Malthusian Hostage-Taker at Discovery Channel
As those of you who have televisions or Twitters probably know, there's an armed hostage situation at Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., just across the line from Washington, D.C. Initial reports, which police officials are not confirming, are that the hostage taker is a 42-year-old San Diego resident named James Jay Lee, who has apparently thrown up 11 demands online, in a warped environmentalist manifesto that radiates with rage against the "human filth" of population. Excerpt:
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. […]
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!! […]
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.
Lee apparently has a history of hating on the Discovery Channel. I highly recommend Fox News' Shep Smith right now.
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You know, I haven't noticed Chad around here today. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.
I was wondering if Tony might be 42. Anyone know for certain?
No self respecting asian guy would ever post as "Chad".
So, this is trolling IRL?
I was thinking more Max. Chad and Tony don't have that kind of violent instincts.
Or the balls.
Think again. You don't say A without saying B.
I was thinking more Max. Chad and Tony
I thought they were all the same person. Choaxy, if you will.
Chad is a better writer then Tony.
Joe is better then them all.
Speaking of Joe anyone notice that no one is around to defend Moynahan's crusade to eliminate all references to the similarities between Socialism and fascism any more?
Anyway i have been reading George Orwell's "Why i write" essay and if that is not a fascist manifesto for British social nationalism then i don't know what is.
What is he on? or off? He's awesome crazy. I just hope he doesn't kill any filthy human parasites. It makes normal crazy people look bad.
WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!
this is solid H&R worthy argument
INVENT, DAMN YOU!!
and this is a classic libertarian argument
INVENT, DAMN YOU!!
and this is a classic libertarian argument
Nope.
The standard solution of left is to raise taxes on carbon to increase innovation.
This is not a classic libertarian argument.
argumentum ad whatthefuckem...
It's all the rage at the finer institutions of higher learning.
From his manifesto: "WTF??? STUPIDITY!"
If I'm going to take the time to take people hostage and post a manifesto, I'm at least going to take the time to craft a better argument than "WTF???"
argumentum ad whatthefuckem...
It's all the rage at the finer institutions of higher learning.
apparently it is so popular I must repeat myself...oopsies
Repeating yourself? It's all the rage in Minnesota.
THIS IS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FOREST CREATURES!!!!
The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.
Froggies?
...Oh my!
The excerpted demands sound like pretty standard Green positions.
Yes, BUT, until there is evidence otherwise we should not go blaming this on the enviornmental movement as a whole.
A couple of racists at a Tea Party rally don't make the whole movement racist...
"A couple of racists at a Tea Party rally"
[citation needed]
Yes, remember the armed man at the rally? He could have been an anti-black racist. Oh wait. He was black. Nevermind.
He was just racist against the caucasian half of Obama.
This kind of terrorism is a direct and predictable result of the irresponsible fearmongering and overheated rhetoric of the AGW movement.
No not really, but if the guy was a Glenn Beck fan or could be proved to have attended a Tea Party, it would be different.
+100
This kind of terrorism ia a direct and predictable result of the perpetrator being 100% batshit crazy.
ThinkProgress is actually trying to tie this guy to the Tea Party using his anti-immigrant views.
Go here if you want to stir up some trouble.
it looks like the commentator there are actively voting down comments that quote from the guy's manifesto.
My is that ThinkProgress is not going to get any traction the story.
Not when Drudge has posted a link to the guys manifesto.
Anyway i do not have a TV so i don;t know what the CNNs MSNBCs CBSs are saying.
AGW is batshit crazy.
This kind of terrorism is a direct and predictable result of the bat shit crazy perpetrator being attracted to batshit crazy ideas.
So he WAS IN FACT pissed off about John and Kate Plus Eight. That's fucking hysterical.
I knew that show would push someone over the edge eventually.
Now we can only await a Bravo gunman enraged by the Real Housewives.
Fluffy, many of us are pissed off about John and Kate Plus Eight. Just for different reasons, and we have better impulse control.
I hope he was mad at Kate and not that nice Christian lady with the 20 kids.
"It's a vagina, not a clown car."
