An Inconvenient Hostage-Taker

Police: Man holds hostages in Discovery building

Another angry Tea Partier run amuck?  Not exactly:

SILVER SPRING, Md. – A man upset with the Discovery Channel's environmental programming took several people hostage at the company's headquarters Wednesday, officials said.

Police were negotiating with the gunman, who burst into the suburban Washington building about 1 p.m. wearing what seemed to be metallic canisters strapped to his front and back and waving a handgun.

...

A law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing said authorities have identified James J. Lee as the likely suspect. Police believe he has a handgun but have not confirmed that he has explosives, the official said.

A different official, who spoke on condition of anonymity for the same reason, said Lee previously protested outside the building.

According to a story in The Gazette, which covers Montgomery County, Lee was arrested there in 2008 after throwing thousands of dollars in the air outside the building.

Lee said he planned the protest because Discovery's programming had little to do with saving the planet.

...At the trial, he said he began working to save the planet after being laid off from his job in San Diego. He said he was inspired by "Ishmael," a novel by environmentalist Daniel Quinn and by former Vice President Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."

He presented demands online.  I like this:

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.

Of course, the squirrels.  Although my impression is that the squirrels can fend for themselves pretty well.

And lefties can rally to his immigrant-bashing:

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!)

Sometimes a nutjob is just a nutjob.  [Or at least, Atrios thinks so when the nutter is coming from the left.  H/t HotAir, which has lots.]  But nothing from Dave Weigel linking Lee to Sarah Palin or Orly Taitz?  The day is young.

Comments

[Buford Gooch]

Just another irate "Teabagger". Nothing to see here. Move along.

[hit and run]

They must stop procreating new humans

You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals,so let's do it like the do on the Discovery Channel...

[Dave (in MA)]

Lions and Tigers and Giraffes and Elephants and Froggies and Turtles and Apes and Raccoons and Beetles and Ants and Sharks and Bears and of course the Squirrels, oh my.

[Bill]

A Gore-dragging nut-bagger!

[squaredance]

He seems to have left out the whales and the fishes.

Well, call me fish-meal: He seems to have left out the whales and the fishes.

[Danube of Thought]

We always knew Gore's hallucinations would lead to violence.

[Danube of Thought]

He left out the doggies. I dare not point this out to Fredo.

[matt]

I wonder if the whole Bjorn Lomberg thing has this guy agitated.

[bgates, For Unicellular Care and Knowledge, founder]

The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles....

I deplore this blatant multicellularism. There's more to life than that. For too long, the environmentalist community has ignored the algae, yeast, and amoebae who contribute such rich diversity to our world. This senseless attack shows the tragic end result of such narrow-mindedness. I hope it spurs the community to rally to advance the interests of a much broader range of beings.

[Rob Crawford]

Sometimes a nutjob is just a nutjob.

Yes, but this guy is definitely animated by environmentalist twaddle. He's no less a zealot for being a Green.

The constant drumbeat of lies about "we're DOOOMMMMEEEDDD!!!!" from the Usual Suspects set this guy off.

[Rob Crawford]

I deplore this blatant multicellularism. There's more to life than that. For too long, the environmentalist community has ignored the algae, yeast, and amoebae who contribute such rich diversity to our world.

Bigot! Who speaks for the virii? Hmmm?! And the prions?!

Cells are just The Man's way of keeping genes under their control!

[Threadkiller]

Wild vs Man.

[bgates, Society for the Advancement of Prokaryotes, traveling secretary]

the algae, yeast, and amoebae who contribute such rich diversity to our world

This eukaryoticism is sadly typical of an environmental movement that thinks the un-nucleated life isn't worth living. The fact is that most life on earth gets along just fine as members of the Prokaryotic Community, or would do if it weren't for the nucleisists who toss around the word "bacteria" like it was an insult. I hope we can all reflect on how much the unnucleated contribute to our world.

[bgates]

Aw, man. Rob stepped on my running gag.

[quark]

Rob Crawford, you beat me to the punch line.

What about us sub atomic particles?

[Rob Crawford]

Sorry.

Kinda.

[DebinNC]

WaPo is updating events.

[Janet]

The Immigration section belongs to the lefties too!!
Here is an article on a letter written by Ron Weddington (co-council in Roe v Wade) to Bill Clinton.

"start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country."

LUN is a link to the NRO article about the same...& a link to the letter.

"We don’t need more cannon fodder. We don’t need more parishioners. We don’t need more cheap labor. We don’t need more poor babies"

[Rob Crawford]

He's apparently been shot and taken into custody. From what I've heard, no one of any worth was hurt.

