social media post she posted. Not threatening, not inciting violence, just that it allegedly offended someone.

If this report is true, this is '1984 thought-police' level overreach. It should seriously frighten every New Zealander who believes in freedom of speech.

This is not about whether this particular post was offensive or not. There will always be personal responsibility and consequences for people voicing their opinions that are viewed by some as tasteless or gormless or offensive - but those consequences should not be by way of a police visit.

No one has the right to not be offended, nor do they have the right to be protected from having hurt feelings. In fact it is precisely the right to be able to offend which is the foundation of freedom of speech in our country.

This has happened overseas with more regularity where social media posts, opinions, views, expressions, and even jokes are now deemed offensive by some authoritarian power and have been met with threats from police, arrests, or even convictions in court.

We never thought we would see this happen here and it has a chilling effect on where we are going as a country.

As Oliver Wendall Homles Jr said, freedom of speech also comes with responsibility of speech - you cannot falsely yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre without there rightly being a consequence. We already have laws around 'responsibility of speech' ranging from defamation to incitement of violence, and that is important - but people's freedom to have their own free opinion is something which should be aggressively defended.

We don't all have to agree with each other's opinions, but we should all fight for each other's right to have them. This is the essential foundation of our free democracy.

If we start to accept this kind of overreach by police to curtail individual freedom of speech, our democracy will fall into the type of totalitarian oblivion that will destroy our country.