#PDK Wastes No Time Politicizing DC Area Hostage Incident

A crazy person took hostages at the headquarters of Discovery Communications yesterday, and was eventually slain by police after a scary standoff.  The hostage-taker, James Lee has been described as an "environmental militant," believed "the world would be better off without people,"  and "was apparently inspired by the author of a popular series about a telepathic ape who tries to save humankind from problems such as overpopulation." 

Clearly, a disturbed person doing horrible stuff. 

But just as clearly, Peter Kinder saw an opportunity to make some sort of bizarre political point on Teh Twitter about Al Gore. 

At no point did Kinder ask Twitter followers to pray for the hostages, or express any sort of concern for the innocent people in harm's way.  He had political points to make that trumped those secondary issues. 

The implication here, I think, is that people who think global warming is a problem may be as insane as James Lee, and might take hostages at any moment.  Are there other political lessons to be learned here? 

Note the hashtags Kinder personally added to the Dana Loesch tweet -- #ecoterrorism #tcot and #pdk.  These were not on Loesch's original message.  Same thing for the retweet of the message from the right-wing Instapundit blogger -- Kinder personally added #tcot #TeaParty and #pdk.

Honestly: what does violence from an obvious lunatic have to do with the Tea Party or conservative politics? 

Kinder's belief that global warming and climate change are made-up conspiracies is well documented.  But does he really believe that the actions of James Lee is representative of people who care about the environment?