Oh, Canada!

· Thursday, March 25, 2010

Since arriving in Canada I've been accused of thought crimes, threatened with criminal prosecution for speeches I hadn't yet given, and denounced on the floor of the Parliament (which was nice because that one was on my "bucket list").

Posters advertising my speech have been officially banned, while posters denouncing me are plastered all over the University of Ottawa campus. Elected officials have been prohibited from attending my speeches. Also, the local clothing stores are fresh out of brown shirts.

Welcome to Canada!

The provost of the University of Ottawa, average student IQ: 0, wrote to me -- widely disseminating his letter to at least a half-dozen intermediaries before it reached me -- in advance of my visit in order to recommend that I familiarize myself with Canada's criminal laws regarding hate speech.

This marks the first time I've ever gotten hate mail for something I might do in the future.

Apparently Canadian law forbids "promoting hatred against any identifiable group," which the provost, Francois A. Houle advised me, "would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges."

I was given no specific examples of what words and phrases I couldn't use, but I take it I'm not supposed to say, "F--- you, Francois."

While it was a relief to know that it is still permissible in Canada to promote hatred against unidentifiable groups, upon reading Francois' letter, I suddenly realized that I had just been the victim of a hate crime! And it was committed by Francois A. Houle (French for "Frank A. Hole").

What other speakers get a warning not to promote hatred? Did Francois A. Houle send a similarly worded letter to Israel-hater Omar Barghouti before he spoke last year at U of Ottawa? ("Ottawa": Indian for "Land of the Bed-Wetters.")

How about Angela Davis, Communist Party member and former Black Panther who spoke at the University of Zero just last month?

Or do only conservatives get letters admonishing them to be civil? Or -- my suspicion -- is it only conservative women who fuel Francois' rage?

How about sending a letter to all Muslim speakers advising them to please bathe once a week while in Canada? Would that constitute a hate crime?

I'm sure Canada's Human Rights Commission will get to the bottom of Francois' strange warning to me, inasmuch as I will be filing a complaint with that august body, so I expect they will be reviewing every letter the university has sent to other speakers prior to their speeches to see if any of them were threatened with criminal prosecution.

Both writer Mark Steyn and editor Ezra Levant have been investigated by the Human Rights Commission for promoting hatred toward Muslims.

Levant's alleged crime was to reprint the cartoons of Mohammed originally published in a Danish newspaper, leading practitioners of the Religion of Peace to engage in murderous violence across the globe. Steyn's alleged crime was to publish an excerpt of his book, "America Alone" in Maclean's magazine, in which he jauntily described Muslims as "hot for jihad."

Both of them also flew jet airliners full of passengers into skyscrapers in lower Manhattan, resulting in thousands of deaths. No, wait -- that was somebody else.

Curiously, however, there was no evidence that either the cartoons or the column did, in fact, incite hatred toward Muslims -- nor was there the remotest possibility that they would.

By contrast, conservative speakers are regularly subjected to violent attacks on college campuses. Bill Kristol, Pat Buchanan, David Horowitz and I have all been the targets of infamous campus attacks.

That's why the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute (a sponsor of my Canada speeches) and the Young America's Foundation (a sponsor of many of my college speeches) don't send conservatives to college campuses without a bodyguard.

You'd have to be a real A-Houle not to anticipate that accusing a conservative of "promoting hatred" prior to her arrival on a college campus would in actuality -- not in liberal fantasies of terrified Muslims cowering in terror of Mark Steyn readers -- incite real-world violence toward the conservative.

The university itself acknowledged that Francois' letter was likely to provoke violence against me by demanding -- long after my speech was scheduled, but immediately after Francois disseminated his letter -- that my sponsors pony up more than $1,200 for extra security.

Also following Francois' letter, the Ottawa University Student Federation met for 7 1/2 hours to hammer out a series of resolutions denouncing me. The resolutions included:

"Whereas Ann Coulter is a hateful woman;

"Whereas she has made hateful comments against GLBTQ, Muslims, Jews and women;

"Whereas she violates an unwritten code of 'positive-space';

"Be it resolved that the SFUO express its disapproval of having Ann Coulter speak at the University of Ottawa."

At least the students didn't waste 7 1/2 hours on something silly, like their studies.

At the risk of violating anyone's positive space, what happened to Canada? How did the country that gave us Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Martin Short, Dan Aykroyd and Catherine O'Hara suddenly become a bunch of whining crybabies?

Want to hear my favorite Canadian joke? OK, here goes: Francois Houle! I never get tired of that one.

After Tuesday night, the hatred incited by Francois' letter is no longer theoretical. The police called off my speech when the auditorium was surrounded by thousands of rioting liberals -- screaming, blocking the entrance, throwing tables, demanding that my books be burned, and finally setting off the fire alarm.

Sadly, I missed the book burning because I never made it to the building.

