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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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But campus Republicans say they shouldn’t have to choose between security and free speech.

In an ideal world perhaps that would be true but in this era of extreme partisan politics the school administration has an absolute duty to consider the security of the student population. Speech is hindered for good cause.

Something only a communist would say

Free speech is dangerous to fascist pigs

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A wonderful quote from inventor R. Buckminster Fuller. He observed: "You cannot change things by fighting existing reality: To change things you must build a new model to make the existing model obsolete."
I saw the truth and power of Fuller's observation during a recent speaking engagement at the University of California, Berkeley.

I have been speaking on university campuses for more than 20 years, and this was my 215th campus appearance.

Over this time, I have seen the palpable cultural changes on campuses: more dominance by the political left, and less openness and tolerance for a broad spectrum of viewpoints.

But lecturer Alan Ross, who is on the faculty at Berkeley's Haas School of Business, has built a new model very much in the spirit of Fuller that, in contrast to the illiberalism and intolerance dominating university campuses these days, promotes dialogue and respect,

Ross teaches Political Science 179. The class meets once per week, and at each meeting, he invites speakers from around the country and across the political spectrum. According to Ross, he gives a platform to the "far left, the far right and everything in between. Every point of view we try to address, not just the prevailing point of view at Berkeley."

When I received an invitation to address Ross's class, my first inclination was to decline.

Last February, violent protests at Berkeley forced the cancellation of a scheduled appearance there by conservative then-Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos, and the evacuation of Yiannopoulos from the campus. He was there to address the college Republicans.
The following month, American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray encountered violence and protests interrupting his guest lecture at Middlebury College in Vermont, resulting in one of the college's professors receiving a concussion.

Despite my years of experience doing these types of university presentations, I thought, no, thanks, Berkeley.

However, I was offered private security protection.

And five colleagues from the Frederick Douglass Foundation agreed to accompany me, as did a pastor from the pastor network of my organization, CURE.

So I went.

To my very pleasant surprise, I discovered that professor Ross has developed a sane, civil and educational model for presenting a broad spectrum of viewpoints to students, which he has now been doing for 32 years.

I spoke to about 600 attentive students in a large hall about my proposals for conservative reforms to fight ingrained poverty, including ending the use of taxpayers funds for abortion providers, housing and school vouchers, business tax-free zones, retirement savings accounts for low-income earners and tax credits for charitable contributions in targeted ZIP codes.

Students asked questions, and then I departed without incident.

What is Alan Ross's secret? His "new" model restores the university to what it is supposed to be and once was: about learning, not politics. Students take a final exam that tests what they have learned from the wide variety of ideas they have heard in the course of the semester, which determines whether they pass the course.

When did universities transform from being places for learning to platforms for politics? I would attribute it to part of our overall cultural decline, where we have lost a sense that there is truth in the world to discover and live by. When relativism takes over and we lose a sense that there is any absolute truth, everything becomes politics rather than learning. Students come to university to express their opinion rather than to learn what they don't know.

The seal of the University of California, adopted in 1884, displays the motto "Let There Be Light." The motto is superimposed on a book with the letter A written large to stand out. This is meant to symbolize the beginning of wisdom. When did this noble aspiration get lost?

Now I'm headed to Harvard.

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The University of California, Berkeley canceled an upcoming campus lecture by Ann Coulter on Wednesday, citing security concerns as the chief impetus for its decision. Coulter and her sponsoring organizations, however, intend to proceed with the event as planned anyway.

Young America's Foundation, the national conservative organization sponsoring and organizing Coulter's lecture, told the Washington Examiner Wednesday afternoon that Berkeley Dean of Students Joseph Greenwell emailed student organizers to say his staff was unable to find a "safe and suitable venue" for the speech.

"Given currently active security threats, it is not possible to assure that the event could be held successfully — or that the safety of Ms. Coulter, the event sponsors, audience, and bystanders could be adequately protected — at any of the campus venues," the email read.

