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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: tt11758 on March 24, 2010, 11:18:17 AM
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36013193/ns/world_news-americas/?GT1=43001 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36013193/ns/world_news-americas/?GT1=43001)
OTTAWA - A protest by hundreds of students led organizers to cancel a Tuesday night speech by American conservative commentator Ann Coulter at the University of Ottawa.
A spokesman for the organizers said Coulter was advised against appearing after about 2,000 "threatening" students crowded the entrance to Marion Hall, posing a security threat.
"It would be physically dangerous for Ann Coulter to proceed with this event," said conservative political activist Ezra Levant inside the hall.
"This is an embarrassing day for the University of Ottawa and their student body . . . who chose to silence her through threats and intimidation."
A protest organizer, international studies student Mike Fancie, said he was pleased they were able to stop Coulter from speaking.
"What Ann Coulter is practicing is not free speech, it's hate speech," he said. "She's targeted the Jews, she's targeted the Muslims, she's targeted Canadians, homosexuals, women, almost everybody you could imagine."
The announcement of the cancelation was greeted with shouts of "Shame" and "We want Ann" from about 100 people inside the hall. Outside protesters mockingly chanted "Goodbye Ann Coulter."
About 10 Ottawa police cars were called to the scene, but there were no incidents.
Coulter expressed her outrage, calling the University of Ottawa a "bush league" institution in an interview for The Washington Times.
"This has never happened before," she told the newspaper. "I go to the best schools, Harvard, the Ivy League and those kids are too intellectually proud" to threaten speakers.
Levant blamed the bedlam on university academic vice-president Francois Houle, who had written Coulter to warn her that Canadian laws make provisions for hate speech.
"Promoting hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges," he warned her in the letter, which Coulter quickly leaked to the media.
The university has refused to comment since. Levant said Houle's advice to Coulter had emboldened students to block her appearance.
Coulter, a best-selling author and syndicated columnist, was in the middle of a three-city tour of Canada, which began at the University of Western Ontario in London on Monday, and ends in Calgary on Thursday.
The event in London went without incident, but not without controversy.
When answering questions from students, Coulter told a 17-year-old Muslim student to "take a camel" instead of the flying carpet she has previously suggested Muslims use for transportation. Coulter later told CTV that the "camel" remark was a joke.
I thought WE were the ones who were threatening and intimidating.
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The left was not threatening or intimidating, you right wing teabagger! They were protecting people from hate speech!
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The left was not threatening or intimidating, you right wing teabagger! They were protecting people from hate speech!
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Are you calling ME a right-wing teabagger?!?
OK, you got me!! ;D
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The left was not threatening or intimidating, you right wing teabagger! They were protecting people from hate speech!
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Actually, based on something I read yesterday, I believe that Coulter was planning to file a formal complaint against the school for engaging in hate speech. Kind of a reversal of what happened to Steyn a few years back. Should be interesting.
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The left was not threatening or intimidating, you right wing teabagger! They were protecting people from hate speech!
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can you explain teabagger....
i hope it is not the meaning I know for it ;)
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No Phil, What you are thinking is what Obama is doing to us.
The real deal, Boston Tea party, bales of tea dumped into Boston harbor protesting the new tariff on tea from England, 1773.
New Tea baggers, conservative people including libertarians, holding meetings and protests of the present expense through bail outs, states rights through the 10th and 14th amendments, bigger government, 2nd amendment, healthcare, and many more. It is a movement, not a party you can vote for. I think the Dems are sunk for 2012, but don't get lax, get out and vote, join sign building parties, man, phone banks, and throw most of the bums out, both sides. ;D
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Actually, based on something I read yesterday, I believe that Coulter was planning to file a formal complaint against the school for engaging in hate speech. Kind of a reversal of what happened to Steyn a few years back. Should be interesting.
for more info you can look here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_protests
Note that liberals and liberal media will not speak favorably of the Teabag Movement.
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Am I missing some sarcasm here or something here? If so please ignore the following.
STOP IT RIGHT NOW! "Teabag", "teabagger", and all derivatives are terms referencing a (usually homosexual) sexual activity and are meant to demean the Tea Party members. The use of these terms means that you either do not understand their implication, support the hypocrisy of the "progressives" and their use of the term, or simple have very poor comprehension of the English language.
I now return you to your regular programming.
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Remember the Hippies, who got us into all this crap ? The Tea Party are everybody else.
