Berkeley students threaten to sue over Ann Coulter's right to speak

Students at the University of California at Berkeley are threatening to sue the school if they do not find the time and a proper venue for conservative commentator, Ann Coulter, to speak next week. 

All I can say is that it's about time.

Harmeet Dhillon (who doesn't sound at all like a privileged white guy) represents the Berkeley College Republicans. She wrote in a letter, sent Friday to UC Berkeley's Interim Vice Chancellor Stephen Sutton and chief attorney Christopher Patti, that if Coulter isn't allowed to give a speech on campus April 27th, she will file a lawsuit in federal court because the university is in violation of the student's constitutional right to free speech.

"It is a sad day indeed when the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, is morphing before our eyes into the cemetery of free speech on college campuses," she wrote.

According to school officials (aka fascists) told the Berkeley College Republicans on Tuesday and Bridge USA, a nonpartisan group which coordinated the event, that Coulter's speech was being cancelled due to security concerns.

Security concerns has become the liberal veto of conservative speech.

Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks (aka Comrade Dirks) said the police have "very specific intelligence regarding threats that could pose a grave danger to the speaker," her audience and protesters if the event goes ahead next Thursday.

Whatever happened to: "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to my death your right to say it?"

School fascists offered the afternoon on May 2nd, when they can provide an "appropriate, protectable venue" because school is out that week--there are no classes at Berkeley the week of May 2nd. That week is known as Dead Week--a time when students are studying for final exams.

Coulter spoke on "Hannity" Thursday and said that "You cannot impose arbitrary and harassing restrictions on the exercise of a constitutional right. None of this has to do with security."

In the past, it seems quite probable that campus officials in schools across the country are telling campus police to 'stand down.' This past February, Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak at Berkeley but rioters smashed windows, set fires and shut him down.

Just last week, the Berkeley College Republicans said threats of violence forced the cancellation of a speech by David Horowitz, another conservative writer. 

Charles Murray's speech appearance at Middlebury also saw riots in March and Heather Mac Donald, who wrote The War on Cops, was to speak at Claremont McKenna College but protesters blocked the door of the venue. She streamed the speech online in spite of that.

We have become a divided nation, thanks in large part to the last administration, race baiters and far-left fascists who refuse to allow free speech to exist. These aren't merely snowflakes, they are socialists whose strings are pulled by people such as George Soros.

And it looks like it's going to have to get far worse before it gets better.


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A Racist Twit

If the story went like this:

Boston University has a new incoming assistant professor of sociology and African-American studies who will be starting to teach there in June. Her name is Saida Grundy.

She is the first white professor to teach African-American studies and recently her Twitter account tweets were exposed by someone from another school. The tweets went like this: "Black masculinity isn't a problem for america's (sic) colleges. White masculinity is THE problem for america's (sic) colleges."

There would be outrage and Grundy would be fired quicker than a Bill Clinton pickup line in a sorority house.

But Grundy is black and she wasn't tweeting about black masculinity, she was tweeting about white masculinity. So, no harm, no foul, in the liberal mind. In fact, on Friday, the school's spokesman, Colin Riley (not to be confused with Anus O'Toole who runs the debate club) told FoxNews.com that Grundy was "exercising her right to free speech and we respect her right to do so."

I'm all for free speech, even when I don't want to hear what the liberal exercising that right is saying. But let's face it, if Grundy was white making the exact statements about black men on campus, she would have been told to go elsewhere to teach her racist hatred.

She has also tweeted more racist crap incorrectly claiming that only whites had enslaved entire generations of people. "Deal with your white shit, white people. slavery is *YALL* thing."

Grundy does not seem to like white folks very much, I believe.

On Saturday, the school had been inundated by angry emails. Some of these emails were from former donors to the so-called institution of higher learning stating they would no longer donate to the school.

So after the brave staff of Boston University finished peeing in their skivvies, the tune changed: "The University does not condone racism or bigotry in any form and we are deeply saddened when anyone makes such offensive statements." the university's Colin said with a tremble in his voice.

Nick Pappas, a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was the person who discovered the tweets and posted Grundy's racist tweets on his website SoCawledge.com.

Pappas questioned how she could teach a diverse group of students when she holds racial hostility toward an entire group of people. "You have to teach college-aged white males eventually, no? . . . this seems like you are unqualified to grade their work as you clearly demonstrate some kind of special bias against them," he wrote.

When the fertilizer hit the proverbial fan, this was when alumni and donors wrote to complain. 

Riley doubled-down stating: " . . . the opinions expressed by Dr. Grundy, in what were seemingly private electronic messages, constitutes her opinion and we must recognize her right to have that opinion whether or not we agree."

True, we all have equal dibs on the First Amendment.

But the school does not have to hire her if her opinion is racist, vile and likely to interfere with her ability to grade students fairly. Also, the "seemingly private electronic messages" were not so private that Nick Pappas was unable to retrieve them from social media.

Grundy didn't respond to requests for comment from FoxNews.com and has now made her Twitter account private, which proves my point about it.

David Horowitz, who runs the website FrontPageMagazine.com and is the author of "Reforming our Universities," told FoxNews.com that "Anti-white racism is rampant in Black Studies programs." 

He also pointed out how the school's reaction to the blowback betrays double-standards on race. "If she were a white racist rather than an anti-white racist, she would never be hired. Professors are supposed to be experts in some scholarly field and professionals in their classroom discourse. They don't have a license to indoctrinate students in their prejudices--whether those prejudices are right or left," Horowitz said.

Let me repeat: I am all for free speech. We all have the right to express our opinions. But if I work for Burger King and tweeted that I believe their burgers taste like the leather of a bicycle seat on a hot summer day after Michael Moore rode it, I would expect to be looking for work at McDonalds very soon thereafter.

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Islamophia and Unicorns

In an article entitled "The Politics of Islamophobia," the website Discoverthenetworks.org says that the term "Islamophobia" was invented in the early 1990s by the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT), a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood. The term became an active focus of the Muslim Brotherhood after 9/11 when Islamic lobbyist organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an unindicted co-conspirator of the Holy Land Foundation, accused Americans, law-enforcement authorities, etc., of harboring a deep and potentially dangerous prejudice against Muslims. Of course, none of this was ever corroborated by FBI statistics.