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Suspect has long protested Discovery programming

Website talks of his wanting networks to expose civilization 'for the filth it is'

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James J. Lee, the suspected gunman who has taken a hostage at the Discovery Communications building in Maryland, apparently has had a long history of contempt for company, which includes the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel and Planet Green networks.

He is reputed to be behind the website, SaveThePlanetProtest.com, essentially a one-page screed against Discovery, urging the company to expose civilization "for the filth it is" and to puts its focus on "how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution."

Then, almost as a business-like afterthought, it says: "A game show format contest would be in order."

Lee, reportedly in his early 40s, is apparently a longtime protester at the Silver Springs building, and was sentenced to six months of supervised probation for disorderly conduct in March 2008.

The SaveThePlanetProtest website list of "demands" is prefaced by this statement: "The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY."
Among the chilling demands: "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."
Lee has a page on MySpace, where he has 130 "friends."

Bantam Books
Suspected gunman James J. Lee cites this book as one of his inspirations and guiding forces regarding the environment and evolution.

In one of his last postings there, from 2006, he references the same book, "My Ishmael," by Daniel Quinn, that he does on his website. The book is about a gorilla named Ishmael who explains his philosophy about tribal society to a little girl.

"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," Lee wrote.

Reached yesterday, author Quinn, said he has never been in touch with James Lee; "what his take on the book is, I don't know," Quinn said. "It's hard to imagine how he got from reading this book to his current behavior. It certainly puzzles me."

And at another point, on his website, Lee's anger at Discovery was palpable. If Discovery's "'environmental' shows are actually working, then why is the news about the environment getting worse?" he wrote. "It should be getting better if they were doing their job and we should be seeing that reflected on the nightly news. But NO! The Discovery Channel is actually not about saving the planet, they are just another ‘green’ corporation whose real interests lies in MONEY! Products! Junk! Trash!"

On his MySpace page, Lee noted that he refuses to "read anything that is not directly related to the overpopulation problem and global warming. I am searching history for clues that could save the planet. I still am baffled why this is happening. It seems impossible. I am awaiting some nature videos that I ordered."

He added: "I remember a question I posed to a religious friend some time ago, that if we were all 'meant' to act a certain way, then why do animals act the way they do? Why do they die? Can't they be 'saved' as well. What I got was a definite 'no.' "

And in what is perhaps an icy foreshadow, he wrote: "I absolutely hate it when someone tells me 'no' or 'it can't be done' or 'that's just the way it is.' "
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