The Rhetoric of Violence


Today, James Jay Lee died, shot by police. Lee walked into the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in Silver Springs, Maryland, armed and seemingly strapped with a bomb. Though most of the building was evacuated safely, Lee managed to take three people hostage. The stand-off lasted several hours, and ended when Maryland police had no choice but deadly force to finally ensure the safety of the hostages.

During the long stand-off, people across the airwaves and internet discovered and discussed volumes of information on the gunman. His motives were dissected, his family was interviewed, his disturbing list of demands parsed. When something like this happens, this search is inevitable and understandable. Everyone, politically motivated or otherwise, has the same question.

Why?

The simplest answer is generally the correct one: these people are crazy. In the case of James Jay Lee, witness his bizarre list of eco-demands. He wants to undo civilization because human beings are filth. He believes man is destroying the earth, that it is happening rapidly, that development, consumption, and overpopulation are the root causes, and that only swift, drastic, unilateral action can save the planet.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before.

Lee was the very picture of instability. His radical environmental views were at their most extreme in his list of demands for programming changes at The Discovery Channel. He wanted them to stop “encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants.” He stated that 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.” Notice the detached language. He uses “human” as an accusation, not a description. This was a man who had rejected humanity whole cloth. The entire manifesto oozes with contempt and rage. Humans are the bad guys, at war with the only true good: nature.

Stop me, please, if you’ve heard this before.

One might expect, with all of this information being uncovered about this man as he held three “filthy” humans at gunpoint and under threat of a possible bomb, in service to nature against man, that it would be pretty generally well-accepted that his radical environmental views were his motivation. Not least because, well, he said so.

Not if you’re Think Progress.

In a blog post titled “Purported Eco-Terrorist Angered Over ‘Immigration Pollution And Anchor Baby Filth’,” Think Progress, apparently without shame, named “anti-immigration” sentiment the culprit. The blog post focuses in on one demand from the eco-screed in order to make the case:

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!)

All alone on the page, I’m sure the reader saw “anchor baby filth” and believed the Think Progress author had a point. But that’s the beauty of selective excerpting, isn’t it? Viewed in full, he truth is more obvious. Why wouldn’t he call anchor babies filth? He has already explained that ALL human babies are filth. All humans are filth. He’s not complaining about immigration because he doesn’t like furners. He’s complaining about over-population. This item on the list is no different than any other. It’s about earth vs. humans, as anyone can plainly see.

But that didn’t stop the blogger from ominously linking him to supposed “anti-immigration” groups.

Lee’s immigration screed bears a troubling resemblance to views and policies espoused by anti-immigrant groups such as NumbersUSA, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), Progressives for Immigration Reform, and others.

The “and others” is my favorite part. No doubt referring to a “certain portion” of the population. Such blatant attempts to pin the gunman on right-wing sentiment are de rigeur among the online left in the wake of tragedy these days. But James Jay Lee’s screed was so obviously green in nature that this round of pin the tail on the righty was doomed. There was just no chance it would fly.

Now, what do you think happens when this sort of violence can’t be pinned on the right? Is it pinned on the left? If DailyKos and Media Matters and Think Progress can’t somehow paint Lee’s tree-hugging on Erick Erickson, Glenn Beck, or Rush Limbaugh, do you think they’ll have to accept that this time, their name the blame game points at their own houses?

Of course not.

That tweet about not trying to score political points on a tragedy takes you to a Media Matters post where they try to score political points on a tragedy, by the way.

Now, let me tell you something that may sound crazy. Media Matters has a point. Minus the link, I think Media Matters has a decent point, albeit accidentally and hypocritically. James Jay Lee was a criminal. And more than that, he was unhinged. Neil Cavuto interviewed Lee’s brother-in-law, Thomas Leonard, close to the end of the stand-off. Leonard describes Lee as “unstable” and “disagreeable”, and paints a picture of the downward spiral of a disturbed soul. When Cavuto asked Leonard whether he thought his brother-in-law was capable of murder, he replied “absolutely.”

Lee acted irrationally. His environmental extremism was likely a function of his derangement, rather than the source of it. He latched on. He took it to the extreme, to say the least. Lee was not, by any measure that I would choose, a sane man. The story told by his brother-in-law – one of temper, erratic behavior, and irrational views – recalls Jerry Kane.

