If you are a true friend with a public influence: Don’t be that person who abuses their power
Geneva, Switzerland. I enjoyed my time thoroughly, visiting chocolate factories, enjoying fine dining restaurants. The only probem? The ex connection got Netsafe on me in the dead of night, local Swiss time, when I was about to go to bed which culminated in an argument between ,me and my mum in a hotel we were staying at. This had not only upset me due to the former associate running away from accountability, but their actions have indirectly and potentially caused hotel guests to be disturbed. Moreover they had spread a very malicious accusation about me sending threats of a reprehensible nature, which is false, which I only found out while I was away, in Canada and just last month, although the malicious accusation was made a few years ago.
While sitting in the taxi heading to YVR Airport in Vancouver, preparing to fly to Europe , I listened to "Not Ready to Make Nice" by The Chicks. I kept this song on repeat throughout my journey, including on the trains in Europe. During this time, several songs resonated deeply with me—"I Knew You Were Trouble" and "Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift, "Apologize" and "Run" by OneRepublic, "Paradise" by Coldplay, “Obsessed” by Olivia rodrigo, “Who do you think you are” by Christina Perri and "Mamma Mia" by ABBA.
After spending a few days in the UK, visiting family, sightseeing and doing luxury shopping, we left for Geneva. Arriving at Geneva Airport, I encountered a tan, neat, yet cold-looking Swiss customs officer. Her constant pacing, with the heel noise audiable, and annoying smirk was very annoying and intolerable, but it was still outmatched compared to the behavior of my former associate, my stalker, and the Nazis I encountered on social media.
If you are going to be a in a high ranking job, and you engage in defamatory behavior, you are not being a respectable person. You are abusing your position to spread lies about a person behind your back. People like Donald Trump have done this, along with the likes of Andre Tate and Tommy Robinson. And in 2022, the wife of French President, Brigitte Macron, was subject to defamation from two individuals who falsely claimed that she was transgender — and she sued them. The French court convicted two women as a result, and fined them. This should serve as a clear warning to anyone who is looking to defame, falsely accuse, or spread malicious rumors about others.
My former associate isn’t the only person to have done this to me. In 2017, a stalker of both mine and Nicola Brookes were subject to a defamatory wordpress blog, and to this day, it still hasn’t been removed despite multiple reports to both NZ and UK authorities. Also, on my activist account — which I will not disclose for safety reasons — I had been accused of being many things, from being Jewish (despite the fact I’m not Jewish, they continued being antisemitic of course) to being transgender (despite me not being transgender either) to all sorts of nasty and defamatory and all sorts of malicious accusations right under the sun that the fascists throw at me. These are mainly from white supremacists, especially those of American and European origin.
Having Nicky Wright publish a defamatory blog on me is bad. Having Pebbles Hooper steal my images and use them to defame me while encouraging harassment is also bad. Nazis engaging in antisemitic behaviour and other forms of hateful defamation is even worse. But what the former associate did is simply unforgivable given the seriousness of the accusation and the fact that it is a very damaging and a false one too.
I have been through enough. From the Covid Lockdowns and unnecessary and damaging restrictions to economic anxiety, worries about crime, Auckland anniversary floods and Cyclone Gabrielle, and this year, pickpocketing by three Romanian Gypsy women in Paris. Now to add to my list of woes, a former associate as I found out made false and malicious defamatory accusations about me a few years back, and this has added to my stress.
If you are going to be that person who is in a position of power, or an influencer, or working in a high ranking job, don’t be that one asshole that goes around throwing lies about others. Don’t abuse your position. And remember — words hurt, and everyone is a human, including those you gossip about. And when you lie about people, it shows that you don’t care about others, just like those behind the TGV attacks who have no consideration for people’s schedule. And if you are in a relationship, you are not a genuine partner to the other if you defame someone, and the same goes for a friendship.
