Ann Coulter Declares Herself Victim of Hate Crime
Ann Coulter’s stirring up stuff in Canada!
Coulter is provocative, and she’s not afraid to say things–true things–she knows will generate a media backlash.
The “[i]nflammatory right-wing pundit” spoke at the University of Western Ontario yesterday. In a move that has to be tongue-in-cheek, Coulter said she will file a human rights complaint alleging that University of Ottawa vice-president academic and provost Francois Houle’s e-mail to her constituted “hate speech.”
Houle urged that Coulter exercise “restraint, respect and consideration” in her speech to the students. Houle added, “Our domestic laws, both provincial and federal, delineate freedom of expression (or ‘free speech’) in a manner that is somewhat different than the approach taken in the United States. I therefore encourage you to educate yourself, if need be, as to what is acceptable in Canada and to do so before your planned visit here…Promoting hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges.”
Mark Steyn posted the entire e-mail.
“I’m sure the Human Rights Commission will get to the bottom of it,” Coulter told the audience.
Is she being ironic? Former Weekly Standard publisher Ezra Levant spoke before Coulter and said Houle’s letter was a “veiled threat.”
Coulter’s detractors don’t realize the more they try to shut her down, the more people are exposed to her point of view, and that’s what they don’t want. Why are people more afraid of ideas than of giving the government power to stop the flow of ideas?
Let the discussion flourish, and challenge your opponent’s arguments with your arguments. Attacking the person is weak, and banning ideas is cowardly.
We certainly wouldn’t allow that in America. 
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In other words, we don’t really have freedom of speech, just Pre-approved rhetoric. Guess what else you don’t have now, Canadians- Good healthcare just across the border. Enjoy your much shorter lives.
Ann cracks me up. What a little warrior princess she is.
I read this earlier today and laughed out loud. Classic. An absolute “turn the tables” moment.
You can say what you want about Ann Coulter, but one thing’s for sure: she has a ferocious intellect.
I can think of 20 things I don’t particularly like or admire about her, but “brains” isn’t one of them. She is razor sharp…
I know nothing about Canadian Law and Coulter taking this issue further will provide a great opportunity to learn more about it.
I know nothing about Canadian Law and Coulter taking this issue further will provide a great opportunity to learn more about it.
I disagree that Ann Coulter’s M.O. of stirring the pot does anything but boost her celebrity. Coulter is one of the most brilliant and persuasive minds in the right wing – really, in all media – but because people associate her with hurling homophobic epithets and saying we should kill all leaders of Muslim countries and convert their citizens to Christianity, she has next to no credibility, when in fact she makes very good, credible arguments on behalf of conservatism. Rush, Hannity, Beck, MM, Kristol et al. don’t hold a candle to her intellect.
Ideas, dialogue and solutions are not their strong suit. When in authority they prefer to rule and dictate rather than lead and work. The arguments of the Left likewise tend to be specious and vacant of any logical or moral strength. Their technique tends towards mockery, derision and ridicule with a heaping side order of contempt.
For them to be in a position of power is always a terrifying prospect since they are guaranteed to abuse it.
Be careful up dere with them Canucks, eh?
and?
Canada = AmericaLite
She, Krauthammer and Mark Levin are a few of the political commentators I would really like to share a dinner with. I just hope she doesn’t ask me a question….
Beauty eh?
Bob and Doug would be proud.
Oh sure RedDog, you don’t want Ann Coulter to ask you, “Red Dog have you always been this handsome?”
But then if there is a Mrs. Red Dog, she would not be pleased.
Where was the Canadian thought police when Benjamin Netanyahu tried to give a speech at Concordia University in Montreal? A large group of Islamic thugs surrounded the building where Mr. Netanyahu was scheduled to speak and they started shouting all kinds of vicious antiSemitic slogans including “Kill the Jews”. The mob then set about attacking anyone that the thugs pereceived to be nonIslamic. Naturally, the thugs were gutless and attacked only people who were alone. The Islamic thugs then stormed the building, breaking windows and preventing the speech. The university chancelor was spineless and nobody from the mob was suspended from the university or disciplined in any way.
