Failing to marshal even the RW agitator interest needed to provoke street violence, Berkeley Patriot’s Free Speech Week speaker event may be announced as canceled tomorrow.
Having run a well-planned security cordon on 14 September for the Ben Shapiro speech supported by some of the FSW’s same funders, UC Berkeley authorities required the same compliance for the FSW event.
FSW event organizers missed multiple deadlines and failed to provide confirmation paperwork and proper deposits.
Unlike brown shirts, fascist Fyre Festivals are hard to put on.
Despite Berkeley Patriot confirming the cancellation today, a handful of speeches could still take place, but none of the prominent speakers headlining the program will be available as Bannon will be in Alabama, Coulter and Geller confirmed their withdrawal today, and Erik Prince never intended to attend.
According to new reports in Vanity Fair and Mediaite, after student organizers failed to file the proper paperwork to reserve university buildings, and after Yiannopolous apparently neglected to notify some of the scheduled speakers that the event was even happening, the affair has been reduced to a Saturday press conference in San Francisco.
“Free Speech Week” seems to have been something of a fiasco from the start.
Per Vanity Fair, Yiannopolous, a former Breitbart News editor who lost his gig and a book deal over comments that appeared to condone pedophilia, had promised to book flights and hotel rooms for the long list of speakers that included former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, conservative pundit Ann Coulter and anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller…
Mediaite cited anonymous sources who said Yiannapolous intends to announce the event’s cancelation at Saturday’s press conference.
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...the decision to definitively cancel Free Speech Week was made in secret by Yiannopoulos’s team on Thursday — presumably once Milo realized not enough balaclava-clad anti-fascists would show up to rescue him from throwing the Fyre Festival of right-wing rallies.
Don’t take the brown …. shirts