- Bad books are the new violent video games.
The demands of the shooter, allegedly a man named James Lee who protests frequently outside the Discovery building, are not what you would expect at all. They're off-the-cliff vaguely ecoterrorist rantings of the highest order, beginning with demand number one, which relates to the sequel of that book about the gorilla and the man that we're all forced to read in high school, Ishmael.
Here's the list of demands, via Mediaite:
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!!!!
I never got more than half way through Ishmael, much less the sequel. Insight, anyone?
Ten more insane demands below the cut.