So the moral of the story is that for the Canadian thought police, you can say or do whatever you want if you are a bunch of Islamic fanatics (and you get a free college tuition also).
That’s it! I never wanted to visit Canada anyway!
I’m with Ezra Levant, it was a veiled threat. Wonder if Ann Coulter’s people are speaking with Mark Steyn’s people yet?
Gotta laugh at her, she’s ten steps beyond anything they’ve seen in Canada.
I knew someone would say this. I would ask if you’re being sarcastic, but I’m afraid I already know the answer.
She quips, tongue firmly in cheek. U of Ottawa knows her routine. If they don’t want it, why would they invite her?
Coulter is a genius at getting the Progresso’s to attack her, blatantly revealing the truth about where the “tolerance” problem lies.
Loved her response to the pie throw attack at U of AZ, “Liberals throw like girls.”
RedState, ever see Rules for Radicals? She captures 3-6 in that one line about converting muslims to Christians.
Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”
She rocks when she’s on a roll.
That word,RSS, is the classic example of Leftist hate speech.
It is the equivalent of the N-word. But leftists use it with impunity.
Oh you scamp*!
* the terminology used in this post is not intended to reflect any bias based on race, gender, creed, nation of origin, sexual preference, taste in clothing, music or choice of vegetables. No zygotes or zebras were harmed in the production of this post.
Socialism is a hate crime.
Is that a photo of a man? Has anyone checked its DNA, or at least run it thru a full body scanner?
Whatever happened to Canada?
Whatever happened to US?
Oh yeah, intellectual cowards.
No Les, “it’s” a woman but I have good news and bad news.
The good news is that Marxistcare will cover the cost of your glasses though they will be made of recycled incandescent lightbulbs…
The bad news is that at your obviously advanced and withered age, there will be no testosterone repalcement therapy.
Not too nit-pick, but Ezra Levant was the publisher of the Western Standard, not the Weekly Standard.
+1. And I’m NOT being sarcastic. Islam is a political ideology masquerading as a religion. It contributes nothing positive to society.
Love Ann. Can’t wait to see her on RedEye again. Until then, I still have my Ann Coulter talking doll. If I remember, that quote is one of the things she says. LOL!
les is a union member?
The Canadian Thought Police won’t try to mess with Miss Coulter – they’re outnumbered.
Coulter says such things and is immediately denounced by you, but all she’s doing is taking the avowed aims of Islamists and reversing them. You’ll have some credibility when you start denouncing the ones who actually act on such threats -but you won’t, any more than you’ll denounce those racists who call people “honkey” or “whitey” or “ofay” or “white boy”, while lying about being called the infamous “N” word.
AlohaGuy #25
About fell of my chair laughing! Zinger of the Day Award!
S/B off not of – preview is your friend.
She didn’t hurl it. Using a conditional verb tense can hardly be considered hurling.
Just because you hate her politics doesn’t mean you have to lie about her.
Will someone clear something up for me? I love Ann. But, did she or did she not date Bill Maher for awhile? I mean, come on. Why would she do that?
Is this an urban myth, or true?
I saw Maher say something once to the effect that they went out once and he thought it was the best date he had ever been on that didn’t include sex.
I don’t think they were dating…
She sounds whiny. Y’know, like 9/11 widows.
Hey, I want to be a victim of a hate crime too. I sell insurance and Obama and Congress hates me for it. I save people money.
Today is my birthday. It’s a wonderful present from the President. It’s nice to know the feds have your back as a salesman. Wouldn’t every salesman want the federal government to declare it illegal to not have their product?
my commission percentage might go down, but premiums are going to go up to cover for pre-existing conditions so my income should stay the same.
THANK YOU Barry Obama! I want to thank you for signing over Federal tax dollars and mandates to the product I sell. It’s the best Birthday present I could have asked for.
When the Feds run out of money, then we’ll have problems, but until then, if you want to sell health insurance, you should make a killing.
I won’t hire anyone and I’ll make sure that my income doesn’t get high enough for them to tax and it’s easy street forever! Thanks Barry!
There….
Fixed it.
