Green Weenie Goes Berserk--Takes Hostages--Dies

Enviroweenie and Population Bomb true-believer James J. Lee was madder than hell, and he wasn't going to take it anymore. After years of sweet prose that he wrote online had no affect on world-destroying breeders, Lee decided to take matters into his own hands. That may sound a little nuts, but in all fairness, you should look at the reasoned and reasonable words he posted online before visiting the headquarters of The Discovery Channel to take hostages.

Since those Discovery people weren't listening to his brilliant online essays, Lee decided to take hostages until they did listen. "The earth must be saved. Focus on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution (emphasis is original)." He also exhibited a reasoned approach to immigration: "We must find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that, and this means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies."

What a humanitarian, huh? But there's method to his madness. There are two pardigms involved in his highly-evolved thinking. The older one is his reliance on the totally inaccurate predictions of worldwide famine set forth by Paul Ehrlich in 1968 in his brilliantly wrong-headed book The Population Bomb. The newer one, espoused by such geniuses as Al Gore, is the lowliness of human beings in the schemes of Mother Earth, which lowliness produces alienation from the natural world. Each victory of man over nature is seen as blasphemy.

I chose the word "blasphemy" carefully since this innate evil contained in man's progress goes all the way back to the Rev, Thomas Malthus in the eighteenth century. Malthus believed strongly that each step forward was actually a step backward. Arrogant man creates new ways of dealing with nature, spawns prosperity then spawns children who must inevitably use up all of the earth's resources. Starvation and poverty must inevitably follow. Praise the Lord, we all suck.

Malthus played a major part in creating the idea that the end is near because of overpopulation, but what is equally important is that Malthus infused his beliefs with religious zeal. That part of his message has been carried on to the point that environmentalism today has become a secular religion rivaling traditional God-based religion. In some cases, it does have a God-like entity such as Mother Earth or Gaia, but basically the environment, not salvation of the soul is the be-all end-all.

Ehrlich, and his fellow-travelers at Friends of the Earth had some things to say about green planning, but mostly they were obsessed with cutting the human population of earth by one-half. Said Friend Professor Garrett Hardin of the University of California at Santa Barbara: "Freedom to breed is intolerable." Roe v Wade, elective abortion, and abortion as an alternate form of birth-control quickly followed.

The Gaia theory promoted by ecologist James Lovelock posits that man is the only animal on earth which throws everything out of balance. All other animals contribute to the creation of a harmonious, unified singularity. Man screws it all up. Disciples such as James Lee see human beings as a cancer, a apreading disease which will ultimately infect and destroy the planet. And earth is seen as an actual being rather than a geological phenomenon.

Traditional religions often see mankind as flawed beings who are capable of great good and great evil but always subject to salvation by a benevolent God. The Gaia religion sees the great being, Earth itself, and the friendly woodland animals as the only legitimate entities. The only good human is a dead human. Add a little mental illness, and you have a formula for hastening that end from nutcases like Lee.

One final thought. Yesterday, several of us discussed how differently the supposedly neutral MSM treats nearly-identical situations depending on whether the subject is a liberal or a conservative. If Lee had been a conservative with the other philosophical quirks mentioned in this article, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would already have made a teary-eyed speech about the right having to "be careful what they say" lest it provoke violence. But since this eco-freak had green credentials and the standard leftist belief about population growth, we are already being admonished not to draw any correlation between speeches by Al Gore or tracts from the green/zero population growth arena and this "true believer."

I agree that like Timothy McVeigh, this guy was nothing more than a nutcase with an incidentally religious-political belief to spur him on. But that didn't stop the MSM from tying McVeigh to every conservative in America, as if they had directly participated in the Oklahoma City bombing. Christian and Jewish murderers, bad. Islamic terrorists, misunderstood. Green Weenies who kill, merely misguided and mentally ill. One of Lee's last online remarks was "the planet does not need humans." At least the jihadists only want to kill most of us. Lee thought we all deserve to die, including himself. Personally, I hope that Lee and McVeigh are now both burning brightly in hell.

I'm not holding my breath waiting for a factual version of this story to show up on the Discovery Channel, by the way. Many of their "discoveries" of late have included the pending end of earth hysteria so well embodied by the beliefs of the man who invaded their high-rise headquarters.

Given all that preaching about Mother Earth and the fixation of Al Gore-like environmental hysteria, it was probably inevitable that some cuckoo would go ballistic. And sure enough, one did. Lee ended up not seriously harming the hostages, but in his crazed mind gave the ultimate sacrifice to Mama Green by committing suicide by cop. At least there's now one less filthy human to eat up earth's limited resources. He gave his life to pass on the message that even if you don't give a damn about the greener chapters of the environmental little red book, you must be worried about the ultimate disaster which will occur from overpopulation--war and famine resulting from too many people vying over food and natural resources.