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A "small number" of hostages have been taken by an armed man inside the Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, police say.

The gunman, named by US media as James Lee, had metallic canisters strapped to his chest and a handgun when he entered the building according to the police.

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A gunman who took three hostages at the Discovery Communications headquarters in the US has been shot dead by police and his captives have been set free.

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The area around the building in Silver Spring, Maryland, was sealed off as police negotiated with the man. After several hours, police began to fear for the safety of the hostages, said Montgomery County Police Chief J Thomas Manger.

The man then pulled out a handgun and told everyone to remain still.

A spokesman for Discovery Communications said the company had known the gunman before this incident but "not taken his threats or demands seriously".

He reportedly was also the author of the website savetheplanetprotest.com, where he demanded that the Discovery Channel broadcast programmes that would help "to save the planet".

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...people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution.

All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants...

...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!

...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.

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.

...All human procreation and farming must cease!

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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.

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Here's a person who was not acknowledged. He was nobody, and he wasn't at all important. And those are actually things that he has in common with many of us. But in this age of narcissism, of celebrity without accomplishment, there's a tremendous pressure to be somebody. When we measure success in fame, or in acclaim, or in number of Twitter followers, we shouldn't be surprised that people feel the need to be noticed in similar ways.

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If you read Lee's manifesto and take him at his word, you can't say he didn't have good intentions. He was concerned about overpopulation, endangered species, and poor consumption habits.

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But when I say that he wasn't acknowledged, I'm observing that there was not one friend, one co-worker, or one family member who had an awareness that Lee was the type of person who would threaten violence to get what he wanted. It would have taken only one of these social contacts to keep him from acting out, and possibly keeping him connected to the rest of the sensible world. This is why it's important to have regular social contact, because you have to rely on family and friends to let you know when you're out of line.

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But when I say that he wasn't acknowledged, I'm observing that there was not one friend, one co-worker, or one family member who had an awareness that Lee was the type of person who would threaten violence to get what he wanted. It would have taken only one of these social contacts to keep him from acting out, and possibly keeping him connected to the rest of the sensible world. This is why it's important to have regular social contact, because you have to rely on family and friends to let you know when you're out of line.

nein!  my conclusion is that there wasnt anyone because he pushed everyone away with his extremism.  really it's a good thing because if he was able to befriend people with his extremism, you have the makings of malevolent dictator.

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I say that's not acceptable. It's not that people should be befriending people like this, it's that he should have a support structure already. Something built up from childhood, with a mixture of obligation and familiarity. Did Lee have family who loved him in spite of his attitude? Did he have friends from a time before he was nuts?

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You seem to be saying that it's acceptable to push these people away, and I challenge you to defend that assertion.

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I don't know this man's story, specifically, bu I can say from experience that there are people you just can't help, no matter how much you want to.  Whether it's pride or fear or disinterest, some people will simply rebuff your attempts to assist, and that's annoying, but a fact of life. 

I know people like this, who simply can't understand what they're doing wrong but refuse all attempts to tell them.  When this person snaps, it might not be a result of neglect or inattention, it's very possible that there was nothing to be done.

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I may not be personally able to help out a severely autistic nephew who is old enough to physically hurt his parents. Is it worth me trying to effect change in the rest of the world a little bit, so that life is easier for the people without common sense and empathy, and their caregivers?

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It's obviously too late for James Lee, but if any good is to come out of his situation then there should be a recognition of others like him.

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My life is probably too short to be successful, but I can't stop trying because I need to count on others to pick up where I leave off. I shouldn't be the start or the end of this, and if I am then I'm doing it wrong too.