Ann Coulter Plays Cal Berkeley Like a Fiddle, Rejects Latest Invite From Liberal Haven
Only a few months after violent protests at Cal Berkeley which prevented Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking, the geniuses at Berkeley decide that letting Ann Coulter may end in similar result and block an invite for her to speak on their campus. It took Ann no time to jump on the university for suppressing free speech, and per usual the liberal university showed what little spine it had, and re-extended the offer to speak.
At this point I have concerns about the Cal Berkeley administration being able to free themselves from a wet paper bag. First of all, if you’re going to make a decision based on safety, stand by it, if it wasn’t safe on Tuesday, what did you do to make it significantly safer by Thursday?
Cal’s problem was that they got involved in the first place. How liberals and democrats haven’t figured out the strategy yet blows my mind, but lets walk through this. Conservative speaker says outlandish things, liberal students throw temper tantrum, and prevent conservative from speaking by protesting (which turned into a violent scene due to some ill willed masked men/women dressed in all black). As soon as conservative speaker is prevented from speaking, they run to the conservative media and point to the fascist, free speech suppressing, liberals.
If you care at all about our Constitution and our Rights, you have to see how liberals keep screwing this up. Listen, I’m not saying give hate speech free reign to spread hate unchecked. Nope, not what I’m saying at all, what I am saying is fight fire with fire. When conservative attention seekers come to your campus, follow them immediately with someone independent or left, or both. Counter the hate speech with rational thought. Hello, this is what college is all about! You don’t have to let the conservatives get the last word which means you don’t have to suppress what they say. The more you protest what they say, but offer up no rebuttal, the more you look like the petulant child. This isn’t the Art of War, they’re beating you with sandlot rules and right now its not even close.
Ann Coulter rejected an offer to speak at the University of California at Berkeley on a new date after the university canceled her event because of safety concerns, then quickly reversed itself, saying it would reschedule her speech.
Coulter said she can’t attend on the new date and accused the university of continuing to try to place restrictions on her free speech. The student group that invited Coulter is now threatening to sue the school.
The university first announced Wednesday that it was canceling Coulter’s April 27 appearance following several political protests in Berkeley that turned violent. But amid mounting criticism and national attention, the school reversed its decision Thursday, saying that it had found a safe venue to hold the speech on a different date, May 2.
Coulter and the college Republican group that invited her rejected the new arrangement.
In a series of tweets Thursday night, Coulter criticized the university, saying Berkeley officials were adding “burdensome” conditions to her speech. She said she had already spent money to hold the event on April 27 and was not available to appear May 2. She also pointed out that the later date would coincide with a reading period before final exams, when there are no classes on campus and fewer students are around.
Instead, she vowed to speak in Berkeley on April 27 whether the university approves or not.
A leader from the college group that invited Coulter said that the group plans to hold the event April 27 only if the university provides a venue. But, the group leader said, a national conservative group, the Young America’s Foundation, is separately working with Coulter to explore spaces off-campus where she could speak April 27.
An attorney for the Berkeley College Republicans group that invited Coulter sent a letter late Thursday to the university threatening litigation if the university does not allow Coulter to speak on campus April 27. In the four-page letter, the attorney demands that the university find a venue near the center of campus for Coulter and allow her to speak in the evening rather than during the day. If that does not happen, the letter says, “we will seek relief in federal court, including claims for injunctive relief and damages.”
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