You say that like it is a bad thing.
The purpose of “hate speech” and “hate crime” penalities is nothing more than the attempt to control actions and speech of citizens. Some of the guidelines are obviously ridiculous; for example between religions and race.
Garth Algar: Uhm, Wayne? What do you do if every time you see this one incredible woman, you think you’re gonna hurl?
Wayne Campbell: I say hurl. If you blow chunks and she comes back, she’s yours. But if you spew and she bolts, then it was never meant to be.
Cannot disagree with you.
We in what is left of “civilization” are in an existential, ~1400-year-old-and-still-continuing war with islam…to survive, to win once and for all, we just may have to do that, or something like that.
Garth Algar: That is a babe. She makes me feel kinda funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym class.
Wayne Campbell: She’s a fox. In French she would be called “la renarde” and she would be hunted with only her cunning to protect her.
Garth Algar: She’s a babe.
Wayne Campbell: She’s a robo-babe. In Latin she would be called “babia majora”.
Garth Algar: If she were a president she would be Baberaham Lincoln.
[a brief pause]
Garth Algar: Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl bunny?
Wayne Campbell: No.
[cracks up laughing]
Wayne Campbell: No.
Garth Algar: Neither did I. I was just asking.
And, she always wears a cross around that long dancers neck. To ward off vampires and lusty men!
Thacker – missed ya (unless you’ve been posting when the rest of us have been asleep). Please keep us up on what’s new in the insurance business and how this will bleed out.
Now if we could just find Chap? Foodie talk is the best.
Gotta love the Great White North!
(wait, just realized I’m being RAAAACIST)
Gotta love the Great
WhitePolitically Correct North!Coulter does a fine job of flusing out the libs from the underbrush…
…even on this thread.
What wine would go good with Ann Coulter…hmmm…
Ann can chew you up and spit you out before you knew you were going for supper. You go girl! You do us who love America proud!
L
*Remember, Canada has no 1st amendment, and they put Mark Steyn through he11 for it; Let’s defend and protect the constitution and people like Ann, Mark, Michael Savage, and even Bill Maher as it relates to free speech.
*And by the way, I’m still looking for my favorite bumper sticker, “My other ride is Ann Coulter”.
Never has there been a truthier statement posted on the internet…
I love a smart Infidel!
Great minds think alike, WE82!
Coulter: ‘I Hope They Send the Royal Canadian Mounted Police After Me!’
What a pip!
(From the Green Room over at HA)
Is Ann Coulter our president? A politician? A world leader of any stripe or influence?
No. She’s a columnist, an American citizen, and last I checked the Constitution protected everyone’s right to free speech…not people’s right to never be offended.
Because the simple fact of the matter is this: if Ann Coulter railed about mackerel snappers and cookie worshipers the way she rails about liberals and their politically-correct causes, this wouldn’t be an issue. Coulter would be above reproach for “speaking truth to power” or some such nonsense.
So please don’t pretend you’re offended because it’s really selective offense. Just as in Canada. If Coulter had called the Pope a Nazi rather than telling some Muslim girl to ride a carpet, she wouldn’t have been threatened by some pantywaist bureaucratic with a stick up his bum. Liberals have been so hypocritical about the “free speech” issue for years not a one of you has a shred of credibility on it.
Not surprisingly, those great champions of free speech have no shut down her talk with threats of violence (as was no doubt her intent). Point proven, loudly.
I was reading the buzz about this speech being cancelled tonight. Makes me want to drive to Henderson, NV, on Sat. to see her speak at the Tea Party Express, even though it’s an 8 hour drive, one way. Gawd, these liberal freaks piss me off.
I think Ann should let this go.
Maureen Dowd
Nancy Pelosi
Barbara Boxer
Janet Napolitano
Valerie Jarret
Janet Reno
Hillary Clinton
need I go on?
When it comes to fugly, liberal women are the undisputed queens of puke.
You left out the coup de gra (sp?).
Helen Thomas
Depends on the “people” who are doing the associating.
I’m sure she has no credibility with the Daily KOS Basement Brigade... but who cares what they think?
