She might as well stay home?

Grip on what? A wall? A cane? A fence? Side of the boat? Door handle? water donut or lifesaver?

Get a grip on reality, perhaps.

Mark

...rips them a new one. If they can't tolerate free speech, then give them some! Show'em for what they are.

She went too easy on them...
http://www.canada.com/Coulter+speech+Ottawa+cancelled/2718231/story.html

OTTAWA ? After protesters at the University of Ottawa prevented Ann Coulter from giving a speech Tuesday night, the American conservative writer said it proved the point she came to make ? free speech in Canada leaves much to be desired.

Then she said what she really thought of the student protesters who surrounded the school's Marion Hall, making it too unsafe, in the view of her bodyguard, for the pundit to attempt entry.

"The University of Ottawa is really easy to get into, isn't it?" she said in an interview after the cancelled event. "I never get any trouble at the Ivy League schools. It's always the bush league schools."

Coulter said she has been speaking regularly at university campuses for a decade. While she has certainly been heckled, she said this is the first time an engagement has been cancelled because of protesters.

"This has never, ever, ever happened before ? even at the stupidest American university," she said.
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Good for her!

The protesters exercised their right to free speech to protest against Coulter.

Or is that not what you consider free speech?

I saw a something said here not so long ago,

"I draw the line between.....acts of hatred vs words of hatred. Someone can come up to another and call them a racist term, but only if they physically harm that person should be be an act of hatred punishable under law"

So, by that standard, the students had every right to protest in the way they did.

A couple of quotes in that article she may come to regret;

1] "I never get any trouble at the Ivy League schools. It's always the bush league schools."

It's a good job she didn't name them.

2] "This has never, ever, ever happened before ? even at the stupidest American university," she said.

It's a good job she didn't name them.

Mark

if you are pretending.

They used their right to free speech,to deprive Coulter of hers. And, according to Canadian "law" they were also practicing "hate speech." See any contradictions there?

I doubt she will ever regret saying things that happen to be true.

The ones involved in creating a dangerous situation for her were not just engaging in "words" but threatened "force". Nevertheless, whether they intended to or not, they gave her a bigger bully pulpit by their actions, all while making themselves look backwoods provincial and colloquial in manners. They showed themselves for the backwoods hicks many of them probably are.

1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
Fundamental Freedoms

Fundamental freedoms

2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.

For those whose acquaintance with Canada is limited to what they hear from Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

However these rights and freedoms may not trample on the rights of others, for example gays, natives, black people, nor may they be used to foment disaffection or discord (a definition of Ann Coulter's style if I ever heard it). Canada is, above all, A Civil Society, if your opinion is not expressed in a non-inflammatory way, you may have difficulties. Ernst Zundel, die hard Neo Nazi after 25 years of rabble rousing and endless court cases was finally deported back to Germany for Holocaust Denial.

Ms. Coulter wasn't silenced by Canadian authorities, she was silenced by civil outcry against her views after she'd already delivered her "message" to several other Universities.

Rob

better idea. In truth, she's a very poor speaker, IMO.

Rob

They permit the odd view of naked bodies but restrict inflammatory, prejucicial or hate speech. She'd have to create her broadcast, have it vetted and then broadcast it. OH, and you're more likely to hear swearing on TV up here, but not racial slurs.

Rob

I learned that years ago.

..... your delightful sense of humor!


Angeline

it would be a different world.

They need to get over themselves.

and getting over themselves would do a lot of people good. And others around them also.

...darn, I forgot the punch line.

with a moose AND a polar bear?

that if you complained about the food you became the cook. Well, one guy was utterly fed up with that job, so he baked a pie crust and a lid and went out and collected the largest piece of moose **** he could find, popped the whole thing in the oven and brought it out for dessert. There were grumbles and mumbles and no little retching until one guy stood up and said "This tastes like moose **** cookie. But good, cookie, BUT GOOD !!!"

Rob

Bartender says, "What is this, a joke?"

Bartender says, "Awww, you guys!"

Anything said against Conservatives now shall be considered a hate crime. Conservatives are an identifiable group.

""I'm sure the Human Rights Commission will get to the bottom of it," Ms. Coulter said to loud cheers from the 800-strong audience. "I think I'm the victim of a hate crime here. Either what [Mr. Houle] did was a hate crime, or the whole commission is B.S."

So she is going to complain about her loss of Human Rights. And if they fails to find in her favor, then they are **!

I wasn't there of course, but I wonder if those 'loud cheers' from the Canadian students were ironic?

Mark