Anti-Abortion Group Says It Was Confronted by Discovery Gunman at 2009 Protest

James Jay Lee's militant environmental crusade, which ended Wednesday when police shot and killed him following a four-hour hostage standoff, was more just than a "save a planet" plea.

His fanatical opposition to human birth -- which he justified out of concern for the damage people would do to the environment -- led him to take stands, sometimes publicly, on other issues ranging from immigration to abortion.

Lee, a 43-year-old California man, held three hostages at Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., before he was taken out by police. After Lee's photograph was broadcast around the world, the pro-life group American Life League sent police a series of YouTube links that it says show him grilling protesters outside a Planned Parenthood clinic last year in Washington, D.C.

As in Lee's online manifesto in which he professed a disdain for human birth, the man in the video argued in favor of abortion out of concern that more babies would contribute to the "overpopulation" problem.

"You can't say that we can breed as many children as we want," the man in the video says. "You can't just say we gotta fill the earth, have all these children and never mind all the other creatures."

A Montgomery County Police Department spokeswoman would not comment on the videos or confirm whether they depicted Lee.

But Katie Walker, spokeswoman with the American Life League, said it was definitely him.

"That's the guy," she said. "We'll never forget that guy."

She said his comments at the protest -- a demonstration last June to raise awareness about birth control health risks -- lined up with the contents of the online manifesto.

Walker said that, given his opposition to population growth, "it made sense that he would take umbrage with our event."

But she said the peculiar detail about their encounter was that Lee did not appear to consider himself part of the human population problem.

"He had just an overwhelming disdain for human beings and he did not associate himself with human beings. He always used the pronoun 'you,'" she said. "He always made the distinction, 'you human beings.' It was almost like he didn't connect or associate at all."