Police: Gunman holds hostage in Discovery building

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UPDATE III: The hostage-taker at the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., who was shot by police during the four-standoff is dead, reports ABC News.

The gunman, identified as James Lee, was killed by police following four hours of negotiations but the hostages are all safe, said Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger.

Manger said the suspect had “metalic canisters” strapped to his chest and back. When Lee was struck by police bullets, one of the canisters “popped.” Police have not confirmed if the canisters were a bomb, but Manger said the “device may have gone off” when he was shot.

UPDATE II: The hostage-taker at the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., has been shot, and his three hostages are believed to be safe, MSNBC has reported.

Witnesses in the area say the sound of at least one shot could be heard. Police would not say how badly James Jay Lee — believed to be the hostage-taker — was injured, or whether he is alive.

UPDATE: Web site linked to gunman calls for an end to ‘anchor baby filth,’ births of ‘parasitic human infants’

The gunman holding at least one hostage at the Discovery TV headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., reportedly runs a Web site that calls for an end to human reproduction and criticizes the Discovery channel for running TV shows about the birthing process and reproduction, news sources report.

Authorities say a “small number” of people may be held hostage, but the building — where 1,900 people work — has been evacuated.

Authorities have identified the man as James Jay Lee, a 43-year-old resident of Silver Spring. NBC in Washington has linked Lee to an event two years ago in which he threw thousands of dollars in the air during a protest outside the Discovery building. He was subsequently ordered to stay at least 500 feet away from the building.

Multiple news sources have linked Lee to a Web site, Save The Planet Protest, which sets out a list of demands on Discovery and calls in harsh terms for an end to human reproduction, specifically singling out the children of undocumented migrants, whom he describes as “anchor baby filth.”

“Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what’s left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture,” the Web site states in part.

The site was unavailable when Raw Story tried to access it, but a Google cache of the site uncovers a Web site devoted to a philosophy that combines hatred of the human race with environmentalism and anti-immigrant sentiment:

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.

Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the pollution in the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! This is your obligation. If you think it isn’t, then get hell off the planet! Breathe Oil! It is the moral obligation of everyone living otherwise what good are they??

Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that.

Find solutions for Global Warming, Automotive pollution, International Trade, factory pollution, and the whole blasted human economy. Find ways so that people don’t build more housing pollution which destroys the environment to make way for more human filth!

Saving the Planet means saving what’s left of the non-human Wildlife by decreasing the Human population. That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies! You’re the media, you can reach enough people. It’s your resposibility [sic] because you reach so many minds!!!

A MySpace page identified as belonging to Lee describes him as being a 43-year-old resident of Silver Spring, an atheist, and a fan of Captain James T. Kirk and Daniel Quinn, an environmentalist who has focused his work on the problems caused by overpopulation.

The Discovery Channel is listed in his favorite TV column.

The following video, showing Lee throwing money into the air during a protest outside the Discovery building in 2008, was posted to YouTube by user Pinachina, and flagged by Business Insider’s Kamelia Angelova.

INITIAL AP STORY FOLLOWS BELOW

Police: At least 1 person being held hostage by gunman in Discovery TV building in Md.

Police in a Washington, D.C., suburb say a gunman has taken at least one person hostage at the headquarters of Discovery Communications.

Montgomery County fire department spokesman Capt. Oscar Garcia says three bomb technicians responded to the scene in Silver Spring, Md., and several more are on their way.

Garcia says the initial report was of a suspicious package that was possibly explosive. He says nobody has been injured. Some employees have left the building.

Montgomery County Police Cpl. Dan Friz tells WJLA-TV that a gunman is in the building.

A person inside the building tells The Associated Press the man had something strapped to his chest and has hostages. The person asked not to be identified, saying people inside have been told not to speak to the media.

ATF and FBI officials say they are also responding.

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Associated Press Writer Terence Hunt in Washington contributed to this report.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police say a gunman has entered the Discovery Communications headquarters in suburban Silver Spring, Maryland and has taken at least one person hostage.

Montgomery County Police Cpl. Dan Friz tells WJLA-TV that a gunman is in the building.

A person inside the building tells The Associated Press the man had something strapped to his chest and has hostages. The person asked not to be identified, saying people inside have been told not to speak to the media.

Police did not immediately return calls from The Associated Press.

