Ann Coulter and “a dark day for free speech in America!”

SAN JOSE, CA, — Ann Coulter will not deliver her speech at the “University” of California at Berkeley today. Just the threat of violent attacks upon the scheduled Coulter speech at UC Berkeley was enough to inhibit the First Amendment rights of Coulter and the student group that had arranged the event. Not an actual attack, but just the threat, obliterated free speech at UC Berkeley, the former home of the “free speech movement.” It is an historic irony that the concept of free speech no longer exists at the university which epitomized such freedom in the 1960s. The reign of terror has begun. The reign of intolerance and lack of respect for the opinions of others who may express thought different from one’s own indoctrination has begun. Ann Coulter announced that she cancelled her speech after learning that the student group that had originally sponsored her event had withdrawn their support for it. In an email to Reuters, Coulter wrote that “there will be no speech… I looked over my shoulder and my allies had joined the other team.” Apparently, one of the sponsoring groups, Young America’s Foundation, withdrew its support for the event, which was originally scheduled to occur at the university’s Sproul Plaza, when the group discovered the university would not provide legitimate protection from any violent protesters who opposed Coulter.