Meh anyone with a brain will see that a nut is a nut no matter what they believe.
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 what would you estimate the % of people in this thread fall under that description?
I watched this story on CNN and on the local news. In neither case was he portrayed as anything but mentally ill.
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 ...
Which is probably true, but still ridiculous "guilt by association" thinking.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 don't think it's ever not been this way. I'd argue that it is simply human nature.I agree, sadly this is what our politics has turned into.
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.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 don't think it's ever not been this way. I'd argue that it is simply human nature.
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.
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.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.
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's Les Stroud. He wants them to put Survivorman back on and thinks Bear Grills is a punk ass bitch...
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:
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