I work about 3 blocks from the Discovery building and it a sea of cop cars, fire trucks and ambulances as far as I can see.
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I work about 3 blocks from the Discovery building and it a sea of cop cars, fire trucks and ambulances as far as I can see.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/loc...l?hpid=topnews
Soon to be made into a movie.
i mean i like shark week as much as the next guy, but this dude is ****ing crazy! It'll be back next year dude.
I guess the negotiations didn't go to well.
...not for him anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frets
dp
Haha, my boss said the same thing. Apparently he didn't watch enough myth busters because the "explosive device" was a bust.Quote:
Originally Posted by silverx2
Actually, the guy had a pretty good point about Discovery promoting environmental destruction. Kind of interesting if you read what he said.
When I was a kid, in Los Angeles, they interrupted the afternoon shows the networks for a police chase, helicopter vantage point, a guy and his dog in a pickup truck on the freeway. The cops cleared a space around him and the guy got out, lit his truck on fire, and then unfurled this huge banner that said "HMOs are in it for the money". Then he pulled out a shotgun and blew his head off on live TV. Turned out the guy was HIV positive and had been denied access to the drugs he needed. I remember I had just read Farenheit 451 for the first time, and this made a big impression on me.
After that, the local news stations started putting a delay on all the police chase feeds.
This guy's doomed quest reminds me of that.
He could have always switched to Nat Geo channel.
So good that he decided to threaten the lives of others others to make it ...ending up dead was the risk he took. Why didn't he just write more 'letters to the editor', or start a facebook page and look for lots of :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by joshstrike
because he was a patriot thats why.Quote:
Originally Posted by david petley
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Originally Posted by silverx2
oh, that explains it.
:crazy:
....and that's what all patriots are like? Pulling guns on people at their workplace?
how come the police shot him dead? Not a very nice way to treat a patriot really is it?
Because they were patriots too.Quote:
Originally Posted by david petley
why did the british try to kill all of the minute men?Quote:
Originally Posted by david petley
Too bad those police were of the same nationality as the person they killed...hardly like the minutemen and British at all really ...or has the USA been taken over by foreigners in the last few days, and I just missed it?
The dead guy threatened innocent people at their workplace ...you think that can be justified by patriotism???
I just can't see that as the act of a hero, and if it is considered the act of a patriot, then god help you guys with your weird sense of patriotism.
...this is a quote from James J Lee (the dead guy) on his website.Quote:
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.
This is another -and another -Quote:
All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants
...and yet another -Quote:
Develop shows that will correct and dismantle the dangerous US world economy.
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All human procreation and farming must cease!
It sounds like this guy was so patriotic that he just wanted to get rid of people, he doesn't even care about their nationality.
...I guess one man's patriot is another mans loony.
It's more keen than your sense of irony or sarcasm.Quote:
Originally Posted by david petley
....not so keen, if someone can view the act of an environmental loony threatening innocents with guns and explosives in someone's workplace as 'patriotic'.
Interesting how, when someone goes off the deep end and commits a crime against abortionists, we spend months debating whether or not it was a conspiracy involving the entire pro-life movement. But, if someone goes off the deep end for environmental reasons, it's just one guy going off the deep end.
Maybe we should use that "inciting violence" argument some have floated. Obama has incited this violent act by talking about environmental concerns too passionately. ;)
The anti abortion movement is widespread and gets a lot of attention from both sides.
I don't think you'll find a widespread debate on genocide. But then again this is the web and I'm talking about you FL. You may indeed seek it's darkest realms to support the extinction of the human race.
The environmental movement isn't wide-spread, getting a lot of attention from both "sides"?
Sorry to disappoint you. But, I leave ideas for population control to communists and liberals like Obama's current Technology Czar, John Holdren and pal Bill Ayers.
The darkest realms I seek on the internet are forums for college football teams that are not the Oregon Ducks.
...so this guy was not a patriot at all? ...but a communist liberal (almost the opposite of a patriot for the USA) because he wanted to control the population so much he tried (with guns and bombs) to force Discovery channel to help him??Quote:
Originally Posted by FlashLackey
...How about he is just another crazy fricker with an unreal agenda and a death wish (there are plenty of those around i am sure).
dp
I don't think so. Sounds like he was a first class d-bag.Quote:
Originally Posted by david petley
I'm pretty sure that silver was being sarcastic earlier when he called him a patriot. Then again, he also posted that Fidel Castro is growing on him. So, who knows?
I was just pointing out that the history of arguments for population control is much more closely tied to the ideology that Frets tends to defend than to anything that I have stood for.Quote:
Originally Posted by david petley
A pretty reasonable response to someone implying that I would be interested in genocide, imo.
I agree. That's how I see it.Quote:
Originally Posted by david petley
I was just saying that it's interesting that there is a double-standard between how radical acts are treated, depending on which movement the radical claims.
not by me ;) ...i have always been against the use of guns and bombs on innocents, regardless of who is threatening with, or using, them. Environmentalists, anit-abortionists, soldiers ....you name it, and if it is waving guns around in anything but self defence I am anti.Quote:
there is a double-standard between how radical acts are treated
I think there is a big difference between being concerned over the environment and
I would hope that you could diferentiate between the two claims. I'm not saying you can I just hope you can. Maybe hope is too strong a word. Can you differentiate or are you hopeless?Quote:
All human procreation and farming must cease!
any time a tyrant can come out and say "hey i have made some mistakes, and maybe i shouldnt have treated gay people that way" shows growth as a human being. the overall outlook of cuba gets better daily and the opening of trade as well as allowing entertainment to travel between nations is huge.Quote:
Originally Posted by FlashLackey