Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Coulter's Response to Near Riot at Ottawa University


Liberals don't understand why conservatives are so afraid of the slippery slope we are on when it comes to our constitution.  Canada has "free speech" unless it is "hate speech".   I will be the first to admit that Ann Coulter uses sarcastic wit to prove a point, but that should not bring it to level of hate speech.  One of the points she was trying to make by giving these speeches in Canada was the fact that they don't have free speech.  Guess she was right, huh? 

Oh, Canada!



by Ann Coulter
03/24/2010

Since arriving in Canada I've been accused of thought crimes, threatened with criminal prosecution for speeches I hadn't yet given and denounced on the floor of the Parliament (which was nice because that one was on my "bucket list").


Posters advertising my speech have been officially banned, while posters denouncing me are plastered all over the University of Ottawa campus. Elected officials have been prohibited from attending my speeches. Also, the local clothing stores are fresh out of brown shirts.


Welcome to Canada!


The provost of the University of Ottawa, average student IQ: 0, wrote to me—widely disseminating his letter to at least a half-dozen intermediaries before it reached me—in advance of my visit in order to recommend that I familiarize myself with Canada's criminal laws regarding hate speech.


This marks the first time I've ever gotten hate mail for something I might do in the future.


Apparently Canadian law forbids "promoting hatred against any identifiable group," which the provost, Francois A. Houle advised me, "would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges."


I was given no specific examples of what words and phrases I couldn't use, but I take it I'm not supposed to say, "F----you, Francois."


While it was a relief to know that it is still permissible in Canada to promote hatred against unidentifiable groups, upon reading Francois' letter, I suddenly realized that I had just been the victim of a hate crime! And it was committed by Francois A. Houle (French for "Frank A. Hole").


What other speakers get a warning not to promote hatred? Did Francois A. Houle send a similarly worded letter to Israel-hater Omar Barghouti before he spoke last year at U of Ottawa? ("Ottawa": Indian for "Land of the Bed-Wetters.")


How about Angela Davis, Communist Party member and former Black Panther who spoke at the University of Zero just last month?


Or do only conservatives get letters admonishing them to be civil? Or—my suspicion—is it only conservative women who fuel Francois' rage?


How about sending a letter to all Muslim speakers advising them to please bathe once a week while in Canada? Would that constitute a hate crime?


I'm sure Canada's Human Rights Commission will get to the bottom of Francois' strange warning to me, inasmuch as I will be filing a complaint with that august body, so I expect they will be reviewing every letter the university has sent to other speakers prior to their speeches to see if any of them were threatened with criminal prosecution.


Both writer Mark Steyn and editor Ezra Levant have been investigated by the Human Rights Commission for promoting hatred toward Muslims.


Levant's alleged crime was to reprint the cartoons of Mohammed originally published in a Danish newspaper, leading practitioners of the Religion of Peace to engage in murderous violence across the globe. Steyn's alleged crime was to publish an excerpt of his book, America Alone in Maclean's magazine, in which he jauntily described Muslims as "hot for jihad."


Both of them also flew jet airliners full of passengers into skyscrapers in lower Manhattan, resulting in thousands of deaths. No, wait—that was somebody else.


Curiously, however, there was no evidence that either the cartoons or the column did, in fact, incite hatred toward Muslims—nor was there the remotest possibility that they would.


By contrast, conservative speakers are regularly subjected to violent attacks on college campuses. Bill Kristol, Pat Buchanan, David Horowitz and I have all been the targets of infamous campus attacks.


That's why the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute (a sponsor of my Canada speeches) and the Young America's Foundation (a sponsor of many of my college speeches) don't send conservatives to college campuses without a bodyguard.


You'd have to be a real A-Houle not to anticipate that accusing a conservative of "promoting hatred" prior to her arrival on a college campus would in actuality—not in liberal fantasies of terrified Muslims cowering in terror of Mark Steyn readers—incite real-world violence toward the conservative.


The university itself acknowledged that Francois' letter was likely to provoke violence against me by demanding—long after my speech was scheduled, but immediately after Francois disseminated his letter—that my sponsors pony up more than $1,200 for extra security.