Discovery Communications LLC operates cable and satellite networks in the U.S. including The Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet.

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Associated Press Writer Terence Hunt contributed to this report.

Source: AP News

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  • Anonymous

    If I can offer some hostage negotiation points to the gunman @ Discovery HQ.
    •Tear up Palin’s contract…She should get a real job, besides… that woman is an idiot!
    •Cancel them phuck’n Ice Road Truckers…Please….More Hitler on the History Channel!
    •Eliminate big logos and pop ups during programs

  • Anonymous

    What is not educational about Ice Road Truckers?

    I remember when the discovery and history channels were more than jingoistic propaganda outlets.

  • Anonymous

    This guy must be a Glen Beck Tea Partier. Sounds like he has heard too much from Beck and Palin and Nugent. Expect more of this as the Tea Partiers get rocking and rolling.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000840836253 Vajid Ali

    Shoot your self and there will be one less human on the planet…problem solved!!!!

  • Vatos651

    Sounds like dude isn’t getting any.

  • Anonymous

    except that he’s an environMENTAList.

  • Anonymous

    I find this all to be quite ironic. An atheist, Malthusian eco-freak who literally hates all immigrants. At least those one the Left can’t say that all the lunatics are found on the conservative side of the political spectrum.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Sisyphus73 Kevin A Maynard

    Well, well seems the government is now going to make environmentalists look like terrorists….just in time for elections

  • Anonymous

    Looks like an environmental extremist had himself a temper tantrum.

  • MK ultraviolins

    Its Monarch Butterfly season

  • http://twitter.com/thedankDJ dank.

    Yes, how dare the government make armed hostage takers look like terrorists.

    moron.

  • http://twitter.com/thedankDJ dank.

    his myspace says he’s online now XD

  • http://twitter.com/thedankDJ dank.

    his myspace says he’s online now XD

  • http://www.facebook.com/Sisyphus73 Kevin A Maynard

    And apparently you cannot see past your asshole. This little set up will just be used to encroach on more freedoms, doesn’t take a moron to see or understand that.

  • Anonymous

    ya think? I mean, just now, did that occur to you?

    At least the left can’t claim all the intelligence now either.

  • http://twitter.com/LevStrauss Lev Strauss

    Wow…RS trying to make this an anchor baby thing? You guys are really becoming worse than Limbaugh has ever been at twisting facts.

  • http://twitter.com/LevStrauss Lev Strauss

    Wow…RS trying to make this an anchor baby thing? You guys are really becoming worse than Limbaugh has ever been at twisting facts.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KFOFZHLUNJCQATOHPSVHSFKP3I pw

    yet another patsy false flag on the public.

  • http://twitter.com/thedankDJ dank.

    I’m sure the government paid him nicely, right?

    I bet he’s not even dead.

    etc etc.

  • Anonymous

    lol exactly. I love how an idiot claims this guy must be a glen beck supporter or glen beck fan when clearly his views don’t afford him to be either.

  • http://twitter.com/shivabeach Shiva

    Not raw story doing it, that was this guys manifesto. Read up.

  • Anonymous

    OMG is Michelle Malkin ,the poster anchor baby for the right, safe?

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    Aside from the anchor baby thing, I kind of agree with his philosophy.

    “Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what’s left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture,”

    That said, I love humans and I certainly don’t want to see anyone die. I wonder why he is singling out the Discovery Channel? Apparently he threw thousands of dollars into the air in front of the Discovery building a couple years ago??? Why?

    The guy is obviously insane.

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t everybody out celebrating that the right wing anchor baby Michelle Malkin is safe?

  • Anonymous

    He was at the Glenn Beck rally with a t shirt that said “Hitler was right, you know”.

  • Anonymous

    This is one less vote for the tea party in November.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, he was white so he must be Right.

  • Anonymous

    I would like to see his birth certificate….was he born in Hawaii too?????

  • Anonymous

    I would like to see his birth certificate….was he born in Hawaii too?????

  • independent

    Anchor baby filth rant?

    his manifesto was much more than just an anchor baby filled rant.

    everything else in it sounds like it could have come straight from Obama’s science czar Holdren.