Please, please tell me Discovery has cameras in its offices. This would make a killer fucking series for them.
"Deadliest Wretch"?
Fuck yeah. If I were CEO of the Discovery Channel, i would be on the phone with the police telling them to hold off until we had at least two seasons worth of programing.
Kate Plus 8 vs. The .38?
Meerkat Maniac?
MalthusBusters
MalthusBusters
I think we have a winner.
Orange County Lepers.
"Yes, my longtime companda. I won her from David Bowie in a trivia contest. This was 1980, '81 perhaps?years before the big trivia craze?but then, Bowie always was a trendsetter."
"How It's INVENT, DAMN YOU!!"
"Nice Road Whacker"
Cash Crank/Cash Crab
Did people go crazy and shoot up circuses back in the day because they were angry at the circus freaks?
Is there anything funnier than a dead clown?
That same clown three weeks later.
The judges would have also accepted: "Two dead clowns."
Dead clown midget porn?
"Is there anything funnier than a dead clown?"
A dead baby in a clown suit.
Is there anything funnier than a dead clown?
One dead clown in a hundred garbage cans.
If he doesn't refer to his gun as MythBusterBuster, I'm done with him.
I should cut him some slack, my ex-girlfriend once said the same of me.
NEVER FORGET!
Clever. It's a shame nobody noticed.
An alien born in a human's body. I hear surgery can take care of that. Or at least the scalpel.
Sounds like he has great respect for human life; this bodes well for the hostages. /grim sarcasm>
Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.
So he's one of those violent right wing whackos? Did the Koch brothers fund him? Was he at the (lame) Glenn Beck rally? Is he a member of the tea party movement? Are the walls of his bedroom festooned with pictures of Sarah Palin?
Enquiring minds want to know.
No, but I hear he has a lifetime supply of tinfoil and chinese paint...
He will be after MSNBC gets through with their in-depth investigation of him.
Investigation? They're probably getting ready to hire him. Or, at least, find him a gig on Slate.
Three words for this lunatic:
AL
GORE
MANBEARPIG
"I highly recommend Fox News' Shep Smith right now."
He does have a great sense of humor. I mean that sincerely.
A friend of mine once shared a joint with Shep Smith outside of a neighborhood bar in Jersey City.
I think that means he's a libertarian.
Hippies smoke weed too. Just sayin'.
Why couldn't this guy have hit E instead?
Or Lifetime? Or MTV?
Or the Estrogen Lifetime Channel.
Curse you Epi! Beat me by mere seconds.
Maybe he poisoned the last batch of Prozac at the plant and isn't worried about Lifetime or Oxygen any more.
Many of them just eat ice cream instead of antidepressants, Fluffy, you misogynistic piece of shit. You can tell by how fat they are. It all depends on what Oprah told them to do. So he would have had to have gotten to the Breyers and Dreyer's plants too. And don't forget Friendly's--they make a lot of shitty ice cream too.
Treating your six kitties as children is also a well-recognized coping strategy for being an unloveable harpy.
"My anti-depressants made me fat. And I needed more anti-depressants and I got fatter. And my glands."
All those fuckers eat Ben & Jerry's communist blend. You know that shit bag. Why do you cover for them?
What negotiator in his right mind would have tried to stop him from shooting up everyone at E?
It sounds to me as if he's really angling for a spot on the Whale Wars gig.
So, is this evidence that all environmentalists are crazy/dangerous? Just asking, because it was the consensus that all right wingers are crazy when some right winger shot up a place.
Well once you demonize the actions of the majority, its not a far reach to declare your own private war against all humans.
There was a time not so very long ago when environmentalists as a whole were quite sensible and responsible.
Sadly, today the idea that people are a plague upon the earth and that having children is a terrible thing to do is very much within the mainstream of environmentalist thinking.
If I seriously believed that people were in the process of literally destroying the planet and everything on it, I would probably contemplate doing some sick shit. I think it's only a matter of time before one of these lunatics comes up with a deadly plague and releases it.
Now we can only await a Bravo gunman enraged by the Real Housewives.
