James J. Lee: Difference between revisions

He was Los Angeles, California and raised in Hawaii. He was an environmental protester who, in 2008, was given six months of supervised probation and fined $500 after he was arrested during a protest outside the Discovery Communications headquarters. In 2003, he was convicted of an illegal immigrant into the country from Mexico and sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Lee had published criticisms of the network in an online manifesto at Savetheplanetprotest.com, among which was a demand for the company to cease the broadcasting of television series displaying or encouraging the birth of "parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. His manifesto also railed against "immigration pollution and anchor baby<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> filth", leading commentators such as </span>Mark Potok<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> of the </span>Southern Poverty Law Center<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> to decry Lee as an "</span>eco-fascist<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">".</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> Lee's opinions were dominated by </span>Malthusian<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> analysis,</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> though he also cited works ranging from </span>Daniel Quinn<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">'s novel </span>''My Ishmael''<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;"> to former U.S. Vice President </span>Al Gore<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">'s documentary </span>''An Inconvenient Truth''<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;">. </span>