Berkeley security and Berkeley police refuse security at Coulter speech

WVPATX

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They will not step in unless someone is being murdered. What are libs coming to? The Police have been told to stand down regardless of the crimes being committed. Will she show up anyway?

YAF Pulls Support from Coulter Event Due to Berkeley Police “Stand-Down” Order

Verbal Kint Apr 25th, 2017 11:06 pm 174 Comments


Citing credible evidence of violence,Young America’s Foundation has pulled its support from Ann Coulter’s speech at the University of California-Berkeley campus this Thursday.

YAF released a statement on Tuesday night, via Breitbart:

“When Young America’s Foundation confirmed Ann Coulter would speak at UC-Berkeley as part of YAF’s nationwide campus lecture program on April 27, we assumed UC Berkeley would take all steps necessary to ensure the safety of students attending the educational event,” the group declared in a blog post on Tuesday. “In the meantime we discovered that the University of California Police Department at Berkeley has an official ‘stand-down’ policy for any situation that develops on campus as long as the situation doesn’t involve the imminent loss of life, allowing the leftist thugs who have terrorized Berkeley’s campus to do so without consequence.”

Earlier, the Washington Post reported that Trump supporter, conservative commentator and author of 12 books, despite a genuine concern for violent confrontation, would go ahead with her lecture on campus. Coulter was expected to speak at the famous Sproul Plaza.

The earlier Post story unsuccessfully attempted to frame the narrative as potential battle between far-left and far right forces when, in fact, it has been far-left groups that have used violence and threats of violence against persons exercising their right to free speech, particularly the speech of those like Coulter who support Trump.

It goes without saying that the Young America’s Foundation isn’t afraid of a few red hats.

The irony is that the UC-Berkeley gave birth to free speech protests some fifty years ago, long before many of these violent, anti-free-speech activists and assault-and-battery miscreants were even born.

In the past, previous protests between Trump supporters and Trump detractors, while perhaps vocally passionate, have been relatively calm. When anti-Trump protesters attacked Trump supporters at Berkeley in March, for example, even the left-of-center Christian Science Monitor noted that the violence at the pro-Trump event was “the exception, not the norm.” Indeed, as the dust settled, we learned that the violence was perpetrated against participants in the pro-Trump rally, which preceded the anti-Trump melee. Said one eyewitness about the anti-Trump crowd,

These people are violent.

A February event at UC-Berkeley featuring Milo Yiannopoulos had to be cancelled due to violence from protesters advertising that they were “anti-Facists,” when in fact they were anarchists using highly-organized, commando “Black Bloc” tactics. When the smoke had cleared, these hoodlums had destroyed parts of the Berkeley campus to the tune of $100,000, and had outdone themselves within the City of Berkeley itself, causing nearly a half-million dollars of damage there.

So, kudos to Saint Ann for standing up to these snakes. And say a prayer for her, won’t you, as she contemplates her next move?
 

moe

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They will not step in unless someone is being murdered. What are libs coming to? The Police have been told to stand down regardless of the crimes being committed. Will she show up anyway?

YAF Pulls Support from Coulter Event Due to Berkeley Police “Stand-Down” Order

Verbal Kint Apr 25th, 2017 11:06 pm 174 Comments


Citing credible evidence of violence,Young America’s Foundation has pulled its support from Ann Coulter’s speech at the University of California-Berkeley campus this Thursday.

YAF released a statement on Tuesday night, via Breitbart:

“When Young America’s Foundation confirmed Ann Coulter would speak at UC-Berkeley as part of YAF’s nationwide campus lecture program on April 27, we assumed UC Berkeley would take all steps necessary to ensure the safety of students attending the educational event,” the group declared in a blog post on Tuesday. “In the meantime we discovered that the University of California Police Department at Berkeley has an official ‘stand-down’ policy for any situation that develops on campus as long as the situation doesn’t involve the imminent loss of life, allowing the leftist thugs who have terrorized Berkeley’s campus to do so without consequence.”

Earlier, the Washington Post reported that Trump supporter, conservative commentator and author of 12 books, despite a genuine concern for violent confrontation, would go ahead with her lecture on campus. Coulter was expected to speak at the famous Sproul Plaza.

The earlier Post story unsuccessfully attempted to frame the narrative as potential battle between far-left and far right forces when, in fact, it has been far-left groups that have used violence and threats of violence against persons exercising their right to free speech, particularly the speech of those like Coulter who support Trump.

It goes without saying that the Young America’s Foundation isn’t afraid of a few red hats.

The irony is that the UC-Berkeley gave birth to free speech protests some fifty years ago, long before many of these violent, anti-free-speech activists and assault-and-battery miscreants were even born.

