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Ann Coulter says she will not speak at Berkeley: 'It’s a sad day for free speech'

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Ann Coulter says she will not speak at Berkeley: 'It?s a sad day for free speech' - LA Times




The controversy over conservative commentator Ann Coulter’s planned appearance this week at UC Berkeley took another turn Wednesday when she and her sponsors pulled out — even as campus police readied anyway for “riot-like” demonstrations.

“I’m so sorry for free speech [being] crushed by thugs,” Coulter posted on Twitter in announcing that she had abandoned efforts to find a campus venue where she could speak Thursday.


“It’s sickening when a radical thuggish institution like Berkeley can so easily snuff out the cherished American right to free speech,” she added.

Berkeley administrators and police countered that their first concern was safety in the face of increasingly violent demonstrations at the famously liberal university.


Coulter had been invited by two student groups to speak on immigration policy as a counterpoint to a Clinton administration advisor. The address became a campus-freedoms rallying point for conservative groups but administrators first canceled Coulter’s visit, then rescheduled it to an unpopular date.

But even without a high-profile headliner such as Coulter, UC Berkeley Police Capt. Alex Yao said, authorities expect extremists to arrive on campus “to have violence against each other.” He said students should expect a heavy police presence Thursday and “a very, very low tolerance of violence.”

Among those contemplating their own Berkeley events on Thursday were Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes and Canadian alt-right blogger Lauren Southern, according to statements Southern made.

Administrators cited unspecified threats of violence in limiting Coulter to a daytime engagement off the main campus. The Berkeley campus and adjacent downtown has been the scene of three violent clashes since February between alt-right demonstrators and white nationalists on one side and anti-fascist and anarchist groups on the other.

This is shameful and exposes liberals for the anti democratic beings they have become.
 
Ann Coulter says she will not speak at Berkeley: 'It?s a sad day for free speech' - LA Times






This is shameful and exposes liberals for the anti democratic beings they have become.

You call me a liberal and yet I fully support her right to be there, so I guess there goes your expose.

Anyways, in the end she is the one who decided not to go. She is always free to make her speech to the ones who want to hear it, even if she has to go somewhere else. Trust me, she is loving this - more dinero in her bank after this boosts her victim status.
 
I think that she should have spoken and let the riots commence. The best thing conservatives could do right now is to use Berkeley as a place to show America the true face of the violent left. Show America where the real problem lies. Start getting as many right-wing speakers there as possible to expose these cretins for the thug that they are. Force LE to start arresting the rioters en masse if needed and if there aren't enough local officers, bring in county and state officers. Instead of letting the thugs win, give them the rope needed to hang themselves.
 
You call me a liberal and yet I fully support her right to be there, so I guess there goes your expose.

Anyways, in the end she is the one who decided not to go. She is always free to make her speech to the ones who want to hear it, even if she has to go somewhere else. Trust me, she is loving this - more dinero in her bank after this boosts her victim status.

As a group liberals are what they are.

And most claim to be exceptions to the rule - as in this case.

But sometimes liberals do think for themselves and if you say you disapprove of what the fascist snowflakes at Berkley are doing I will accept that as a real exception
 
You call me a liberal and yet I fully support her right to be there, so I guess there goes your expose.

Anyways, in the end she is the one who decided not to go. She is always free to make her speech to the ones who want to hear it, even if she has to go somewhere else. Trust me, she is loving this - more dinero in her bank after this boosts her victim status.

Strange, I could'a sworn you call yourself an independent! ;)
 
I think that she should have spoken and let the riots commence. The best thing conservatives could do right now is to use Berkeley as a place to show America the true face of the violent left. Show America where the real problem lies. Start getting as many right-wing speakers there as possible to expose these cretins for the thug that they are. Force LE to start arresting the rioters en masse if needed and if there aren't enough local officers, bring in county and state officers. Instead of letting the thugs win, give them the rope needed to hang themselves.

She was never allowed to speak

As I understand it Berkley never agreed to a place and time but instead kept vascilating

So Coulter finally stopped waiting for permission to speak and gave up
 
Yet another opportunity for Coulter to spew her hair-on-fire hyperbolic nonsense. No, UCB has not become 'a radical thuggish institution '. No, her right to free speech has not been 'snuffed out'.

I can hear the dollars from the suckers flowing in already.

Exactly as she wants.

UCB is a fascist thug institution.

