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stirring up some shit

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Jun 4, 2024
  • 6 min read

Well, after Operation 8, I thought I'd mention what I think has been going on in my life since I joined the Dak group in late 2018. Now, obviously we really were an organised criminal group, so they probably had more powers, but some of this stuff that I believe happened is genuinely beyond the pale. So yeah, unlawful surveillance, threatening me with charges without producing any police interviews. Seriously -- not even one charge has been pressed, and it's not like there's that high a threshold for the HDCA, which is the main charge that they could and should have pursued when they were miffed, rather than sitting on it to threaten me into cooperation.

That's why I'm angry with the police, but the main crime that I think has been perpetrated is allowing private citizens access to my sexual life. That's serious.

If the NZSM is paying out millions on the back of Jack assaulting students, then I think it's reasonable and fair to ask for compensation. Every single faculty member could probably face criminal charges.


If we go to court, then we'd get discovery. It's in their best interests to settle for the $50,000 and an apology.

TG captions often feature high school settings. So does straight porn. I've never touched a student of mine inappropriately, and I've never discussed sexual things with a student.

My mental health issues were never severe enough to result in either a CTO, an arrest or a prolonged hospitalisation. You cannot claim that producing my screenplays is in any way, shape or form equivalent to real mental health treatment. As I've said, my brother and my friend Hannah have literally been held under CTO's and then gone to court in order to quash those.

That means that they can't argue that my mental health issues were a reason to allow that particular sexual surveillance. There is no way of justifying that. There simply isn't -- the Human Rights Act is extremely clear regarding discrimination on the basis of sex or sexual orientation.


I could legitimately argue that RNZ did so by allowing themselves to get sucked into that porn scheme, and then airing their grievances with me in that forum rather than in the office via legitimate means. I never had a split personality, and you guys actually made me feel as if I might because you refused to directly discuss your concerns with me.

I want more than the $50,000 tbh. I want my costs for the Dak film covered by the state.

The Film Commission can claim to have assisted me, and then we can use an extra few hundred thou to make it real. That's to cover all the licencing fees..


Tina isn't an apology. Tina isn't financial compensation, and I refuse to let it be seen as such. If it's just the $50,000, then I reserve the right to publicly complain about the transphobia. More money = an NDA. Here's a sample of my defence: 'my brother had to sell his house to liquidate capital because my family refused to acknowledge that I wasn't provided for after my father's death. I was forced to produce this documentary to clear my name from the horrific allegations that people laid against me on the basis of a public mental breakdown that was clearly initiated by becoming aware of the extent of police surveillance.


I was forced to work for an employer that was spying on me while I wanked, and I was told that was ok. I was forced to divulge specifics of my sexual life to people pretending to be my crush. I was told that my penis was a crime, when literally nobody had the guts to say to my face that they'd seen her. I was ostracised from society and then told that the only way to come back was if I gave them the right to produce my IP for free.


Because these people lied about being a woman that I loved, I was then told that I was a threat to that person, based on fraudulent information that she was in love with me. Even if she was, it doesn't mean that their actions pretending to be her were justifiable, and now I'm unable to actually trust her because of that.'


Nobody wants this to reach court, Barbara. It's in your interests to settle.

I will win in court. I'm well-spoken, and people will take pity on the trannie in that context.


The NZSM will cease spying on me immediately. Salina will apologise.

No 'Yeezus comes back and makes us feel good about our illegal actions' ONLY 'I am legitimately allowed to complain and to ask for damages' -


Astrid, you stole years of my life from me. You've still never met me as Amanda, even though you live in town.

I want some money, and apparently I can still challenge you.


I'm not particularly keen to get rich this way, but given that I've done a significant amount of work for free, it's time for that work to be compensated. My scripts were my IP, and they flat-out lied about that.


I'm not going to attend a guitar gig until Jane and Owen apologise to me.


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If they pay out, then I can go and visit NY.

Not that I particularly want to, but the point is that I'd have options. Like buying an apartment and renting that out to somebody to make money while I travel in the Pacific.


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You can't say 'got to pass', you can't say 'we own you', you can't say 'wear pants'

You can't call me a paedo. You can't call me a creep, and you can't call me a criminal, given that I escaped this without charges, though actually I think this was genuinely worse than jail.


Ingrid caught that lol. 👋🏻


I wasn't given three square meals. I wasn't always exercising. I wasn't given counselling.

In fact, it costs over $100,000 a year to imprison someone. I'm guessing it cost several million to stalk me.


Porn isn't counselling. You genuinely thought I was a paedophile. That is literally slander.

You genuinely think that you 'deprogrammed me' but you're still causing me to go insane.


Debbie, this is all real. This shit really happened, and it's why I'm mad at the Greens: for enabling that. It's very difficult to trust Marama given all this.

I referenced the panopticon, and that's actually what the Dakumentary demonstrates: ambient audio on phone mics is absolutely insane now, and they were able to not just surveil my devices, but to actively alter my search results.


That's true, right? That's the power of algorithms. All they had to do was write another one and tag that to my email. It was extremely obvious in that 'porn therapy' ... yet, it's several years later and I'm still trans and I'm still wanking to the same porn.


I can't trust anyone or anything. I think that everyone is a fucking spy, even though no organisation is that powerful.

To Astrid: I want compensation for the attempts at conversion therapy. Same for Barbara and Ian, and Jane and Owen.

In fact, conversion therapy became illegal during this process; so why didn't you stop doing that when it became illegal?


Astrid, what possible justification could you have? My complaints were legally valid, yet you made my family tell me that they weren't because you hate my brother. They're still legally valid because of what you and Uncle Stephen said to dissuade me from actively pursuing those claims.


My mental health team literally never told me to detransition or to return to VUW or to film a movie. The cops have never pursued a charge against me, and I've literally never even been interviewed by the cops. As I said, it takes monstrous people to create a monster, and this is me laying bare the extent of how awful these people have been. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that I'm right and that people are now very ashamed of that behaviour as a result of watching the Dakumentary that I produced to venerate Dakta and (eventually) to clear my name. I want students. I want a liveable income. I want a legitimate chance to make a film where I'm actually being paid to do so. This compensation allows you all to slink away and to avoid facing the results of your meddling, but only if you pay me enough that I think signing an NDA is a good idea. Either way, you can refute these statements, or you can accept that they have some validity, and it is in your interest to either clarify the extent of legal and illegal surveillance, or to pay me enough to shut up. You can't accuse me of being mentally ill right now. In fact, I'm obviously improving as a result of the Māori course that I chose to take. Please choose carefully, but accept that this game is over and that I have the right to my sexual freedom. Ciao, Amanda

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Jun 04, 2024

Another way that this was worse than jail: I wasn't given a trial, I wasn't allowed to see evidence, I wasn't given an opportunity to defend myself from the allegations of my 'friends', I wasn't allowed to see my accusers kanohi ki te kanohi. I wasn't provided with a lawyer for these 'interviews' that were conducted via the porn. They asked me questions without a lawyer present, and pretended to be somebody else in order to gain the answers that they wanted from me. It's amazing that I survived, but honestly I barely did. I can barely focus, my mind is completely and utterly shot from the years of fighting, and my attempts at non-violent protest regarding these conditions were completely and…

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Jun 04, 2024
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Yes, I could blame Labour, but National and Act are still continuing this surveillance and using Chloe as a way of doing that. I thought Jacinda was fairly reasonable, and certainly listened to my concerns. As does the Prime Omelette. It's the bureacracy and the rich people that influenced those decisions that I'm blaming.

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