*crosses fingers*
LISTEN NOW to the DEMANDS of the BRAVO GUNMAN:
1. Close All Tanning Salons! [Tanning WTFFF?]
2. Devise fatal blonde hair dye. INVENT DAMN YOUQ!!!!@!!
3. I told you no lucite high heels EVER!!!!!!!))@#(@#
No more breast implants, lyposuction, or plastic surgery of any kind.
Breast implants? WTF?!! STUPIDITY!!!
Yeah, that will really make reproduction decline!
Discovery is the only quasi-documentary channel that doesn't run world-without-people Green Rapture porn. So they asked for it.
Hey, that show is the only reason to watch History since Modern Marvels started doing specials on bending straws and the like.
Just because I hate people doesn't make me an environmentalist.
It is good to know that Ted Kaczynski has followers to follow in his footsteps.
News of the tautological?
Nope. More a gore enthusiast!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38.....nd_courts/
What a day to be a democrat. The GOP has no one with even half the balls of a Mr. Lee.
tv stations need to find solutions to unemployment...that is awesome...invent something you assholes!
In Sarah Palin's Real America people like babies.
Among the anti-capitalist environmentalist leftwing they are disgusting human babies. I guess they can't confine their hatred only to those in utero anymore.
come on, for the most part baby animals are way cuter and come with the added benefit of not being allowed on planes in the western world mostly.
Que news and blogs labeling him a "liberal" nutjob in 5... 4... 3...
You've got to admit that except for calling for an end to racism, he's pretty much got the left's talking points covered.
Oh, I agree.
It was more a commentary on the rush to politicize everything. (Someone earlier made a remark about it having been done to a wacko who was aligned with the "right".) Who cares what his implied or explicit political affiliations are. He is a nut holding people at gun point.
Forget myths, someone bust this guy's face.
Then again, he also calls for "stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that".
Trying to win cheap points by labeling these nutjobs "left" or "right" is stupid.
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.
He is a left wing nut job.
and it means all left wingers are nut jobs.
And why shouldn't I win cheap points?
The left have no problem calling me a racist for my opposition to the stimulus. Hell at least my cheap points have a basis in truth.
Think the judge will force this guy to listen to the anti-malthusian vaccine?...Does Julian Simon have a book on tape?
I blame this on the violent, eliminationist rhetoric of Paul Ehrlich.
Dude makes a lot of sense, when u think about it.
http://www.desroyallhumans.net
"t"
Outstanding
How long do you suppose it till take before the media starts referring to this guy as a right-wing nutjob? My guess: not very long.
That sums it up.
BTW, this is why I hang around H&R all day, just to catch threads like this.
"A game show format contest would be in order."
Would the loser be sterilized? Executed? Would the winner? I see potential here. Population control and all that.
At least he's being honest and open about the intrinsic misanthropy of environmentalism. I will give him that.
Yup.
Did I say something about human extinctionists about a week ago?
Sometimes I hate to be right.
But hey, maybe they should deploy this guy to Afghanistan. I am sure he would be able to wipe out al Qaeda, the Taliban, the drugs and the corruption!
He'd team up with the Taliban as they share the similar objectives and both want to fuck camels.
That reminds me about a guy named Joel Pile...
* Camel porn
* Camel toe porn
Pick one!
He should reduce the number of humans, starting with himself.
You guys, I'm posting from an undisclosed location. All I can say right now is this: It's your fault that this happened. You didn't care enough about the environment, so we had to take matters into our own hands. That is all.
BTW: I whack off to thoughts of all cars being destroyed and Americans having to ride Amtrak and live in massive federal housing developments.
Ha ha ha!!
Ooohhhh . . . kinky!
Stop laughing at me! You'll never get on the news like me!
The day cars are destroyed, horses will make a comeback, and you will be complaining it's not healthy to breath dung.
No, everybody will ride bullet trains and they'll actually run on time and it'll all be super-awesome and everyone will know that I, Chad the Omniscient, was right about everything.
I can't tell if this is a spoof or not. Anyone else?
Yeah, you guys seriously suck.
When will the global warming hipsters come out and say this loon is a plant?
