Bill Whittle: Lena Dunham, Al Sharpton, Eric Holder and the New Barbarism

Rioting. Slander. The wanton personal destruction of people known by their accusers to be innocent. In his latest Firewall, Bill Whittle shows how events like the rioting in Ferguson do not occur in a vacuum, and how Progressives not only tolerate this lawlessness, this New Barbarism — they teach it. The video and transcript are below:

TRANSCRIPT:

THE NEW BARBARISM

Hi everybody. I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall.

In the aftermath of the acquittal of the police officer involved in the Michael Brown shooting, the town of Ferguson erupted into riots. Hardly surprising when the former Attorney General, Eric Holder – presumably fully informed of the same evidence that the Grand Jury saw before declining to press any charges against the officer – went all in and decided to literally make a Federal Case out of the incident. President Obama, prior to the decision, met with leaders of the so-called protest movement, telling them to stay the course – he too, needless to say, was fully informed about what actually happened that day on the streets of Ferguson and knew that an officer of the law was innocent. Lawlessness is nothing to these two reprehensible individuals. But power – power is everything. We’ll come back to them in a minute.

This case was manufactured from the ground up, by Holder, Obama, and other evil people, to hold political power. Stealing a television set does not undo injustice – not even a trumped-up one; walking out of a looted store is not a civil rights act. It’s lawlessness, it’s violence, it’s chaos and it’s brutality, and that’s all it is. It’s Barbarism. None of those peaceful protestors on that bridge in Selma Alabama were caught doing this:

((SURVVEILLANCE VIDEO))

shoving a small, innocent shopkeeper for having the impertinence to challenge Michael Brown’s casual barbarism, his theft of cigars; his wanton lawlessness. This isn’t Civil Rights. This is strong arm robbery.

And Michael Brown wasn’t shot for being black. He was shot because he attacked a police officer investigating that crime, tried to take his gun, and then charged him, head down, after being warned.

But the Barbarism and Lawlessness we saw on the streets of Ferguson, and all around the country, do not exist in a vacuum. They are not only tolerated by the by the left-wing leaders of the Democratic Party and the media-entertainment complex… they are encouraged by them.

Let’s start with Al Sharpton, one of the most vocal of those calling this a civil rights issue. Sharpton rose to national fame for his defense of Tawana Brawley, a 15 year old black woman who in 1987 accused law enforcement officials of raping her and stuffing her in a trash bag covered with racial slurs. Serial Rapist Bill Cosby helped raise money for her legal defense. Despite numerous inconsistencies, Al Sharpton made this an indictment of white America and law enforcements targeting of blacks.

Which would, indeed, be horrible. If it were… you know… actually true. But it wasn’t true. Brawley made up the story to avoid a beating from her mother. Despite the fact that she named and slandered an innocent man, Assistant DA Steven Pagones (who eventually was awarded $345,000 for defamation), in 1991Legal scholar Patricia j. Williams wrote that Brawley “has been the victim of some unspeakable crime. No matter how she got there. No matter who did it to her—and even if she did it to herself.”

We clear on that? Doctor of Jurisprudence from Harvard Law School and current law professor at Columbia University, said that Tawana Brawley – who slandered an innocent man with the most vile charges imaginable to avoid a beating from her own mother – was not the perpetrator of an unspeakable crime, but the victim of one.

These are the new barbarians. Truth doesn’t matter. Law doesn’t matter. Individual lives do not matter. All that matters is Progressive politics, Progressive intimidation and Progressive power.

Just a few days ago, Brietbart reporter John Nolte traveled to Oberlin college to look into widely-read rape allegations on the part of Progressive darling Lena Dunham. Dunham, you may remember, was called on by Barack Obama personally to help get out the youth vote. Truth Revolt’s own Ben Shapiro published a withering critique of what is nothing but infant sexual molestation which Dunham brags about in her best-seller, “Not That Kind of Girl” – allegations utterly unremarked upon by Dunham’s admirers on the Left.

Nolte went to her Alma Mater, Oberlin College — which I can tell you from personal experience is where reason and logic go to die – to investigate Dunham’s claim that she was raped by a prominent Republican, the “campus’ resident Conservative,” a mustachioed man named “Barry” who wore purple cowboy boots, had a Barry White low voice, and hosted a radio show called Real Talk With Jimbo.

