Analysis by Kyle A. Lohmeier
Living here in the Ohio valley and having no good way of getting to the West Coast by Thursday is kind of a bummer really as I’m missing out on quite a business opportunity. See, I’ve got all sorts of random lengths of wood, mostly 2x2s and 2x4s, left over from a handful of small projects. Presently, they’re just sitting in my garage, waiting for me to think of something to do with them. Well, something else to do with them, as I’d like to be selling them for $10 a piece outside of wherever Ann Coulter is giving her speech to Berkley students on Thursday.
Of course, that’s a problem; University of California Berkley’s campus is pretty large, and since Coulter’s permission to speak there has been rescinded by the university, figuring out exactly where she’s going to be giving her presentation might be tough. See, she had been invited by the Berkley College Republicans and Young America’s Foundation to speak, but the university revoked the offer because they were afraid that tolerant, self-styled “antifa” liberals would attack attendees, set fires and destroy property again, like they did when a flamboyant gay guy tried to speak there back in February. On Monday, those two groups sued the university for violating free speech rights by seeking to “burden or ban” events “involving the expression of conservative viewpoints,” Reuters reported.
The university offered to make it up to the conservative groups by allowing Coulter to speak at a different venue on May 2, when classes won’t be in session and there should theoretically be fewer “communists” with trust funds available to commit violent crimes against people and their property in the name of tolerance.
“University spokeswoman Dianne Klein said in response to the lawsuit that the school was ’committed to providing a forum to enable Ann Coulter to speak on the Berkeley campus.’
“’The allegation … that Ms. Coulter is being prohibited from speaking because of her conservative views is untrue,’ Klein said,” Reuters reported.
I’m reasonably sure we can all agree that it is not Coulter’s viewpoints that are the problem here, but rather the reaction she draws from entitled little crybabies who can’t handle hearing a viewpoint that they find “offensive” to what they’ve been conditioned to believe is right. Since colleges and California in general – and UC Berkley in particular – are full of entitled, whiny liberals with an increasingly-wide violent streak, the university is merely doing all it can to avoid being ground-zero of another rumble; the violence of which can only be compared to that of the Sharks against the Jets in a junior high school production of West Side Story.
And that’s where my box of random lengths of wood and missed business opportunity comes in. As I complained about earlier in a previous piece about the brawl between Berkley “antifa” and a handful of morons from Identity Evropa, despite all the weapons brought to the fray, despite all the cops fleeing at the first sign of trouble, despite all the vitriolic hatred, no one died. No one was even seriously injured. Taxpayers get to clean up the mess from the riots – broken bottles, firework remnants, black and red underwear soaked with urine, fires, broken windows, etc. – and all of the participants are alive and well enough to carry on being a pain in the ass at the next scheduled dustup.
So, if I could be anywhere on Thursday, it would be outside of wherever Coulter is speaking about an hour and a half or so before it’s to begin; with my box of wood, a sign reading “Assorted bludgeons, $10 apiece, your choice” and no peddler’s license. If people who think they’re “antifa” and people who think Ann Coulter is worth listening to would kindly club each other all the way to death, it would be the rest of us who came out as the winners of the fight.
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