They are the enemy in this battle of ideas.
I associate Ann with some damn fine entertainment!
The speech was not canceled. She gave it.
*Speaking of fugly queens, you left out Barney Frank!
Vickisoup- I would love to see it online!
ANN WAS SHUT OFF!
Oh well, free speech is a thing of the past in Canada anyway…
The thugs got the result they wanted so – expect more.
Ask Mark Steyn about Canadian law on hate speech. He finally won, but he was brought up on a charge of hate speech for an opinion column he wrote in a Canadian newspaper or news magazine. The topic was radical Islam. Canadians don’t want you to talk about sharia or the threat to western values that radical Islam presents. They want you to shut up and sit down. Sorta like the Obama administration. Want a look into the future? Look north and shudder.
Ron-
Not to nitpik, but wasn’t it his book? I seem to remember that the court case lasted approx. 2 yrs.
And the book was great.
Tolerance.
No, vickisoup, she did not. It was canceled by the police.
http://www.canada.com/Coulter+event+shut+down+security+concerns/2718231/story.html
Uh yeah, she’s the dangerous one alright.
What’s so funny is how the left lets themselves be tweaked by her. They’re all foaming at the mouth, she collects her fee and goes out to dinner.
Infidel4life- Speaking of the DNA of libs, did you get a load of that one? These people are missing some brain cells. And they say they are the party of the people. Wow. Coulter will have the last laugh!
Doing business and on vacation I am rather dismayed with the rising anti-
Americanism there. Anti-Semitism is on the rise too–Jewish teachers have been attacked in Quebec and the police refuse to intervene.
The way they reacted you’d think she was a baby killer or something. Oh wait, they are the baby killers….
Were the police wearing their brown shirts?
My bad. I had read this:
So she did get to speak on one campus, and was overrun at the Ottowa gig. I see now. Thanks for pointing it out.
Ahhhh, the tyranny of the compassionate, how heartwarming.
Then Ann flounces away with her fancy fee, good for her!
Yes, that was irony, La Shawn. As Rush calls it “illustrating an absurdity by using absurdity”. Besides, it’ll be great good fun to see the Human “Rights” Commission hoisted on it’s on petard.
Good to have you here helping sit in for MM, La Shawn!
Another one from Ann:
If Islam is the religion of love and peace, why do they keep trying to blow people up?
Many people don’t know this but Quebece province has been actively facilitating immigration from the Arab countries for years, particularly Algeria. The goal was to bring as many nonEnglish speaking people as possible into Quebec and turn Canada into a nonEnglish majority country (or at least make English a distinct minority in eastern Canada). It has been a nightmare for Canada as there is now a huge population from the Middle East that makes no attempt at assimilation or being Canadian in any way. But it is not politically correct to say this publicly.
Yet the thought police want to deny Ms. Counlter’s right to speak while allowing Muslim clerics to support the 9/11 hijackers.
liberals.
Hate to admit it, but free speech is officially dead in Canada.
This sorry episode also proves, yet again, that if there is any politically motivated physical violence in Canada, it will invariably originate from the political left, rather than the right.
One has to agree with Coulter on one point, though: after receiving the outrageous letter from the university, she said that it was proof of hatred against one identifiable group of people, conservatives, which as such is a human rights violation. She does have a point there: in Canada, it’s mostly the (violent) left that can say anything or commit violent acts of personal injury and property damage, while the common sense side of the political scales, i.e., anyone right of centre, is regularly intimidated (with actual threats) into silence.
Let’s not forget that Hitler and the Nazis were lefties = anti-Semitic & authoritarian & driven by hate & no respect for free speech & extremely violent.
I LOVE IT! Giv’em hell Ann……..eh?
Ann’s case just got a lot stronger. A large group of obviously organized leftist thugs not only blocked her from speaking but resorted to physical threats. This is how the left operates – always extolling the virtues of free speech while in reality trying to silence any speech that does not agree with their ideology.
I hope Ann goes further and files a civil suit, if that is possible, against the University of Ottawa. It will be interesting to see if that poor excuse for a University actually takes any action in her defense. I suspect that the intellectual elite professors and administrators will hide in their beds and claim somehow that right through might is an acceptable practice. In any event, blame shifting will be the action of the day.