A search of school records showed only one person named Barry who was self-described as a Republican. He never wore a moustache, he never wore purple cowboy boots, he spoke in a normal voice, he was not the host of a talk show, he has never met Lena Dunham, but, like Steve Pagones, he feels he has been slandered in the most vicious way by a barbaric, cruel, deeply disturbed attention junkie.

How did Dunham, and Brawley, and millions of other New Barbarians get this way? They were taught, that’s how. While trying to find the identity of this famed mustachioed, purple-boot wearing, Conservative Republican Racist named Barry, John Nolte spoke with Sophie Hess, manager of the on-campus radio station, about searching the records for Real Talk with Jimbo.

When he explained that he was only searching for the truth, this college administrator suddenly turned cold and said, “Asking whether or not a victim is telling the truth is irrelevant. It’s just not important if they are telling the truth.” When Nolte explained he was simply trying to clear the name of an innocent man, this Progressive Barbarian retracted her offer to search the archives and asked him to leave.

George Santayana wrote, “In every generation we face a barbarian threat in our own children.” Not a threat TO our children. A threat FROM our children.

From the rioters on the street stealing car rims under the Progressively-sanctioned cover of so-called social justice; to inhuman attention-junkies who are perfectly happy to ruin the lives of people they perceive as political enemies, knowing full well they are innocent; through Leftist college professors who teach them that the truth and the law do not matter so long as the Progressive goals of identity politics are advanced; and right on up to the President and Attorney General, who use IRS intimidation of political enemies and simply dictate laws they cannot get passed – Progressivism is a philosophy of lawlessness, disregard for truth, contempt for individual lives and individual freedom. It is utter, total barbarism.

  • rmbork

    This is beautifully written. Some of your lines caused me to react as I do to fine poetry. And so I am stirred. And so I will send it on. My friend will say, “Yes, I know.” And she will add, “What can we do?” And she is right because after all we did what we could last election. And here we still are. This lethargy is what I find most disturbing. It’s as if we’re all on a hijinked plane, and we’re all riding it out, waiting for the plane to run out of gasoline when we hope we will land safely and be saved by a SWAT team. We may fall from the sky before that or end in some other disastrous way, but we’re all just sitting in our seats as ordered.

    • Lightbringer

      It’s not so much lethargy as it is exhaustion. The left is killing us — our country — with a thousand cuts. Little ones, but ultimately fatal.

  • cree

    Sure seems like a setup for the next crisis to take more advantage and not let go to waste. The crisis being an actual insurgency by brainwashed minorities egged on by race grievance hustlers and certain leaders claiming injustice to “stay the course.” We have the evidence. Expect totalitarian power.

  • Cappy1437

    If Obama had a son he would be a low-life, low I.Q, lazy, Muslim grifter like his dad expecting a handout from the American people so he could go hang out on a golf course, strutting around with a wad of gum in his mouth. Gross visualization of what Americans are experiencing now.

  • namberak

    ‘Progressivism is a philosophy of lawlessness, disregard for truth, contempt for individual lives and individual freedom. It is utter, total barbarism.’ Don’t sugar coat it Bill, tell us what you really think! All kidding aside, very well put sir!

  • Dan Knight

    Good job, Bill. Unfortunately, Regressives dominate our institutions top to bottom. They have subjected the entire nation to a blacklist: Locking out anyone who might hold a naive or innocent love for truth, nation, community, or simply common decency. What’s really galls me is their sanctimonious self-righteousness. One on one, they are blind to their own bigotry even as they’re spewing their disordered view of the world, and contaminating the air we breath with Big Lies. It’s really frustrating …

    • Jane Wegener

      I agree! Progressives are if the truth be known are really REGRESSIVES. This is true of most Ivy League Universities really almost ALL Universities. This as the Media follows their lead in all matters. Obamas amnesty to 5 million (now 20 million) will complete his very successful transformation of America. As I keep hoping for people to SEE and HEAR what is happening as its becoming more and more clear that there will be no going back. It is with great sadness that I am watching the destruction of what once was the last best place on earth. AND words cannot express the rage I feel that there is no accountability for the corruption and lies told to the American people. Congress has ceded their authority.

      • Dan Knight

        Yep … you’re right Jane. But: In the end, good wins.

        Merry Christmas!

  • 95Theses

    Good report, as usual … but just one question, Bill: I realize that FPM must find ways to pay its bills, but can you not allow me to view a feature piece without having to deal with Time-Warner / MacKeeper advertisements that will not leave me any another other choice but to click “Yes!”?