In a statement to press, YAF (my previous employer) explained that Coulter agreed to all of the university's requirements of her, asking in return they agree to only two stipulations.

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UC-Berkeley, a publicly-funded university, first imposed a series of ridiculous requirements on the speech allegedly in the name of "safety." Coulter, we were informed, would be required to deliver her speech in the afternoon; only students would be allowed to attend; and the speech location would not be announced until close to the event.

Against our advice, Coulter agreed to all these requirements. In return, she requested two measures, which actually had something to do with safety:

1) That the University of California chancellor request that the Oakland chief of police refrain from telling his men to stand down and ignore law-breaking by rioters attempting to shut down conservative speakers, as he has done in the past; and

2) That UC-Berkeley announce in advance that any students engaging in violence, mayhem or heckling to prevent an invited speaker from speaking would be expelled.

As Coulter explained, "If Berkeley wants to have free speech, it can have it."

The university's response was to ban her speech.

The school's abrupt cancellation comes on the heels of violent protests that broke out near campus on Saturday, resulting in the arrests of 21 demonstrators clashing over President Trump. In February, leftist protests over a Breitbart writer's scheduled lecture devolved into violence as well, sending the campus into a lockdown for hours.

In its statement to press, YAF, which is sponsoring the event along with BridgeCal and the Berkeley College Republicans explained, "The university, and U-C chancellor Janet Napolitano personally, have revealed themselves to be using taxpayer money for an unconstitutional purpose. Even after Coulter went along with their ruses and guises to shut down her speech, they simply announced, like Kim Jung Un, that it was cancelled."

Coulter, a 12-time New York Times bestselling author, has traveled the campus lecture circuit for years, often through YAF. Her lecture, set to focus on immigration, is slated for April 27.

YAF is planning to live stream the event on its website.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Nobody gives a fuck about anything Milo has to say as one of your nutsucker 'family value' icons, hes a fucking pedophile, and nobody is going to let him preach pedophilism to our nations youth, not even the nutsucker cockgarglers at CPAC who refused him. Only because of political correctness no doubt.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

"Berkeley cancels Ann Coulter lecture, but she's coming anyway"

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The University of California, Berkeley canceled an upcoming campus lecture by Ann Coulter on Wednesday, citing security concerns as the chief impetus for its decision. Coulter and her sponsoring organizations, however, intend to proceed with the event as planned anyway.

Young America's Foundation, the national conservative organization sponsoring and organizing Coulter's lecture, told the Washington Examiner Wednesday afternoon that Berkeley Dean of Students Joseph Greenwell emailed student organizers to say his staff was unable to find a "safe and suitable venue" for the speech.

"Given currently active security threats, it is not possible to assure that the event could be held successfully — or that the safety of Ms. Coulter, the event sponsors, audience, and bystanders could be adequately protected — at any of the campus venues," the email read.

In a statement to press, YAF (my previous employer) explained that Coulter agreed to all of the university's requirements of her, asking in return they agree to only two stipulations.

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UC-Berkeley, a publicly-funded university, first imposed a series of ridiculous requirements on the speech allegedly in the name of "safety." Coulter, we were informed, would be required to deliver her speech in the afternoon; only students would be allowed to attend; and the speech location would not be announced until close to the event.

Against our advice, Coulter agreed to all these requirements. In return, she requested two measures, which actually had something to do with safety:

1) That the University of California chancellor request that the Oakland chief of police refrain from telling his men to stand down and ignore law-breaking by rioters attempting to shut down conservative speakers, as he has done in the past; and

2) That UC-Berkeley announce in advance that any students engaging in violence, mayhem or heckling to prevent an invited speaker from speaking would be expelled.

As Coulter explained, "If Berkeley wants to have free speech, it can have it."

The university's response was to ban her speech.

The school's abrupt cancellation comes on the heels of violent protests that broke out near campus on Saturday, resulting in the arrests of 21 demonstrators clashing over President Trump. In February, leftist protests over a Breitbart writer's scheduled lecture devolved into violence as well, sending the campus into a lockdown for hours.

