Coulter speech canceled after protesters’ threats

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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. 

[Hazcat]

The left was not threatening or intimidating, you right wing teabagger!  They were protecting people from hate speech!



 

[tt11758]

The left was not threatening or intimidating, you right wing teabagger!  They were protecting people from hate speech!



 

Are you calling ME a right-wing teabagger?!?






















OK, you got me!!   

[Pathfinder]

The left was not threatening or intimidating, you right wing teabagger!  They were protecting people from hate speech!

 

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.

[philw]

The left was not threatening or intimidating, you right wing teabagger!  They were protecting people from hate speech!



 

can you explain teabagger....   


i hope it is not the meaning I know for it

[Sponsor]

[m25operator]

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.

[Solus]

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.

[Ichiban]

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.

[tombogan03884]

Remember the Hippies, who got us into all this crap ? The Tea Party are everybody else.

[fightingquaker13]

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.
FQ13