    If an advertisement interests me, fine, but at least give me the opportunity to opt out. Sheesh!

    Here’s another thing: in the past I have TRIED to donate money to FPM via your email solicitations, but when I sent the check it was never cashed! A few months later I emailed FPM to find out what was up with that and my email was ignored! Nor was the check ever deposited.

    FPM does a lot of good (and I’m willing to contribute) but your response team is deplorable!

  • DontMessWithAmerica

    It is high time for the silent majority to stop the silence and take up arms. It is time for the second American Revolution. It is time to take back the country.

  • Capt Bob

    I agree with Dan Good job Bill. As long as we have people like Sharpton padding his pockets we will never have full piece between the racies. It is a shame that both the white and black’s of our Country do not see this.

  • Bob Sten
  • Maynard

    A great video Bill, White Americans seem to have their heads buried in the sand and accept anything thrown them by the media and the black agitators. They don’t seem to have the basic understanding of mathetics. They accept it when they are called Racist yet, there are 5 times as many white voters as black so if the whites are racists how did a black man get into the White House? They let a few black rioters in Missouri get away with rioting and looting regardless of the courts decision which was based on numerous eye witness accounts by blacks. Anyone with half a brain can see that if Officer Wilson had not shot that thug he would now be pushing up daisies. It was kill or be killer, plain and simple.

  • j Ray

    I’m a conservative who finds no “truth” in Truth Revolt. They censor posts by making them disappear within minutes. There is not freedom of speech at Truth Revolt, because “truth” has a point of view there.

    • RMThoughts

      Neoconservative thought, has been credited with giving the Neocons the proposition that “not all lies are self-evident”. Strauss believed that the essential truths about human society and history should be held by an elite, and withheld from others who lack the fortitude to deal with truth. Society, Strauss thought, needs consoling lies.

      The philosophy of Strauss and his neoconservatives is a philosophy that exalts lies, and demonizes truth, cannot possibly endure. For Straussian Zionists neocons, truth-telling is an abomination. The founder of neoconservatism, Leo Strauss, taught that truth is too dangerous to be shared with the masses.

      For the Neocon, truth is nothing but the Big Lie for the poor masses.

  • alanaforsyth

    Hang on, Bill. You say “acquittal” but there was no trial. Now, why’d you do that? You immediately turned me off. But you know what I’m going to do? Because I think you are basically okay, I’m going to read the rest of the transcript, but I warn you, if you screw up again with the facts, I’m going to mock you something fierce.

    • rukiddinsport

      Hey minus iqx9: After reviewing all of the facts, the grand jury found insufficient evidence to return a “true bill” i.e., an indictment. That means: insufficient to say this person committed a crime. WHAT … you want to rewrite the Constitutional Guarantees of Grand Juries??

  • Carabec

    The Barbarians have opened The Gate! will we be able to close it?

    • RMThoughts

      Have you ever tried to put toothpaste back in a tube?

  • Jane Wegener

    This is Obamas America consider yourselves transformed. Like it or not the stupid voters won by electing him TWICE!!

  • Chris Renegar

    Can we just have another war and get these people out of our country?

    • RMThoughts

      be careful what you wish for, they are half the country and control academia and most government bureaucracies and much of the military. The wrong side might end up gone.

  • RMThoughts

    The New Barbarians, created a regime of death and destruction in Libya; Death of two hundred thousand people in Syria with the destruction of a stable country that protected its Christian minority in Syria; funds Jihadist “rebels’ in the Middle East”, funded the overthrow of an elected government in Ukraine and supports the ethnic cleanse if its East and the routine shelling of civilians, and the list can go on.

  • SelfSufficientOne

    True, progressivism is regressive but only to facilitate their desires. Understand that the goal of progressives is to maintain the status quo, that is it. That is why it is regressive, hold everybody else back and keep them in-fighting so the status quo is maintained. It is truly that simple, the violence is small and controllable, individuals and individual groups are kept spinning their wheels over non-essential, foolish situations that are truly meaningless. Look at Ferguson, the spat over the NYPD and the struggle over amnesty. All are meant to keep us fighting amongst ourselves. And in doing so, we get nowhere.

  • OBAMA STOLE SS#042-68-4425

    Why don’t you ask Al Sharpton
    why these 7 dead people at his beckoning cannot breath?

