Let me get this straight. A guy whose department has
seen expenses rise 35 per cent on his watch won't cough up
$1,000 to cover his own security tab, and so cancels his March 10 speech at York U and implies its the fault of anti-Semites? Sounds like the guy didn't want to go to York (who does?) and speak in front of losers (= 99% of the York Student body--if you're a Dork or can hold a fork you can go to York--I can say that because I'm an alumni). But he wanted to frame his cancellation in terms a little more heroic than "I need to stay home and bathe my hamster".
Just a more politically correct way of the university shutting down the debate. I'd bet had he given in to their shakedown, they would still cancel the event.
ReplyDeleteExactly ridenrain. Who would want to waste a few hours of their lives they can never get back on Jason Kenney?
ReplyDeleteThanks for pointing that our RR!
No sad lament for the loss of free and open discussion however. After all, what's a few rights when an election is to be had.
ReplyDeleteSuch faux concern ridofbrain
ReplyDeleteDid ridofbrain show such concern for free speech when George Galloway came to town? Inquiring minds want to know.
ReplyDeleteGalloway was stopped by the government, not by a mob. Totally different thing.
ReplyDeleteHow about Ann Coulter?
Coulter cancelled herself after her staff were unable to rent a room of the appropriate size.
ReplyDeleteActually Galloway gave several speeches when he finally won the right to enter the country, despite the Reformacons best efforts. Apparently there is still some rule of law in the country.
ReplyDeleteGalloway now supports Ahmadinejad so I guess we'll have him speaking at a Canadian university soon also?
ReplyDeleteSame sort of things with Christie Blatchford, Ehud Barak, and Mark Steyn?
ReplyDeleteNot letting people speak is cowardly.
So is choosing not to speak and then blaming someone else for not being allowed to.
ReplyDelete$1,000? I guess this is not a big deal for us.
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