In its statement to press, YAF, which is sponsoring the event along with BridgeCal and the Berkeley College Republicans explained, "The university, and U-C chancellor Janet Napolitano personally, have revealed themselves to be using taxpayer money for an unconstitutional purpose. Even after Coulter went along with their ruses and guises to shut down her speech, they simply announced, like Kim Jung Un, that it was cancelled."

Coulter, a 12-time New York Times bestselling author, has traveled the campus lecture circuit for years, often through YAF. Her lecture, set to focus on immigration, is slated for April 27.

YAF is planning to live stream the event on its website.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/berkeley-cancels-ann-coulter-lecture-but-shes-coming-anyway/article/2620709

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Nobody gives a fuck about anything Milo has to say as one of your nutsucker 'family value' icons, hes a fucking pedophile, and nobody is going to let him preach pedophilism to our nations youth, not even the nutsucker cockgarglers at CPAC who refused him. Only because of political correctness no doubt.

Yeah yeah yeah gramps, eeeeeeeeveryone who disagrees with you is a faggot

We've heard it a million times

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A day after canceling a scheduled speech by Ann Coulter for security reasons, UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said Thursday that the right-wing pundit’s insistence on coming anyway persuaded him to rethink her banishment.

“An appropriate, protectable venue” will be made available on campus May 2 — not next Thursday, as originally planned — he said, adding that he would disclose the location only after Coulter accepts the new date.

That’s not likely.

Hours later, Coulter shot down the invitation in a series of tweets and said she will speak at Berkeley on Thursday as planned not only because she “can’t do May 2,” but “THERE ARE NO CLASSES AT BERKELEY THE WEEK OF MAY 2!!!”…

“Do not fall for b.s. Berkeley press release claiming they ‘rescinded’ cancelation,” Coulter tweeted. “GOOD NEWS FOR CA TAXPAYER! You won't be required to pay $$$$ to compensate me & my crew for rebooked airfare & hotels. I'm speaking on 4/27.”

Dirks rejected accusations from Coulter, the student Republicans and the national Young America’s Foundation that the university was infringing on their right to free speech by originally canceling the talk this week.

“The university has an unwavering commitment to the First Amendment of the Constitution,” Dirks said, adding that student safety is of equal importance.

He said campus police had uncovered “threats that could pose a grave danger to the speaker, attendees and those who may wish to lawfully protest the event.”

Dirks said Coulter’s response to the cancellation — that she planned to speak on or off campus next Thursday regardless of security concerns — led him to ask his staff to find a “protectable venue.”

The location “is not one we have used for these sorts of events in the past; it can both accommodate a substantial audience and meet the security criteria established by our police department,” Dirks said at a hastily called news conference Thursday.

UC Police Capt. Alex Yao said, “Our approach (to Coulter’s security) will be different than for the Milo (Yiannopoulos) event” Feb. 1, when masked and violent agitators infiltrated a student protest of Yiannopoulos — another right-wing pundit — breaking windows, setting equipment on fire and shutting down his talk before it began.

Declining to offer specifics on security, Yao suggested that more police would be on hand. He said the Yiannopoulos protest and others March 4 and Saturday in Berkeley are causing police to “look at how we staff.”

Meanwhile, it’s unclear from Coulter’s tweets whether she intends to try to speak on campus or in the city of Berkeley on Thursday, and neither the Republican students nor the national Young America’s Foundation, that is paying most of her $20,000 speaking fee, responded to requests for comment…

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I'm very disappointed in Cal and the City of Berkeley.

U.C. Berkeley just cancelled the appearance next week by conservative speaker Ann Coulter.

Believe me I'm no fan of Ann Coulter.

She's WAY to conservative for me.

But I do believe in free speech.

ESPECIALLY at Cal which was the home of the free speech movement back in the 1960's.

Violent protesters already led to Cal cancelling a speech from another conservative speaker Milo Yiannopoulos.