    Nineteen years ago, December
    8, 1995, Al Sharpton incited the violent firebombing of Freddy’s Fashion
    Mart in Harlem, causing the the deaths of Angelina Marrero . . . Cynthia
    Martinez . . . Luz Ramos . . . Mayra Rentas . . . Olga Garcia . . . Garnette
    Ramautar . . . Kareem Brunner…. names forever linked together as the seven victims of the Sharpton-caused massacre at Freddy’s
    Fashion Mart.

    It all started as a rent dispute in the summer of 1995… As he has
    done so often in his life, Al Sharpton turned this non-racial economic dispute
    into a racial conflict. …

    Soon after the massacre, the Jewish Action Alliance, a New York-based
    civil-rights group, released audiotapes
    and transcripts of several of Sharpton’s weekly radio show in which Morris
    Powell, leader of the 125th Street Vendor’s Association, can be heard using
    racial and anti-Semitic language to encourage Harlem residents to boycott
    Freddy’s. Learning from his Crown
    Heights experience
    Sharpton let others push the anti-Semitic hatred but it was all done on his
    show.….

    In court papers filed the day before the fire, Harari and two employees
    described weeks of protests outside the clothing store. Sharpton’s National
    Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy’s were spat on
    and cursed as “traitors” and “Uncle Toms.” Some protesters shouted, “Burn down
    the Jew store!” and simulate striking a match. “We’re going to see that this
    cracker suffers,” says Sharpton’s colleague Morris Powell.

  • lyingmedia

    Leftism.. where logic and reason go to die…

  • Stick

    Progressivism is a religious belief system. It posits an unending supply of heavenly goods will fall to earth if the practitioner is suitably submissive to its priests. Its the Big Government Cargo Cult and its priests are sent to earth from the Ivy Leagues to walk among the deformed.

    • Dan Knight

      Stick, I love the Cargo Cult reference … LOL

      Instead of building bamboo B-29s and praying for American bomber crews to drop liquor and chocolate, the Leftist faculty of the academy design agit-prop memes and tropes to instill guilt and incite hate. Then, they cash the grant checks and go to the faculty parties …

  • TJ Andersen

    We need to form a roup to instantly react and fight every atack, every slur, every lie. We need to have anyone who bears false witness against someone to be prosecuted to the full extent.

  • TJ Andersen

    Heres the next crisis. The Lennon Lacy ruled suicide:

    I have read from ten different sources about the events surrounding the suicide of Lennon Lacy. I say suicide, because it appears that the family and lawyers have changed their story about that night numerous times. In one account the father says Lacy stepped out after midnight…in another account the mother says he left for a walk at 10:30 pm. In one account The father says he got up for a glass of water and saw Lacy finishing up washing his football uniform who told him he was going to bed. In another account the mother said Lacy went out to jog after midnight. In one account the mother while apparently trying to mitigate Lacy suffering from grief, stated that Lacy was only suffering “normal” grief after the death of his beloved uncle. Oh really, whats normal grief for a seventeen year old that loses a figure of that stature in his life? Moreover, I contend that Lacy wasn’t even suffering grief yet, he was still in shock because his uncle had just died and Lacy went to funeral that night before he went out. I believe the family is on their 2nd lawyer or set of lawyers, so they are lawyering up. Now they are presenting stories meant to inflame and not based on any facts. Now this is becoming a racial circus a la Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner. If there was any foul play I can and will sympathize with the family, but since they are using this racial tension template with no facts I have to be suspect. There are a few inconsistencies in this case but most Ive read come from the differeing accounts by the family. I need to know more about the beloved uncle which apaprently is being downplayed. I need to no exact times and reason Lacy left in the middle of the night. Whu didn’t his mother help him wash his football stuff for his big first game?

    The specter of lynching that the family is using and the spewing of race hatred is ugly indeed. When was the last lynching in the U.S? However, the “community” has recently used threats of lynching against Zimmerman and Wilson and demanding deaths of police. I have to ask if there are indeed any facts for concern since this ugly racial template is being used again and again and again. It has been aparent that the community has not been after justice in these former cases but only after some sort of misplaced revenge. Misplaced by 50-70yrs?

  • Lightbringer

    Yes, they are. There is effectively no opposition party; our country is being ruled by the self-appointed elites and their nasty little pet bureaucrats.

  • CKAinRedStateUSA

    Mr. Whittle, you summed up Democrat-liberal-leftist-ism very well.

    Barbarous? Indeed. That and morally and intellectually bankrupt and cowardly.