Note: There’s a response and analysis to this post here.
NOTE: Predictably, Joe Romm has turned this post into a personal bashing of me over at his Climate Progress blog. For some eye opening viewpoints from his side of the argument, have a look at the 495 comments on his parent blog “Think Progress” here. UPDATE: many of those ugly and violent comments at TP have been “sanitized” since I drew embarrassing attention to them. The word “filthy” in my post below, is pointing to the multiple use of the word to describe humans in the manifesto of the gunman, also published below. I realize that may upset some people, and for that I apologize. However, it is instructive to read the manifesto to see how global warming hype drove this man to do what he did. From this MSNBC story:
Lee said he experienced an ‘‘awakening” when he watched former Vice President Al Gore’s environmental documentary ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth.”
UPDATE: It’s over, from MSNBC:
Police shot a gunman who held three hostages for several hours Wednesday at the Discovery Communications building in Silver Spring, Md., authorities said. They said the hostages were safe and the gunman was in custody. Police said the gunman’s condition was unknown. At least one explosive device went off when he was shot, and other explosive devices could still be in the building in Montgomery County in suburban Washington, D.C., they said.
UPDATE2: MSNBC is now reporting the gunman has been killed.
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Well, you filthy readers, see what happens when we don’t acquiesce? In case you haven’t heard by now, a gunman named James Lee, an Asian man with a years-long vendetta against the Discovery Channel cable network has entered the building and got an armed hostage taking situation going on right now.
Some news coverage here:
Armed Man Believed to Be Environmental Protester Takes Hostages in Discovery Channel Building
Among his demands from the manifesto on his website:
Find solutions so that people stop breeding as well as stopping using Oil in order to REVERSE Global warming and the destruction of the planet!
MSNBC reports:
Lee said he experienced an ‘‘awakening” when he watched former Vice President Al Gore’s environmental documentary ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth.”
Perhaps inspired by Gore, and Dr. James Hansen’s recent call for civil disobedience, we have today’s environmental public relations train wreck turned armed hostage situation.
THE MANIFESTO OF JAMES LEE:
(downloaded before traffic took it down):PDF here at TMZ
The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY:
1. The Discovery Channel and it’s affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn’s “My Ishmael” pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other’s inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!
2. All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs’ places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.
3. All programs promoting War and the technology behind those must cease. There is no sense in advertising weapons of mass-destruction anymore. Instead, talk about ways to disassemble civilization and concentrate the message in finding SOLUTIONS to solving global military mechanized conflict. Again, solutions solutions instead of just repeating the same old wars with newer weapons. Also, keep out the fraudulent peace movements. They are liars and fakes and had no real intention of ending the wars. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! On one hand, they claim they want the wars to end, on the other, they are demanding the human population increase. World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!
4. Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the pollution in the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! This is your obligation. If you think it isn’t, then get hell off the planet! Breathe Oil! It is the moral obligation of everyone living otherwise what good are they??
5. Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently. Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies. FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH! (The first world is feeding the population growth of the Third World and those human families are going to where the food is! They must stop procreating new humans looking for nonexistant jobs!)
6. Find solutions for Global Warming, Automotive pollution, International Trade, factory pollution, and the whole blasted human economy. Find ways so that people don’t build more housing pollution which destroys the environment to make way for more human filth! Find solutions so that people stop breeding as well as stopping using Oil in order to REVERSE Global warming and the destruction of the planet!
7. Develop shows that mention the Malthusian sciences about how food production leads to the overpopulation of the Human race. Talk about Evolution. Talk about Malthus and Darwin until it sinks into the stupid people’s brains until they get it!!
8. Saving the Planet means saving what’s left of the non-human Wildlife by decreasing the Human population. That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies! You’re the media, you can reach enough people. It’s your resposibility because you reach so many minds!!!
9. Develop shows that will correct and dismantle the dangerous US world economy. Find solutions for their disasterous Ponzi-Casino economy before they take the world to another nuclear war.
10. Stop all shows glorifying human birthing on all your channels and on TLC. Stop Future Weapons shows or replace the dialogue condemning the people behind these developments so that the shows become exposes rather than advertisements of Arms sales and development!