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Makes me remeber Earlham fondly. Good liberal Quaker college. We brought her in to speak, I was the one who pushed for a conservative, but I wanted Dick Lugar(R) In., or DeBourgeuvx (sic) the editor of the Wash Times. Anne Coulter is a bomb thrower, not a thinker, and as such doesn't lead to debate, but just yelling. Still we brought her in, and got what we payed for. It was worth it for entertainment value. Apparently she had had a student a few months previously throw an orange at her and she similarly made much of her persecution. At Earlham, a hippie kid got on stage before she spoke, gave her a hug, and handed her a fruit basket. It was classic. f..k you with a smile has rarely been done so well. Even Anne laughed at it.
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Phil,
It is actually the 'Tea Party" movement but the lefties and even news anchors started the disgusting play on words calling the people in the movement teabaggers.
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Phil,
It is actually the 'Tea Party" movement but the lefties and even news anchors started the disgusting play on words calling the people in the movement teabaggers.
I doubt its that disgusting. I didn't know the secondary meaning until this thread started. I think folks were just looking for short hand, not combing Brit slang for an epithet. And isn't the whole point of a tea party not caring what the Brits think? ;D
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I doubt its that disgusting. I didn't know the secondary meaning until this thread started.
Just because you do not know of it doesn't mean it is not so. Especially when one of their targeted demographic is the on-line gamers whom made it term popular.
tex
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FQ, do you live under a rock? This was in all the news when it first started. Especially when Anderson Cooper and Chrissy Mathews used the term while giggling like school girls!
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I doubt its that disgusting. I didn't know the secondary meaning until this thread started. I think folks were just looking for short hand, not combing Brit slang for an epithet. And isn't the whole point of a tea party not caring what the Brits think? ;D
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Oh, give me a break! Even the Huffington Post understood the meaning (and perpetuated it).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/anderson-cooper-its-hard_n_187318.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/anderson-cooper-its-hard_n_187318.html)
Here's a Wikipedia link to help you understand its significance as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teabagging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teabagging)
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FQ, do you live under a rock? This was in all the news when it first started. Especially when Anderson Cooper and Chrissy Mathews used the term while giggling like school girls!
Oddly, I don't watch either. I calledi t quits on cable news (all three networks) when the news stoped and the opion shows came on. Any will do during the day, they all three suck at night. Just give me the news and spare me the egos and opinions. People like it, but I don't know why.
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FQ, do you live under a rock? This was in all the news when it first started. Especially when Anderson Cooper and Chrissy Mathews used the term while giggling like school girls!
No, he lurks in the groves of academia. Bolshies had the right idea when they killed off the so called "Intelligencia.
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No, he lurks in the groves of academia. Bolshies had the right idea when they killed off the so called "Intelligencia.
I thought that's who invented "Tea Bagging". ::)
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Bolshies had the right idea when they killed off the so called "Intelligencia.
And look how far that got them. ;D
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who honestly hadn't heard the term in that context before, but if you can't stand the heat........
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Somehow it seems the Conservatives get the worst of it in those "Universities" where debate and intellectual expansion of views is to be encouraged. NOT!!! Bunch of hypocrites, indoctrinated, Van Jones wannabe's that need to put the bong down and grow up. Just a few bits of recent history, that displays their "openness" and maturity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08TPFKhrJms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywbyRydM7Ac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv9xa-VxchM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYp4jbCs2J0&feature=fvw
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P.S. most college students can't name 2 SCOTUS members, know who the SecDef, or Sec. of State is, have no idea what the Civil War was about, BUT know exactly who the American Idol contestants are by name.
Kinda sad..... :-\
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Sec Def is one I'm not sure of, Gates ?
Since the goal of this administration is to sell America down the river (an old slavery reference ) Sec Def doesn't get mentioned much.
Atta boy to any one who can name the DCI . ;D
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Sad thing is, when I was at UT Austin (the flag ship university of the state), I taught intro to American and Tex. Politics, a required undergrad class. I would occasionally give a pop quiz. One was an edited version of the US citizenship test. Average score? About a 68. :-\ I don't know what people do all day in high schools, but it damn sure isn't their jobs. Probably teaching to a standardized test like the FCAT or "building self esteem". Regardless, if a college freshman can't answer basic questions like the one's posed above we are screwed.
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So who's the DCI ? ;D
At least what does "DCI" stand for ? ;D
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So who's the DCI ? ;D
At least what does "DCI" stand for ? ;D
God help us, its that master spy, Leon Panetta (a man who couldn't even cover up a blow job). I however, would be much more qualified in a TT admin. ;D
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ATTA BOY FQ !!
Another "ATTA BOY" for that classic description of his resume ;D