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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sandy jardine says:
September 1, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Classy stuff Watts. Now why would a sane skeptic want to be seen anywhere near you?
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Why? Because he reported the news? What’s the problem with that? I count myself as sane and a skeptic. I’m here on Watts’ blog. Do you have a point to make?
Lee has been influenced much by Paul Ehrlich?
sandy jardine says:
September 1, 2010 at 3:54 pm
Graeme says:
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.
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What?
Sandy – there are plenty of people who think the same as Lee. He is just the first to act in a very public way.
This individual had become deranged to the point of violence, but his elitist, Luddite misanthropy (he calls humans “they”) mirrors that of your garden-variety, environmental extremist. He shares with them that self-hating neurosis that leads to viewing babies as “parasitic” and “filth.”
This is just a sad, sad troubled/person/case – not really worthy of inclusion here (in my humble opinion). I’m sure that statisticians could demonstrate that the troubled-individual-occurrence-frequency is reasonably cause agnostic. (and I’m sure Michael E. Mann is hard at work proving this with his non-portable fortran77 code – right Tamino?).
Mind you – I’m not going to resist pointing out (yet again) the people behind the optimum population trust seem to be particularly unenthusiastic about the human race – enthusiastic warm-mongers, though they are.
http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.aboutus.html
(They are very proactive about their sterilization program offsets).
Sorry Doc,
I was just making light of another unreasonable situation. Thank god nobody else got hurt.
Further to my previous comment;
The fact that Lee did not hurt anyone speaks volumes. I’ll bet he was counting on being seen as somewhat of a hero by the very people that filled his head with these ideas. Namely the Discovery Channel. His actions will be very well understood by many, many more people than is comfortable to imagine. Try and sit through an episode of “Whale Wars”; it glorifies violent and destructive behavior in pursuit of an agenda. Rather than call him insane, I would say he was probably a simple and easily led sort of guy. Lots more where he came from.
@ur momisugly Alan Clark, 2:57 pm:
The ‘culture of death’. Yes, I believe it to be so myself. It is strange how small events can make you see the bigger picture of things once in a while.
Try this out, not even a few hours and he has cheerleaders:
Go! Go! on Sep 1, 2:56 PM said:
I agree with him, and he has some big B*lls to do this – but why target DHC and TLC?? They are only a very small part of the problem facing the world with in the next 50 years. Our biggest problem is greed and our leaders (mainly over the last two presidental terms) ignoring the problem for profit.
http://www.businessinsider.com/james-lee#comment-4c7ea1ec7f8b9a5528070300#ixzz0yKEyAEIZ
Disgusting.
@sandy jardine: unfortunately, on this occasion, Anthony did more than just ‘report the news’. He inserted the word ‘warmist’ into a story about a dangerous lunatic. It’s too easy to cherry pick stories about the lunatic fringe of whatever you don’t like. I don’t think this is one of the most responsible posts I have seen on this site.
It’s Bush’s fault.
Maxbert says:
September 1, 2010 at 4:37 pm
This individual had become deranged to the point of violence, but his elitist, Luddite misanthropy (he calls humans “they”) mirrors that of your garden-variety, environmental extremist. He shares with them that self-hating neurosis that leads to viewing babies as “parasitic” and “filth.”
Well said. I would add that a great many more are becoming deranged to the point of violence. The odds don’t look good.
My hat is off to Sandw15. Brilliant. Hope someone from Beck’s show sees that.
Rod McLaughlin,
Cherry picking doesn’t apply here. This is news. And the evidence indicates the guy was an eco-wacko. Sorry, but it is what it is.
Experienced an “awakening”?
That would be the first time anyone watched Al Gore’s movie and didn’t experience an asleepening.
It seems like people are under the impression that this guy is the 1st leftist eco-terrorist inspired by Algore. Is everyone forgetting the Unabomber?
@ur momisugly evanmjones, 5:31 pm:
lmbo, that should be classicalized.
Dave F.: Thanks. But it was only a matter of time until somebody beat me to it.
Let me guess. The headlines tomorrow will read something like Anti-Immigrant Terrorist Takes Hostages.
Let me guess. He is a W.C. Fields fan.
False environmentalist propaganda, this is what it will reap. Only because he was a man, as for any other human being, do I feel sorry for what they made of him with their words, Gore, Ehrlich, and IPCC alarmist hawks at the top of the list. Just hope he was not a member of some group.
Napolitano says white guys, vets, bibles and guns.
Does The Rev alGore green bible count?
Thanks Mike M, but I admit that I borrowed the idea from the old “Al Gore or the Unibomber” thing that made the talk show circuit a few years ago.
Key: b,b,c,a
We have a handle.
Ecobomber
I wonder if this nut belonged to Greenpeace. The latter is the environmental wacko organization that actively promotes civil disobedience, such as the current harassment of Cairn Energy near Greenland.
In the uneven struggle between humanity and the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels, humanity needs all the help it can get.
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.
“You and me baby ain’t nothin’ but a couple of mammals
Let’s do like they do on the Discovery Channel”
Just saw it. CNN (Rick Sanchez) is basically calling him an eco-wacko. “Will kill people to save animals, making babies is evil, etc” …. in other words ticking a bunch of the boxes that describe “eco-wackjob”. He’s not pulling punches. A bit of a surprise from CNN really.
This is horrible and ugly in the extreme.
That said, condolences to the Lee’s family and sympathy for the people who had to go through this and to their families.
Does hate speech from Joe Romm and James Hansen cause this hatred?
In the course of not jumping to conclusions, he needs his blood tested for Koolaid Overdose. The bullet may have entered after he was gone.