The Tolerant Left

Via my cell phone, 2000 protesters (some violent) made security on campus impossible. Event canceled.

This is the time when the old west chivalry was effective. You want to protest? Bang!! Next?

They have the right to protest - they don't have the right to attack volunteers.

From the comments over at mine: http://girlontheright.com/2010/03/22/coulter-over-canada/#comment-9554

Read some of the SUN comments.
Is "maryame" the SDA poster new?
Very similar logic and sentence structure, or lack of same.

And why are we hearing about violent protesters, yet no reports yet of arrests? Ottawa Police, you've got some 'splaining to do.

Francois A. Hoole can claim "victory".

The speaking engagement didn't go off.

I wonder if he poo-pooed his knickers if Anne's complaint went in and Jenny-poo called to "counsel" him in the error exposing the HRC to further exposure.

Instructions to 'brush up on the limits of speech," bans on posters and eventually a canceled event due to security concerns.

What, no book burning? The university needs to step up if it wants to be taken seriously as a fascist jackboot.

Free speech here: no shout fire. Ugh, Kemo Sabay.
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"Parties sign FNUniv memorandum of understanding, funds to flow through U of R Regina Leader-Post"

"Canada's only aboriginal-run university has been thrown a lifeline by the Saskatchewan government just one week ..."

(H/T Googoonews. Banned in China.)

What.

A.

Lawsuit.

Breach of contract, loss of income. $$$$$$

Heh.

This is "our" "Barney doll." We will NEVER let them forget this one.

Check Drudge, left column

FLASH: Ann Coulter Ottawa speech shut down... 2000 protesters surrounding building with rocks and sticks -- pulled fire alarm in building. Cops shut it down! Blogs calling for Coulter to be hurt. MPs were banned from going, Coulter denounced by an MP in the Parliement.

Fears of violence...

UPDATE: Coulter launches Human Rights complaint at Canadian University...

"UPDATE: Coulter launches Human Rights complaint at Canadian University..."

GOOD!

Well if the leftard fascist jackboots wanted to increase sales of Coulter's book, they couldn't have found a better way to do it.

I guess you have to be stupid, ignorant and self-defeating to be a leftard.

That would be right column. Can't imagine Coulter being on the left! :)

OT: Here's an abortion poll that needs some help:

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/03/question-of-the-day-74.html

Houle needs to take responsibility (ie resign) for failing to control his criminal hooligans.

We're going about this right to free speech thing the wrong way.

How would it be possible for these anti-western,radical,anti-free speech leftards be able to shut down Ann Coulters (or our) right to free speech,if we're SMASHING their faces in?

They won't have time to protest our right to free speech because they'll be too busy trying to pick up their teeth off the ground!

Shall we ever see the end of the days of mob-rule? That is what it is about, and it has become the standard M.O. of the Left.

Latest: Coulter taken to US Embassy in Ottawa for protection.

I am embarassed to be a Canadian right now, and I'm really tempted to stand up and say so on Thursday when I go to Calgary. With any luck, that venue will NOT be shut down by violent little you-know-what's who claim to be all about free speech.

The ayatollahs have spoken and the pinheads responded.

I saw a Craig Chandler about an hour ago on CBC. He was being interviewed by one Mark Kelley. At first so critical of Ann Coulter was Chandler, I made the mistake of thinking he was one of the bright sparks involved in the shut down.

No, he is in fact a conservative from Calgary. I believe involved in bringing Ann there. What he was trying to do was to deflect any anger by criticising Ann and saying she does make stupid statements.

He recovered some integrity if one could call it that, but saying the usual mantra about free speech. You do not have to listen or attend etc. Then he put in a caveat, how clever, he then stated about four points Ann can speak on. One was the way of Obama economy, another about immigration and so on. Points that are indeed debatable.

The leftists can back almost anyone into a corner, such is the power of political correctness. Honest, at first I thought the man was an Ann basher. I caught the old CBC sneer in this man Kelley's voice.
That old CBC with it's Obama gooey eyed women.

