Angry, Fascist University Mob Too Much of a Security Risk to Allow Coulter to Speak (Pics, Videos)

socon.ca ^ | March 24th, 2010 | Pacheco

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Angry, Fascist University Mob Too Much of a Security Risk to Allow Coulter to Speak

Tonight was a sad night to be a Canadian.   This was the evening that free speech was banned because a few hundred student thugs who attend Ottawa University forgot what a university is about.  They would not allow the rest of the public - numbering between 1500-2000 people - to listen to Ann Coulter’s speech tonight.  As I walked past the long line-up, which stretched to the streets, I got the sense that a small majority of the crowd were sympathetic to Ms. Coulter’s appearance.  But there were “concerns”, you see,  for “public safety”. 

Ottawa police had more than nine squad cars at the scene, at the university’s Marion Hall. But the event was cancelled about 8:15 p.m. — before Coulter had a chance to speak. Reports suggested the building was evacuated after someone pulled a fire alarm. “It’s a public safety issue,” said Sgt. Dan Beauchamp.  It was preceded by a Canadian University official warning a popular conservative political commentator that her speech should be muzzled, lest it should transgress our “hate speech laws”. (Source)

It’s one of those things the media doesn’t trumpet too much. After all, the University of Ottawa is a place of tolerance and academic freedom – except of course if you happen to be a conservative.  Then, you become a second class citizen in your own country where your right to be heard is drowned in screams and chants of “racism” and “homophobia”.  It doesn’t matter that this is a public institution, supported in part, by conservative tax dollars. That doesn’t mean much these days, of course.  Conservatives are good enough for being milked for money, but not good enough to have some of that public real estate for one lousy night to exercise a basic human right.  Think of it as taxation without representation.

In his apology amidst shouts of “Shame!” and “François, François!” where he lambasted the barbaric treatment received by Ann Coulter and her audience at the soiled hands of the University Youths, Ezra Levant made this pithy comment:  “like a fish, the rot starts from the head down”.   Many people, including yours truly, left that place of “higher education” tonight, vowing  that Ann Coulter would return to the University of Ottawa one day soon to engage the University Youths, whether they like it or not.

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A few shots of Free Dominion’s Free Speech Warrior, Mark Fournier, sharing a few laughs with lovely and gracious Ann….

A fan gets his book autographed and has a friendly chat with Ann…..

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Now, think for a moment what the University of Ottawa, at the instigation of its Vice-President Academic and Provost, is really saying.  They are saying that a whole segment of the population is not only not welcome at a publicly funded university, not only will they not be able to express themselves in an open public forum, but even their own safety cannot be guaranteed.  In other words, the University of Ottawa has become nothing more than a Left Wing Violent Ghetto which brooks no dissent or criticism of its views. It’s a place where University officials send veiled threats of prosecution, and hundreds of militant, brain-washed kids joyously celebrate their victory of not permitting themselves - or the other hundreds of Canadian citizens and students who lined up for over an hour - to be offended.  

Not content for being unoffended themselves, they want to ensure that no one else feels offended – or challenged - either. Like a bunch of spoiled and dangerous brats, they will graduate from University believing that someone should be silenced and perhaps go to jail if such a transgressor meets their twisted and demented form of “hate speech”.  Not having their views challenged in the university environment – the place where it should be challenged and refined – they consign themselves to an eternity in the entitlement ghetto of the politically correct where only one view (the one they have been spoon-fed) is permitted or tolerated. This is the “new tolerance” that Canadian Universities are churning out.  It has never occurred to these people that free speech is so foundational to a democracy and a civil society that its loss will inevitably lead to civil strife and violence.  Because if you cannot speak freely without threats of imprisonment from the prevailing political orthodoxy (and from a University no less),  then you steal people’s hope which debate and dialogue inherently always foster. And when you steal people’s hope, society becomes a very dangerous place indeed.  Those are the fascist seeds that the University of Ottawa and many Universities in Canada are planting…and which, one day, will be responsible for the bitter fruit it will reap.

