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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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academicbias; achillwind; anncoulter; berkeley; censorship; coulter; domesticterrorism; freespeech; hatespeech; intolerance; leftismoncampus; liberalfascism; tolerance
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To: artichokegrower

Translation: The lefties were losing.


41 posted on 04/19/2017 1:55:47 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: artichokegrower

(because campus officials say they won’t protect participants from rioting when it happens.)

Is what they really meant to say.


42 posted on 04/19/2017 1:55:47 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: artichokegrower

OY President TRUMP? You need to cut off their funds ASAP.

I guess now their little sissy antifa’s got their asses handed to them this past Saturday they wanna stop all the violence?


43 posted on 04/19/2017 1:56:18 PM PDT by snarkytart (Mak)
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To: Drango

I agree. It is time to boycott Berkeley and here’s a list of businesses that we need to start boycotting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_based_in_Berkeley,_California


44 posted on 04/19/2017 1:57:34 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: artichokegrower

The progressives who run the birthplace of 1960s freedom of speech movement—now a lefty zoo—are worried about their legal liability.
So after one conservative is chased off, they tell another one, they also disagree with: “No. You can’t speak here or there will be violence we cannot control.”
How sad is that? Liberals. Can’t live with `em, can’t ...


45 posted on 04/19/2017 2:01:23 PM PDT by tumblindice
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To: kaehurowing

I was trying to remember where Mario savio and the Free Speech Movement started; oh well, it’ll come to me.

This I do know:
A Memorial Lecture Fund was set up to honor Mario Savio upon his death. The MSMLF hosts an annual fall lecture on the University of California, Berkeley campus. Past lecturers include Howard Zinn, Winona LaDuke, Lani Guinier, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Cornel West, Christopher Hitchens, Adam Hochschild, Amy Goodman, Molly Ivins, Jeff Chang, Tom Hayden, Angela Davis, Seymour Hersh, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Naomi Klein, Elizabeth Warren, Robert Reich, and Van Jones.

Isn’t that special? Famous far-leftists are fine (except for Seymour Hersh who’s been kinda evenhanded); but harmless, tasteful, tall, blonde, attractive, little Ann Coulter triggers them? On what planet?


46 posted on 04/19/2017 2:01:49 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great- -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: 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 willing to protect participants from rioting if when it should would happen.
47 posted on 04/19/2017 2:04:37 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Parroting fake news is highly profitable for some.)
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To: artichokegrower
— because campus officials say they won’t be able lift a finger to protect participants from rioting if it should happen.

And neither will the Berkley police apparently.

48 posted on 04/19/2017 2:06:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (Make up my mind, NBC,CBS,CNN,ABC. What are the "facts" today?)
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To: artichokegrower
Berkeley just went full libtard!


49 posted on 04/19/2017 2:06:32 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: OrioleFan

University of California. Where Angela Davis was a paid full professor (and now receiving at state pension) for 15 years.


50 posted on 04/19/2017 2:07:35 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Jeff Jr. is enrolled there starting in august for his masters in EE. I’m glad he got a full scholarship plus a stipend, because there is no way I’d be paying that place one red cent


51 posted on 04/19/2017 2:07:48 PM PDT by Jeff Vader
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To: sport
...we have not returned the favor...

It's pretty obvious, any number of blowhards aside, that many are just waiting for the actual shooting to start.

52 posted on 04/19/2017 2:08:42 PM PDT by calenel (The Democratic Party is a Criminal Enterprise. It is the Socialist Mafia.)
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To: artichokegrower

Find a spot just outside of campus, hold the event, use a private security company armed with AR15.


53 posted on 04/19/2017 2:10:20 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: artichokegrower

No shocker, free speech is only permitted for those who adhere to the communist party dictat. It has been dead for years in Berkeley.


54 posted on 04/19/2017 2:11:16 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: artichokegrower; All

Conservatives should just ignore Berzerkely. Treat the place like a leper colony.


55 posted on 04/19/2017 2:17:30 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Migraine

Isn’t that special? Famous far-leftists are fine (except for Seymour Hersh who’s been kinda evenhanded); but harmless, tasteful, tall, blonde, attractive, little Ann Coulter triggers them? On what planet?


It was never about free speech. It was all about moving the leftist agenda forward. They always intended to suppress all speech they disagree with.

These are typical leftist, statist, tactics. The Antifa are Fascists in their actions. They are demonstrating that they unwilling to accept democracy and a limited government.


56 posted on 04/19/2017 2:17:54 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: lowbridge

The universities are ALL using this excuse because it worked several times elsewhere.


57 posted on 04/19/2017 2:23:35 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: sport
The war has not begun. A war has two sides fighting each other. While it is true that the Left is fighting us, we have not returned the favor.

Maybe you haven't been paying attention...


58 posted on 04/19/2017 2:25:46 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: lowbridge

“they won’t be able to protect participants from rioting”

More like they dont want to.
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Yes, they can. Just let the police shoot into the ground and watch the chicken s..ts run. The shots must come from 360 degrees so that no one group of police can be targeted and all rioters can be allowed to run free unless they aggress the police. Then, jail them.


59 posted on 04/19/2017 2:27:55 PM PDT by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: artichokegrower

And the Berkeley cops would just be standing by watching, eating donuts, and enjoying the riot.


60 posted on 04/19/2017 2:28:07 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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