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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Man Takes Discovery Channel Hostage, Demanding More Coverage of Daniel Quinn's My Ishmael

Posted by Sarah Mirk on Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:15 PM

Bad books are the new violent video games.
  • Bad books are the new violent video games.
If you're not following the breaking news of a gunman taking over the Discovery Channel offices in Maryland, you should probably start now. Today has seen a high incidence of random violence inflicted upon innocent people.

The demands of the shooter, allegedly a man named James Lee who protests frequently outside the Discovery building, are not what you would expect at all. They're off-the-cliff vaguely ecoterrorist rantings of the highest order, beginning with demand number one, which relates to the sequel of that book about the gorilla and the man that we're all forced to read in high school, Ishmael.

Here's the list of demands, via Mediaite:

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!!!!

I never got more than half way through Ishmael, much less the sequel. Insight, anyone?

Ten more insane demands below the cut.

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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Way to set back the environmental movement, crazy dumbfuck.

Now I know how Muslims feel when some of their own (though on the lunatic messianic fringe) fly planes into buildings.
Posted by Commenty Colin on September 1, 2010 at 12:27 PM · Report
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Well if he wants to be taken seriously, I know a way he could reduce the human population by one...
Posted by Stu on September 1, 2010 at 12:31 PM · Report
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This is just so much crazy. I feel sorry for him and those who're being affected by his crazy.

Can we blame Quinn for this and get high school students to stop reading these stupid books?
Posted by Graham on September 1, 2010 at 12:33 PM · Report
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So he's just going to continue to hold everyone at gunpoint while they take a few weeks to put together a new quiz show/scientific forum about not having babies? Sounds like exciting television...
Posted by tk. on September 1, 2010 at 12:36 PM · Report
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I had no idea the Discovery channel was so powerful. I for one welcome our new basic cable overlords. All hail the Boomdeeyada!

Someone, at some point, advised this guy to "start searching for a solution, instead of just reacting to a problem," and that phrase really stuck in his crazy brain. Solutions, solutions, solutions, people. I'm sure that life coach is now face-palming himself.
Posted by Reymont on September 1, 2010 at 12:50 PM · Report
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I know it's horrible, but my antipathy towards Daniel Quinn seems sort of validated now.
Posted by The Right Reverend Rocktimus Prime on September 1, 2010 at 12:52 PM · Report
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Shorter Demand #3: I will use this gun to protest against war and violence.
Posted by Bob R. on September 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM · Report
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I knew the Duggar family would eventually set someone off. I agree with him on saving the froggies though. Froggieeeees!
Posted by Suburban Porn King on September 1, 2010 at 1:17 PM · Report
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Discovery should be like, "okay, we'll start making these shows... but only if YOU star in them." And then the first couple episodes will have him holding a gun while acting the parts. But then they'll write a scene where he has to fall asleep, and once he's "asleep" they'll pounce and arrest him!
Posted by ROM on September 1, 2010 at 1:27 PM · Report
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@ROM: brilliant!
Posted by tk. on September 1, 2010 at 1:30 PM · Report
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So wonderfully crazy. Coincidentally, a great handful of his complaints are the same kind often leveled at The Mercury.

"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!!!"
Posted by TSW on September 1, 2010 at 1:46 PM · Report
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This probably won't be a popular sentiment but: while this guy is extra crazy and his violence inexcusable - his critiques of Discovery's programming are pretty trenchant.

I mean, I feel rage every time I think about the Duggars and it is totally gross that there are (yet more) programs glorifying weapons.

Stopping Discovery from airing these asinine shows won't actually help anything, but I am sympathetic to the idea that they *should* stop nevertheless (again - not condoning violence or going off your meds).
Posted by Sarahfina on September 1, 2010 at 1:55 PM · Report
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Hopefully, he'll take his gun and his programming shakeup agenda over to Spike TV next.
Posted by Night Moves on September 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM · Report
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My question: why "of course" squirrels?
Posted by clairewillett on September 1, 2010 at 2:57 PM · Report
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I guess he's dead now. So, um, yea.

"The humans? The planet does not need humans."
Posted by TSW on September 1, 2010 at 3:29 PM · Report
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http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original…

Holy shit... Did anyone actually read this article? Your daily lulz are contained herein.
Posted by A CAT, probably on September 1, 2010 at 7:19 PM · Report
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OK, I might have just been trolled senseless by that site. I have no idea.
Posted by A CAT, probably on September 1, 2010 at 7:29 PM · Report
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That article is fucked up.
Posted by Commenty Colin on September 1, 2010 at 10:04 PM · Report

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