Jerry Kane, and his son Joe, killed two police officers and were killed themselves, in a shoot-out precipitated by a simple traffic stop. Jerry Kane, too, was an unstable man. His hometown mayor said of him that “You were always looking over your shoulder to make sure he wasn’t there. You never knew what he was going to do. I always thought he was an unstable individual.” Like Lee, the aftermath anecdotes painted a picture of paranoia and fear. But that didn’t stop liberal sites like Crooks and Liars from laying him at the feet of the conservative movement. Or Joseph Stack. Or Richard Poplawski. Or Byron Williams. It didn’t stop them from suggesting that Erick was responsible for a census worker slaying.

In fact, every time someone is shot in a lone gunman scenario, the right, and the tea parties and talk radio in particular, are virtually instantaneously blamed by the left at large for “violent” rhetoric and instigation.

Stop me, again, if you’ve heard THAT one before.

We never stop hearing from the MSNBC left how the Fox News right is stirring up violence. But when someone clearly basing his murderous intent on the idea that humans are going to destroy the world, and soon, acts on the dire prophecies of Al Gore … well suddenly you can’t blame rhetoric for crazy people.

I do think the increasingly apocalyptic green movement scares people. They intend to scare people. And when you are blasting doomsday from every bully pulpit on earth, some crazy is bound to take that to heart, possibly even act on it. But …

Crazies will always find something to take to heart. Could be global warming apocalypse rhetoric. Could be taxes. Could be a birth certificate. Could even be Jodie Foster. By all currently available evidence, James Jay Lee was one of those crazies. Media Matters was right about that. What they, and virtually all the other liberal blogs are wrong about, is their absolute hypocrisy in laying every horrific crime at the feet of the right, while crying for circumspection when crazies cite the rhetoric of the left.

“Progressives” say calling President Obama’s socialist policies socialist is inviting assassination. How much more so, I wonder, to say that Republicans want you to die quickly? Or that the world will literally end in a spectacular cataclysm if capitalism isn’t halted and reversed? If indeed we are to ascribe violence to rhetoric, can anyone say with a straight face that tea partiers opposing government spending represent a greater risk than Democrats telling you Republicans are trying to kill you and bring about the end of human civilization?

James Jay Lee was a disturbed, lone actor. His twisted mind latched on to the green movement and he took a horrifying step from there. It has happened before for other reasons. Sadly, it will happen again. And while we must certainly be vigilant in guarding against rhetoric designed to incite such a result, we must be equally careful that we do not attribute to mainstream political dissent the actions of the unwell. And those of us on the right must be especially vigilant in calling out those on the left when they do. As they do routinely.

Oh by the way, one more thing about that Media Matters tweet about not scoring points. In the linked blog entry? They reiterate the ridiculous Think Progress talking point about immigration. Point scoring indeed.


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What do you expect? The Left are liars and hypocrites.

davesinsanantonio (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 5:55AM EDT (link)

To them the end justifies the means, so lying and being hypocritical are okay if it damages the Right, or expands the power of the Left. The sheep will readily believe any bad about the Right, and because the so-called main stream media is part of the Left, they will gladly say anything that comes to mind, no matter how false or ridiculous. Then they will either not issue a retraction or bury it way deep in the back of the paper. Thus the sheep will never see the truth, or will willingly ignore it anyway. Thus the liars and hypocrites have been successful in furthering their cause, and the truth be damned. To paraphrase a famous quote: They can’t handle the truth! The truth does nothing to further their cause, so they do not want to be tainted by it. They avoid it when they can. Al Gore lied when he said it, but to them the truth is inconvenient at best.

 

Left Out mor of the left

jackieb Thursday, September 2nd at 6:08AM EDT (link)

Left out are the Greespeace & ACLU, these should be in that mix

 

I linked over to Think Progress and they have already

trutexan Thursday, September 2nd at 6:21AM EDT (link)

moved that article on down the page. Now at the top is yet another old story about Sarah Palin’s clothes from the 08 election. They’ve dismissively waived their hands to disgard this icky Lee mess and moved on to more important things.