Hopefully, Lee is in excruciating pain and will be until the day he is executed.

[Rob Crawford]

Janet -- that's Progressive boilerplate. They're the heirs to the Eugenics movement.

[Jim Ryan]

It's pure bigotry the way biology textbooks define viruses out of the category of living beings (they have no cells, you see.) Arbitrary bigotry. Despicable. As yet, viruses, as Rob noted, have no voice, so it passes as okay.

[lyle]

Where's the voice for the microbes!!

[Janet]

"breeding populations..."

Yep. James Lee would fit right in with Ron Weddington.

[Janet]

Here is the pdf of his demands.

#2 says they must "stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants..."

[Janet]

#2 - "programs encouraging human sterilization & infertility must be pushed"

Did this guy think he was a member of JournoList?

[DebinNC]

My local news just reported Lee was killed by SWAT team

[Sue]

Oh ye of little faith. http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/01/discovery-terrorist-immigration/>Of course he was a right wing nut job.

[Pofarmer]

and, of course, the Squirrels.

Relative.

[matt]

he must have been pissed off at Deadliest Catch. Free the crabs!

[Janet]

James J. Lee was anti-human. He shows where this green nonsense ends up.

[Ignatz]

Didn't sylvia's posts end just about the time this hostage episode began?

[Captain Hate]

I'm pretty sure that viruses are no less scientifically illiterate than ManBearPig.

[DebinNC]

Sue's link leads to Think Progress where they fear conservatives will call Lee an enviromentalist. This shows the difference between us and them. We don't think one nutjob is emblematic of a whole disparate group.

[Captain Hate]

Make that "no *more*"; damn negatives.

[Sue]

Deb,

If you read the comments, they are blaming Rush, Hannity, Beck, Palin, Faux News and anyone and everyone but the person actually responsible for his own behavior.

[Janet]

We don't think one nutjob is emblematic of a whole disparate group.

I sorta do Deb....at least modern day environmentalists. Seen they pretty much hate humans. Read #7 & #8 of his manifesto.

[Janet]

**seems**

[Ignatz]

--Sue's link leads to Think Progress where they fear conservatives will call Lee an enviromentalist. This shows the difference between us and them. We don't think one nutjob is emblematic of a whole disparate group.--

Speak for yourself Deb.
For me it depends entirely on the group.

[jorgxmckie]

I'm still waiting for a substantiated instance of violence from a Tea Party type.

[Extraneus]

Are we sure he wasn't Bob McHenry of Britannica Blog fame, because that dork hasn't been seen since this hostage situation began.

[DebinNC]

Sue, I noticed that when I saw mention of Seanvannity, Limpballs, and Beckyboy. I wasted so much time trying to figure out who Limpballs was I finally left.

[rse]

Go Ex!

I'm still greatly vexed at such a snide response:

"What actual business is it of the great majority of people who profess to be insulted that an Islamic community center is to be built?"

As I said on the other thread, that's throwing down the gauntlet.

[Bill in AZ sez it's time for Zero to resign]

@Doc_0 tweets:

"President to give speech on the conclusion of combat operations at the Discovery Channel tonight, will promote domestic agenda."

[Wisdom for the Self-Deluded]

"another teabagger' would be the natural
assumption and it is interesting that Maguire should default to that conclusion, absent facts to the contrary.

Of course nutbags are not the sole possession of the wacky Right, but they do seem to have a corner on the Market.

It would be instructive if he posted
something about rabble-rousing and the (apparent) unintended, and tragic possible scenarios that can occur when words and writings are taken literally.

I wonder what non-Shakespearean blatherings John Wilkes Booth entertained himself with,
on a daily basis.

[Threadkiller]

He was an identity environmentalist. They think he is "right-wing" because he actually lifted a finger. The "left wing" versions only threaten the "death penalty" against their enemies.

">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1305215/Brad-Pitt-willing-look-death-penalty-bizarre-rant-BP.html"> Brad Pitt has waded into the Gulf oil spill controversy with an extraordinary veiled attack on BP.
The Hollywood actor said he would consider the death penalty for those to blame for the ruptured well that gushed millions of gallons of oil into the ocean.

[BB Key]

Lee, who represented himself in Silver Spring's district court, was evaluated by state psychiatrists, but Lee said, ''They couldn't find anything wrong with me."

Above quote is from the WaPo article discussing Lee's earlier arrest at the Discovery Building

[BumperStickerist]

I wonder what non-Shakespearean blatherings John Wilkes Booth entertained himself with, on a daily basis.

Boothe read a lot of conspiracy theories about the Republican president.