In the past, previous protests between Trump supporters and Trump detractors, while perhaps vocally passionate, have been relatively calm. When anti-Trump protesters attacked Trump supporters at Berkeley in March, for example, even the left-of-center Christian Science Monitor noted that the violence at the pro-Trump event was “the exception, not the norm.” Indeed, as the dust settled, we learned that the violence was perpetrated against participants in the pro-Trump rally, which preceded the anti-Trump melee. Said one eyewitness about the anti-Trump crowd,

These people are violent.

A February event at UC-Berkeley featuring Milo Yiannopoulos had to be cancelled due to violence from protesters advertising that they were “anti-Facists,” when in fact they were anarchists using highly-organized, commando “Black Bloc” tactics. When the smoke had cleared, these hoodlums had destroyed parts of the Berkeley campus to the tune of $100,000, and had outdone themselves within the City of Berkeley itself, causing nearly a half-million dollars of damage there.

So, kudos to Saint Ann for standing up to these snakes. And say a prayer for her, won’t you, as she contemplates her next move?
Ann Coulter cancels her speech at UC Berkeley
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/26/ann-coulter-cancels-her-speech-at-uc-berkeley.html
 

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And libs all over the country rejoice. I'm warming up to the idea of the cold civil war going hot when I read ******** like this.
 

WVPATX

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Why would anyone care?

Libs obviously care. They riot, assault people, and destroy property all in the name of stopping conservative voices. It is my opinion, there would've been a good chance that Coulter would have been shot has she shown up. The police department was told to stand down.
 

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moe

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They are anarchists. They're cowards and hide their faces with black masks, illegally in California. The Berkeley very liberal, radical mayor told the cops to stand down. Otherwise, anyone with a covered face should have been arrested. Professors were also seen at the carnage.
I'm sure that there were regular students there too but my point is that it would have likely been a peaceful protest without this non-student masked group starting the real problems there.
In a statement, UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks condemned the violence, which he said was committed by more than 100 armed people using paramilitary tactics. Campus administration pulled in dozens of extra police officers to help control the event, but weren't prepared for the "unprecedented," he said.

Dirks assured the campus is committed to free speech.

"We deeply regret that the violence unleashed by this group undermined the First Amendment rights of the speaker as well as those who came to lawfully assemble and protest his presence," the statement read.
 

Brushy Bill

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Why would anyone care?

Because you guys HATE free speech, like tell the police dept to stand down so the anarchist/communists can riot and try to maim and kill people, hate free speech.
 

WVPATX

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I'm sure that there were regular students there too but my point is that it would have likely been a peaceful protest without this non-student masked group starting the real problems there.
In a statement, UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks condemned the violence, which he said was committed by more than 100 armed people using paramilitary tactics. Campus administration pulled in dozens of extra police officers to help control the event, but weren't prepared for the "unprecedented," he said.

Dirks assured the campus is committed to free speech.

"We deeply regret that the violence unleashed by this group undermined the First Amendment rights of the speaker as well as those who came to lawfully assemble and protest his presence," the statement read.

Yeah, committed to free speech, what a joke. They have no idea how many students and faculty were involved. Many wore masks. Berkeley could have provided security and told them to prevent the violence. The city of Berkeley told the police to stand down. Why, if Berkeley is so committed to free speech. The only free speech they like is the liberal kind.

They offered, after a lawsuit was threatened, to let Coulter speak on May 2nd during dead week on campus (campus finals). Her speech would have had to occur between the hours of 1-3 in the afternoon. Yet, libs got prime time speaking slots at night.

BTW, Berkeley is still going to get sued and pay for their biased idiocy.
 

moe

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Because you guys HATE free speech, like tell the police dept to stand down so the anarchist/communists can riot and try to maim and kill people, hate free speech.
I have no idea who "you guys" are but I couldn't give one **** about anyone speaking anywhere for any reason. Let them speak (and they usually do). All "you guys" focus on is the very, very few times there has been interference. Try listing all the times that those speakers weren't interfered with.
 

WVPATX

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I have no idea who "you guys" are but I couldn't give one **** about anyone speaking anywhere for any reason. Let them speak (and they usually do). All "you guys" focus on is the very, very few times there has been interference. Try listing all the times that those speakers weren't interfered with.

You either lying or simply don't read very much. Check out all of the conservative speakers denied the right to speak on college campuses. It is a large list. Even folks like Condi Rice, Jason Riley, Ben Carson have been told to stand down from speaking.

This is all on the libs. I hope it continues because middle American is not going to like this kind of violence to suppress speech very much at all. It is finally getting the attention it deserves. And Coulter's latest episode will make it even bigger news as we learn that Berkeley police were told to stand down despite the threats of violence.