Ted Cruz (R) for Texas Senate.

Obama – Forward!
Proverbs 4:12-15
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a forward mouth. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Forwardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

 

If only he had left out #5 it would have looked like part of the Democratic Party platform

bk (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 6:28AM EDT (link)

On a serious note, could Al Gore get sued for all the pain and suffering this caused? If the guy had shot anyone, people would be looking to sue the sellers and manufacturers of the gun and the bullets; but since Al Gore was the root cause here it seems like he should be liable. He wanted his books and movies and speeches to stir people to action, and they did!

 

'Purported' Eco-Terrorist?

Ed Thursday, September 2nd at 7:04AM EDT (link)

Yes..by the entire rest of the THINKING world.

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And on a positive note...

merryj1 Thursday, September 2nd at 7:26AM EDT (link)

I’m sure everyone else saw or heard about today’s (now yesterday’s) Glenn Beck show: he mentioned this event and very pointedly stated that it would be a cheap shot to try to lay the blame for a mentally-unbalanced (I think he said “crazy”) person’s actions on Al Gore (even though it was apparently Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” that the hostage-taker himself “credited” with his “awakening” to the planet’s crisis.

 

John Holdren with an attitude and a bomb?

sdeakins Thursday, September 2nd at 8:11AM EDT (link)

Here are some facts about the current Obamao Regime Science Czar. Sounds eerily similar to the Discovery Dude:

Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A “Planetary Regime” with the power of life and death over American citizens.

The tyrannica…l fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? Or both?

These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology — informally known as the United States’ Science Czar. In a book Holdren co-authored in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country wrote that:

• Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
• The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation’s drinking water or in food;
• Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
• People who “contribute to social deterioration” (i.e. undesirables) “can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility” — in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
• A transnational “Planetary Regime” should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans’ lives — using an armed international police force.

Sam B Deakins

Holdren

ZZMike Thursday, September 2nd at 1:08PM EDT (link)

This isn’t the first time I read about the similarity between Lee and Holdren. This needs to get more “air time”.

The problem is, Holdren isn’t just another nut-case. He’s a nut-case who’s Obama’s Science Czar.

 
 

"Blame and Insurance" need to replace "Hope and Change"

qurys Thursday, September 2nd at 8:36AM EDT (link)

Everytime something evil happens we try to find a book, a movie, an event, a talk show host, a tv channel,,,,,,,anyone…..anything other than the instigator at whose feet to lay the “blame”. The natural Progressive practice after that is to “regulate” that book, movie, institution, event, talk show host or tv channel to “Insure” that it will never happen again. If we continue to beg for blame and insurance…..that is exactly what we will get. From the media and from our elected officials. How many times do you think Barack Obama cited a piece of legislation over the last year and a half to “Insure” that some evil thing will never happen to YOU again? He, along with other Progressives of both parties, continue to parlay the sad realities of the human condition into power and control.

I'm not seeing any calls to regulate

Raven (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 11:05AM EDT (link)

“An Inconvenient Truth.”

“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36

ha, great point nt

Cheryl (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 11:51AM EDT (link)

“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America, than the whole force of the common enemy.” –Samuel Adams

“The administrative state has inserted its big paws into our houses, from the toilet bowl to the light socket. Now if it would just stretch those paws from the one to the other at the same time, we might begin to recapture the spirit of ’76.” –Scott Johnson, Powerlineblog.com

 
 
 

Left has tried this tactic before

maddog (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 8:41AM EDT (link)

The left has used this tactic of trying to blame the actions of a leftie as right wing before. Back in Feb when James Stack flew a plane in to an IRS building in Texas, they tried to paint him as some right-wing nut-job bent on taxes. The reality was the guy and his manifesto was dripping with anti-business and anti-capitalist rhetoric. I recall he was as also anti-Iraq and anti-Bush. He held a lot of left wing beliefs and even quoted the communist creed at the end of his manifesto. Never the less, the MSN latched on the tax part and magically he is a right-wing nut job despite all the evidence of it being the opposite. It’s an understandable mistake. In the eyes of the media only conservatives can be crazy and liberals are warm, compassionate people caring for the little guy. What a bunch of BS.