I really wish Ann had a Vancouver date, because you can bet I would be there. I actually seriously considered traveling to Calgary for her engagement there -- alas time and family constraints prevent me from even a quick overnight trip.

The Ottawa Sun doesn't say 2,000 protesters, but 2,000 turned up for Coulter's speech! This was more than the hall could admit.

CP news says that these were protesters. I frankly very much doubt that 2,000 showed up to protest. The reason I doubt this is because CP News is leftist, and the details in its report are focused against Coulter - eg, saying that she uses 'incendiary language to sell her books'.

Absolutely appalling. Words fail.

I guess now's the time for the - inevitable - moderate conservative/libertarian commenter to show up and comprehensively miss the point by saying some variant of: "I absolutely believe that she should be allowed to speak, of course - let me be clear about that - but I don't like Anne Coulter..."

Whats the opposite of diversity?

The Citizen is reporting a few hundred protestors. It is the usual game of crowd estimating.

Well the Olympics protestors needed something to do....next!

Martin and ET, seems like you may be right about number of protesters. For a while the crowd blended, and nobody knew who was with whom.

RG

Although the left does not have a monopoly on hate, nobody can hate or be as vicious as a leftist.

Yes EBD @ 9:46....I've been reading that all day..."Ann Coulter, don't like her, but I defend her right to say what she wants".

Well, I like her. No apologies.

When was the last time people on the right in Canada or the US did not allow someone to speak?

Just got home, tuned into CP24 (local Toronto news) and got half the story. No mention of the rocks or anything. Just the news anchor and reporter talking about Coulter's remarks the previous night, with the news anchor wrapping up the interview by saying to the reporter on the street, "you have to wonder if she [Coulter] actually beilives what she says", followed by a chuckle.

Thank god for blogs and citizen journalists. I'll have to tune in to The National and CTV News with Robertson at the top of the hour to watch -- or not watch as the case may be -- more omissions.

We must get a facebook page, demanding the resignation of the letter writer.

Last spring Tamil demonstrators tied up Ottawa streets for several days, while the police stood and watched. Tonight they shut down a speaking engagement by one lone white woman.
Citizen reports 9 polce cars present and about 200 demonstrators outside the hall, So 200 or 2000 which is it?, only a difference of 10x.

ET: The Ottawa Sun doesn't say 2,000 protesters, but 2,000 turned up for Coulter's speech! This was more than the hall could admit.

Quite right - the crowd was certainly larger than the hall could admit, but only a small percentage that I saw could be categorized as protesters. The majority were either supporters or the curious who came to see what the fuss was about.

I was at the event tonight. It was kind of sad. I guess we have "freedom of speech-ish". I never got inside but I can say I didn't really see anything that wild outside.

I was in a lineup from 7:10 pm onward waiting to get in. I was never much more then 100 feet from the front of the building. There were two long lines to get in. One for those of us that registered and one for walkups (which was looonngggg).

I didn't see any sticks or rocks. Around 7:20 a group of maybe 30 protesters showed up with a chant. There were some sympathetic voices lined up in the walk up line. I don't know if they were "protesters" or not.

There was chants about no more racism or islamophobia. There were some strong chants back from the crowd lined up for free speech.

Sometime 10 or 15 minutes later the fire department showed up. Some poor lone security guard announced that the fire alarm had gone off and tried to get the lineups to back up. He wasn't very successful. 10 minutes later the firetrucks were gone.

Shortly after 8 the police showed up with campus security to announce the event was canceled, and to clear the front entrance area so the people inside could leave.

The only thing I know about the events inside was overhead from a student who left after it was canceled. He was interviewed by a CBC reporter. I don't know if this any of this is true but the student said (from memory)

"that the hall was only half full when the fire alarm had gone off. At some point student protesters inside had knocked down a table across a doorway acting as a barricade. Campus security had to physically block the doorway to keep the protesters out."