I’m from Canada and have been living in the US for 20 years so I think I have a unique perspective. I initially thought the US and Canada were complete opposites, with Canada being hopelessly socialist. But the US is just as bad, and people will be grinding their teeth with regret for allowing universal health “care”. The glimmer of hope in the US is the uprising of tea party activists who want limited government as the Constitution intends.
les said:
I take it you are from the Castro District? On another note – and what did you find wrong or do find wrong with what she says?
Isn’t Janet No-politano trying to deem “speech” from the right as “Hate Speech?” This is scary, and is fitting in with the way the USA will be shutting down our free speech soon. If someone on the left is offended, then it will be prosecuted to the fullest.
Mark my words. It’s coming. Thanks Obamabots.
) the University of Ottawa obviously approved of Ms Coulter coming to their campus.
2) the University of Ottawa obviously know that Ms Coulter’s brand of political satire is controversial.
3) the University of Ottawa then warns Ms Coulter to respect the Canadian’s deep tradition of respectfulness.
4) the students of Canada’s fine and respectful institutions disrespectfully interrupt a guest speaker.
Uh, the University of Ottawa sounds like its run by a bunch of morons.
Can anyone argue with her rhetoric? I think not…
Call her names, throw things at her, whatever – she just goes on making her points and looking glam.
Canadians have obviously decided that the “right” to not (possibly) be offended trumps the right to free speech. Sorry – I have the right to turn you off (if you’re on TV or the radio), the right not to attend one of your speeches, the right to ignore and/or disagree with you – but NOT the right to censor you. Our good neighbors to the north have it wrong on that score.
I’m still cutting them some slack, however, for their refusal to allow Bill Ayers into their country. That’s not a matter of freedom of expression; it’s a matter of safety, given that this is a person who has participated in and continues to advocate violence.
Using the left’s own rules against them is the way to fight them. Ann is on the right track.
Sometimes people don’t like to hear what she has to say. But she speaks the truth and liberals hate that.
She needs to be silenced for her denial of their tolerance.
For many years, I have thought…
1). Michelle Malkin for Secretary of State.
2). Ann Coulter for Secretary of Defense.
3). Whomever those two agree upon for President.
4). Mark Steyn for VP and/or NSC chairman.
5). Charles Krauthammer for Presidential Advisor.
6). Thomas Sowell for Secretary of Treasury.
7). Walter Williams for Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Then, finally, we Conservatives would have our country back.
Attention Liberals….DO NOT READ…this little ironic comment…sorry but this is just beyond your kin.
When one woman like Ann says something like… “…saying we should kill all leaders of Muslim countries and convert their citizens to Christianity” No matter the context…..This is a very serious threat to World Peace.
When the Leaders of ALL Muslim countries agree that all non Muslim people MUST be (1) converted to their one true religion or (2) Killed or (3) Totally subjugated. They are praised and given things like the ,formally noble, Peace Prize.
To those of sufficient intellect this is irony
Oh Ya…..this is just a guess but I am pretty sure that that the irony is the WHY Ann made the little comment in the first place…alas it seems to few are capable of “getting it”
If you want to see part of “The One’s” and Democrat Party’s plan for all of us all you have to do is look north of the border!
Dang, my world just keeps shrinking. Now I’m boycotting Canada until they clean up their act, Great Britain because they tossed out the Israeli ambassador over the unproven events in Dubai, Mexico because after a Billion dollars we gave them to crack down on the cartels you still aren’t safe, the Scandinavian countries because they prefer muzzies over Americans any day, and France – just because.
I’m down to Hawaii, where many want to pull out of the U.S, and Israel. Israel needs tourist dollars worse than Hawaii so there you go.
I’m buying up every used copy of Ann Coulter’s books to keep in reserve for the next generation of young girls. They need to know it’s OK to have brains and use them.
Ann’s column is up – she’s going after the A. Houle, Francois.
We’re all behind you Ann, go get em’.
I’m betting on “hoax and fraud”!