Some of which called into question the legitimacy of each Presidential election due to concerns about voting irregularities

Others of which dealt dealt with the President's disregard for the Constitution.

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[Threadkiller]

--""another teabagger' would be the natural
assumption and it is interesting that Maguire should default to that conclusion, absent facts to the contrary."--

Tom's first line:

--"Another angry Tea Partier run amuck? Not exactly:"--

He never said teabagger and he did not come to your conclusion.

[Danube of Thought]

they fear conservatives will call Lee an enviromentalist

Just so they don't call him a Mohammedan.

[Ignatz]

Cleo is as obsessed with being John Wilkes Booth as bubu is with being a homosexual.

[Wisdom for the Self-Deluded]

"Boothe read a lot of conspiracy theories about the Republican president.

Some of which called into question the legitimacy of each Presidential election due to concerns about voting irregularities

Others of which dealt with the Presidents disregard for the Constitution."

Cites? I mean, other than those you have pulled out of your arse.

[glasater]

Fox is reporting that after Lee was shot--he fell and set off an explosive on his body.

He was a reader of "Ishmael...something" didn't quite catch the title but it is some type of environmentalist scribe although I'm not understanding exactly what Ishmael has to do with the environment.

[Ranger]

Not completely off topic:

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/09/01/deval-patrick-on-beck-rally-its-a-free-country-i-wish-it-werent/>Deval Patrick on Beck rally: “It’s a free country. I wish it weren’t.”

At least he is honest about his contempt for the average American, and how he thinks the "problem" should be solved.

Exspect a lot more of this after November.

[narciso]

It was one of these novels, that won a prize back in the 90s, about environmental themes, no it has little to do with the themes in Moby Dick

[matt]

Maybe John Nutsack will weigh in on this one. It would seem the satanic death rituals he called out for Fox were directed at the discovery Channel instead.

[Extraneus]

He seems to be on a long tape delay, rse, no doubt poring over responses from bgates, DoT, myself and I would guess TK at least. Maybe my last comment will rouse him.

Are you working on a really good comeback to my comment before posting them both? If so, is that another fine point of your culturally mature code of honor?

I realize this is a moderated blog, but I don't remember anything vulgar or inappropriate in what I posted, aside from my excerpting of your original preening blather.

Had to throw that preening in there, since they seem to like it so much.

[Pofarmer]

At least he is honest about his contempt for the average American, and how he thinks the "problem" should be solved.

Exspect a lot more of this after November

Gonna hear an awful lot about "protecting the rights of the minority" again.

Fuck em.

[Captain Hate]

Had to throw that preening in there, since they seem to like it so much.

It really agitates the mentally unstable; maybe that's what set Lee off.

[Pat Buchanan]

"Gonna hear an awful lot about "protecting the rights of the minority" again."

Isn't that what pisses off TeaBaggers the most? You know, losing their majority status?

[Threadkiller]

--"Cites? I mean, other than those you have pulled out of your arse."--

Your only "cite" is a misquote.

Extraneus, I expect a "">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwfioD-ING8"> Jerkstore " comeback at best.

[rse]

Ex-

Now he can consider his blog to be moderated better by his readers.

Seriously worth perusing to appreciate how the "mere asserters" try to get their viewpoints accepted as common wisdom.

Again this may be a personal blog in fact but it is not a personal blog in appearance. We all look at it and think of the ready reference for objective facts from our childhood.

[Extraneus]

Ha, he posted both of mine but not bgates' or DoT's, which probably happened before and after. Did I erroneously call him a dork with a small "d"? Here.

[Extraneus]

No, there are several there now. Guess we're used to Typepad's wierdness, not Wordpress's.

[bgates]

Your imaginary dead son must be thrilled that Obama has issued an edict ending violence in Iraq, huh, cleo?

"Then he whispered fiercely, 'That Sectional candidate should never have been President, the votes were doubled to seat him....This man's appearance, his pedigree, his coarse low jokes and anecdotes, his vulgar similes, and his frivolity, are a disgrace to the seat he holds. Other brains rule the country....He is Bonaparte in one great move, that is by overturning this blind Republic and making himself a king."

- Booth's sister, quoted in The Unlocked Book.

"No living man was ever charged with political crimes of such multiplicity and such enormity as Abraham Lincoln. He has been denounced without end as a purjurer, a usurper, a tyrant, a subverter of the Constitution, and destroyer of the liberties of his country."

- the New York Times. I think they supported him, too.

[Extraneus]

Actually, not to belabor it, mine say "awaiting moderation", so maybe I'm the only one who can see them, but boris's and others, from before and after, don't. No sight of DoT or bgates's 2nd.

