Former Breitbart editor and style diva Milo Yiannopoulos promised to shake things up in Berkeley -- and hopefully inspire Antifa & friends to confirm every comment Trump has made about them -- with four straight days of conservative thought and luminaries. Billing the event Milo Yiannopoulos's Free Speech Week in Berkeley, all the major press reported that Steve Bannon would be joining Ann Coulter in raising hell on one of America's most liberal campuses.

UC Berkeley said as late as Friday afternoon that they are prepared to spend more than $1 million for security at the events, bringing in hundreds of police officers from around the Bay Area. Other student leaders say the event is 'off'.

Uncertainty among the Berkeley Patriot student group working with Yiannopoulos over whether to proceed with the event came a day after campus police opened a hate crime investigation into the discovery Thursday of posters around campus that named students and faculty as “terrorist supporters,” and of chalk grafitti targeting immigrants, gays and feminists. The posters were distributed by an organization run by David Horowitz, one of the Berkeley Patriot’s featured speakers. The Horowitz group says its mission is to “combat efforts of the radical left and its Islamist allies to destroy American values.”

Free Speech Week is scheduled for Sproul Plaza from Sunday through Wednesday. UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ told The San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday that the law enforcement presence would exceed the number mustered for an appearance Sept. 14 by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.

Attorneys for the Berkeley Patriot said the group had filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice, claiming not only that the campus “has become downright physically dangerous this past year for conservative students,” and that the UC Berkeley administration has failed to protect the First Amendment rights of those students.

UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said the “exact opposite” is true. “Never in anyone’s recent memory has so much time, and money been spent to support the First Amendment rights of a student organization. Any reasonable person can see that.”

Gateway Pundit's Lucian Wintrich, founder of 'Twinks for Trump' has withdrawn from the event, saying:

"Currently – I am engaged in a long-running investigative report that is certain to disrupt the MSM propaganda wing and Globalist agenda that has been rampant in Washington, I have a forthcoming book covering the culture wars in America and how the Right can win, along with prep-work for a series of impending campus speeches for a set of college tours. The deadlines and work that needs to be completed on these projects are my current priority."

Charles Murray, who had been listed as a speaker, told the Chronicle of Higher Education that he would never agree to appear anywhere with Yiannopoulos "because he is a despicable asshole," reports Pacific Standard.

Related: Milo's Big Wing-Nut Shindig in Berkeley Turns Out to Be a Sham New York Magazine

The Troll Who Helped Torment Leslie Jones Off Twitter Just Landed a Massive Book Deal Vanity Fair

Reading this headline and @ Nero's quote "I thought they were going to have me escorted from the building -- but instead they offered me a wheelbarrow full of money", this chick was expecting an advance of millions. $250,000 is pretty paltry for the man -- Milo Yiannopoulos -- who says he was a 'virtuous troll' who was doing 'God's work' in fighting against the 'revolting' body-positivity and feminist movements.

Yiannopoulos, who rose to fame in GamerGate, is writing a memoir with Simon & Schuster's Threshold Editions. GamerGate often targeted feminists and girl gamers generally, telling them to get out of the male gaming culture. The writer went on a speaking tour of college campuses, railing against America's pc culture.

Don't expect an ounce of empathy from Yiannopoulos, who has bragged that "I don't have feelings to hurt."

{Quote}: "In an interview with ABC last September, Yiannopoulos expressed no regret in fomenting the attacks on Jones. He identified himself as a “virtuous troll” who was doing “God’s work” in fighting against the “revolting” body-positivity and feminist movements. Since being banned from Twitter, Yiannopoulos’s pro-Trump, alt-right platform has landed him on-air appearances and helped turn a college speaking tour titled “Dangerous Faggot” into a potentially self-parodying documentary deal. "

Forbes writes that the provocateur was the speaker most likely to be disinvited to colleges in 2016 The gay Brit received one quarter of disinvites, as he crisscrossed the country on his Dangerous Faggot Tour.

Simon & Schuster Defends Milo Yiannopoulos Book Deal Hollywood Reporter

The publisher is defending its decision to publish 'Dangerous' via its conservative imprint, which has also published books by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and President-elect Donald Trump. Simon & Schuster said on Friday that it in no way condones discrimination or hate speech, but publishing 'Dangerous' is about free speech.

The Chicago Review of Books seems to view the decision as more of a business and profit-driven one by Simon & Schuster, given that in the age of self-publishing and indy imprints, publishing a book to support free speech is easy. 'Dangerous' rose to the top of Amazon's best-seller list yesterday, strictly in pre-orders.

Calling the publisher's decision a "disgusting validation of hate", the Chicago Review of Books said that it will review no books by Simon & Schuster in 2017.

This year the Chicago Review covered 15 of the company's books from various imprints, of the more than 300 books it reviewed. Instead, The Chicago Review of Books said it will choose 15 books from independent and small publishers to cover instead.

Simon & Schuster's UK arm has announced that it will not publish 'Dangerous'.

Senior editors at the UK's top publishing houses told The Guardian that it would be "a toxic book to try and sell here."

"In the U.S. there is a massive market for right-wing writers through talk radio stations, and they also do events where they can sell 2,000 to 3,000 copies at a time," said another. "We don’t have that market here, so it makes it harder to sell."

London publishers also fear the potential for backlash similar to one that is building in the US.