Aside from the fact that he is funded by the Koch brothers you mean? I read it somewhere so it must be true.
Thank god for demand #5. There's your MSM headline: "Anti-immigration protester takes hostages."
I wonder if Organic Girl is gonna be allowed to enter the building to take her boyfriend dinner.
Here she is
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t.....R4RU_X0kQw
The interesting thing about the demands is that almost none of the include any specific policy steps. It takes a very special kind of crazy to demand that a committee be formed to design a product that will encourage the public to think more about an issue or you're going to start shooting people.
Clearly he a wacko who respects process.
he's
he be
After skimming the manifesto, I have come to the conclusion that the suspect is Invader Zim.
HUMAN WORM BABIES! FILTH! MADNESS!!!
Seriously, if he started screaming that the Tallest expected him to conquer the planet, it wouldn't sound out of place.
"Right-wing" hostage takers and Steve Smith... DOUBLE EPIC THREAD!
Somewhere MNG is thinking "Hmmm. Despite his unsound approach to public relations, this Lee fellow certainly makes some valid points."
I'm all about ZPG. Less people = more beer for me.
He's being my porn.
Sounds like a real Quack to me. Assuming he is taken alive, get him to a mental facility asap!
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Sounds like a real Quack to me. Assuming he is taken alive, get him to a mental facility asap!
be-anonymous.at.tc
Secret demand #12: The Discovery Channel must find, document and then destroy the creature known as Manbearpig.
See what I mean about San Diego being a better place to visit than live.
I prefer the rantings of Dr. Bronner. Much more fun. Plus he makes great soap.
The Moral ABC. We're All-One or None!
His myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/worldguardian
Goes without saying that his status under children is "I don't want kids."
Mood: vibrant
Too bad no one told James Jay Lee (why are crazy shooters listed by their full names?) that population control begins at home.
James Jay Lee
It's obviously James J.(ohn Wayne) Lee...
Here's my favorite new internet crazy. At least he's just building rock houses and not taking hostages.
This guy calls into CSPAN every 30 days, allegedly. Only heard him once but damn, he's a blast.
Really? Sweet. I'll have to catch that.
Thank you for this. Site is a goldmine: "The Photo does not do this Marble Justice. It Required 3 Months of my Time to make this Chimney and these Shelves, which should be there for centuries to come, unless the Federal Burden of Investigation (FBI) or the Central Unintelligent Agency (CIA) puts a Smart Bomb through my Brazilian Agate Windows, just for telling you the Truth about Capitalism, which does not Work Well when People become Selfish, Greedy, Lying, Deceiving SNAKES and HOGS."
Waitaminit...a liberal with a gun?
This must be proof that he's a racist teabagger. A real environmentalist would never use a gun.
over SHOT
over SHOT
Thanks for having the decency not to use a picture from True Blood for the article.
What the fuck?
Stupidity.
This has been around a while:
http://www.vhemt.org/
I love Lee. Finally we got someone to courageously talk the truth about parasitic human infants and human ( or beastly) ignorance.
Bravo Lee! HERO!
Looks like the cops shot and killed him.
I hope al hostages are safe and sound.
I'm glad yesterday's incident ended well for everyone. Hostages unhurt, and as demanded by the gunman, world population was reduced.
"and, of course, the Squirrels"
Best. Lunatic Manifesto. Ever.
This reminds me of something. Hmmm:
Drax the Destroyer|3.25.10 @ 12:52PM|#
Slightly OT...but have any of you read the comic Transmetropolitan? It takes place in a somewhat dystopic world at some point in the future where politics are even more corrupt than they are now and the U.S. sort of still exists (Yeah Right). I remember a panel early the series showing angry protestors screaming "Birthers" or something at a mother of 8+ kids because her desire to have more kids impacts the available resources, traffic conditions, stress on public works, etc. It was basically an interesting reversal on what we see from conservative protestors today. Although I think a person should be able to shoot out as many babies as she is able to care for, could this be one of the practical future arguments for abortion?
This guy is just the first wave of new environmentalists who will protest women who are merely pregnant. Mark my words.
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.
"I like tuhtles"
thank u