It didn't sound like there was many protesters inside. Outside there was maybe 50 people gathered after the event had been canceled. It was was fairly tame when I left around 8:30. I was standing right behind where the outside photo was taken in this post http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/013624.html#more

Two tier justice?

Terroists hiding behind a cloak of native rights take Caledonia hostage...and even after a court order the government of Ontario intervienes and obstructs justice from being done.
A highway in Toronto is shutdown by terrorist sympathisers (sp?) and the police again get tehir marching orders from politicians and our betters to do nothing but wait.
A lone white woman invited to speak at a university is shut down because it might "be dangerous".
The realization is that our government and education adminstrators have become the useful idiots of the coalition of nancyboys, busybodies and killjoys who base their actions on fashionable and transient reasons.

I hope Calgary shows Canada how it's done! Get some cowboys with horses to protect Ann. If Ann is only shut down in Ottawa, than it will be proof that Houle actually incited violence with his email. He should be taken before the Ontario and CHRC to prove that he didn't incite students on purpose. If the CHRC/OHRC do not prosecute, it will be a loud message to all Canadians to FIRE.THEM.ALL

I guess I just missed a few SDA commenters there tonight. I should have known.

Having a jolly little caption contest over at GOTR. Couldn't resist.
http://girlontheright.com/2010/03/23/coulter-speech-shut-down-by-anti-racists/

I was there. I front of me in line were two UofO professors, ladies, with their charges in tow. I wonder if the parents of these Blackberry laden students know that their children are being taught the art of radical revolutionary demonstration by UofO profs.

That's an interesting bit of news, Nangap. Are you saying the profs were leading or inciting those who disrupted the event?

Or were they just yelling some stupidities, which is sadly expected from many of the faculties in a modern university?

I guess now's the time for the - inevitable - moderate conservative/libertarian commenter to show up and comprehensively miss the point by saying some variant of: "I absolutely believe that she should be allowed to speak, of course - let me be clear about that - but I don't like Anne Coulter..."

How prophetic!

It is always an act of bravery for a freedom-fighter to stand up in the capital of a communist country.

Let that sink in, Canadians. You have been living in a voluntary communist country since about 1968.

However, now it's official, the police have chosen sides (and not for the first time if you look back at events).

We lost the universities and the media a long time ago. I have the impression that we have lost the Conservative Party as well. From 2001 to 2005 in opposition, they opposed the revolution's final stages. Then when they gained power, they presided over the consolidation phase.

Today, let nobody defend that record, because it is indefensible.

Time has come to take notice of the presiding constabulatory at these events- names, badge nos, detachments, etc. Never hurts to know who your (non)friends are!

Let us stop subsidising the leftard indoctrination factories beyond the useful faculties like medicine, engineering, chemistry, etc. Want your kid to go to Norko U for four or more years of the party line (wink), then pay the full fare yourself.

Peter O'Donnell, that is another one for you. Two for two. Good score tonight.

M. Nangap @ 10:36 said "I wonder if the parents of these Blackberry laden students know that their children are being taught the art of radical revolutionary demonstration by UofO profs."

This doesn't surprise me at all. My sister-in-law is an associate prof in an to be unnamed educational facility in the Hamilton area and could confirm that this is precisely what is taking place. Needless to say she keeps her mouth shut at work.

Since the talk was cancelled, I guess I will just have to buy her books to find out more about her views. In case anyone else is interested, you can find some of her books here:
http://tinyurl.com/y8nwcno or try http://abebooks.com.

Buy them before they are banned in Canada! I've just purchased a copy of Guilty. Good reviews of it here: http://tinyurl.com/yzfzono .

I think there should be a stampede to purchase her books as a protest against censorship -- and if you are in Ottawa, make sure to read them on the buses.

Wow, the Ottawa Police are the bravest in the whole, wide world.

To bad there hasn't a hot dog vendor outside selling without a license - the cops would have got a collar.