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James J. Lee, militant environmentalist, was killed in a hostage standoff at the Discovery Channel building. If someone had to die, might as well be him. (When some guy shoots up a place then kills himself, I always think why didn't he just kill himself first.)
Lee was inspired by Al Gore. He said so. But we can't blame Gore because some nut wants to kill in his name. Yet how many times have we heard from partisans that certain talk is dangerous because, even if it doesn't explicitly call for violence, it'll influence others who may go too far? In fact, this is a favorite gambit of some. You almost get the feeling they're waiting for the violence so they can blame their enemies.
Would Lee not have tried to harm anyone if he hadn't heard strong environmental talk? We'll never know. But we can't run society based on the fear that insane people might take things wrong, because I guarantee you they will no matter what you say.
By the way, it's true strong rhetoric can inspire people--including those not certifiable--to commit violence. After all, such rhetoric is often intended to move people to action. That's the chance you take in a free society, and I hope most people understand it's worth the risk.
I had trouble with the Unabomber Manifesto being circulated, but I have no trouble presenting this guy's demands. Actually, his views aren't that much nuttier than what you'll see from some radical environmentalists who view humanity as a disease. It's just he was willing to take more action than most. So, for your amusement:
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.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:19 AM
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Speaking of "militant environmentalists", there was a guy on Letterman the other night promoting a book titled, "Eaarth" (sic).
Letterman opened by asking this guy if the unusually hot summer the East Coast was experiencing was proof of global warming. The guy immmediately answered, "Absolutely."
CLICK.
Next channel.
I won't get into the debate as to whether or to what degree global warming is taking place. However, I do know a little about statistics and variations, especially in the long term, which is what we're talking about when we're talking about weather patterns.
To claim that temperature data from one climatic season in one location is proof of long term global weather variation is "climb on board" science of the worst kind.
Here in SoCal, we're actually experiencing one of the mildest summers ever recorded. Think how ridiculous it would sound if Jay Leno asked some contrarian climatologist if L.A.'s cooler-than-usual summer is proof that global warming is hogwash and the guy immediately answered, "Absolutely". He would be hooted off the stage.
Perhaps the late night talk shows should leave environmental speculation to the Discovery Channel and Comedy Central.
I'm having trouble determining which was the "crazy" demand that Lee was willing to bargain away for the life of the hostages.
P.S Verification word = robe lyin
Where?
I think environmentalists are relying on a lot of evidence overall for proof of climate change. Any particular point of data is not enough, but for over a decade, we're having, in general, higher temperatures worldwide than ever before. Sure, we'd have hot summers even without global warming, but a series of hotter summers is due to global warming.
If James Lee is a "militant environmentalist", Timothy McVeigh and David Duke are proto-Tea Partiers or militant libertarians
...or koch heads
That's just stupid, Anonymous, and, if you noticed, is the very thing I'm arguing against here. In fact, you prove my point.
Lee is an explicit environmentalist, and has taken militant action to further his beliefs. Indeed, if you'd bothered to check my link, you'd see him described that way in the Washington Post headline.
Of course, if you want to live in a world of demagoguery, you will lose (once you leave your echo chamber), since there's plenty of violence done in the name of the Left.
By the way, you probably hadn't heard about the Koch's a month ago, but now that you're specially ill-informed, are ready to drop their names.
12. I badly need to get laid. Preferably not with an ape.
Didn't Timothy McVeigh and David Duke have explicit right-wing ideologies too?
No one wants to take credit for McVeigh, and everyone accused has been running from him ever since his crime. There's been a ton of debate about what he actually believed and how it affected him. The point I'm making in this post, of course, is arguing over who gets the blame in a case like this is a stupid waste of time.
McVeigh was essentially your classic angry loner/conspiracy theorist. This was a man who was too nutty and violent to get along with the NRA or the Michigan Militia.
His politics were a little confused, as you might expect, but I don't think you can call him right wing--for one thing, he considered the U.S. to be a warmongering country (and undoubtedly would have opposed attacking Iraq in 2003).
He seems to have been influenced by the Christian identity movement and white supremacists, but based on his beliefs did not seem to be a straight Christian or a racst. In any case, he wasn't killing in the name of Christianity (or race) the way some terrorists kill in the name is Islam.
McVeigh acted on his own and didn't kill in the name of any political party any more that Oswald killed JFK in the name of communism--if anything, that's a closer case.
As to Duke, I don't even know why anyone would bring him up. He supports a racist ideology, explicitly repudiated by the right wing and has nothing to do with the Tea Party beliefs (much less the Koch's). He supports segregation and separatism, which are not right wing beliefs (you're more likely to find support for these among some on the radical left). He also believes in Jewish conspiracies, much like many Muslim terrorists. For that matter, he's endorsed the Walt and Mearsheimer book about how the Jewish Lobby has hijacked American foreign policy, which is popular with leftists around the world.
He also believes in Jewish conspiracies, much like many Muslim terrorists. For that matter, he's endorsed the Walt and Mearsheimer book about how the Jewish Lobby has hijacked American foreign policy, which is popular with leftists around the world.
A recent survey asked whether "the Jews" are to blame for the current financial crisis. 32% of Democrats, but only 18% of Republicans, answered yes. I'm glad to see slightly more sanity on the Right in this case, but either figure is terrifying. I dearly hope that Ross Douthat's attempt to deconstruct the results is correct.
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