URGENT: Hostage Situation in Silver Springs MD

[patti]

MoMo: hostage situation in Silver Springs....MoMo's area.

100 babies had to be evacuated (thankfully). A man carrying explosives is inside the Discovery Channel building apparently there is a nusery in there for employees...

12 caretakers of the childern are being held hostage along with one security guard.

[wineturtle]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/who-i...age-situation/


Background info about demands

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.
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[Administrator]

That's horrible, keep us updated Patti!

edit: news link: http://www.providingnews.com/discove...-maryland.html

[MoMoNoMo]

Yeah, that's my backyard, so to speak. I drive by that building two or three times a week, and ride the Metro through Silver Spring every day (and will be doing so in about an hour, hopefully).

Sounds like the guy is a hard-core anarchist/environmentalist, an angry guy who has repeatedly protested outside the Discovery building (once by throwing money into the air to attract a crowd) after they turned down some of his ideas for programs.

Hopefully this will end well.

[wineturtle]

Hostages safe


first reports say Lee was shot and device was indeed explosive

edit explosives not confirmed \


Hostages safe and Lee was shot confirmed

[patti]

He was SHOT then...ok...

WOW MoMo...huh? Scary...so close....I have friend (she was just here SUnday...she's a cop in/or near that area)..small world...

Lee wanted to change the programing.

What a manifesto!!!

My heart was in my throat watching the babies being moved in their cribs to a safe area...ohmygosh...thankfully Lee let them get out...

[MoMoNoMo]

Damn! I rode the Metro homeward this afternoon -- had to change trains right at Silver Spring. You can see the Discovery building from the Metro platform (it's above ground at that point), and I could clearly see all the cop cars and the roads and sidewalks closed off with yellow tape, and pedestrians a block away craning their necks and taking cell-phone photos.

At 4:47, approximately, I would have sworn I heard a gunshot. But just at that moment my train pulled (loudly) up and it was impossible to know whether that was what I actually heard.

Really a shame they had to shoot the guy, but if he was trying to set off explosive devices I guess they had no choice.

I read on a blog somewhere that the guy whose book apparently inspired Lee was called by a reporter for his reaction. It was more or less "Oh my god -- I can't believe someone twisted my thoughts into that sort of action. I really wish I could talk to him." That was maybe an hour or so before the end of the drama.

[wineturtle]

Originally Posted by MoMoNoMo

Damn! I rode the Metro homeward this afternoon -- had to change trains right at Silver Spring. You can see the Discovery building from the Metro platform (it's above ground at that point), and I could clearly see all the cop cars and the roads and sidewalks closed off with yellow tape, and pedestrians a block away craning their necks and taking cell-phone photos.

At 4:47, approximately, I would have sworn I heard a gunshot. But just at that moment my train pulled (loudly) up and it was impossible to know whether that was what I actually heard.

Really a shame they had to shoot the guy, but if he was trying to set off explosive devices I guess they had no choice.

I read on a blog somewhere that the guy whose book apparently inspired Lee was called by a reporter for his reaction. It was more or less "Oh my god -- I can't believe someone twisted my thoughts into that sort of action. I really wish I could talk to him." That was maybe an hour or so before the end of the drama.

Police reported gunman down 4:48 so you may well have heard the shot

[homeless]

Probably what you heard. Crazy stuff. Glad he was taken out.

[patti]

wow..incredible.

The book where Lee got some inspiration to feed his motives... Daniel Quinn's book "My Ishmael,"