{"id":1649,"date":"2017-04-27T11:16:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T15:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2017-04-27T11:16:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T15:16:38","slug":"coulter-cancels-berkeley-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2017\/04\/coulter-cancels-berkeley-patriots.html","title":{"rendered":"Coulter Cancels Berkeley, but for Patriots–It’s On!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a highly publicized ordeal involving UC Berkeley and Ann Coulter, and after the latter insisted as recently as just a few hours before the time of this writing that she would speak at Berkeley irrespectively of the fact that administrators had done all that they could to prevent her from being heard, Ann has decided to\u2026cancel her event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be no speech,\u201d she wrote in an email to Reuters. Two groups that originally planned on sponsoring her had backed out.\u00a0 \u201cI looked over my shoulder and my allies had joined the other team.\u201d Ann added: \u201cI have no sponsor, no lawyer, no court order.\u00a0 I can\u2019t vindicate constitutional rights on my own.\u00a0 I was just supposed to give the speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether these were the only considerations that led a defiant Ann Coulter to reverse course as dramatically and abruptly as she did is questionable.\u00a0 For the time being, they are also beside the point.\u00a0 The points that are <\/em>worth focusing on here are three-fold.<\/p>\n

First, the left has thrust the country into a new era of political violence. That\u2019s right.\u00a0 It is on the collective shoulders of the militant, neo-communist left, and no one else, on which the burden for this violence directly rests.\u00a0 That being said, while the domestic terrorists of Black Lives Matter, the so-called \u201cantifa,\u201d and those who are physically attacking their opponents are directly <\/em>responsible for the mayhem, their ideological ilk in the Democrat Party and its network of propaganda organs\u2014the \u201cmedia\u201d and Hollywood\u2014own this as well.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi\u2014they have both fueled the flames with their reckless rhetoric and sat in silence as the anti-American terrorist wing of their party victimized innocents.<\/p>\n

They deserve and, God-permitting, will receive their comeuppance.<\/p>\n

Second, this being said, it would be unfair to blame only the Democrats and their leftist comrades for leftist terrorism.\u00a0 Republicans, too, deserve to be called out for failing to use the new found power that tens of millions of Americans delivered to them over the span of the last nearly seven years.\u00a0 They control both chambers of Congress, the Presidency, most state legislatures, and most gubernatorial offices.<\/p>\n

Yet Republicans have wholly failed to wield their influence to call the nation\u2019s attention to the many abuses that the members of their base have suffered because of their politics, to say nothing of lifting a finger to actually do anything to see to it that the outrages end.<\/p>\n

Most disappointing, most exasperating, of all has been President Trump\u2019s response\u2014or lack of response\u2014to all of this.\u00a0 In February, leftist terrorist-thugs rioted in order to prevent Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking at Berkeley, assaulting innocents and inflicting over $100,000 worth of damage to the school. In response, Trump deployed, not the National Guard, but a single tweet<\/a>.\u00a0 He suggested that unless Berkeley, a state-financed institution, protected the speech and person of the members of its community, it risked losing federal funds.<\/p>\n

Well, Berkeley has not <\/em>done any such thing.\u00a0 Yet it continues to be supported.<\/p>\n

And unless I am mistaken, the President hasn\u2019t commented again on the anti-Americanism to which Berkeley is home.<\/p>\n

From virtually the time that he entered the presidential race in June of 2015 until the present over tens of millions of Americans who support Trump have been subject to a massive media-driven demonization campaign.\u00a0 They are, after all, \u201cthe Deplorables<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 Many tens of thousands of these folks attended his rallies and endured violence courtesy of the very left-wing vermin that Berkeley now assures us promises to crash Coulter\u2019s speaking engagement.<\/p>\n

The man who promised that he would be the Law and Order<\/a> President is doing no more with respect to restoring and maintaining law and order in cities and on college campuses than did his immediate predecessor.\u00a0 He owes it to the Constitution that he swore to uphold and to the people who put him in office to use every opportunity to decry the savagery, hatred, and, yes, terrorism of the radical left.<\/p>\n

Trump should also continually call out Democrat politicians and their media apologists for fostering a climate that is ripe for the violence that their street soldiers have unleashed upon innocent civilians.\u00a0 He needs to make George Soros<\/a> and other Democrat<\/em> leftist<\/a> sponsors of this terrorism \u201cPublic Enemy Number One.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s done none of these things so far.<\/p>\n

Thirdly and, in my estimation, most importantly of all, the \u201canti-fascist,\u201d anti-American left from which Ann and her \u201cconservative\u201d sponsors<\/a> are now running were themselves run out<\/a> of their own town of Berkeley not even two full weeks ago.\u00a0 While holding a rally in support of free speech\u2014what the organizers and attendees called \u201cPatriots\u2019 Day\u201d\u2014legions of Trump supporters and others came under attack by \u201cthe black bloc\u201d (thugs in black wearing masks). Yet the patriots were ready.\u00a0 They beat the terrorists and drove them from their own neighborhood.<\/p>\n

For some reason (I will proffer my theory as to why this is at a later time), no one in official \u201cconservative-dom\u201d has devoted any coverage to what the internet now hails as \u201cthe Battle for Berkeley.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Nor has anyone, including Ann Coulter herself, mentioned that lots of men are planning on descending upon Berkeley once again to protect her. The Oath Keepers<\/a>\u2014retired law enforcement officers and military veterans; Civil Defense Action<\/a>; the Three Percenters<\/a>; Bikers for Trump<\/a>; and the Proud Boys<\/a>\u2014these are some of the groups that helped numerous other patriots, like the overnight internet sensation, \u201cthe Based Stickman<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0 rid Berkeley of \u201canti-fa\u201d terrorists on April 15.\u00a0 They have been busy recruiting supports for Ann\u2019s speech. One quite famous Youtube personality<\/a> claimed to have offered $1,000 to each person who traveled to Berkeley to greet Ann and meet head-on the terrorists.<\/p>\n

Then Ann cancelled.<\/p>\n

The good news, though, is that while Ann Coulter will not be speaking, Berkeley is still the destination for the foregoing patriots.\u00a0 Gavin McInnes<\/a> (of Proud Boys and a personal friend of Ann Coulter), 22 year-old Lauren Southern<\/a>, and 25 year-old Brittany Pettibone<\/a> are among those who will <\/em>be addressing attendees.<\/p>\n

These patriots who are able and willing to literally fight the barbarians at Berkeley\u2014and beyond\u2014deserve a public expression of gratitude from Ann Coulter.<\/p>\n

In fact, they deserve the thanks and unmitigated support of every American who loves his or her country. Their patriotism and bravery should be wall-to-wall coverage in the \u201cconservative\u201d media.<\/p>\n

What a tragic commentary that their heroic exploits have been ignored.<\/p>\n

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