11. You’re also going to find solutions for unemployment and housing. All these unemployed people makes me think the US is headed toward more war.
Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what’s left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture.
For every human born, ACRES of wildlife forests must be turned into farmland in order to feed that new addition over the course of 60 to 100 YEARS of that new human’s lifespan! THIS IS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FOREST CREATURES!!!! All human procreation and farming must cease!
It is the responsiblity of everyone to preserve the planet they live on by not breeding any more children who will continue their filthy practices. Children represent FUTURE catastrophic pollution whereas their parents are current pollution. NO MORE BABIES! Population growth is a real crisis. Even one child born in the US will use 30 to a thousand times more resources than a Third World child. It’s like a couple are having 30 babies even though it’s just one! If the US goes in this direction maybe other countries will too!
Also, war must be halted. Not because it’s morally wrong, but because of the catastrophic environmental damage modern weapons cause to other creatures. FIND SOLUTIONS JUST LIKE THE BOOK SAYS! Humans are supposed to be inventive. INVENT, DAMN YOU!!
The world needs TV shows that DEVELOP solutions to the problems that humans are causing, not stupify the people into destroying the world. Not encouraging them to breed more environmentally harmful humans.
Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.
The humans? The planet does not need humans.
You MUST KNOW the human population is behind all the pollution and problems in the world, and YET you encourage the exact opposite instead of discouraging human growth and procreation. Surely you MUST ALREADY KNOW this!
I want Discovery Communications to broadcast on their channels to the world their new program lineup and I want proof they are doing so. I want the new shows started by asking the public for inventive solution ideas to save the planet and the remaining wildlife on it.
These are the demands and sayings of Lee.
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h/t to the Seattle Weekly blogs and WUWT DocattheAutopsy
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The BBC has this story on its website http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11159256
They mention a protest James Lee held outside the Discovery channel in 2008 when he threw thousands of dollars into the air. The only mention they give to his motives are for the 2008 protest were they say:
For once the BBC has a story where they can mention global warming/climate change but fail to do so.
Was he one of Obama’s Tzars?
Greg Cavanagh says:
September 1, 2010 at 2:46 pm
There have been too many “call-to-action” comments by warmists in the media, having no rational arguments within them. This is the result. The irationality involved with this guy is mind boggeling. Yet it is what the warmists have been calling for for years. This is a truely disturbing developement, I hope the warmists can recognise their own words in this mans actions.
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Unfortunately not as shown by Evil Red Scandi comment:
Purported Eco-Terrorist Angered Over ‘Immigration Pollution And Anchor Baby Filth’ .
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/01/discovery-terrorist-immigration/
The right-wing conservatives are being blamed already.
Reducing carbon footprint should start with those who advocate it.
He says to humans: the planet does not need you, which is a true statement because “the planet” doesn’t “need” anything, but says: you humans must save the planet and thereby, in HIS mind completely misses? ignores? his previous conclusion of the planet not needing humans. “Humans are the cause of all ills, you humans have to get rid of all them humans!” I find it fascinating that the human mind can separate itself from it’s own humanness.
What surprises me most, is that so far this is the only freak deranged enough to go postal. I have seen first hand just how enraged the eco-deists are becoming due to not having their way. Most truly believed that their time had come with the election of Obama. The feeling of having to act up now to save the planet is growing… As is the case with this sort of thing, copy-cats will likely follow. As the fellow appears to be dead, they now have a “martyr” for the cause. As I have said before; we are entering a very dark age.
Just imagine what might happen should the Jihadists hook up with the eco-loonies.
Jabba the Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” the new “Catcher in The Rye” for serial eco-terrorists. #1 on Homeland Security’s watch list and The Goricle just couldn’t be happier.
One a side note, is there a civil suit if one individual perpetuated a lie causing panic of this order?
Lee seemed to not care too much for people. Froggies are okay, though.
Freaky stuff.