Now Ann Coulter.

Really?

What kind of message does that send?

That free speech can be stopped by violence.

That's really sad to me.

Free speech means just that.

Free speech.

Whether you agree with them or not.

I grew up in Berkeley.

I take that very seriously.

And for the life of me I can't understand why Cal and the City of Berkeley aren't standing up and saying:

"Violence, or the threat of violence, won't keep people from speaking in Berkeley.

We will NOT allow that to happen."

My thought is that if they're worried about violence then bring in more police.

Call for mutual aid.

Heck bring in the National Guard for all I care.

Do whatever you have to do.

In my opinion free speech needs to be protected at all costs.

Period.

ESPECIALLY at a university like Cal.

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written before the piece above:

"Somerville: I'm very disappointed in Cal and the City of Berkeley"

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I'm very disappointed in Cal and the City of Berkeley.

U.C. Berkeley just cancelled the appearance next week by conservative speaker Ann Coulter.

Believe me I'm no fan of Ann Coulter.

She's WAY to conservative for me.

But I do believe in free speech.

ESPECIALLY at Cal which was the home of the free speech movement back in the 1960's.

Violent protesters already led to Cal cancelling a speech from another conservative speaker Milo Yiannopoulos.

Now Ann Coulter.

Really?

What kind of message does that send?

That free speech can be stopped by violence.

That's really sad to me.

Free speech means just that.

Free speech.

Whether you agree with them or not.

I grew up in Berkeley.

I take that very seriously.

And for the life of me I can't understand why Cal and the City of Berkeley aren't standing up and saying:

"Violence, or the threat of violence, won't keep people from speaking in Berkeley.

We will NOT allow that to happen."

My thought is that if they're worried about violence then bring in more police.

Call for mutual aid.

Heck bring in the National Guard for all I care.

Do whatever you have to do.

In my opinion free speech needs to be protected at all costs.

Period.

ESPECIALLY at a university like Cal.

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Somerville-I-m-very-disappointed-in-Cal-and-the-11087274.php

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BERKELEY, Calif. — Days after the University of California, Berkeley, canceled an appearance by the author Ann Coulter, two conservative organizations filed a federal lawsuit on Monday accusing the university of trying to “to restrict conservative speech” on campus.

The legal action comes after the university had canceled Ms. Coulter’s appearance, scheduled for this week, on the grounds that specific threats by anarchist groups threatened security on campus. The groups that invited Ms. Coulter say she is planning to come anyway.

The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in San Francisco, was brought by the Berkeley College Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation, a national organization that promotes conservative causes.

“Berkeley promises its students an environment that promotes free debate and the free exchange of ideas,” the lawsuit said, but the promise was breached “through the repressive actions of university administrators and campus police.”

Berkeley has become a meeting ground of activist and militant groups from the left and right in recent months, leading to violent clashes that left some people injured.

The lawsuit demands that the Berkeley College Republicans be allowed to “bring speakers of its choosing to speak on campus.” It also says the College Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation are entitled to unspecified “monetary damages arising from the unconstitutional actions” of university administrators, as well as legal costs.

A university spokesman said the issue was a matter of security.

“Ann Coulter is welcome on this campus but at a time when we can provide a venue that law enforcement professionals believe to be protectable,” a spokesman for the university, Dan Mogulof, said.

Last week the University proposed an alternative date and time — May 2, in the afternoon — an offer that the College Republicans rejected because it came during a study week before the end of the term.

Mr. Mogulof said the university had received “letters and threats” from around the country.

“As individuals or part of a militia, they intend to come to the campus to support Ann Coulter,” he said. “Our concerns have only grown.”

In addition to accusing the university of “unilaterally” canceling Ms. Coulter’s speech, the lawsuit says the Berkeley College Republicans were forced to cancel a speaking engagement earlier this month by David Horowitz, another conservative writer, after the university demanded that the speech take place in the afternoon and a mile away from the center of the campus.

