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UC Berkeley orders cancellation of Ann Coulter speech
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | April 19, 2017 | Nanette Asimov

Posted on 04/19/2017 1:30:49 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Next week’s scheduled speech by right-wing pundit Ann Coulter at UC Berkeley is off — for now — because campus officials say they won’t be able to protect participants from rioting if it should happen.

"We have been unable to find a safe and suitable venue for your planned April 27 event featuring Ann Coulter," vice chancellors Scott Biddy and Stephen Sutton emailed the student groups co-hosting the event — the Berkeley College Republicans and BridgeUSA — Tuesday evening.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academicbias; achillwind; anncoulter; berkeley; censorship; coulter; domesticterrorism; freespeech; hatespeech; intolerance; leftismoncampus; liberalfascism; tolerance
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Free speech is dead long live leftist fascism
1 posted on 04/19/2017 1:30:49 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

I came in near the end of Ann on Sean’s show. Did she mention anything about it?


2 posted on 04/19/2017 1:33:00 PM PDT by mazda77
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“they won’t be able to protect participants from rioting”

More like they dont want to.


3 posted on 04/19/2017 1:33:06 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: artichokegrower

Ahh, the Berkeley No Speech Movement of 2017.


4 posted on 04/19/2017 1:33:24 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Vice chancellors Scott Biddy and Stephen Sutton - leftist buttboys.


5 posted on 04/19/2017 1:33:26 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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“... campus officials say they won’t be able to protect participants from rioting if it should happen...”

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campus officials say they DON’T WANT to protect participants from rioting if it should happen.

There!!! Fixed that to the truth...


6 posted on 04/19/2017 1:34:50 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!Donations should not be allowee to come from outside the d)
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To: Carl Vehse

reporting to napolitano


7 posted on 04/19/2017 1:34:59 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: lowbridge

GMTA....


8 posted on 04/19/2017 1:35:34 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!Donations should not be allowee to come from outside the d)
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I think Rolling Thunder should offer their services of keeping the peace.


9 posted on 04/19/2017 1:35:36 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Nuke Bilderberg from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.)
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If the university heads are incapable of providing a safe and secure learning environment they should be relieved and replaced by somebody who is.


10 posted on 04/19/2017 1:35:57 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

That would definitely work...


11 posted on 04/19/2017 1:36:44 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!Donations should not be allowee to come from outside the d)
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To: lowbridge

Who exactly is going to start a riot at an Ann Coulter speech???

Who exactly needs protection from whom??


12 posted on 04/19/2017 1:36:45 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Maybe if the police would actually get out their cars and arrest the miscreants it would be safe for someone to speak at a supposed “institution of learning”. Instead the police are ordered to stand down and do nothing so that the school can claim that they are unable to provide a safe venue.


13 posted on 04/19/2017 1:36:46 PM PDT by JayNorth (Apparently Verizon Wireless is taking customer service lessons from United Airlines.)
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To: artichokegrower

Can someone in a MAGA shirt ride in the front of a Berkeley bus? Can thyey drink from the same water fountains as the libs?


14 posted on 04/19/2017 1:36:49 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: artichokegrower

This should be a damning indictment of the leftist movement.

A university in the United States of America is unable to host a speech by a best-selling author and noted pundit solely because of the significant threat of violence by leftist students and other leftist groups.


15 posted on 04/19/2017 1:38:07 PM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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Free speech is dead. Let the civil war begin shortly if dialogue and debate are over. The left has made their choice.


16 posted on 04/19/2017 1:38:15 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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Maybe some members of the NRA should volunteer to provide protection for Ann from rioters?


17 posted on 04/19/2017 1:38:18 PM PDT by Ignatz (Winner of a prestigious 1960 Y-chromosome award!)
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To: artichokegrower

Bezerkely has gone full bore fascist.


18 posted on 04/19/2017 1:40:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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# 10 If the university heads are incapable of providing a safe and secure learning environment they should be relieved and replaced by somebody who is. !Obviously!
19 posted on 04/19/2017 1:40:14 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: JBW1949

Too many snowflakes, not enough shovels.


20 posted on 04/19/2017 1:40:27 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog (DRAIN THE SWAMP.)
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