"The bitch is back," reports Breitbart about the return to the spotlight of controversial libertarian and former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos.
Milo posted an announcement on Facebook which reads, in full (with some editorial commentary interspersed):
In light of recent controversies, I am planning a huge multi-day event called MILO'S FREE SPEECH WEEK in Berkeley later this year. We will hold talks and rallies and throw massive parties, all in the name of free expression and the First Amendment. All will be welcome, regardless of political affiliation.
Free speech has never been more under threat in America -- especially at the supposed home of the free speech movement. I will bring activists, writers, artists, politicians, YouTubers, veterans and drag queens from across the ideological spectrum to lecture, march, and party.
MILO'S FREE SPEECH WEEK will include events on the UC Berkeley campus. We will stand united against the "progressive" Left. We will loudly reject the venomous hectoring and moral hypocrisy of social justice warriors. Free speech belongs to everyone -- not just the spoilt brats of the academy.
Well, the college snowflakes (students and faculty alike) and the fascist Antifa won't stand for that. Count on violent opposition showing up. You may recall that following the riots at Berkeley during Milo's previous attempted speaking engagement, an organizer for the radical group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) declared that the riots were “stunningly successful” and warned that BAMN would respond again should Milo come back.
During MILO'S FREE SPEECH WEEK, we will give out a new free speech prize -- the Mario Savio Award -- to the person we believe has done most to protect free expression at UC Berkeley and its surrounding area. Each day will be dedicated to a different enemy of free speech, including feminism, Black Lives Matter and Islam.
So Milo will be targeting "oppressed" women, blacks, and Muslims -- the Holy Trinity of Progressive Protected Victim Classes. That sound you just heard was the collective explosion of leftist heads all across UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay Area generally speaking.
If UC Berkeley does not actively assist us in the planning and execution of this event --
-- and you know it won't --
-- we will extend festivities to an entire month. We will establish a tent city on Sproul Plaza protesting the university's total dereliction of its duty and encourage students at other universities to follow suit.
I intend to return Berkeley to its rightful place as the home of free speech -- whether university administrators and violent far-left antifa thugs like it or not.
- MILO
P.S., I will be releasing further details of my grand comeback tour in the coming few weeks, including information about a special CINCO DE MILO event on 5/5.
Interesting times ahead.
