Ann Coulter responds
And she still hasn't been arrested.
Ann Coulter has responded to the University of Ottawa’s provost Francois Houle suggestion that she choose her words carefully, unless she wants to wind up with criminal charges. Coulter is scheduled to speak at the University of Ottawa this evening. In an email to the Ottawa Citizen, Coulter says that Houle is promoting “hatred” and “violence” against people with conservative views. She also told the newspaper that she would like to file a human rights complaint. Coulter spoke at the University of Western Ontario Monday evening, and will also be speaking at the University of Calgary this week.
As the Citizen reported:
“Now that the provost has instructed me on the criminal speech laws he apparently believes I have a proclivity (to break), despite knowing nothing about my speech, I see that he is guilty of promoting hatred against an identifiable group: conservatives,” Coulter wrote in an e-mail on Monday.
The Citizen had requested a telephone interview with Coulter. Instead, the newspaper received the e-mail from the author.
She questioned whether every speaker booked at the university received a similar warning or just the conservative ones.
“The provost simply believes and is publicizing his belief that conservatives are more likely to commit hate crimes in their speeches. Not only does this promote hatred against conservatives, but it promotes violence against conservatives,” Coulter wrote.
She added she would ask the human rights commission to investigate, but didn’t specify which one.
“I was hoping for a fruit basket upon my arrival in Canada, not a threat to criminally prosecute me,” Coulter said.
After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Coulter notoriously wrote of Muslim countries, “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.” She has also suggested that Muslims use “flying carpets,” as opposed to airplanes.
At Coulter’s University of Western Ontario talk, a Muslim student challenged her on her previous comments. The student said, as reported by the Sun media chain, “As a 17-year-old student of this university, Muslim, should I be converted to Christianity? Second of all, since I don’t have a magic carpet, what other modes do you suggest.” To which Coulter responded, “take a camel.”
Sorry – I spelled “its” wrong – I guess that’s why I have a Carleton degree!
This is all too funny for me. First off by USA standards there is no right wing in Canada. Secondly she is right.
So go ahead and arrest her. It could very well be the best wake up call Canada ever had when she wins in court. I hope she gets arrested because she would win.
She makes Canadians look like the retarded backwater crybabies she says we are. Good for her.
Suggesting a muslim should ride magic carpets/camels is racist and segregating. I find it insane that a woman who claimed Canada “was lucky to be allowed to exist on the same continent” as the United States is being paid $10,000 to bring this filth into a university tonight.
There is a difference between a conservative American and this bigot. There is a difference between the concept of free speech and racism.
Congratulations to Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck for helping to ruin the image of the United States on the world stage even further. You’re truly sending your country back into the dark ages (look what “conservatives” just did to the school textbooks in Texas.)
I sincerely hope a crowd of educated Canadians greets her with a barrage of heckling.
Keep your crap south of the Canadian border.
It seems a shame to me that Canadians would fork out the kind of money they did to hire Ann Coulter to speak in the first place. She did raise the hackles of many Canadians which is what she meant to do. And her rebuttal couched in the language of her detractors was a grandstanding move that was good politicking even though it wasn’t very logical. The email informing her of the possibility of being arrested was sent based on her past statements that are racist not on the fact that she is a conservative. It would be pretty foolish to think that conservatives are being discriminated against in Canada when somehow they keep getting elected and hold positions of great social, political and economic power. Francois Houle (regardless of his own political stance) would be entirely correct in discriminating against racist/hate speech within his jurisdiction, in the same way that he would discriminate against killing and thieving and other illegal actions. Racism is socially destructive. We all know that (or should) and I can’t wait for the human race to wake up or grow up or whatever we have to do to prevent ourselves from sliding back to the middle ages.
I don’t understand why people are getting so upset about her. I mean, it’s not like she’s converting people into being bigots, anybody who goes to see her is already going to be a bigot, right? So a few racists go see her and then go home and masturbate, what’s the big deal? It gives them an outlet.
