So I understand why Berkley canceled the Ann Coulter speech due to safety concerns. So why did Ann Coulter just cancel her speech at Berkley after joining a lawsuit with Republican student group at Berkley? Yes, safety concerns. The Republican student group had to pull out due to too many security threats. The venue was going to be outdoors and law enforcement could not guarantee Coulter's safety. Berkley offered Coulter a new date indoors, but she refused.

I believe if you are a Democrat or Republican student group on a college campus, you should be responsible for the venue and security. Not the college/university. This was your bright idea to invite the speaker.

 

Not sure it would be a good idea to put amateurs in charge of such security responsibilities. More people would likely be hurt than just the intended target.

 

That's on them. Time for them to put their big boy pants on.

 

If only it were so simple. I wouldn't want to be the target being protected under such conditions.

 

I can see the security concerns. But that being said I really wish these students would stop protesting people like Coulter speaking. It goes against everything we are supposed to stand for and is counter productive. It plays right into the conservative/Republican/Tea Party/White Supremacists hands.They don't have to like her and simply protesting against her hateful rhetoric is fine. But let them speak.

Because there is a very simple and inescapable formula to free speech. You only have as much freedom of speech as you are willing to allow your opponents. And you cannot limit their free speech without also limiting your own.

This is very true. My family and I attended 100's of wrestling tournaments which is a very high pressure and emotional environment. But we never saw any real trouble until we went to a Western Regional tournament at a college where they put the football players in charge of security. And they were a bunch of rude, aggressive, bullies. And there was real trouble at that tournament and it got so bad they almost had to shut the tournament down. And that was with kids, moms, dads, and coaches.

And I always hoped the lawsuits that followed taught them a lesson.

 

I cannot remember when I read about right wing students, or any right wing people using violence to interrupt the speech of a left wing politician or commentator.

During the Cold War there were black lists that prevented some socialists and Communist Party members from talking.

Norman Thomas chafed under the reputation of being a "respectable" socialist. One time the SGA of a small college in the mid west invited Norman Thomas to give a speech. Soon later the president of the SGA of that college called Norman Thomas on the telephone. In an embarassed tone of voice he said that the president of the college overruled Norman Thomas' invitation.

Norman Thomas said to Micharel Harrington, "Thank God. Finally someone thinks I am too dangerous to speak to their undergraduates."

That kind of thing was wrong. It also has not happened for a very long time.

If students disrupt the speech of a speaker they dislike those students should be expelled. Their tuition should not be reimbursed. They should also receive jail sentences.

 

Berkley should be ashamed that Coulter was given such a public platform to boost her brand from.
If she had made her speech as intended at Berkley it would have gotten a collective yawn from the media.
When the Berkley haters shut that down, the media sat up to highlight the irony of the situation.
Berkley should have had this under control before things got that far.

It's on them. They need to find a way to get these vermin back under control and help them understand that their arrogance is deplorable.

 

People have the right to peacefully protest and people have a right to speak.

I do not see why this is on Berkley. If law enforcement is telling those at Berkley about substantial threats to Coulter, Berkley has every right to cancel her speech.

I believe if these groups (on both sides) invite a speaker, the group should provide security and venue. Berkley did not invite Coulter. The Republican student group did. If Berkley had invited Coulter, then security and venue would fall on Berkley.

 

Berkley is the venue; it's on their campus.
Berkley cannot just say it isn't their problem.
It is.

 

Berkley has to honor the 1st amendment, and putting non-security personnel
in charge of security is a disaster. I'd cut their funding if they can't get the
institution under control.

 

When I say their own venue, I mean off campus.

I am surprised that more universities/colleges are not just saying fuck it and not allow anyone. Eventually it will get there.

 

This country had better get this lawlessness under control. This is what happens when political leaders let people scoff at the laws.

 

Trump signs unconstitutional executive orders and the courts strike them down Trump strikes out at the courts. And then the phony lying coward PR hacks and their many many socks screams lawlessness?

OH FUCKING ROLFCOPTERS!!!!!​

 

But din't you know that President Cheeto cannot be responsible for anything? Even the ads on the State Department website for MarALago are there because of Obama.

 

Fuck auto correct. It is Berkeley.

 

Just because Obama-appointed activist judges, (one, a fellow classmate from Harvard, the other, an Obama campaign donor/bundler, who also happens to be a former employee of Obama's Justice Department who oversaw the Office of Immigration Litigation and, as such, should have recused himself), declared them unconstitutional doesn't make them so. The final say on matters "unconstitutional" lies with the Supreme Court.

As far as Judge Orrich's double standard:

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Ameriphobia


Anti-Americans like Antifa leftists sure hate the flag and what it represents but don’t mind the benefits.

 

Speechless in Berkeley

 

That was not a peaceful protest that caused Milo's speech to be cancelled at Berkley.