Also following Francois' letter, the Ottawa University Student Federation met for 7 1/2 hours to hammer out a series of resolutions denouncing me. The resolutions included:


"Whereas Ann Coulter is a hateful woman;


"Whereas she has made hateful comments against GLBTQ, Muslims, Jews and women;


"Whereas she violates an unwritten code of 'positive-space';


"Be it resolved that the SFUO express its disapproval of having Ann Coulter speak at the University of Ottawa."


At least the students didn't waste 7 1/2 hours on something silly, like their studies.


At the risk of violating anyone's positive space, what happened to Canada? How did the country that gave us Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Martin Short, Dan Aykroyd and Catherine O'Hara suddenly become a bunch of whining crybabies?


After Tuesday night, the hatred incited by Francois' letter is no longer theoretical. The police called off my speech when the auditorium was surrounded by thousands of rioting liberals—screaming, blocking the entrance, throwing tables, demanding that my books be burned, and finally setting off the fire alarm.


Sadly, I missed the book-burning because I never made it to the building.


But, reportedly, a Canadian crowd hasn't been this excited since they opened a new Tim Hortons. Local reporters couldn't make out what the crowd was chanting, but it was something about "Molson" and a "sled dog."


I've given more than 100 college speeches, and not once has one of my speeches been shut down at any point. Even the pie-throwing incident at the University of Arizona didn't break up the event. I said, "Get them!" and the college Republicans got them, and then I continued with my rambling, hate-filled diatribe—I mean, my speech.


So we've run this experiment more than 100 times.


Only one college speech was ever met with so much mob violence that the police were forced to cancel it: The one that was preceded by a letter from the university provost accusing me of hate speech.


(To add insult to injury, Francois didn't even plan to attend my speech because Tuesday is his bikini wax night.)


If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech—which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech—is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.


Either Francois goes to jail or the Human Rights Commission is a hoax and a fraud.

6 comments:

Opus #6 said...

Wooo! You GO Ann! They treated her abominably.

Anonymous said...

There was no riot.
Her organizers cancelled the event, not police.
She's just trying to add another group of people into her hate-filled repertiore, Canadians.

We're better off without her.

hometown guy said...

wait... in her letter of protest about people thinking she's hateful, she suggests that muslims need to bathe more? fan of hers or no, does that not bother anyone?
i can be open-minded enough to try and grasp the political viewpoints of others, but please don't start defending ann coulter. do i need to start digging up quotes?
and anonymous, she's already said plenty about canada that canadians would (and should, if they have any national pride) find offensive.

Just a conservative girl said...

Oh please. If can't see that is a joke it is because you don't want to.

Ann Coulter very purposely says things that are over the top to get a discussion started. I saw her give a speech in a very small location where everyone was a female conservative, and it was night and day to what you see on TV. I went there for another reason and honestly wasn't looking forward to hearing her, but enjoyed it.

Bill Maher thinks I am stupid, Joy Behar thinks I can't read, the rheotoric is the same on both sides. The difference being that I think they should go out and talk all they want. I am not trying to squelch free speech.

hometown guy said...

"It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact."

"I think [women] should be armed but should not vote... women have no capacity to understand how money is earned."

"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is that he did not go to the New York Times building."

"No, we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say... That's what Christianity is."

"I think our motto should be, post 9-11, 'raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.'"

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

"God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, "Earth is yours. Take it, rape it, it's yours."

"Al Gore - total fag."

- Ann Coulter

Respectfully, i can think of better ways to start a discussion.

I'm NOT AT ALL in favor of taking away her free speech rights, she should be (and is) allowed to say whatever she wants. Her speech was canceled by the organizers after public demonstrations by people whose country she had insulted (also exercising their free speech rights).

Not at all in favor of taking those rights away from her. I'm just not a fan and i post the quotes as a way of explaining why.

I would also be about the last person to defend Bill Maher.

Janie Lynn said...

Ann Coulter startles me sometimes with the in-your-faceness of her wit. She makes people uncomfortable and she makes people squirm. But she does make people think - and she's amazingly intelligent. I always thought college students (and colleges) were so open minded. I guess that's changed, huh? Open minded if they agree with you and you don't offend anyone.

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