Firing a few shots at this fool has apparently taken up his whole day.

Olvidar la injuria es la mejor venganza.

[Captain Hate]

Why are you guys wasting your time with that gasbag douche McHenry? You know damn well he's gonna moderate all comments to make sure he doesn't include any to which he or his band of suckboys has no response, no matter how disingenuous or spurious.

[Ranger]

You know, it really is getting to the point of "truth inversion" that Victor Belenko describes in the Soviet Union in the book MIG Pilot.

The Left via the MFM condem the Right and the Tea Party for "whiping up hate" which they claim will lead to extreemist violance. Yet every act of real violance is carried out by a card carrying member of the Left, driven to violance by hard core Lefties like Algore and his handmaidens in the press.

[Extraneus]

He posted them all now, except bgates' 2nd, which was probably too much to bear. Good one DoT.

[Janet]

That is exactly right Ranger.

The other inversion is the claim that Bible thumpers are gonna force their beliefs on everyone...while it is the earth worshipers that ARE forcing their beliefs on everyone.

[Extraneus]

Hey, it's not every day we get to post on the famous Encyclopedia Britannica website, Captain!

[Clarice]

well, ranger, it doesn't appear to be working so well these days.

In any event Mr. Lee thought the globe was overpopulated and the Montgomery County Police took him s his word.

[Porchlight]

I think all the responses are now showing on McHenry's blog. Extraneus, both of yours are now there.

"Gary M" wants to know if bgates thinks Obama is a Muslim. Heh.

[Porchlight]

Oops, sorry, should have refreshed. I type too slow.

[Sue]

I started to ask him if he looked over his glasses when he spoke. And down his nose. Didn't, but thought about it.

[Danube of Thought]

I just responded to Gary M.

[Extraneus]

Maybe we'll see it in a few hours or tomorrow, DoT. I guess that's how he keeps 'em coming back.

Btw, I called my dog Fredo, but she didn't like the implication.

[Sue]

It truly puts new meaning to the enemy of my enemy is my friend. The left is defending to the point of stupidity a religion that would kill them in a heartbeat simply because. And would never allow them the freedoms they now enjoy. Simply amazing.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Sounds to me like one of the Human Extinction Movement folks who has gotten what he wanted.

At least on a retail level.

[Porchlight]

Sue,

You can not go wrong quoting Mark Steyn on this subject. From the all-time-must-read "It's The Demography, Stupid":

Radical Islam is what multiculturalism has been waiting for all along. In The Survival of Culture, I quoted the eminent British barrister Helena Kennedy, QC. Shortly after September 11, Baroness Kennedy argued on a BBC show that it was too easy to disparage “Islamic fundamentalists.” “We as western liberals too often are fundamentalist ourselves,” she complained. “We don’t look at our own fundamentalisms.”

Well, said the interviewer, what exactly would those western liberal fundamentalisms be? “One of the things that we are too ready to insist upon is that we are the tolerant people and that the intolerance is something that belongs to other countries like Islam. And I’m not sure that’s true.”

Hmm. Lady Kennedy was arguing that our tolerance of our own tolerance is making us intolerant of other people’s intolerance, which is intolerable. And, unlikely as it sounds, this has now become the highest, most rarefied form of multiculturalism. So you’re nice to gays and the Inuit? Big deal. Anyone can be tolerant of fellows like that, but tolerance of intolerance gives an even more intense frisson of pleasure to the multiculti masochists. In other words, just as the AIDS pandemic greatly facilitated societal surrender to the gay agenda, so 9/11 is greatly facilitating our surrender to the most extreme aspects of the multicultural agenda.

Forgive my a-----l-length excerpt, but I don't think Steyn or the New Criterion would mind.

[OldTimer]

This guy sounds like a student of John Holdren's Malthusian ravings. And lucky us, Holdren is Obama's Science czar---very bit as enviro-terroristic as Lee.

[Clarice]

Chaco, that's my take.

[Extraneus]

They seem a bit out-matched over at the Britannica Blog. (Still don't see where you found their "Principles", DoT, but I know daddy would agree it was a withering find.)

[Danube of Thought]

Ex, I just surfed around the site a bit and found them under the "about" tab.

I have a hunch that the Board of Directors of Encyclopedia Britannica my no apreciate Mr. McHenry's low brand of vitriol being used under their letterhead.

[Sue]

I would really like to see McHenry's take on the "absurd, ginned-up controversy" that was the Mohammed cartoons. I just know he wrote about it. And I'm sure he posted the cartoon to demonstrate the "absurd, ginned-up controversy". And waxed eloquent about the "motley delegations from the obedient Teamasses of America Islam" and described them as "ignorant, excitable, grasping, xenophobic, and often on the edge of violence". Anyone want to guess which teamass he isn't brave enough to mock?