    Why leave out the inconvenient truth that he credited Al Gore with his ‘awakening’

    What a joke this site has become

    RawStory is really staring to

  • Anonymous

    The Goebbels propaganda ministry is working. When will FAUX NEWS put the new sign up on their building.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/acepreston/3073337528/

  • Anonymous

    He is part of the “Beck Hound Gang”,…………..”You and me baby we ain’t nothin’ but mammals
    So let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
    Do it again now
    You and me baby we ain’t nothin’ but mammals
    So let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel
    Gettin’ horny now”…….

    Thanks beck, your religion is awesome.

  • Anonymous

    He was a loony tune. None of the environmentalists that I have known, nor any credible environmental group, espouse this type of extremism. And none of the progressives that I known buy into nor spew the anchor baby rhetoric, which is of late the mantra of right-wing Republicans.

  • scytherius

    Another Beck Boy. These people are fu***ng evil. They are not human. they deserve nothing but our contempt end enmity. We must fight. They will kill us all if we do not.

    The Right Wing is a terrorist organization. The Tea Party is a bigot and terrorist organization. Glen Beck is a terrorist and a traitor.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/BXAID5YQT6YF5MQRPSMFHVT6TA sacha

    1. 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. 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. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!

    RAWSTORY WHY ARE YOU FUCKING LYING ABOUT WHAT HE STANDS FOR

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/BXAID5YQT6YF5MQRPSMFHVT6TA sacha

    The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY:
    1. 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. 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. A game show format contest would be in order. Perhaps also forums of leading scientists who understand and agree with the Malthus-Darwin science and the problem of human overpopulation. Do both. Do all until something WORKS and the natural world starts improving and human civilization building STOPS and is reversed! MAKE IT INTERESTING SO PEOPLE WATCH AND APPLY SOLUTIONS!!!!

    2. 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.

    3. All programs promoting War and the technology behind those must cease. There is no sense in advertising weapons of mass-destruction anymore. Instead, talk about ways to disassemble civilization and concentrate the message in finding SOLUTIONS to solving global military mechanized conflict. Again, solutions solutions instead of just repeating the same old wars with newer weapons. Also, keep out the fraudulent peace movements. They are liars and fakes and had no real intention of ending the wars. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! On one hand, they claim they want the wars to end, on the other, they are demanding the human population increase. World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!

    4. Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the pollution in the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! This is your obligation. If you think it isn’t, then get hell off the planet! Breathe Oil! It is the moral obligation of everyone living otherwise what good are they??

    5. Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently. Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies. FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH! (The first world is feeding the population growth of the Third World and those human families are going to where the food is! They must stop procreating new humans looking for nonexistant jobs!)

    6. Find solutions for Global Warming, Automotive pollution, International Trade, factory pollution, and the whole blasted human economy. Find ways so that people don’t build more housing pollution which destroys the environment to make way for more human filth! Find solutions so that people stop breeding as well as stopping using Oil in order to REVERSE Global warming and the destruction of the planet!

    7. Develop shows that mention the Malthusian sciences about how food production leads to the overpopulation of the Human race. Talk about Evolution. Talk about Malthus and Darwin until it sinks into the stupid people’s brains until they get it!!

    8. Saving the Planet means saving what’s left of the non-human Wildlife by decreasing the Human population. That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies! You’re the media, you can reach enough people. It’s your resposibility because you reach so many minds!!!

    9. Develop shows that will correct and dismantle the dangerous US world economy. Find solutions for their disasterous Ponzi-Casino economy before they take the world to another nuclear war.

    10. Stop all shows glorifying human birthing on all your channels and on TLC. Stop Future Weapons shows or replace the dialogue condemning the people behind these developments so that the shows become exposes rather than advertisements of Arms sales and development!

    11. You’re also going to find solutions for unemployment and housing. All these unemployed people makes me think the US is headed toward more war.

    Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what’s left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture.

    For every human born, ACRES of wildlife forests must be turned into farmland in order to feed that new addition over the course of 60 to 100 YEARS of that new human’s lifespan! THIS IS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FOREST CREATURES!!!! All human procreation and farming must cease!

    It is the responsiblity of everyone to preserve the planet they live on by not breeding any more children who will continue their filthy practices. Children represent FUTURE catastrophic pollution whereas their parents are current pollution. NO MORE BABIES! Population growth is a real crisis. Even one child born in the US will use 30 to a thousand times more resources than a Third World child. It’s like a couple are having 30 babies even though it’s just one! If the US goes in this direction maybe other countries will too!