But, reportedly, a Canadian crowd hasn't been this excited since they opened a new Tim Hortons. Local reporters couldn't make out what the crowd was chanting, but it was something about "Molson" and a "sled dog."

I've given more than 100 college speeches, and not once has one of my speeches been shut down at any point. Even the pie-throwing incident at the University of Arizona didn't break up the event. I said "Get them!", the college Republicans got them, and then I continued with my rambling, hate-filled diatribe -- I mean, my speech.

So we've run this experiment more than 100 times.

Only one college speech was ever met with so much mob violence that the police were forced to cancel it: The one that was preceded by a letter from the university provost accusing me of hate speech.

(To add insult to injury, Francois didn't even plan to attend my speech because Tuesday is his bikini wax night.)

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech -- which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech -- is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.

Either Francois goes to jail or the Human Rights Commission is a hoax and a fraud.

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Comments

Murph

Hang in there, Ann.

Posted March 25, 2010 at 1:18:53 AM


Robert M. Smith

It must be "Hate Week" in Canada.

"IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"

Good luck on filing against those social democrats in the land of maple leaves. Their alternate reality is now here in the former land of the free.

Sempe Fi

Posted March 25, 2010 at 8:17:31 AM


Marcus

So Canada is finally going through the sixties?

If you have them rioting, Ann, you must be doing something right!

Posted March 25, 2010 at 10:19:45 AM


Kinny

You go girl!!!! The very thing they are protesting is what THEY are doing!

Posted March 25, 2010 at 12:28:37 PM


KN

Hate Speech? From Leftists? Surely not.

Alex Baldwin said, "if we were in another country... we would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families, for what they're doing to this country."

Posted March 25, 2010 at 4:20:21 PM


Jimmy D

Careful Ann, Barack is listening, he'll get ideas.

"Hmmmm, Conservatism and Patriotism are types of Hate Speech....Rahm, come in here a minute."

Posted March 25, 2010 at 5:15:57 PM


MichaelSSEC

Only in Leftist fantasy land is talking about facts and logic considered "hate speech" but burning a Bush effigy and carrying signs reading "I'm here to kill George Bush" are called patriotism.

Only in Leftist fantasy land is it Democracy to threaten violence upon Bart Stupak unless he votes for Obamacare, but it's hate speech to wish him dead for voting for abortion.

Only in Leftist fantasy land is actual violence by Leftist thugs totally ignored or even justified, while imaginary violence by Republicans is cause for special press conferences, FBI probes, media diatribes, protests, and nationwide hand-wringing.

Only in Leftist fantasy land is a hate-filled anti-American lecture by Mahmoud Ahmedinejad at Harvard defended as "free speech" and anyone who objects is called a hater, but a speech by Ann Coulter draws threats of prosecution and triggers a Leftist riot.

Notice, the rioters aren't being criticized. So the Left can riot and that's okay. But Ms Coulter can't give her speech. Why not? If Ms Coulter stood up there and talked about what an evil country America is and how Christians are hypocrites, the Left would pin a medal on her chest and call her a hero. But she's up there speaking the truth, so the Left hates her.

The only hate on display here is coming from the Left, as it always does.

Posted March 25, 2010 at 5:45:56 PM


Peter

It seems that anyone who threatens you instead of hearing and considering your arguments is more terrified of the fragility of their own arguments and the danger of encountering a perspective unknown to them. Abandoning reason, individuals and mobs embracing fear and intellectual xenofobia as the best defense against the burdens of being challenged. Proverbs 18:17 says "The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him." It seems some educators would like to state their case and not be cross-examined by others. Maybe a new proverb for today? The best defense is pretending there is no competition.

Posted March 25, 2010 at 10:10:21 PM


Theresa Johnson

I so applaud your standing up for what is right. Your courage and tenacity in doing so empowers so many of us who do the same but are just not in the limelight.

Your brilliance and wit are a shining example of education, genes, and effort. May others strive for that and use it in ways that would make our founding fathers proud.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Posted March 27, 2010 at 3:01:03 PM


Bernard P. Giroux

Having worked for a subsidiary of CP Limited for a couple of years, I can truthfully vouch that the Canadians have a massive inferiority complex when it comes to Americans. The reaction to Ann Coulter is probably the same reaction the Canadians had to George Washington.

Posted March 29, 2010 at 12:54:10 PM


MelPreslar

Once a radical agenda is met, it seems the rules change. I did not know Canada was lost too. I am surprised the Obama administration has not warned you too. I bet they want to, but it is too early to show that strategy. You go girl! Read Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky, be informed. Let the Revolution begin at the Ballot Box 2010!

Posted March 29, 2010 at 1:27:22 PM


Jerry P. White

Way to go! Keep up the good work. Just like Nazi Germany...the so called Liberals/Progessives were the first to join the National Socialistic Workers Party of Germany, NSAPD.

I am also wondering if some of the protesters came from "Rent-a-Rioter"?

Keep speaking the thruth, Rock on girl!!!

