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Wingers: The Hostage Situation at the Discovery Channel Yesterday Was Al Gore’s Fault

September 2, 2010 at 12:56 PM Leave a comment

I kid you not — an anti-climate change group — the “Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow” — is out with an article today blaming Al Gore for what James Lee did yesterday, i.e., taking three Discovery Channel employees hostage at the company’s Maryland headquarters before being shot to death:

James Lee, the gunman and hostage taker who was shot and killed by a SWAT team in the Discovery Channel Building in Silver Spring, Maryland, is the latest of a long line of eco-terrorists who have killed and maimed innocent people for over three decades.

The quick and decisive action by the Montgomery County Police Department enabled Lee’s three hostages to escape unharmed, a happy ending to an incident that brought the scourge of eco-terrorism to the gates of the nation’s capital. Before he met his end, Lee issued a manifesto which contained a set of demands aimed at the Discovery Channel.  While his demands come from a deeply disturbed mind, they are rooted in an apocalyptic environmentalism that we have seen before.

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According to the Maryland Gazette, James Lee was influenced by Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.”  While Gore’s controversial documentary does not advocate violence, the film’s catastrophic vision of earth’s future and man’s alleged role therein, will weigh heavily on the psychologically vulnerable among us. Let’s hope that Lee’s case is an isolated one and that we’re not facing a resurgence of eco-terrorism. The country has enough problems as it is.

The righties are famous for their “think tanks.”  Too bad they don’t spend their time thinking about how to put Americans back to work or how to get us off our dependence on oil, instead of thinking about how to blame Democrats for e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g.

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