Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:13:09 AM · by Syncro · 19 replies · 752+ views
socon.ca ^ | March 24th, 2010 | Pacheco
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Original post HERE about last night's events.
Now, Day Two begins...
It's vital to bear in mind that, as the dust cleared, it became clear that there were not "2000 protesters", which, it seems to me, is the expression Ann Coulter used when contacting Drudge via cellphone.
It sounds more like there were "2000 people" in the general vicinity, not protesters.
Since Coulter was in a holding room or somesuch before the speech, it is likely that she was getting this information from someone else, who was probably just as confused as everyone else under the circumstances. It's hard to talk or hear over a fire alarm.
The "2000" figure is going to be the Left's talking point, as they try to paint this event as a publicity stunt or whathaveyou.
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Report on the Ann Coulter riot from the National Post, with comments from both sides.
An eyewitness report from blogger Nick Milne, who isn't a big fan of Ann Coulter but went to her talk anyhow:
I arrived at Marion Hall – or, more accurately, sort of near it – at about 6:30PM. The line was already at least several hundred people long, and more were arriving every minute. Police estimates (yes, the police were eventually involved; read on) put the final crowd size at about 2,000, but at that early stage there were still enough people to create a line that snaked the equivalent of several city blocks around another university building. The front of the line – and the people in charge of everything – could not be seen. This surely contributed to what ended up happening.
I fell into conversation with those in front of and behind me in the line, and, though feelings were generally upbeat – pretty much everyone I talked to said they were there to see what all the fuss was about – there were ominous rumours circulating that attendees had to sign up for the event in advance, even if it was free for U of O students.Most of the people in the line (one event organizer with whom I briefly spoke but it at about 70%) had not registered, and indeed had no idea that they were supposed to. Had the event organizers been permitted to advertise the event properly in the area most frequented by students this immediate and unresolvable problem may never have occurred. As it was, the line continued to grow anyway, though now under a cloud of anxious uncertainty.
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