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‘Send the Body to John Holdren’

Posted on | September 5, 2010 | 14 Comments

If a domestic terrorist’s rhetoric had echoed the arguments of a Bush administration official, the media would be in a howling fury, so why no fury over the deranged kook who took over the Discovery Networks headquarters? Professor Glenn Reynolds explains:

Filthy. Parasites. Disgusting, overbreeding candidates for sterilization and extermination. Possessed of false morals and a “breeding culture.”
Hitler talking about the Jews? Nope. This is Discovery Channel hostage-taker James Lee talking about . . . human beings. . . .
Looking at the environmental literature, we find terms like those used above — the currently stylish description is “eliminationist rhetoric” — used widely, and plans for mass sterilization are fairly common.
And, as Mark Hemingway pointed out in these pages a few days ago, one need only look to the writings of President Obama’s “science czar,” John Holdren to find something similar. Seeing humanity as destructive, Holdren wrote in favor of forced abortion and putting sterilizing agents in the drinking water, and in particular of sterilizing people who cause “social deterioration.” . . .

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: As Dan Riehl notes, Patterico gets ‘Lanched for playing dumb. I might resent that, were it not for the fact that “playing dumb” is my raison d’etre.

Seriously, though: The FBI has acknowledged eco-terrorism as a threat. James Lee’s twisted neo-Malthusian beliefs are shared by many “mainstream” environmentalists, including Ted Turner, who endorses China’s one-child policy. If Ted Turner is correct, if “too many people” are such a crucial threat, then wasn’t James Lee justified in his protests against Discovery/TLC, the network that celebrates the Duggar family?

Elena Donovan Mauer asks, “Did the Duggars Push the Discovery Channel Gunman Over the Edge?” I think that’s a serious question and, as a father of six myself, I’ve long been concerned by the anti-natalist rhetoric of environmentalism. It’s bad enough that it encourages useless kooks like Julia Buttefly Hill to waste their lives leading idiotic protests, but the movement also routinely produces criminal violence by Earth Liberation Front and others. 

James Lee was the tip of a very large Green iceberg of dangerous ideas.

UPDATE II: “Then lettuce be thankful his efforts wilted.”

Insta-PUNNED-it!

(Rimshot, please!)

Category: Environmentalism, Terrorism

Comments

14 Responses to “‘Send the Body to John Holdren’”

  1. jefferson101
    September 6th, 2010 @ 12:36 am

    Thank you, Glenn Reynolds!

    I keep seeing the “Compassionate Conservatives” announcing that we can’t blame the nut cases on their philosophy, just because they insist on doing it every time a nutcase even seems to reflect any of our philosophy.

    I’m not so forgiving. And given that most all of the nut-cases are from their side (Particularly if you include the Islamic ones, who the left seems to support, mostly.), I can’t find it in myself to keep letting them off.

    Y’all can believe, and do, whatever you want to. I’m stocking up on ammunition, personally. I may need it before this is over.

  2. jefferson101
    September 5th, 2010 @ 8:36 pm

    Thank you, Glenn Reynolds!

    I keep seeing the “Compassionate Conservatives” announcing that we can’t blame the nut cases on their philosophy, just because they insist on doing it every time a nutcase even seems to reflect any of our philosophy.

    I’m not so forgiving. And given that most all of the nut-cases are from their side (Particularly if you include the Islamic ones, who the left seems to support, mostly.), I can’t find it in myself to keep letting them off.

    Y’all can believe, and do, whatever you want to. I’m stocking up on ammunition, personally. I may need it before this is over.

  3. RES
    September 6th, 2010 @ 5:02 am

    From now on, any Leftish claim conflating Tea Party Rhetoric (TM) and acts of political violence (e.g., Kenneth Gladney’s brutal assault on that poor SEIU activist, repeating hitting him on the fist with his face) should be met with “John Holdren = James Lee”.

    Pointing out the connection between environ-mentalism rhetoric and over-heated responses such as the E.L.F. and James Lee is both a lifetime project and an exercise in shooting barrel-fish.

  4. RES
    September 6th, 2010 @ 1:02 am

    From now on, any Leftish claim conflating Tea Party Rhetoric (TM) and acts of political violence (e.g., Kenneth Gladney’s brutal assault on that poor SEIU activist, repeating hitting him on the fist with his face) should be met with “John Holdren = James Lee”.

    Pointing out the connection between environ-mentalism rhetoric and over-heated responses such as the E.L.F. and James Lee is both a lifetime project and an exercise in shooting barrel-fish.

  5. Joe
    September 6th, 2010 @ 5:52 am

    I am modifying what Dan Riehl said about Patterico:

    “Were he cast for the Wizard of Oz, Patterico might make a good Toto well…popular blogger. Some times it’s good to pull back the curtain but sometimes it’s not. That’s some serious concrete-thinking issue you got going on there, Pat! Heh!”

  6. Joe
    September 6th, 2010 @ 1:52 am

    I am modifying what Dan Riehl said about Patterico:

    “Were he cast for the Wizard of Oz, Patterico might make a good Toto well…popular blogger. Some times it’s good to pull back the curtain but sometimes it’s not. That’s some serious concrete-thinking issue you got going on there, Pat! Heh!”

  7. Joe
    September 6th, 2010 @ 6:05 am

    I am modifying what Dan Riehl said about Patterico:

    “Were he cast for the Wizard of OzWicked, Patterico might make a good Toto well…popular blogger. Some times it’s good to pull back the curtain but sometimes it’s not. That’s some serious concrete-thinking issue you got going on there, Pat! Heh!”

  8. Joe
    September 6th, 2010 @ 2:05 am

    I am modifying what Dan Riehl said about Patterico:

    “Were he cast for the Wizard of OzWicked, Patterico might make a good Toto well…popular blogger. Some times it’s good to pull back the curtain but sometimes it’s not. That’s some serious concrete-thinking issue you got going on there, Pat! Heh!”

  9. Joe
    September 6th, 2010 @ 6:18 am

    Hey Patterico, you probably think this post is about you…

  10. Joe
    September 6th, 2010 @ 2:18 am

    Hey Patterico, you probably think this post is about you…

  11. smitty
    September 6th, 2010 @ 8:13 am

    Wow, that’s an excruciating pun. Bravo, sir!

  12. smitty
    September 6th, 2010 @ 4:13 am

    Wow, that’s an excruciating pun. Bravo, sir!

  13. Gunga
    September 7th, 2010 @ 4:28 pm

    Who is John Holdren? …and why are his children always crying?

  14. Gunga
    September 7th, 2010 @ 12:28 pm

    Who is John Holdren? …and why are his children always crying?