KerryOra 🇳🇿

Politically homeless, drifting in the echo chambers of life.

[KerryOra 🇳🇿 @diamond291]

If only I could ever be this relaxed 🙄 #Caturday

[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.

[Colourhex @Colourhex]

We are scheduled first game and my players have real life jobs. We tried everything to fit this in but couldn't make it happen so please stop saying we ff on purpose thanks!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Rumor has it he's still there 😂

[KerryOra 🇳🇿 @diamond291]

@aniobrien Love your dress! ❤️

[KerryOra 🇳🇿 @diamond291]

@aniobrien Isn't this done on only a 1,000 people's views? Too subjective

[KerryOra 🇳🇿 @diamond291]

@aniobrien So he threw Ashley under the bus? Shocker

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

There is a significant amount of misinformation circulating about me currently and being amplified by the media. Ironically, for a group of people who were not willing to repeat "unsubstantiated" claims about Hipkins they have no trouble doing so about ordinary citizens.

Again: I did not leak the screenshots, I had no involvement in Jade’s decision to post, and I am not “pushing” or amplifying this story. I tweeted about it two or three times when it first emerged a few days ago, and have been deliberately quiet on social media since.

I have not discussed this on Instagram, TikTok, or Substack, and have only addressed the rumours about me in a single Facebook statement.

Despite that, I am receiving an extraordinary volume of abuse across every inbox, much of it driven by the completely false claims now being circulated online.

I am contacting the relevant media organisations to request corrections and retractions.

To media planning to continue writing about me: I may not have the access to a legal team like politicians do, but I will defend myself. If you hate the way social media is amplifying drama as much as you say you do then maybe don't amplify the conspiracy theories of a faceless X mob who are attacking me.

[James Orr @jamesborr85]

With the filters in play today, brings back, Peter Steiner's 1993 cartoon: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" about Internet anonymity which began as a caption to a cartoon drawn by Peter Steiner, published in the July 5, 1993, issue of the American magazine The New Yorker

[KerryOra 🇳🇿 @diamond291]

@madole_jason @thatdudereed_ Its weigh in time so this will be his excuse for gaining 20 pounds

[KerryOra 🇳🇿 @diamond291]

@Smalltowncovers @thatdudereed_ This is recycled content, didnt he get a haircut a few days ago?

[KerryOra 🇳🇿 @diamond291]

@TheFigen_ I felt his panic

[KerryOra 🇳🇿 @diamond291]

@datingbyblaine Can we circle back to a 45 year old passing for 32!? We need names

[KerryOra 🇳🇿 @diamond291]

@instrument1351 @aniobrien

[KerryOra 🇳🇿 @diamond291]

@__Injaneb96 @FoxNews @CNN BBC are reporting it

[KerryOra 🇳🇿 @diamond291]

@GayMaxine @NicolaWillisMP @chrisluxonmp @NZNationalParty Isnt Bluebridge privately run? Christ on a stick - hatred really does makes people stupid 🤦‍♀️

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

If you're not Venezuelan and never lived through Maduro's regime, shut the hell up.

This isn't your pain.
This isn't your story.

Stop telling Venezuelans how they should feel.

[KerryOra 🇳🇿 @diamond291]

@Karena95205328 @GayMaxine @NZNationalParty @nzfirst So the people who were forced to flee their own country because of a dictatorship?

[KerryOra 🇳🇿 @diamond291]

@CCNK2277 @thatdudereed_ From other threads he has apparently been pulling the same thing for over 10 years. Google Taylor Sowers

[Klara @klara_sjo]

I'm glad this guy has a hobby because otherwise he was absolutely going to be a serial killer.