I was seated beside one of Ann’s business colleagues. He told me that, to his knowledge, she has never had a speaking event cancelled before tonight.  How so predictable that a Canadian university would now boast of that disgrace.

Still, even with the speech crime cancellation, I was able to get a few good pictures and short video clips of both the private reception which was hosted in Ms. Coulter’s honour, and the small crowd which was able to filter into the auditorium amidst the screaming, salivating, fist-pounding mob which pressed in on the doors.  I’ve posted some of the pictures and video clips below, along with a short description of each.

Video of Ann Coulter on filing her Human Rights Complaint against the University of Ottawa and François….

If you cannot see the video below, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJml0TvKcos

 

[Wings-n-Wind]

Ah-h-h-hh....

Surrounded by the serenity of our easygoing, mellow and kind friends to the north...

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That first video link shows Ann in an informal setting talking to supporters, some from Free Dominion, before the speech-no-speech last night

MUCH more at This Link!

Free Dominion Link

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LOL, yea there are some!

[Tzimisce]

Coming soon to a nation near you.

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Heck, the leftists do the same thing here.

I saw them threaten Horowitz and Malkin at UC Berkeley and they had to be escorted out after they spoke

The trust fund babies were so loud in the hallway when Malkin spoke they could hardly hear her inside

The cops did NOTHING to stop the yelling hate/racist speech

[skeeter]

God forgive me, I cannot wait for the showdown with these people.

[w1andsodidwe]

And they dare to complain about the Tea Parties?

[CaptainAmiigaf]

And the sun sets on another part of the “British Empire”.
As I’ve said all too often.....
“Sorry, Winston, you tried and gave it your all”

[musicbymuzak]

me either

[himno hero]

Isn’t this the same “university”, that champions freedom of speech, where Islamic fascists disrupted the Israeli Ambassador’s speech?

[junta]

The Left is a hate crime cult.

[massgopguy]

It’s different when you hate the right people.

[w1andsodidwe]

Perhaps the problem is that the Canadian Health care system is not able to provide them with the proper medications.

[GOPJ]

This was the evening that free speech was banned because a few hundred student thugs who attend Ottawa University forgot what a university is about.

Hitler's goons would shout down anyone who disagreed with NAZI ideas too. Later, when Hitler's power was stronger, these who spoke out were just arrested.

This is how the madness starts.

[subterfuge]

Nothing sets liberals into a violent frenzy like mentioning their double standards...or that they use “pro-choice” as a euphemism for killing babies.

[RonDog]

And, from the report linked to by Ann, from her website --www.fivefeetoffury.com:

Ann Coulter riot in Ottawa: part two

UPDATE: Welcome, AnnCoulter.com readers!

Come for the hate speech, stay for the naughty pinups (NSFW)!

If you're new, here's who I am.

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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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[jellybean]

Let me know if you'd like to be added to the Ann Coulter ping list.

[jazminerose]

I’m sure Ahmedinejad would be welcomed as he was at our Columbia.

My, the left is so afraid of attractive conservative women. What a bunch of sissies.

[RonDog]

...Free Dominion’s Free Speech Warrior, Mark Fournier, sharing a few laughs with lovely and gracious Ann….

That would be, from your original MONSTER thread:

To: FreedomPoster

Ah, so they moved their hosting, presumably in an attempt to stay out of the reach of their Orwellianly-named “Human Rights Commissions”?

They had run into some trouble a while back:

Free Dominion and Mark and Connie Fournier along with several contributors to the site are the subject of defamation lawsuits by human rights lawyer Richard Warman and political activist Warren Kinsella.

In March 2009 the Fourniers were ordered by an Ontario Superior Court judge to turn over information about eight anonymous posters to the site in relation to the Warman lawsuit and to pay $5,000 in court costs to the plaintiff. The Fourniers have indicated that they will likely comply with the ruling rather than appeal.[6] In early 2008, the website was sold to Liberty News Service in Panama.

Basing in Panama reduces vulnerability to lawfare.

324 posted on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:21:07 AM by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)