Ann Coulter needs to stop attacking the Young America’s Foundation

This is wrong. YAF didn’t acquiesce. It sued the university. In essence, she’s condemning YAF for making exactly the same choice that she did – to not walk, unarmed, onto campus and confront a violent mob when the campus and city police had repeatedly proven that they were unwilling to protect innocent citizens from terrifying beatings.

YAF staffers and students are not cowards. Far from it. They’re among the bravest and best conservative ideological warriors on campus, but to ask them to face bike locks, baseball bats, and tear gas without the means to defend themselves and without the support of a police department that stands down more than it stands up is a bridge too far. The law still offers a solution to the crisis at Berkeley, and it is to the law that YAF has rightly turned.

The conservative movement (including conservatives in Congress and the White House) have barely begun to fight for free speech. We do not need to ask young students to bleed on the quad for their fundamental freedoms – not while a functioning government exists. If anyone needs to “man up” it’s the judges and legislators who’ve failed thus far in their duty to protect the First Amendment.