[Boatbuilder]

I'm confused. From the picture at Thinkprogress it appears that Mr. Lee is not a direct descendant of Robert E. Lee, but might actually be characterized, in the more enlightened precincts, as being a member of a minority community (solely by virtue of his features and apparent racial background, mind you--his actual beliefs matter little).

How could he possibly be a Tea Party member?

[Captain Hate]

I take back my prior questioning of the utility of engaging the douchetools; you seem to have them on the run. I'll salute McHenry for including all the comments; that's about it. Whether they're preparing a withering response to your onslaught or cowering in a fetal ball, I really can't tell....

[Captain Hate]

Btw, has that fat scientifically-challenged sexual predator ManBearPig delivered a comment on this; if only to drone in a ponderous monotone "No controlling legal authority could convict my financially self-serving pile of lies for having motivated this fellow dimwit into multiple acts of violence"? Or is this his massage time?

[Extraneus]

Yeah, well I think he still hasn't posted bgates' response to his response, 7 or 8 hours later. Probably haunted by its implications, dialing his mom from his therapist's office.

[daddy]

Aw hell man this is depressing,

At least when Gore"s "Earth In The Balance" created the UniBomber, that guy was able to kill 3 and wound 23, plus get published in the NYTimes, but this new guy, fueled by Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth", was only able to get himself offed and his manifesto published on some Blog.

Do you think Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Gore is losing his touch?

[Janet]

Here is a link to Ace .

Lt. General McInernery: A Determination On Obama's Birth Certificate Is Absolutely Essential For Determining AWOL Army Doc's Guilt

[Janet]

I liked this comment from over at Instapundit - "And reader Hastings Walton writes: “If humans are so bad, why hasn’t he killed himself already? Hypocrite.” Yeah, they never seem to follow their humans-should-be-extinct logic to its obvious conclusion."

[Danube of Thought]

Sue, here is what McHenry wrote about the cartoon stuff. In a nutshell, he was dead set against the Mohammedan outrage.

[Danube of Thought]

I think Boatbuilder is correct in assuming that Marse Robert is not an ancestor of this fellow. But perhaps he is related to Lee Kwan Yew, or Lee Myun Bak, or (allowing for certain difficulties in translation) the great Syngman Rhee.

[daddy]

Just submitted this:

Hi Mister McHenry,

Did the Encyclopedia Britannica publish the Muhammed cartoons?

If so, I hope no one decided to take the publication of those cartoons as insulting, but if they were not published, does anyone know why they weren't published, since taking offense at such stuff as cartoons of the Prophet is simply a relict of a culture that should have been outgrown long ago, and therefore couldn't possibly have been a legitimate reason for the Encyclopedia Britannica or Yale etc in deciding not to publish them?

Just thought I'd ask. Have a nice day:)

[daddy]

Rats Sue,

I posted my 09:38 prior to reading you. But great minds etc,...

[Extraneus]

And here's his buddy, Gary M, from the same post in January (Yikes! the also have comments from April, May and June!):

If there were no intentional causing of outrage, we would lose much from society. Isn’t that how Lenny Bruce and George Carlin made a living? Although… (another side to consider) if it were illegal, perhaps we would hear less from Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly… A possible upside to the idea!

I'm definitely coming back to this Britannica Blog the day after the election.

[Captain Hate]

In a nutshell, he was dead set against the Mohammedan outrage.

Meaning he was in favor of publishing the cartoons, no?

[BumperStickerist]

Cites? I mean, other than those you have pulled out of your arse.

Posted by: Wisdom for the Self-Deluded

If you were marginally informed about the US Civil War, Boothe's loyalties, and the contemporary ephemera - hell, if you'd watched Ken Burns' "The Civil War" while not drunk or - hell, again, read Shelby Foote's trilogy on the Civil War you'd not ask a dumbass follow-up.

---

it's the rough equivalent of me saying "FDR was in a wheelchair during his Presidency" and you saying "Cite? or did you pull that out of your arse?" -

makes you look kinda stupid and ill-informed. Me? Not so much.

Cheers &c

[narciso]

"Irony, it's what's for breakfast" with these fellows. OT, why does SEan allow Nicole Wallace, in the building, she's one who one
of these days, will find a moose head on her front porch

[glasater]

Anyone can be tolerant of fellows like that, but tolerance of intolerance gives an even more intense frisson of pleasure to the multiculti masochists.

Porch-

That's about the best summation of elitist carp I've ever read and it came from Steyn.