John
There is really no difference, except in degree, between this Lee character and any number of “Earth First” types who go around blowing up SUV’s, and monkey wrenching logging equipment. All they need is the right motivation to graduate from property destruction to murder, and Mr. Lee just handed it to them. You can bet that all the other Eco-nuts will very shortly make a martyr of him and begin to emulate him.
Soup’s on, bring your own spoon.
I have never visited ThinkProgress before. I took a gander at the comments just for fun. WOW! I never would have believed it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. By some convoluted strain of logic they have pegged this nut case as a conservative!! I didn’t see anything that suggested this guy was a closet denier (although one comment hinted he may be one of their trolls). So most of his demands seemed reasonable until he mentioned immigration filth and anchor baby filth? Amazing!
Well, I’ve done my slumming for the day. Anyone know if mention has been made on RC?
Just in case, I have downloaded the “manifesto” for future reference, should it fall down the memory hole. Watch for the spin that will surely follow. “Deranged Tea Partier/Anti-immigration maniac takes good earthy Discovery Channel hostage. Whitewash at eleven.”
At first I thought this was put up by someone capitalizing on the situation, but way too much content for something done in a dew hours.
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=137885742&blogId=205591823
James Lee “am going over the Daniel Quinn books over and over. I refuse to read anything that is not directly related to the overpopulation problem and global warming. I am searching history for clues that could save the planet.”
Also interesting when you look at his main profile under Children He puts “I don’t want any kids”
Subtle.
It seems to me that one who believes such things would come to hate his own existence and thereby go insane. Luckily, there is an outlet for people like that to vent their frustrations called “Whale Wars”. Instead of this self-defeating stunt, Lee could have joined the Sea Shepherds, tossed butyric acid at whaling vessels, been a hero for his sea friends, and reached the masses of cable viewers (well, those who watch Animal Planet).
Mr. Lee would have found lots of kindred spirits among the commenters at Dot Earth.
What an amazing manifesto.
Lucky the guy didn’t have access to a bio warfare agent that sterilises or kills people – “Children of Men”, “12 Monkeys” etc…
Having known people and businesses that that have been harmed by eco-terrorists,
and I also have police in my family, including a member of a special weapons team,two things: One, good shooting, saves the state money. Two, is he really any different than
Hansen and his support of eliminating modern civilization?
Aww GM just lost a potential friend.
I haven’t given much time to this story and won’t, but the gist is “Discovery Channel wasn’t doing enough AGW advocacy ?”
Ha.
I laugh.
“…filthy human children…parasitic human infants…”
Does anyone have any doubts anymore? Environmentalism is the evil of this century, the same way as Socialism was of the last.
This bothers me as well. I remember when there was only one “Discovery Channel” and it was filled with interesting shows about science and discoveries. Now it seems that if you are able to find a science related show on one of the multitude of “Discovery Channels”, it always gets preachy about global warming or the evils that men do to the environment.
This is big media. They get the word out. If you say something enough times, people start to believe it. And then you have global warming, né “climate change” hysteria.
This guy was a sad, unfortunate, and hopefully isolated case. But he is a glaring example of what can happen when the propaganda really takes hold.
Climate rage.
It was only a matter of time until the first case of “climate rage” was recorded. Predictably, the perp was an deranged, eco-terrorist.
Is the fat lady inhaling for her song? What a year for the warmistas.
Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.
Blessed are the Squirrels???
Unfortunately for every one that picks up guns and explosives and acts, there are another 100 who believe the same and just don’t have the will to act.
@dbleader61, I posted a comment that Lee was from Burnaby BC, which is where his web site was registered at. My error, as it now seems that he was from Hawaii then San Diego.
Regardless, this is serious stuff. The lunatic fringe is getting worked up and I think any high profile climate realist must be careful. While it is easy to make fun of this guy and his demise, there are likely many more like him, or worse, out there. Please be alert to your surroundings and take precautions.
Classy stuff Watts. Now why would a sane skeptic want to be seen anywhere near you?
The key thing to remember about “Think Progress” is that, in true Orwellian fashion, it is a place where you will find absolutely no evidence of anything remotely resembling what either of those words stands for.