They've been doing it for 90 years

Raven (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 11:07AM EDT (link)

National socialism is “right-wing,” after all.

“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36

 
 

So, he was a tea partier, right?

itrytobenice (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 8:42AM EDT (link)

signed, Katie Couric

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.


Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

ROFLMAO-good 'un!

ywhyvon1 Friday, September 3rd at 10:48PM EDT (link)

Socialist with fork looking for Socialist with pork pie-unknown

 
 

I am reminded

indyjohn Thursday, September 2nd at 9:37AM EDT (link)

of the segment that Rush Limbaugh did years ago, in which he read quotes from both Al Gore’s ‘Earth in the Balance’ and the ‘Unabomber Manifesto’ and challenged his listeners to guess which was which. The point that he brilliantly made was that the ideas that both presented and the apocalyptic tone in which they were expressed were almost indistinguishable. The big difference, of course, between Al Gore and Ted Kaczinski is that, as the Unabomber, Kaczinski took Al Gore’s outrage to its illogical conclusion, and sought to punish those whom he believed were actively harming the planet.
Let’s stop being overly polite and speak the stark truth: James Jay Lee’s ideas are identical to those that are espoused by many so-called mainstream environmental organizations. The inflammatory hate-speech of the envirofascists incited this man to violence. We know this is true because the Left tells us that it is true. Bill Clinton claimed that Right-wing Talk Radio (i.e. Rush Limbaugh) was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing. Ergo…

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke

 

Those pubs aren't speaking to normal people; they're trying to keep their own from defecting

Erick Brockway (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 9:48AM EDT (link)

Normal people don’t listen to their hogwash anyway.

 

Another leftist environmental attack on America

dambama Thursday, September 2nd at 9:49AM EDT (link)

That is the correct headline.

Pressure from the Green Movement causes liberal to become unhinged and start killing innocent Americans, Another sign that Obama’s policies are killing more innocent Americans.

When is Obama going to call off the dogs?

 

"James Jay Lee was a disturbed, lone actor"

Veronica (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 10:02AM EDT (link)

I don’t care.

The left is still using him to warp conservative thought.

When I logged onto my tweetdeck yesterday afternoon, I was clueless to these “Lee” and “James Lee” mentions, and it wasn’t until later than I figured out what was going on.

I now remember in the midst of all, Markos Moulitsas had thrown up a tweet :

“There’s a reason cops don’t want their actions videotaped. It gets harder to commit abuses like this one.”

I didn’t know police were positioned to protect the hostages James Lee held at that moment.

Just before that, he’d RT’d a tweet that referred to his own post where he tried to rebrand Tea Partiers and re-coin the phrase “American Taliban.”

Then the jerk laughsat James Lee’s death.

This morning, I get the headliner on Lee from Yahoo:

“Discovery Channel hostage-taker hated programming.”

The left isn’t keeping the record straight, as can be expected.

I applaud your post, Caleb.

But today I’m going on the prowl hen I can to set the record straight when the left tries to excuse this guy, and themselves.

I notice they get silent when they’re called out, like they did when the whole Discovery gunman thing was unfolding.

Truth was being revealed — they depend on the non-thinking and near-psychotic to spread their message — and they got silent.

Conservatives need to keep speaking.

Great post.

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Pray as if everything depends on God, and work as if everything depends on us. – St. Augustine

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Veronica, you got the point right

Richard Mullins (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 12:45PM EDT (link)

but the overarching part of what he did was ego. Notice, that James Jay Lee said that he had a solution. The same for the rest of the Greenies that have the same view. It’s all about me. With that, James Jay Lee in some sence is quite like our President. Egostistic and narcissistic people are the most freighting since they know what they do.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

true. hear about the "Me" person who had her car totalled

Veronica (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 12:50PM EDT (link)

by a suicidal person?

Guy survived 40-story, 400 foot drop and the woman asks, “Why my car?”

http://weaselzippers.us/2010/09/02/selfish-bitch-upset-that-a-man-attempting-to-take-his-life-by-jumping-off-a-building-landed-ontotalled-her-sports-car/

Where’s the moral compass?

