Hostage Situation at Discovery Communications Headquarter in Silver Spring, MD

[MrHat]

http://www.tbd.com/articles/2010/09/discovery-communications-headquaters-in-silver-spring-evacuated-7172.html

Live feed being updated.

Apparently there's at least 1 hostage and shots have been fired.

[bhodi]

Yes.

OK so, decent news feed here

http://www.google.com/search?q=discovery+channel&num=100&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=nuv&source=lnms&tbs=mbl:1&ei=ZJF-TLPgLYP6lwey7oHwAw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&ved=0CAwQ_AU


here's some live tv

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://bit.ly/9AlLwc&sa=X&ei=959-TIevKoTGlQf0h-XuAw&ved=0CAgQsAcwAQ&usg=AFQjCNFQw4vrGJPZzGHnWCu2woW4KFXPCQ
http://www.myfoxdc.com/subindex/live_video/news_now


The worst quote: "Fox 5 reports that traffic is beginning to back up on the Beltway." NOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo

The Alleged Discovery Channel HQ gunman was ID'd as James Jay Lee; has history of protesting outside building according to NBC.

[schild]

Is this downtown Bethesda/Rockville? Right down the road from the Davidoff cigar store?

There are other ways for you to get home Bhodi.

[bhodi]

Is this downtown Bethesda/Rockville? Right down the road from the Davidoff cigar store?

There are other ways for you to get home Bhodi.

Yep, exactly. I'm in VA; I feel sorry for some friends, though. The only way to get back from over there is across harper's ferry way out west, or go the other direction on the beltway.

[schild]

Yea, go the other direction. You'll just hit normal traffic as Bethesda is only 7 miles outside of DC.

Edit: Or you can just go straight down dupont and go through college park and hop on 495.

[Sir T]

I hope and pray everyone gets out of this ok.

[WindupAtheist]

SWAT team blasts crazy guy, rescues hostages. Heard the guy died. Mission complete.

[IainC]

His demands.

[Cyrrex]

Your link leads me to a bad place, but I can only assume that he, too, wants to see more episodes of Dual Survival and just went apeshit.

[Vaiti]

It's the guys webpage, so as you can imagine it's suffering pretty heavy traffic atm.
Google cache works fine for it however.
My Demands.

[Chimpy]

This thread is probably going to devolve into Politics land. I will withhold my thought on his manifesto until that time.

[Arrrgh]

and, of course, the Squirrels

I feel bad about thinking of Gir.

[pxib]

It can be summarized pretty succinctly if you only include words he felt like capitalizing:

MUST. WITHOUT. STOPS! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!

SOLUTIONS. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!

ALL. FOR. FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH!

REVERSE.

YEARS! THIS IS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FOREST CREATURES!!!!

FUTURE. NO MORE BABIES!

FIND SOLUTIONS JUST LIKE THE BOOK SAYS!  INVENT, DAMN YOU!!

DEVELOP.

MUST KNOW, YET. MUST ALREADY KNOW!

These are the demands and sayings of Lee.

[MahrinSkel]

Not political, just nuts.  You've got a mishmash of nativism, misanthropy, and just plain ranting in his manifesto, not to mention the obvious lack of coherence.  Not every nutcase has a political agenda.

--Dave

[Murgos]

His main, recurring theme is reduced, or preferably non-existent, human reproduction stated as, "disgusting human babies!"

Why yes, that was certainly a reasonable demand to make of the Discovery Channel.

[kaid]

Funny thing is he wanted to get rid of disgusting human filth but was against war. Heck if you want to get rid of humans you should be pro war go nukes or go home. The world would recover fine if we wiped ourselves out so he should have been all for more warfare.

[NowhereMan]

Yeah, the whole rant about peace groups being pro-war because they wouldn't also advocate mass sterilisation thus causing more people and more war was You've fucking a highlighted a solution to the problem there! Of course maybe he was concerned about all the trees and tigers that get hurt during wars and would only advocate sterilisation at the humane way of getting rid of people.

Of course on a really sad level without any new technological innovation to help support the population numbers and growth we're looking at he might actually be right in his overall goals, if not in seeking to force the Discovery Channel to act as his medium of mass societal change.

[Sir T]

Yeah, in a sense he is a living example of the Lovecraft theme of someone being driven mad by seeing a little bit of the Universe as it really is.

[Samwise]

Of course maybe he was concerned about all the trees and tigers that get hurt during wars and would only advocate sterilisation at the humane way of getting rid of people.

He pretty much said as much -- war has too high of an environmental impact in his opinion for it to be an effective means of population control.

Obviously he was nuts; biological warfare is going to be the future, and that's a VERY environmentally friendly way to wipe out a lot of people very quickly.

[Bunk]

Just catching up to this now. I actually thought the rant was kind of interesting (in a completely insane way) until he started on about anchor babies half way through.