Re: extropians-digest V8 #61

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 11:56:11 MST

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    --- Ian Reilly <ianreilly@comcast.net> wrote:
    > someone wondered if
    > " we can come up with a viable plan to mobilize
    > against this FukuKass mindset" Yes - in fact there is one - GET RID
    > of BUSH
    > & FUKU KASS GO WITH HIM
    >
    > It seems there has been a subtle swing in the list away from
    > supporting Bush's war.

    Being opposed to Bush's bioethics panel does not connote an anti-war
    opinion, troll.

    > People are starting to realize that war abroad means
    > economic and liberty deprivation at home. I think Ashcroft's
    > latest moves to expand
    > the unPatriot act are finally getting people to wake up.

    Incorrect. One prominent American Muslim recently wrote in an op-ed
    piece, "I would rather live under Bush and Ashcroft at their worst than
    in any of the petty tyrannies of the muslim world at their best."

    > The moves against ANY cloning are also good wake-up calls. If
    > Ashcroft & Bush have their way,
    > you could be summarily stripped of your citizenship & deported to,
    > get this, a place that has NO government (i.e. Guantanamo Bay or
    > some god forsaken hellhole island gulag) for merely belonging to
    > an organization that BUSH retroactively deems to be unamerican.

    Actually, any individual going to Gitmo must first be a non-American,
    and secondly belong to an organization that is actively engaging in
    terrorism. I'm not surprised at your Orwellian-style disinformation,
    though, since you also describe an alliance of more than a dozen
    nations as a 'unilateral US attack'.

    > Hey, maybe Extropians will make the
    > grade - the idea of immortality is truly threatening to the religious
    > right - which also hates the idea of cloning, debates about the
    > 'relationship between "soul" and "brain" and "mind" etc. Oh, so some
    > of you may say we should run away to another country - nix that -
    > these fascists want to be able to track you anywhere you go - and
    > make cloning illegal on a
    > global scale. Why not some asteroid or another planet? Damn, either
    > this is the 23rd century or the list should be named NWNormal.

    Any international cloning treaty will only apply to signatory nations.
    Founding an independent nation is really the ONLY real solution to the
    threat from luddites of all persuations (not just those of the right).

    =====
    Mike Lorrey
    "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                                         - Gen. John Stark
    "Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
    "Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
    For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid

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