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Armed Man With Bomb Takes at Least One Hostage in Discovery Channel Building

Meh anyone with a brain will see that a nut is a nut no matter what they believe.

And what would you estimate the % of people in this thread fall under that description? :D
 
Guy spouting Glenn Beck lines shoots at police? Oh, he's just a nut.

Guy spouts vaguely liberal environmentalist lines? ITS THAT AL GORE INCONVENIENT CULT!

Conservatives are funny. They also pay more attention to Al Gore than liberals do.

And liberals pay more attention to Glenn Beck than conservatives do. The media tries to say Sarah Palin and Beck cause people to be violent. Will they now say Al Gore does the same? At least no one was hurt and this man is now rotting in hell. Good riddance to him.
 
And what would you estimate the % of people in this thread fall under that description? :D

For as quickly as I have been reading this thread I am pretty sure most people are calling him a nut.
 
Deal with the truth! This was a mentally disturb man who fell for "the HOAX of the Environmentally Ill." He was no more sane than people who try to save the world from Hummers burning gas by setting them on fire polluting more in minutes than a Hummer would do in 20 years, or like the Religious wackos who kill abortion Doctors in an effort to save lives.

They are all equally sick, and susceptible to B.S. and in their minds they become some kind of super hero or the right hand of God.


I see the fault as being with the some Churches Teachings, and the Environmental groups who lie for profit, and people like Al Gore who pray on the week minded.

He got to live two hours longer than I would have let him for sure.
 
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He's just a mentally ill person, anyone trying to paint a story that some how blames whoever they see as their enemy, liberals, convservatives or the media, or whatever else, is just trying to twist a story for their own personal advantage. I guess its a nice litmus test to see who is too partisan for rational thought.
 
I watched this story on CNN and on the local news. In neither case was he portrayed as anything but mentally ill.

Notice how the guy that flew the plane into the IRS building in Austin was "sympathetic to the tea party movement."

But this guy is just ill. No mention of environmentalist, Al Gore, "An Inconvenient Truth", or nothing.
 
It will be interesting to see if environmentalists and animal-rights people will be asked to repudiate this clown every five minutes like pro-lifers were when Scott Roeder killed George Tiller.

I'm guessing they won't be ...
 
It will be interesting to see if environmentalists and animal-rights people will be asked to repudiate this clown every five minutes like pro-lifers were when Scott Roeder killed George Tiller.

I'm guessing they won't be ...

More likely it will hurt the environmental movement with people going 'oh look at what those crazy environmental treehuggers do.'
 
More likely it will hurt the environmental movement with people going 'oh look at what those crazy environmental treehuggers do.'
Which is probably true, but still ridiculous "guilt by association" thinking.
 
I agree, sadly this is what our politics has turned into.
I don't think it's ever not been this way. I'd argue that it is simply human nature.
 
More likely it will hurt the environmental movement with people going 'oh look at what those crazy environmental treehuggers do.'
I'm sure some people will see it that way. I'm more of the mindset that his fringe of it which is probably less than a percentage of the movement is dangerous and needs to be contained. I think some of the more political environmentalists take their message too far when it concerns my freedoms and they are taken too seriously, but are in essence not immediately dangerous. Then there are guys like me, conservationists, so it's like any other belief and runs the gamut from bat **** crazy to no more nuts than the little old lady sitting in church.
 
I'm sure some people will see it that way. I'm more of the mindset that his fringe of it which is probably less than a percentage of the movement is dangerous and needs to be contained. I think some of the more political environmentalists take their message too far when it concerns my freedoms and they are taken too seriously, but are in essence not immediately dangerous. Then there are guys like me, conservationists, so it's like any other belief and runs the gamut from bat **** crazy to no more nuts than the little old lady sitting in church.

Well you are one of the more level-minded and reasonable people so I would hope you see this as a fringe. I just think proponents will use this to hurt the larger environmental movement, like some on the left did when that nut flew into the IRS building. I agree that some take their message too far, but like you said that happens with every movement. You have the sane normal ones, the slightly less sane ones but don't cause that much trouble, and then you have people like him who are crazy beyond all belief.
 
I don't think it's ever not been this way. I'd argue that it is simply human nature.

Oh well maybe I am just too young to have noticed it before. Or maybe it is just worse now than it was before.
 
I hope it's in protest of their crappy programming! What happened to all the cool science shows? All we have now is Deadliest Catch and Mythbusters.

Yeah, when it comes to programming, the channel bombed years ago...
 
Well you are one of the more level-minded and reasonable people so I would hope you see this as a fringe. I just think proponents will use this to hurt the larger environmental movement, like some on the left did when that nut flew into the IRS building. I agree that some take their message too far, but like you said that happens with every movement. You have the sane normal ones, the slightly less sane ones but don't cause that much trouble, and then you have people like him who are crazy beyond all belief.
I think the same people that would overreact to this guy are the ones who would use anything they could get their hands on to hurt the opposition. Most people I would hope realize this guy acted on his own and without the consent of the movement at large.

What I think is more damaging to the movement than this guy is a combination of the scientists that got caught creating a bias and the Al Gore wing of the movement(That being jetsetting enviro-celebs). At the core of protecting land/bodies of water/air and not wasting resources for no reason I think anyone rational will agree, I think where we diverge is where to draw the line.
 
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Notice how the guy that flew the plane into the IRS building in Austin was "sympathetic to the tea party movement."

But this guy is just ill. No mention of environmentalist, Al Gore, "An Inconvenient Truth", or nothing.


The guy who flew plane in to the IRS bulding is just another nut. Why do you pay attention to the rantings of a nutcase? This has nothing to do with Gore, Beck, the Tea party, Palin, or even Tiger Woods (just throwing in another random personality).

Some people are irrational. Some of those irrational people make irrational posts on internet forums. Others take hostages and blow things up. I can live with the ones who just make irrational statements.
 
You know, there was a better way for this man to alleviate his problem with the Discovery Channel - Use the remote and change the channel - Duh!! He would have ended up a lot healthier, for sure. What is the problem with dumbasses like this? Oh well, who cares? Just give the moron a Darwin Award. :mrgreen:
 
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You know, there was a better way for this man to alleviate his problem with the Discovery Channel - Use the remote and change the channel - Duh!! He would have ended up a lot healthier, for sure. What is the problem with dumbasses like this? :mrgreen:




uhm no, food network is one up, and MTV is one down. healthier my ass. :lol:
 
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