From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 12:18:11 MST
--- Amara Graps <amara@amara.com> wrote:
> Echoing Reason's comments:
>
> >This sort of stuff really makes me mad. I mean, government agents
> really
> >don't have to *prove* that they can kill a whole bunch of people
> through the
> >machinations of a State and human nature.
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/28/politics/28CLON.html?ei=5062&en=5e18bdafd029558e&ex=1047099600&partner=GOOGLE&pagewanted=print&position=bottom
>
> February 28, 2003
>
> House Votes to Ban All Human Cloning
While disconcerting, it is not at all surprising. We knew it was coming
for a while now, yet I have seen absolutely no effort on the part of
ExI or ProAct to mobilize against this event. I do expect this law to
be overturned in the Supreme Court, if anyone seeks such a suit.
Specifically, Article I, Section 8 specifically states: "To promote the
Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to
Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings
and Discoveries; "
The constitution does NOT say that the congress has the power to
DISCOURAGE the progress, or to promote the REGRESS, of science and
useful arts, therefore the authority to regulate cloning research is an
issue which should fall to the state governments under the Tenth
Amendment.
Furthermore, the congress can only promote scientific progress via
patent and copyright law. I could concievably, and legally, restrict
cloning research only by limiting patent protection on cloning related
inventions to 1 day (which would of course conflict with GATT).
In the interim, I suggest that all Extropians get involved in the Free
State Project (http://www.freestateproject.org), which seeks to move a
large number of libertarian-minded people to one US state to establish
by electoral influence a Free State. One policy of a Free State would
be to vote for state laws banning Federal involvement in the Free State
in any way not explicitly authorized in the US Constitution.
=====
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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