Ann Coulter was scheduled to speak on April 27 despite being canceled by UC-Berkeley, but that speech will no longer be happening because YAF pulled their support.
But she still hinted that she might show up there anyway, telling Fox News, "I think I'm still going to Berkeley, but there will be no speech".
At Berkeley, three times this year protesters wearing masks have turned demonstrations about speech into unsafe mob confrontations, with injuries, fires and massive property damage.
The only people that would hear that event would be those who agree with Coulter, and the CRs don't want their speaker to engage with an "echo chamber", said Dhillon. Beginning in 1964, students began engaging in peaceful sit-ins and protests to defend free expression on campus, but demonstrations turned violent in the following years as students began protesting the Vietnam War; hundreds of students were arrested during that period.
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The city of Berkeley and the university have seen "three high profile incidents of political violence in recent months", as The Two-Way reported. And yes indeed, that does leave free speech in the cold.
Despite Coulter's announcement a day earlier that she would not speak at UC Berkeley on Thursday, students and residents were told to expect a heavy police presence and asked to take precautions to remain safe. "The @AnnCoulter event in Berkeley is NOT canceled".
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Conservative author and pundit Ann Coulter delivers remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2012 in Washington, DC.
Coulter had been scheduled to speak on Thursday at the invitation of the Young America's Foundation and the Berkeley College Republicans.
A student group, the Young America's Foundation, said Tuesday it had decided not to host the event, saying the university had created a hostile environment.
Though no arrangements could be worked out, Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks emphasized that the university has two nonnegotiable commitments, to free speech and to campus safety. She Tweeted to followers, "I'm very sad about Berkeley's cancelation, but my sadness is greater than that".
"The First Amendment requires equal access, not one level of open access for conservatives, out in the open, with attackers shouting us down", lawyer Harmeet Dhillon said, "and another level of access in a private, closed setting where people are allowed to enjoy an educational opportunity without interruption". "We have to take up the fight for free speech".
The university gave well-placed indoor facilities with security to "other people who are of a controversial nature", including the former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Dhillon said.
Worden, the CRs president, emphasized his group would continue inviting conservative speakers to campus, including Coulter. "Full stop", but said "not every venue is available on every day". Ms. Coulter rejected the changes, and said she would speak on April 27, as originally planned. The club, he said, had committed to the Thursday date without confirming its plans with the school first. And he acknowledged that campus administrators were in a tough spot and said they had done what they could to make the event happen, given the crossed wires in planning the event.
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