Discovery Channel Hostage Taker a Known Protestor
James Jay Lee Has a History of Demands Against the Discovery Channel
On the Save the Planet Protest website, Lee demands that the Discovery Channel take several steps in its programming immediately to stop human reproduction and reverse the environmental damage he believes humans are inflicting on the planet.
As part of James Lee's demands, he states:
"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."
The rest of Lee's demands include that the Discovery Channel develop programming that finds an immediate solution to immigration to the United States, claiming that immigrants send their breeding population to the US and further contaminate the Earth. Lee also demands that it is the Discovery Channel's responsibility to broadcast the message that civilization is "filth," and that the human population needs to be reduced. Lee also makes reference to the United States' "ponzi-casino" economy and the need to teach evolution. The overall content of the demands appeared to be atheistic and Darwinistic.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Lee was holding "a small number of hostages" on the first floor of the building. Most of the building was evacuated by police, including a day care. Approximately 1,900 people work in the building.
According to Silver Springs police chief, J. Thomas Manger, Lee was waving a pistol around but there were no confirmed reports of shots fired, although a stretcher was taken into the lobby by emergency personnel.
It is unclear at this time whether James Lee has had prior face-to-face confrontations with the Discovery Channel. Lee's website, Save the Planet Protest, was still online Wednesday afternoon, but it made no reference to that day's hostage crisis.
Sources:
Save the Planet Protest
Hostages Taken at the Discovery Channel
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11 Comments
Post a CommentHis demands were secular. They had nothing to do with a lack of belief in a god or gods, they had nothing to do with anything theistic at all. Neither were they darwinistic. They had nothing to do with natural selection. His demands were political and ecological. Guess we should try to spin it in an anti-political anti-ecological manner.
Wow - I hadn't heard a thing about this. Crazy stuff, indeed!
I as well have to outright disagree with any suggestion this idea is tied to Atheism or Darwin's teachings. The dude is crazy, plain and simple, and i find it pretty off putting that you thought to tie this guys actions with those ideals. -.-
To AA: Thank you.
This is my neighborhood and it was quite an afternoon here!
As an honest critic of journalism, I feel as though this article possessed a staggering and obvious lack of objectivity. What legitimate evidence is the presupposed conclusion of his "atheistic and Darwinistic" based on? A violent extremists semi-coherent ideologies hardly constitute the seemingly intentional extrapolation with atheism and biological evolution. The belief that the proponents of human extinction are acting "Darwinistically" are as baseless and exploitative as 19th century Social Darwinism. Moreover, the defamatory and intellectually dishonest association of atheism with this detestable zealotry is not only unfounded, but brazenly subjective and betrays an obvious inability to inform in an unbiased fashion. Encountering an article such as this one is a truly disheartening experience.
Deranged human beings are popping up everywhere. Scary indeed!
Scary!
Great post, Angie. I see the planet site is down, but I can still access the cache on Google. You have more info in here than CNN is broadcasting at the moment!
Would he be a radical tree-hugging fundamentalist? Trying to figure out that aspect.