If the students did not approve of Coulter they do not have to attend the speech
 
People will never learn. All you have to do with people like Coulter is ignore them. The Coulters an Alex Joneses of the work make their living off controversy. This could not have worked out any better for Coulter. She gets a bunch of press and in the end doesn't even have to put in any work.

People need to stop getting outraged every time some idiot spews nonsense. Just ignore them.
 
UCB is a fascist thug institution.

If the students did not approve of Coulter they do not have to attend the speech

From what I understand, it's not the student but outside groups that are starting all the trouble.
 
"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen." ~ Tommy Smothers

You can't force people to listen to Coulter's right-wing garbage.

:lol:
 
UCB is a fascist thug institution.

LOL! I know you have to pretend that, but the thing is you cannot demonstrate that it actually is. No one's buying what Coulter's selling.
If the students did not approve of Coulter they do not have to attend the speech

Breaking: I have not argued otherwise.
 
From what I understand, it's not the student but outside groups that are starting all the trouble.

Is that the face of bedwetting liberal educators today?

They will allow outside groups to dictate policy on their campus?
 
People will never learn. All you have to do with people like Coulter is ignore them. The Coulters an Alex Joneses of the work make their living off controversy. This could not have worked out any better for Coulter. She gets a bunch of press and in the end doesn't even have to put in any work.

People need to stop getting outraged every time some idiot spews nonsense. Just ignore them.

America consumes ignorant drama faster than anything else, it seems. It's how we got Trump on some level. So we won't ignore Coulter, we'll play right into her game.
 
People will never learn. All you have to do with people like Coulter is ignore them. The Coulters an Alex Joneses of the work make their living off controversy. This could not have worked out any better for Coulter. She gets a bunch of press and in the end doesn't even have to put in any work.

People need to stop getting outraged every time some idiot spews nonsense. Just ignore them.

I agree to the extent that the liberal snowflake world would not cease to exist if Coulter were allowed to speak

Free speech is never as bad as the ignorant thugs fear it is
 
"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen." ~ Tommy Smothers

You can't force people to listen to Coulter's right-wing garbage.

:lol:

You should explain that to the liberal/progressive students at berkely.

They don't seem to understand that simple fact
 
You should explain that to the liberal/progressive students at berkely.

They don't seem to understand that simple fact

if you try they bash in your skull with a U-lock.
 
Is that the face of bedwetting liberal educators today?

They will allow outside groups to dictate policy on their campus?

Not really. Per your OP:

UC Berkeley Police Capt. Alex Yao said, authorities expect extremists to arrive on campus “to have violence against each other.” He said students should expect a heavy police presence Thursday and “a very, very low tolerance of violence.”
 
I am but it doesn't stop anyone from calling me a liberal or a conservative or a fascist or a communist or the best poster they have ever seen. :mrgreen:

I didnt call you a liberal

This thread was not about you at all expect that you posted to tell me you are not as one with the liberal students and professors at berkley on this particular issue
 
Ann Coulter says she will not speak at Berkeley: 'It?s a sad day for free speech' - LA Times

This is shameful and exposes liberals for the anti democratic beings they have become.

Coulter probably didn't want to speak - she just wanted publicity (which she got). Her star faded years ago and she's trying to become relevant again. Milo showed her a way.

Personally, I wish people would stop playing along with these agitators and let them rant to their audience. Just ignore them.
 
Coulter probably didn't want to speak - she just wanted publicity (which she got). Her star faded years ago and she's trying to become relevant again. Milo showed her a way.

Personally, I wish people would stop playing along with these agitators and let them rant to their audience. Just ignore them.

I believe the University had alternatives, but they were all shot down. So I do think the main thing was the controversy, get the name in the paper, sell a book. That being said, the violence on either side needs to be taken seriously and anyone engaged in it should be aggressively punished.
 
Not really. Per your OP:

The liberals at berkely are looking for any excuse to keep coulter off campus.

If this were someone they liked such as an America hating Iranian mullah they would call out the national guard and issue live ammo rather than let a conservative outside group cause trouble
 
Coulter probably didn't want to speak - she just wanted publicity (which she got). Her star faded years ago and she's trying to become relevant again. Milo showed her a way.

Personally, I wish people would stop playing along with these agitators and let them rant to their audience. Just ignore them.

Yeah right

Milo is doing great these days wherever he is.

Which no one seems to know because he fell off the map since then
 
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