Monday, March 22, 2010



Canadian student group attempts to silence Anne Coulter

We read:
"The president of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa has barred a volunteer organizer from putting up posters advertising the upcoming appearance of American right-wing columnist and political commentator Ann Coulter.

She is to talk about political correctness, media bias and freedom of speech Tuesday night at Marion Hall as part of a Canadian lecture tour. Canadian conservative political activist Ezra Levant will also speak at the event and introduce Coulter.

"The federation does not support Ann Coulter speaking on our campus," said student president Seamus Wolfe. "We're trying to work with the administration to see if we can ask her to do her speaking event somewhere else."

He said the federation controls which posters can be placed inside the University Centre building, while administration officials approve posters at other university buildings. A university spokesperson said the administration did not object to the poster. Wolfe said the executive of the federation is in agreement that they don't want to see Coulter speaking on campus.

Nicholas Fleet, a U of O economics student, said it's an "affront" that the student federation has prevented him from putting up posters at the University Centre. "People like Ann Coulter will come and go, but freedoms such as expression need to be tested and should be respected by student unions," said Fleet, adding that he's agreed not to distribute the posters.

Source

They know that she will make them look ridiculous

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yet another example of that highly-touted, albeit imaginary, tolerence of the radical Left. They love freedom, but only that freedom they pre-approve of. Yet they are so blind, (or simply disingenuous) that they fail to see that they are no different than the Nazi's of 1930's Germany.

Anonymous said...

Freedom for me, but not for thee. All speech (or expression) that I do not like is hate speech and should be banned.

Anonymous said...

That pretty much explains political correctness, doesn't it.

Anonymous said...

It's only because she's a conservative. If it was Hillary Clinton, she'd have been welcomed with honors.

HomeSchooled said...

Lets see how tolerant the Left will be when they are forced to submit to Islam!