In March 2008, a judge told Lee that he could face up to two months in jail if he went within 500 feet of the property after he was charged with disorderly conduct for throwing thousands of dollars in the air at a rally outside, according to a report in the Gazette newspaper at that time.
Wednesday, as police tried to get the situation under control, details of Lee were emerging. His MySpace page shows a 43-year-old who wanted to meet "environmentalists, scientists, readers of Daniel Quinn, and people who want to work toward a real change."
Federal officials confirmed that Lee is the creator of this
http://SavethePlanetProtest.com, which detail his complaints against Discovery. Among them was this one that seems to be aimed at the overpopulation of the planet: "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."
In the 2008 incident, Lee threw the money into the air as part of a multi-day protest against the Silver Spring-based company's programming, which he believed had little to do with saving the planet, according to the Gazette. His crusade, he told the paper, began after losing his job in San Diego, reading "Ishmael," a novel by Daniel Quinn and watching Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
''I was a man working alone, so obviously I didn't do too well," he said at the time. "After this, I'll stay here for a while, make a few more moves."