The lawsuit accuses the university of unreasonably restricting the time and place of events involving high-profile speakers which resulted in the “marginalization of the expression of conservative viewpoints.”

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There is a clear and present danger to conservative students at the University of California Berkeley.

The birthplace of the so-called free speech movement is now the epicenter of a nefarious movement to silence freedom-loving young people.

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter had been scheduled to speak today, but she canceled.

Leftwing groups had threatened to silence Ms. Coulter by any means necessary.

But the university refused to guarantee the safety of Ms. Coulter or the students who invited her to speak – the Young America’s Foundation.

I know these students. I know this organization. They are good people – patriots all. They are students who battle with words and ideas – not baseball bats and switchblades.

And contrary to accusations made by some conservatives on Twitter, Young America’s Foundation did not “acquiesce” to the liberal bullies at Berkeley.

It’s important for you to understand the context of what YAF was hoping to accomplish with Ms. Coulter’s planned address.

It was not meant to be some sort of free-for-all in the campus plaza. The event was meant to be a civilized lecture inside some sort of auditorium or lecture hall.

YAF is not in the business of hosting conservative gatherings that resemble professional wrestling shows. They are meant to foster thoughtful and enlightened debate and conversation.

So why – you may ask – did the conservatives not proceed with Ms. Coulter’s speech?

It turns out the university’s police department has a stand down policy – meaning they do not get involved unless there is an imminent loss of life, according to a lawsuit filed by YAF.

In other words – liberals get a free pass to beat the living daylights out of conservative kids so long as the victims still have a pulse.

All the while Berkeley administrators look the other way – while speech liberals disagree with is silenced.

“Berkeley should be ashamed for creating this hostile atmosphere,” YAF president Ron Robinson told the Washington Examiner. “Berkeley made it impossible to hold a lecture due to the lack of assurances for protections from foreseeable violence from unrestrained leftist agitators.”

It would’ve been like throwing red meat to a pack of liberal jackals.

“I had the misfortune of being in a leftist riot as a student, and I wouldn’t want to put my children or anyone else’s children into that situation without assurances that law enforcement would protect them,” Robinson said.

I suppose we should not be all that surprised over the campus uprisings happening across the country. These are the children of the Obama generation – a generation that was taught to silence any speech they disagree with.

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” President Obama once said.

That is the legacy of the Obama Administration – if you can’t silence conservatives, just beat the living daylights out of them.

It is the irony of ironies.

The so-called free speech movement started at Berkeley and ended at Berkeley – not so much with a whimper – but with a punch to the face.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

hopefully your recent absence from the forum is an indication of your being banned, and if so, permanently. meanwhile...

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Ann Coulter said universities like UC-Berkeley, where she planned to speak before the event was canceled, are generally "radical."

Joining Sean Hannity tonight, she said that progressives on campus want to "destroy and squelch" conservatives' free speech.

Coulter added that even fellow progressives in the media and government, like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Joy Behar, think some of the protesters' actions have gone too far.

"I’m not just some homeless person wandering onto the square, but I’d be allowed to speak then too," she said.

Coulter also criticized her Berkeley event sponsor for "running away," saying the Republican Party should change its motto to "next time."

Coulter said the Young America's Foundation, a conservative group, preferred a strongly-worded statement to a lawsuit against the university.

She said that such a move would effectively tell her opponents that conservatives would kick the can down the road in the fight for free speech.

"The GOP should change their motto to 'Next Time'-- We'll fight them next time," she said.

"No, I want to win now. Can Republicans ever win 'now'?" she asked.

She said the situation was similar to Republicans allowing liberal justices like Ruth Bader Ginsburg to sail through confirmation, while the Democrats fight to keep conservatives, like Robert Bork, off the court.

Coulter said that similarly, YAF wanted to put out a strong statement rather than a lawsuit, delaying the fight for conservative speeches on campuses for another day.

Coulter said because her allies "ran away," it meant there was nothing she could do to make sure her speech wasn't cancelled.

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