Exactly how would you identify a conservative? What do they look like? We know what loud-mouth xenophobic, homophobic and sexist haters like Coulter, Limbaugh and Beck sound like. But to say conservatives are identifiable once again simplifies the issue to the point where Coulter and the rest of the ill-informed can grasp it, but for the rest of us makes no sense. We kept Ian Paisley out of this country based on his past rantings against Catholics. Why could we not do the same about this harridan?
I believe it was Mark Twain who stated that in the USA “freedom of speech was not the right to say whatever you want, rather the right to say what others do not want to hear”.
Simpletons like Coulter don’t understand this concept and barf up hostile retoric for one purpose only, to line the pockets of her pantyhose. She probably deserves our pity (as she is husstled off to the looney ward).
To those who defend Ann Clouter:
Try getting to the US to hold a conference on Universal Healthcare and see if the conservatives, Tea Party supporters will allow you to speak and defend your ideas. You would be labelled Socialists, Communists, and ….even Canadian.
What a tempest in a teapot. Coulter came here to create controversy. She’s a shock jock like Howard Stern. She needs the publicity to sell her books.
It’s pathetic that this is the only thing she could find to be offended about. The Provost of the University that invited her to speak sent her a personal email making her aware that the laws of Canada are different than the laws of the USA with concern to freedom of expression and hate speech. Gasp, the offrontery of the man!
She’s not really offended. She’s just grasping ant anything that might keep her name in the papers and play to her audience back home.
You fell for it Macleans.
“Take a camel”, lol, this woman is not helpful to world peace, definitely, but she has wit. She has a view. I say don’t worry about the hate mongering stuff, I think this part of the world, even Alberta, is passed that. The skinheads just tried to have a rally in Vancouver, they had permission and the police were ready to protect them – but only two showed up and they were shamed into tears by the press. Warning Coulter was an over-reaction. Coulter threatening to file a human rights complaint was almost as funny as the camel joke.
Someone provide this women with a hot tub time machine, this is obviously a cry for help, she’d be much more comfortable living in the 1800′s.
The left in Canada takes themselves way too seriously. They alone are the arbitor of what can and can’t be said and what’s funny and what’s not.
I hope she takes it to the Kangaroo Hate Crimes Court. It will be a laugh riot. She is no fool and has a law degree from Cornell and has been a litigator for the US federal gov. My guess is, she will tie the Provost and the Kangaroos in knots.
I can think of better things Ann Coulter could be doing with her mouth other than ranting endlessly and inaccurately about people and politics. She needs to swallow some farmers sausage and wrap her tongue around some creamy dessert before she loses any more weight.
Ann Coulter is a fool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmcZG87Fmxc
Re: Comment by Rik on 23 March 2010:
Thank you for pointing out what everyone seems to have missed….the Provost was simply advising Ms. Coulter of existing laws in this country; as a courtesy.
I agree with every single point you made. How she proceeds from here on is entirely her responsibility.
I was surprised that Ann Coulter was in Canada, guess it proves that border security needs to be raised.
I am so thankful that I live in a country where promoting hate is a crime. To me, Freedom of Speech is a highly overrated right, mainly because it does not require that a person be truthful or honest.
My question is why did she even recieve a warning? It would have been more efficient to arrest her right there and I hope she gets the maximum sentence up here as well.
As a Christian, I feel completely offended that she has been allowed to blasphemy against my faith and the most important commandment (Love your Neighbour).
Why aren’t we angry? Why are we allowing this waste of sperm to spout ignorance in our country? On national television she said that Canada could be “crushed” by the United States. She insulted homosexuals, and insulted a Canadian citizen. Why are we allowing Ann Coulter into our country? Why aren’t we filing a Human Rights complaint on the basis of spreading hate and lies against Canadians, Jews, Muslims, Homosexuals, and Immigrants? How dare she make baseless accusations against us and our people? I think everyone is entitled to Free Speech, just as everyone should be entitled to reap the consequences for their words. She violated the Canadian Charter of Rights multiple times in London, Ontario. And as a result should be tried to the fullest extent of the law. And banned from entering Canada. If Galloway makes a comment about Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan and is banned, why isn’t she banned for insulting our people and our country, as well as making up lies such as Canada being involved in the Vietnam War?
