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Environmental militant slain at Silver Spring building after taking hostages
Sound familiar? Someone should make sure the judge on Michael Vandemans case reads this. By Dan Morse,Theresa Vargasand Michael E. Ruane Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, September 1, 2010; 10:14 PM James J. Lee divided the world into good and bad. According to his writings on a Web site he created, people were bad, especially "parasitic" babies. Animals and bugs were good, Lee wrote. But war was bad, along with global warming, pollution and international trade. As for civilization? The environmental militant who was killed Wednesday at the end of a tense hostage standoff at Discovery Communications headquarters in downtown Silver Spring, termed it "filth." Lee, 43, who once threw money to bystanders as a protest along a Silver Spring street and who believed that the world was better off without people, was shot by police after the almost four-hour standoff. Police have not publicly named Lee, but several local and federal law enforcement sources identified him as the gunman. Lee held a grudge against Discovery, viewing the network as a purveyor of ideas he considered environmentally destructive and staging protests outside its headquarters, according to authorities and court records. Yet he met his end while getting little farther than the lobby of the vast complex while the company alerted its thousands of employees and urged them to stay in locked offices and then evacuate using a designated stairwell. Lee, whose environmental creed was spread across the Internet in a series of manifestoes and blog posts, was killed at 4:48 p.m. after he stalked into the building with a handgun, took three hostages and later pointed his gun at one of them, said Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger. The incident, in the headquarters of the global television corporation just outside Washington, sent hundreds of employees streaming for safety into the afternoon heat without their purses, wallets and personal items. It snarled traffic and riveted media audiences, as Lee had a gun and a bomb on his chest when he entered the building about 1 p.m. About 1,900 people work at the Discovery building. Manger said that when Lee walked into the building, at Colesville Road and Georgia Avenue, ordered people to freeze, but many fled. Manger said Lee held three men - a security guard and two other employees, hostage and forced them to get on the floor facedown. The chief said police negotiated with Lee over next several hours while a tactical team worked its way into a position where it could see and hear the gunman. "They were watching him via camera, and they were close enough to hear what he was saying and see what he was doing," Manger said. Police took action, Manger said, because the gunman became more agitated. "At one point, the suspect . . . pulled out the handgun that he came in with and pointed it at one of the hostages," Manger said. "At that point, our tactical units moved in and shot the suspect." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...090103911.html |
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Environmental militant slain at Silver Spring building aftertaking hostages
On Sep 2, 3:48*pm, None wrote:
* those giving this man a hard time should bear in mind he understood many things about the environment. he overreacted, but he knew we cannot sustain this planet as it is. Those defending this man should bear in mind he has been giving others a hard time for years. He did more to turn people off about caring for this planet than he did to unite them. He was also wrong about many things regarding the environment because he was blinded by his hatred for a specific group of people. |
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Environmental militant slain at Silver Spring building after taking hostages
Sound familiar? Someone should make sure the judge on
Michael Vandemans case reads this. =x= No, not even remotely familiar. =x= I know that some of you love using "environmentalist" as your primary adjective for MJV, most likely because you have unrelated axes to grind, but get real. The guy has gotten himself barred from the Sierra Club, and his views are decidedly unpopular amongst the great majority of the environmental movement. You're not being intellectually honest to hold him up as some sort of exemplar. =x= Ditto for James J. Lee, whose writing reveals him primarily as an misanthropic sociopath. Everything he wrote hinges on that; everything else is just dragged in to prop it up. On one hand he's supposedly concerned about the environment; on the other, he's a frothing racist wrt immigration. Holding *him* up as an exemplar is also intellectually dishonest. =x= If you have criticisms of either of these people, write about those. This kind of dishonest pattern-matching just comes across as stupid. _Jym_ |
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Environmental militant slain at Silver Spring building aftertaking hostages
On Sep 3, 3:41 am, Jym Dyer wrote:
Sound familiar? Someone should make sure the judge on Michael Vandemans case reads this. =x= No, not even remotely familiar. Poppycock. If someone posted... “Nothing is more important than saving ... 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.” .... before anyone heard of James Lee, most, if not all, who read these forums would have attributed that quote to Mike. Both have extreme environmental views, both held grudges, both were viewed as irrational, both were ticking time bombs! =x= I know that some of you love using "environmentalist" as your primary adjective for MJV, most likely because you have unrelated axes to grind, but get real. The guy has gotten himself barred from the Sierra Club, and his views are decidedly unpopular amongst the great majority of the environmental movement. You're not being intellectually honest to hold him up as some sort of exemplar. I haven't seen anyone actually calling him and environmentalist without also calling him "whacko" "extremists", "nut", etc. No one took his view of himself as an environmentalists seriously. =x= Ditto for James J. Lee, whose writing reveals him primarily as an misanthropic sociopath. Those exact words have been used to describe Michael Vandeman long before readers here heard of James Lee. http://www.mtbnj.com/forum/archive/i...hp/t-4053.html http://www.cyclebanter.com/showthread.php?p=2088549 Google will give you many, many more examples. Everything he wrote hinges on that; everything else is just dragged in to prop it up. On one hand he's supposedly concerned about the environment; on the other, he's a frothing racist wrt immigration. Holding *him* up as an exemplar is also intellectually dishonest. =x= If you have criticisms of either of these people, write about those. This kind of dishonest pattern-matching just comes across as stupid. _Jym_ I would bet those that were on the other side of the handsaw would disagree with you. Very familiar. |
