Sunday, March 21, 2010 2:31:23 PM · by Syncro · 103 replies · 3,463+ views
University of Ottawa ^ | March 21, 2010 | François Houle
Mildly biased article though
Posted on 03/23/2010 5:24:05 PM PDT by Syncro
From Ann's iphone minutes ago
2000 protesters surrounding building with rocks and sticks -- pulled fire alarm in the building. Blogs calling for ann coulter to be hurt. MPs were banned from going, i was denounced by an MP in the parliement today. cops just shut it down!
The communist state of Canada should be so proud.
Good!
Good pictures above.
I am too far away from Canada and you are too far away from Mexico and South America. We are familiar with different things.
My daughter once dated a young man who was a doctor from Canada. He stayed here in town instead of moving back.
I’ve read of the differences in different areas of Canada.
I checked on Small Dead Animals a Canadian website. Persons were firing away as supporters of Ann and free speech. One witness said Ann never set foot in Marion Hall (the meeting place). It was also given that the really active protesters were "two dozen in number".
We will have to wait until things cool down and an assessment of who did what is made. My first impression of the excellent capture which does show an Ann supporter with T shirt and another opposing was to say:
Rage Boy move over!
Alas, I was wrong. In politically correct Ontario, that person will end up with a high paying job, who is going to turn her down?
www.theglobeandmail.com/video/ann-coulter-on-power-play/article1509814/
Mob rule in Canada! Dunno, maybe we will end going to war with Canada one day.
But according to some people, we’re the nutcases advocating violence. I’m willing to bet that this will not be heard about on the mainstream American press. And if it is actually heard about, you won’t see any leftists denounce this sort of behavior.
Yes, but it's Canada, and I doubt they let her carry that Berretta into the venue, which is also a college/univerisity.
The Canadian Press - ONLINE EDITION
Right-winger Ann Coulter's speech in Ottawa cancelled due to protest
OTTAWA - American right-winger Ann Coulter's speech at the University of Ottawa was scrubbed Tuesday night after organizers said security could not guarantee her safety from protesters outside.
A spokesman for the organizers said about 2,000 "threatening" student protesters pressed up against the doors and security advised she not appear.
"It would be physically dangerous for Anne Coulter to proceed with this event," said Conservative activist Ezra Levant.
"This is an embarrassing day for the University of Ottawa and their student body ... who chose to silence her through threats and intimidation."
The announcement was greeted with shouts of "Shame" and "We want Ann" from about 100 who had managed to get into the hall.
But even before the protesters arrived, there was sign of trouble. A crush of bodies greeted organizers about 90 minutes before Coulter's 8:15 p.m. speaking time as about 1,000 showed up for the 400-seat hall.
At about 7:30 a fire alarm was triggered.
Then hundreds of protesters arrived, mostly students carrying signs and chanting. There was no accurate head account, but one student said the protesters accounted for about several hundred.
"Ann Coulter should go back to where she came from because we don't want her back here," shouted Ellen Ocran, a University of Ottawa student in a shouting match with a Coulter backer.
A protest organizer, international studies student Mike Fancie, said he was happy they were able to stop Coulter from speaking.
"What Ann Coulter is practising is not free speech, it's hate speech," he said. "She's targeted the Jews, she's targeted the Muslims, she's targeted Canadians, homosexuals, women, almost everybody you could image."
Levant blamed the cancellation on university academic vice-president Francois Houle, who had written Coulter to warn her that Canadian laws make provisions for hate speech.
"Promoting hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges," he warned her in the letter, which Coulter quickly leaked to the media.
The university has refused to comment since, but Levant said Houle's not-too-subtle advice to Coulter emboldened students to block her appearance.
Coulter was in the middle of a three-city tour of Canada which began at the University of Western Ontario in London on Monday, and ends in Calgary on Thursday.
The event in London went without incident, but not without controversy.
When answering questions from students, Coulter told a 17-year-old Muslim student to "take a camel" instead of a the flying carpet she has previously suggested Muslims use for transportation.
If publicity was the goal of Coulter's Canadian tour, the trip has already been a smashing success.
She even got a mention in the House of Commons, with New Democrat MP Olivia Chow accusing the government of hypocrisy in allowing her into the country, after having given the boot to an ideological opposite.
Chow said the decision last year to bar British MP George Galloway, who has expressed pro-Palestinian views, shows the Conservatives have a double-standard on freedom of speech.
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney defended keeping Galloway out of the country by noting his financial help to a terrorist group, Hamas.
"Hogwash," responded Chow.
"George Galloway has no criminal record. He can travel the United States, all over the world. What the minister is doing ... people he agrees with, fine come; people he doesn't agree with, you can't come."
Coulter is a best-selling author and syndicated columnist who has been called one of the leaders of the angry right wing in the United States, along with talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck. She embraces the outrage she triggers although she has often dismissed the ensuing controversy by suggesting she was trying to be humorous.
Asked to comment on the Harper Conservatives, Coulter said she didn't pay much attention to Canadian politics, but judged they were not her cup of tea.
"If they support same-sex marriage and socialized medicine, no they are not conservative enough," she said.
And she summed up the harsh reaction to her with another smile.
"I am dangerous," she said.
I’d bet it was a setup by Leftist sources to shut down Ann’s speech.
Wondering what bus company got the contract to haul in all the Leftist hired hands?
Excellent video interview, RonDog. Thank you! I have listened to it twice. She's one very bright and funny lady! Was it from earlier today? Does anyone know yet if she is okay?
Here is just one of Ann Coulter's very funny answers in response to the interviewer asking her how she felt about Canada now:"I love Canada, in fact one of our Presidents, Bill Clinton, was stationed during the war in Canada, during the Viet Nam war."
LOL! It went right over the interviewer's head.
It was mentioned that it was "leaked" to the media, citing News Max and another source
News Max had an article posted a little after midnight on the 22nd, yesteday
Free Republic was the first place to report it with the following thread that I posted around 2pm on the21st.
Provost of the U of Ottawa is Threatening to Criminally Prosecute Ann Coulter!
Call Team America! Quick!
You won't get good odds on that one
That's SOP, clearly shown by the mob of leftists there to prevent her from saying anything hateful
The irony is so thick up there today, I imagine a giant magnet would get some action in that area
- Ann Coulter speech cancelled after thousands protest
- Coulter in Trouble! Surrounded!
- Coulter tells Muslim student to 'take a camel'
- I'm the victim of a hate crime, Ann Coulter tells Canadian audience
- Canadian Provost threatens Ann Coulter
- Provost of the U of Ottawa is Threatening to Criminally Prosecute Ann Coulter!
- Firebrand Sets Off Furor (Coulter In Canada Tour)
:o)
Oh my!
LOLOL
Next thing you know, she will be the leader of the racist, hateful, violent, spitting Tea Party Movement
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