    Also, war must be halted. Not because it’s morally wrong, but because of the catastrophic environmental damage modern weapons cause to other creatures. FIND SOLUTIONS JUST LIKE THE BOOK SAYS! Humans are supposed to be inventive. INVENT, DAMN YOU!!

    The world needs TV shows that DEVELOP solutions to the problems that humans are causing, not stupify the people into destroying the world. Not encouraging them to breed more environmentally harmful humans.

    Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. 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.

    You MUST KNOW the human population is behind all the pollution and problems in the world, and YET you encourage the exact opposite instead of discouraging human growth and procreation. Surely you MUST ALREADY KNOW this!

    I want Discovery Communications to broadcast on their channels to the world their new program lineup and I want proof they are doing so. I want the new shows started by asking the public for inventive solution ideas to save the planet and the remaining wildlife on it.

    These are the demands and sayings of Lee.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/BXAID5YQT6YF5MQRPSMFHVT6TA sacha
  • independent

    you people are freaking nuts.

    Lee is much more of a Gore foot soldier rather than a Beck boy.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/BXAID5YQT6YF5MQRPSMFHVT6TA sacha

    “The only way to prevent global ecological collapse and thus ensure the survival of humanity is to rid the world of Industrial Civilization,” writes Farnish in the book, adding that “people will die in huge numbers when civilization collapses”. Farnish’s call for violence, “razing cities to the ground, blowing up dams” provides a deadly blueprint for nutcases like Lee to follow.

    Farnish explains his desire to see rampant population reduction in the name of saving the planet, with rhetoric chillingly similar to that contained in Lee’s online screed.

    “In short, the greatest immediate risk to the population living in the conditions created by Industrial Civilization is the population itself. Civilization has created the perfect conditions for a terrible tragedy on the kind of scale never seen before in the history of humanity. That is one reason for there to be fewer people,” he writes.

    Another prominent figure in the climate change debate whose rhetoric mimics that of Lee is Dr. Eric R. Pianka, an American biologist based at the University of Texas in Austin. During a speech to the Texas Academy of Science in March 2006, Pianka advocated the need to exterminate 90% of the world’s population through the airborne ebola virus. The reaction from scores of top scientists and professors in attendance was not one of shock or revulsion – they stood and applauded Pianka’s call for mass genocide.

    Saying the public was not ready to hear the information presented, Pianka began by exclaiming, “We’re no better than bacteria!”, as he jumped into a doomsday malthusian rant about overpopulation destroying the earth.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, and it looks like he rarely watched FOX.

  • Afrobori

    According to my local news channel he was against TLC because of their show “Kate plus 8″ for ‘promoting’ multiple births, The gunman apparently was against human population growth and was against the Discovery channel because he believed they dont do enough to save the planet.

    Yeah I agree with him to an extent but an end to human population is the end of our civilization and as wicked as humans can be I believe we have a right to live. Though I am not a pro life fanatic.

  • Anonymous

    I had not heard of either of these people, so I Googled them. It seems to me that you’re misconstruing Farnish (according to http://earth-blog.bravejournal.com) and Pianka (according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mims-Pianka_controversy). Perhaps you’re a Drudge follower.

    Farnish and Pianka believe dramatic changes are required to save the planet and its inhabitants, but it does not appear that either is calling for violence. For instance, here is an excerpt from Farnish’s blog.

    “If you didn’t realize it after Nopenhagen and the tea party protests, and the incessant rage on AM radio, we’re definitely in the anger phase folks, and it’s only going to get worse. The battle lines of ideology have been drawn. Even people we used to think were on “our” side may turn out to have irreconcilable differences once they realize the only choices they have are to double-down on BAU or to powerdown. And I’m sorry to say that the environmentalists are going to be in trouble if they just lower themselves to this sorry level of vitriol. I’m afraid that this sort of crisis of confidence may indeed lead to violence. If the country practically tore itself to pieces over something as simple as healthcare, how can we stay unified and bring all hands on deck in the face of peak oil and ecological collapse?”

  • Anonymous

    I concur. It seems like this guy was writing like what wingnuts think progressives are like.

  • Anonymous

    you moron, Shiva already read it. Take some Intro to English classes. You obviously have issues with reading comprehension.

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