Excerpt: OTTAWA -- A protest by
hundreds of students led organizers to cancel a Tuesday night speech
by American conservative commentator Ann Coulter at the University
of Ottawa.: Click Here
djms: I am
going to step out on a limb here and tell it, as I see
it.
Ann Coulter has said to us conservatives, "You must
outrage the enemy. If you don’t leave liberals in a sputtering
impotent rage, you’re not doing it right."
Ann could not be more wrong or more unbiblical. I am
about as far a right wing Conservative as one can get, and my goal
is NOT to purposely enrage the liberals. I am called by God to do
good. If that "good" is perceived by some as "evil," as scripture
says it will be, and some liberals get upset with me (or
enraged), then that is their doing. But, no matter what, Psalm
37 tells me how to be in dealing with those who do evil. And
purposely trying to tick them off, to leave them in a "sputtering
impotent rage," is not what I'm called to do. This is said by
someone (me) who does not sugar-coat the truth, no matter who will
be offended by it. I see a difference and hope that you do, as well.
Some may think that I have a personal beef with Ann Coulter.
To that I say the following: Before I had ever heard Ann Coulter
speak a word, I had great feelings towards her, as I had been told
great things about her that I had believed. It was not until the
first time that I heard words come out of Ann Coulter's mouth on the
Jay Leno show, that my opinion of her changed. And with
each time that she opened that mouth of hers and said some
needlessly outrageous thing, she only furthered how I had come to
feel towards her. I am not one to kiss up to someone, just because
they are famous and call them self a "conservative." --I
have actually, since then defended her, when she was in the right,
with the Elizabeth Edwards situation. I am very honest and can even
be honest about those who I am not thrilled with.
With that said:
I think that
we have enough troubles in our own country, without Ann Coulter
trying to challenge Canadian laws.
The fact is that Canada
has laws that can get Ann Coulter put into jail for saying things
that are still legal to say in the United States. She is lucky that
she didn't speak and end up in a Canadian jail for the weekend.
Honestly, would she go over to the middle east and pull this! Let's
fix The U.S.A. --Canada is far gone and none of our business!
Talk about a waste of time! This is the woman that believes
Obama's citizenship is is a waste of time!
It is
more important to use our efforts to keep her and all of us free to
speak our minds in America, than trying to change Canada. Ann
Coulter could have proven her point without fighting another
country's laws, by simply turning down the invitation on the grounds
that she would never be allowed to fully speak her mind on the
issues that we are faced with today.
Ann Coulter would have
done much better, had she refused to accept the invitation to speak
at the Canadian university, to begin with. She should have refused
on the grounds of the lack of free speech in Canada. She would have
made a much better stand and not been seen as an American
trouble-maker, but rather one who is in control of her own person.
--It is not as if she did not know of their inhumane laws. And she
is not a citizen of Canada, therefore it is not her business to try
to change Canada.
I live an hour from Canada and used to go
there, often. We have not been in Canada since Canada began its
persecution of Christians and others who speak up for conservatism.
There's a mature way to go about things and an immature, attention
seeking way. Ann Coulter makes money off of immature attention
seeking behavior that unfortunately all conservatives pay a price
for.
Had she declined the invitation, then it would have been
up to the Canadian university to assure her that her speech would
not be restricted, which simply would not have happened. Then, if
her point was to prove where America is heading, she could have done
so, without once again needlessly making American Conservatives look
like trouble-makers. I can only suspect that she is either writing
another book or still trying to get rid of her old ones and needs
the publicity to pump up again.
Honestly, I wish
that Ann Coulter would sit down and shut up!
Debra
J.M. Smith - 03-25-10
www.InformingChristians.com
"If
the truth hurts, let it hurt on its own accord; rather than trying
to hurt with the deliverance of
it."
Debra... -- Click Here