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Environmental militant slain at Silver Spring building after taking hostages
"Bill Weir" wrote in message ... [...] I would bet those that were on the other side of the handsaw would disagree with you. None of us know what transpired, least of all this asshole who goes by the name of Bill Weir. Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
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Environmental militant slain at Silver Spring building after taking hostages
"Bill Weir" wrote in message ... On Sep 3, 3:41 am, Jym Dyer wrote: Sound familiar? Someone should make sure the judge on Michael Vandemans case reads this. =x= No, not even remotely familiar. Poppycock. If someone posted... “Nothing is more important than saving ... 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.” ... before anyone heard of James Lee, most, if not all, who read these forums would have attributed that quote to Mike. Both have extreme environmental views, both held grudges, both were viewed as irrational, both were ticking time bombs! =x= I know that some of you love using "environmentalist" as your primary adjective for MJV, most likely because you have unrelated axes to grind, but get real. The guy has gotten himself barred from the Sierra Club, and his views are decidedly unpopular amongst the great majority of the environmental movement. You're not being intellectually honest to hold him up as some sort of exemplar. I haven't seen anyone actually calling him and environmentalist without also calling him "whacko" "extremists", "nut", etc. No one took his view of himself as an environmentalists seriously. =x= Ditto for James J. Lee, whose writing reveals him primarily as an misanthropic sociopath. Those exact words have been used to describe Michael Vandeman long before readers here heard of James Lee. http://www.mtbnj.com/forum/archive/i...hp/t-4053.html http://www.cyclebanter.com/showthread.php?p=2088549 Google will give you many, many more examples. Everything he wrote hinges on that; everything else is just dragged in to prop it up. On one hand he's supposedly concerned about the environment; on the other, he's a frothing racist wrt immigration. Holding *him* up as an exemplar is also intellectually dishonest. =x= If you have criticisms of either of these people, write about those. This kind of dishonest pattern-matching just comes across as stupid. _Jym_ I would bet those that were on the other side of the handsaw would disagree with you. Very familiar. On (this) topic: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38832 |
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Environmental militant slain at Silver Spring building after taking hostages
... most, if not all, who read these forums would have
attributed that quote to Mike. =x= If that is true (and I doubt that it is), then most, if not all, who read these forums should maybe get out more and see the world. The environmental movement does not revolve around Mike. Not even the primitivists revolve around Mike. James Lee's right-wing anti-immigrant blather similarly has zero resemblance to anything Mike has written. =x= Discernment is a far more useful skill than simplistic pattern-matching. _Jym_ |
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Environmental militant slain at Silver Spring building aftertaking hostages
On Sep 6, 3:38*am, Jym Dyer wrote:
... most, if not all, who read these forums would have attributed that quote to Mike. =x= If that is true (and I doubt that it is), then most, if not all, who read these forums should maybe get out more and see the world. * I'm sure they do, but being as Vandeman has been spewing his rhetoric for over a decade, the chances that any given person has read something he has posted is great. The environmental movement does not revolve around Mike. *Not even the primitivists revolve around Mike. Thank you for stating the obvious. James Lee's right-wing anti-immigrant blather similarly has zero resemblance to anything Mike has written. I'm sure many things In James Lee's life bare zero resemblance To Mike, but other things and writings do The news article I responded about says nothing about James Lee's anti- immigrant stance, only his left-wing, radical environmental views and actions, like Mikes. That's what my post was about, the behavior of an extremist, like Mike. =x= Discernment is a far more useful skill than simplistic pattern-matching. It sure is, especially when you want to apply a political label to someone or their actions. |
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Environmental militant slain at Silver Spring building aftertaking hostages
On Sep 6, 3:38*am, Jym Dyer wrote:
... most, if not all, who read these forums would have attributed that quote to Mike. =x= If that is true (and I doubt that it is), then most, if not all, who read these forums should maybe get out more and see the world. * I doubt they are on here any more than you are. Mike has made quite the name for himself, it doesn't take hours of sitting at a computer to know who he is and what he's about. The environmental movement does not revolve around Mike. *Not even the primitivists revolve around Mike. That's not news. James Lee's right-wing anti-immigrant blather similarly has zero resemblance to anything Mike has written. But James Lee's left-wing blather does. =x= Discernment is a far more useful skill than simplistic pattern-matching. Especially when applying political labels to others. |
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Environmental militant slain at Silver Spring building after taking hostages
"Bill Weir" wrote in message
... On Sep 6, 3:38 am, Jym Dyer wrote: James Lee's right-wing anti-immigrant blather similarly has zero resemblance to anything Mike has written. But James Lee's left-wing blather does. Lee was convicted of smuggling illegal immigrants over the border: http://abcnews.go.com/US/discovery-c...ry?id=11541307 Does that sound like an anti-immigrant stance to...anyone?!? BS (called) |
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