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Pray as if everything depends on God, and work as if everything depends on us. – St. Augustine

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The only difference between her and James Jay Lee

Richard Mullins (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 1:07PM EDT (link)

is that he was a dedicated Greenie. Other than that, they were the same. The only term to describe these people is “All of self and none of thee”.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 
 
 
 

Now that the MSM knows it was a leftist ...

dambama Thursday, September 2nd at 10:16AM EDT (link)

They will drop this story like a hot potato.

 

I think the man acted perfectly rationally

Raven (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 10:28AM EDT (link)

Given the insane position that humans are a virus and need to be wiped out. Not particularly competently, but completely rationally.

“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36

True.

msctex (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 11:37AM EDT (link)

All he did was actually believe the dogma at the heart of the Green Movement, and act accordingly. He had to be nuts to do so, of course, but that says as much about the Green Movement as it does about him.

 

Followed the left's chant to it's logical conclusion

dmccracken Thursday, September 2nd at 11:40AM EDT (link)

Of course, in an unhinged manner, but the left whole thought process is unhinged, so I don’t see much of a difference here.

 

Bumper sticker greenies need

bk (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 11:58AM EDT (link)

THE EARTH WILL BE A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE
ONCE ALL THE HUMANS ARE KILLED OFF

 

Absolutely!

anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 12:07PM EDT (link)

He was as sane as the islamists are, given they act on their point of view.
He was as sane as the nazis were, given that they act on their point of view.

It’s the rest of the potential eco-terrorists/revolutionaries that are insane to buy in to the pseudo sciences and not take direct and immediate action of some sort…

Natural selection in action…

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No, he acted perfectly LOGICALLY

The_Gadfly (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 12:32PM EDT (link)

given that assumption. Rationality implies a different threshold, one in which your own existence continues. The logical conclusion of his screed results in him being the last person killed.

GIGO

Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 12:36PM EDT (link)

Logic is like a piece of software. You pump in data, logic processes the data. If the data you feed your logic-ware is crap, guess what the output is?

Chicken salad is an incorrect answer.

Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler

Polished turds?

The_Gadfly (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 12:47PM EDT (link)

Oooh! Shiny!

 
 
 

I disagree

Caleb Howe (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 1:07PM EDT (link)

A rational choice, even given his insane suppositions, would be to take an action that may result in his goals being achieved. Lashing out with a bomb at the Discovery Channel cannot be perceived, by a rational mind, as the logical course of action to achieve the goal of global policy shifts. Only in his fevered imagination could that ever be considered an effective way forward. He was fantasizing glory and apocalypse. That’s fanaticism, not rationality.

Caleb Howe (formerly known as absentee)

"That’s fanaticism, not rationality."

Veronica (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 2:47PM EDT (link)

Quote of the day for me.

Now I get ready for kid football. I rationally assume he will lead his defense to a shut-out like he did last week and much of last year.

btw — I copied your tweetie idea thingie. thanks in advance, Caleb.

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Pray as if everything depends on God, and work as if everything depends on us. – St. Augustine

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Point to you

Raven (Diary) Friday, September 3rd at 10:39PM EDT (link)

And point to Gadfly.

“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36

 
 
 

Excellent point Caleb

prior21us Thursday, September 2nd at 12:07PM EDT (link)

This is so spot on. It never fails for the left to blame everything on Rush, or the right wing talk show host of the day. I guess that would be Beck this week because of his gathering. We as conservatives, and I wish someone in a position of power, need to stand up to this BS, and call it what it is. The left is so good at this, hammering away at something until people believe it is true only because they have heard it so many times.

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Dollars

 

I feel saorry for this mans's Family but I don't understand how the crazy people trying the destroy the USA with their socialst and ecofreak policies and just as dangerous are treated as such either?NT

bobojake (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 12:12PM EDT (link)

I understand your reluctance to tie Lee's killing of people

The_Gadfly (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 12:39PM EDT (link)

to Al Gore’s book. The Left constantly abuse logic do intimidate conservatives by using that tactic. But there’s something fundamentally different about anti-tax rhetoric and the anti-human rhetoric of the current self-identified crop of environmentalists. That difference is that the anti-tax rhetoric doesn’t necessarily result in reducing the number of people on the planet. The environmentalist rhetoric does. Some of them want it to happen more slowly, by having lower birthrates so we eventually return to the “natural balance” others by sterilization, and still others through “positive action” (ELF, and Lee). Take the anti-human element away and you no longer have environmentalists.