Of course I believe in free speech. But that doesn’t mean I have to take circus acts like Coulter seriously. She’s clown, but a very nasty, attention seeking, conniving one. There are people who are actually falling for her game. She has twisted the private email from the U of O Provost as an attack on conservatives and a threat to criminally prosecute her. Is she paranoid? No, it’s gambit for more attention. Please, calm down. Let her speak and she will quickly flame out. Deny her the right the speak and she will be fodder for all types of conspiracy theories.
As a student who goes to the University of Ottawa, let me be the first to apologize to you Ann.
Not all of us at the University think that you are producing hate speech. Furthermore, some of us actually support what it is your saying. I’m embarrassed at my fellows students behavior, given the behavior of left wing radicals. Furthermore, a belief in Christianity is not something to be frowned upon but celebrated.
Even if some don’t support your political or religious views, they should at least practise what they preach by letting you speak at our school. However, the masses are stupid, so please excuse our behaviour.
ANOTHER VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH
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She is just a dumb nit but forcing cancellation makes us look even dumber.
I’m sorry but I wasn’t aware the universities were a white majority and not diverse.
A lot of people are forgetting that recently there have been lot of tension between ethnic groups and certain universities do not want trouble so close to finals. The warning was fair for her history of comments and inability to be politically correct.
I’ve had many Muslim friends, co-workers and classmates there good people, hard working and intelligent. Canada is built on diversity from our land to our people. Everyone, every culture brings something to the table that we can use.
I feel sorry for Christians everywhere and conservatives of this country.
Hate speech? You decide:
Ann Coulter:
“Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.”
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity”
“I think our motto should be, post-9-11, ‘raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences.’ ”
Muslim Interviewer: Ms Coulter, you have gone on the record before now as not only saying that I and people like me should be converted or killed, but also that if we dont subscribe to your train of thought we should, and i quote, ‘get back on our flying carpets and go back to where we came from?’
Anne Coulter: yes? and?
Muslim Interviewer: Well not only am i Canadian so didnt “come from” anywhere, but i dont own a flying carpet. What would you suggest I do?
Anne Coulter: I guess you’ll have to ride one of your Camels then.
I have yet to see in any of media stories about Ann Coulter’s speeches in Canada any mention of who is paying for the events? What happened to reporters following the journalistic principles of who, what, where, when, why and how? How is she here speaking at 3 universities? — is she speaking for free? If not, who is paying for the appearances?
clearly a publicity stunt to clog the news with something other than Obama’s (socialist) healthcare bill
Arrest her & send her back across the border to the rest of the Conservative, Tea Party right wing loony tunes in America.
And Peter, your can’t be Canadian, must be a closet American!
All of those Kumbaya wailing “useful idiot” Lefties that are rioting and calling for the death of Jews during the travesty that is “Israel Apartheid week” and are quick to condemn Ann Coulter even before she had a chance to speak at these Universities – are the same ones who were rioting to have that disgusting Islamo-fascist and terrorist brown noser, Ken Livingstone, the right to spew his antisemitic effluvium in Canada’s Universities recently. I know – because I have have seen them do just that at the U of T.
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Well baker bot …..the difference is that free speech is a proven necessity and a sensible thing….as opposed to the simple scientific fact that all of the major religions have been proven to be no more then cults ….if you are going to support ANY of these cults …first read their books then read the scientific evidence that contradicts the fairy tales ….if your wise enough to distinguish between the two. If not it will give you something to do.
The Canada I grew up in took pride in diversity, which includes a whole lot more than just race and religion. That was a long time ago.
Go Ann go, I think it is great. at least we can verbally attack those that are killing Canadians, Then coming to canada for freedome and argue about are customs and our beleifs. After offering freedom they slap us in the face and we cannot say anything. Go girl.
Ann is a typical American. Puts her foot in her mouth 100% of the time and she is a size 13 in mens. She would probably be assassinated in Europe. Also a fact that nobody knows.. she use to be a man, hence her adam’s apple and bulge.
Also she is a smart woman. She knows how to get attention. Say stupid things and people will hater and yet buy her books and watch her on T.V to see what dumb thing she says next. She knows how to play the media. We are all dumb for even talking about this.