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Sound familiar? Someone should make sure the judge on Michael
Vandemans case reads this.


By Dan Morse,Theresa Vargasand Michael E. Ruane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, September 1, 2010; 10:14 PM

James J. Lee divided the world into good and bad. According to his
writings on a Web site he created, people were bad, especially
"parasitic" babies.

Animals and bugs were good, Lee wrote. But war was bad, along with
global warming, pollution and international trade.

As for civilization?

The environmental militant who was killed Wednesday at the end of a
tense hostage standoff at Discovery Communications headquarters in
downtown Silver Spring, termed it "filth."

Lee, 43, who once threw money to bystanders as a protest along a
Silver Spring street and who believed that the world was better off
without people, was shot by police after the almost four-hour
standoff. Police have not publicly named Lee, but several local and
federal law enforcement sources identified him as the gunman.

Lee held a grudge against Discovery, viewing the network as a purveyor
of ideas he considered environmentally destructive and staging
protests outside its headquarters, according to authorities and court
records. Yet he met his end while getting little farther than the
lobby of the vast complex while the company alerted its thousands of
employees and urged them to stay in locked offices and then evacuate
using a designated stairwell.

Lee, whose environmental creed was spread across the Internet in a
series of manifestoes and blog posts, was killed at 4:48 p.m. after he
stalked into the building with a handgun, took three hostages and
later pointed his gun at one of them, said Montgomery County Police
Chief J. Thomas Manger.

The incident, in the headquarters of the global television corporation
just outside Washington, sent hundreds of employees streaming for
safety into the afternoon heat without their purses, wallets and
personal items. It snarled traffic and riveted media audiences, as Lee
had a gun and a bomb on his chest when he entered the building about 1
p.m. About 1,900 people work at the Discovery building.

Manger said that when Lee walked into the building, at Colesville Road
and Georgia Avenue, ordered people to freeze, but many fled.

Manger said Lee held three men - a security guard and two other
employees, hostage and forced them to get on the floor facedown.

The chief said police negotiated with Lee over next several hours
while a tactical team worked its way into a position where it could
see and hear the gunman. "They were watching him via camera, and they
were close enough to hear what he was saying and see what he was
doing," Manger said.

Police took action, Manger said, because the gunman became more
agitated. "At one point, the suspect . . . pulled out the handgun that
he came in with and pointed it at one of the hostages," Manger said.
"At that point, our tactical units moved in and shot the suspect."


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