Posted March 29, 2010 at 1:57:12 PM


Mountain Mona

Ann,

Keep the fires going...they warm my heart!!Every thing you said echoes in my mind of so many other Patriots' cries in this time of "doublespeak" and worse. This is like a bad acid trip that the Progressive Baby Boomers are now inficting on everyone worldwide(I hate to say I am a Baby Boomer..but I served my country (USMC)... and I'm not "serving up" my country). I think their rantings and agendas are like uncontrolled bipolar episodes that morph into psychotic breaks...there is no reasoning with those who have broken away from reality...it is not a static playing field. They have mixed "1984" with "The Brave New World" and may have created a "Dante Inferno". They are the abusers who believe their abuse is justified: you are just suppose to submit. This country needs to "just say no" and restrict them. Our country and the constitution are at stake!! Don't be afraid...be smart and back down!!

Posted March 29, 2010 at 3:22:16 PM


Mountain Mona

PS

OUCH!! I made an error in the last sentence of my 3:22:16 PM comments. I should have stated,"Don't be afraid...be smart and don't back down!!" The high attitude affected my brain (chuckle).

Posted March 29, 2010 at 3:37:36 PM


BillBob Beetle

Ann brings on so much hate from the left that it remeinds me of the old refrain: "The truth hurts". Ann is the real mCCoy, and the hateful leftist-atheistic, progressive nincompoops can go straight to hell. Go Anm, Go!!!

Posted March 29, 2010 at 3:46:00 PM


LibertyNOTLiberal

Well it's too bad your hate speech was cancelled Ann. Given the tenor of the crowd you may have been injured by a thrown snowshoe and have thus missed an opportunity to experience the loving and caring nature of government run health care, by the same type of sycophants no doubt.

Posted March 29, 2010 at 3:57:15 PM


Texas Gal

Is it hate speech to talk about someone who does not agree with your viewpoint? If you dislike someone because they are black and you say so, then that's hate speech. If someone does not like you because you are conservative and they say so, then that's hate speech. Liberals are really only good at one thing and that's hypocrasy. I probably misspelled that and that too, but you get the point.

Posted March 29, 2010 at 4:26:25 PM


MelPreslar

Americans are becoming timid. No, maybe not, Americans are paying too much attention to the rules of being politically correct. This limits the manner in which responses can be formed. It is not politically incorrect to say that I am a Christian. It is politically incorrect to identify that someone else might just be a Muslim. Yes this information is needed to know or expect how an individual will respond to any set of circumstances. The same information is needed about a Terrorist and his intentions. We know if a Muslim renounces his religion, he immediately has a target on his back, probably more so than all other infidels. Therefore until moderate Muslims protests the Jihadists in great numbers, rather than the few pundits with permission saying that Muslims do not support killing of innocents, how can Americans trust any Muslim not to mean them harm. Insofar as a State sponsored religion. First, it is a fact our Country was founded on Christian principles. One of those principles is that to believe is a personal decision and not a State supported decision. I believe Man's greatest choice is to say, God I have free will, I appreciate it, but I have made a mess of it. Please take it back, I can't manage it and I know you (God) can. I can't, you can, and I think I will let you. Thank you Lord. Guess what happens.....God accepts your Free Will which you have surrendered and gives it back to you with a method for you through Prayer and Mediation to seek his guidance and support. The government is not in that picture, yet all the individuals doing this make up the government. I still believe that represents the American government. Also, I believe our Votes outnumber the Liberal Votes and that the Reformation has taken place and the Revolution will be at the Ballot Box in November 2010 and 2012. God Bless America!

Posted March 29, 2010 at 9:23:20 PM


curt

While they are exercising their right (do they have such a right in Canada?) of free speech, they are decrying your right of free speech, which, we, of course, think all nations should have. The infinitesimally small brains of these students and their liberal leaders cannot apparently understand that suppression of free speech and free speech cannot co-exist. You have one, or the other. I am not sure that their criticism of your conservatism has anything to do with the inherent and prevailing Canadian inferiority complex, but lets just say that when you will never in a million years be great, and you know that, it can lead to hating all who are from places that have achieved greatness, which we accomplished 229 years ago in 1781. The Canadians have a little catching up to do--like to where we were in 1781. And by the way, it ain't gonna ever happen. Ann, you could not have said it straighter.

Posted March 29, 2010 at 9:37:29 PM


Twicebitten Notshy

I really admire your composure Ann, it's your composure that the liberals can not find fault, and to see them seethe (transitive verb: to suffer violent internal excitement is comical; your composure is your gift.

Posted March 29, 2010 at 11:14:32 PM


D. Fuller

Oh, how I loved this article. It's priceless.

Posted April 6, 2010 at 5:41:22 PM


Paoli Pete

Oh, how I love Ann Coulter. This letter had me howling with laughter. What a woman!!

Posted July 6, 2010 at 7:37:18 PM


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