 

Remember the quaint old days

Warrior (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 1:12PM EDT (link)

when the left bashed Limbaugh as an extremist for coining the term “Environmentalist Whackos”? Oh yeah. The man was practically a prophet.

And Lee James certainly did not care about immigration per se. To him it would simply be rearranging the deck chairs on the Malthusian Titanic. No no, go back and read his screed. What he did not like was that folks (filth) from the Third World are “breeders” and they become worse when the come to America because their babies now cost “30 times more.” It all makes internal sense if you pay attention.

And it is far too generous to trot out the “lone deranged man who latched on to environmental extremism” meme. That is exactly what they are saying about the right, i.e. that overboard rhetoric will sway “deranged loners” into “latching on” the rhetoric of the right and become violent.

No, no, no again I say. It is the charge of “extreme rhetoric” that the left is using and I think it perfectly righteous and fair to fling it back on them, especially since this enviro junk is so extreme one would have to unearth Carrie Nations or some such to find its equivalent on the right, which says a lot for us, BTW.

Oh no. Let us not let them get away with it. This a__clown was undoubtably a creature of “The Population Bomb”, EarthFirst!, ADL gang and every other band of pot smoking, tree hugging, oil burning, tie dye tee shirt wearing envirowhackos to ever come down the pike. Let us let the left OWN IT FOR A CHANGE!!!!!

Besides, members of EarthFirst, et al and are already on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for burning down subdivisions, spiking trees and so forth, hardly distinct from taking hostages.

So yes, let us gloat. Let us fling mud. Of course it’s sad, no one is saying it isn’t, but it was the left who famously made “the personal (and thus everything) political.” So for the them to now primly lean back in their chairs and proclaim they are beneath anyone making political points on tragedy is the highest form of hypocrisy.

Here’s an Inconvenient Truth for you: the has been hoist by their own petards! And let us proclaim it so throughout the land!!!!!!!!!!!

“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma

 

here's why I'm certain Lee's behavior belongs to the left

Jeff Weimer (Diary) Thursday, September 2nd at 3:44PM EDT (link)

He doesn’t believe that the cure for bad speech is more speech, but to limit or eliminate what he thought was “bad speech”.

Much like those who agree it’s a free country, but “wish it weren’t so”, or trumpet the “fairness doctrine” to force broadcasters to self-censor. Or who write legislation that implicitly limits speech to unfavorable groups, while enabling favored constituencies to speak unfettered.

Democrats, in a word. Or the Left.

He *actively* – nay violently, sought for the Discovery channel to not only temper, but change some of it’s speech from that which celebrates human life to that which promotes it’s destruction. If that isn’t in line with the Democrat/Left agenda for speech, I don’t know what is.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire

 

complacency

olddog Thursday, September 2nd at 9:58PM EDT (link)

is thinking you are winning a bar fight, when your opponent breaks a bottle and goes for the jugular. Do not think , we shouldn’t be prepared for any type of dirty deed in the coming contests, for those in power won’t go easily , of both Rino’s ( Crist) and democRATS. when cornered, they are extemely dangerous. No fight is won until someone is K.O.’d or at least T.K.O.’d. the fight for freedom by our founders didn’t end when they won our Independence, they had to fight similar types, all along. many died broke, financially or broken physically. but the cause of Freedom should never be taken for granted, as many Americans have done, trusting untrustworthy people, to do what’s right. They have been, in my experience, selling us out since the 60′s for sure and probably long before that. My lady, used to think I was a little off the top, now she sees what I was saying, is true.
Make this, a life long commitment, for nothing worthwhile is ever cheap.
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Typical

connect4 Thursday, September 2nd at 10:55PM EDT (link)

The Left is always telling people to take hostages at the Discovery Channel. I heard Obama say something during the campaign about the need to be more active in your community. So, put the pieces together: Obama practically planned this whole thing. When are people going to wake up and see what we see?