Over the last several weeks, we have learned about the shabby treatment of
wounded American soldiers returning from the Iraq battlefield. Sent to Iraq
by a violence prone U.S. administration crusading on behalf of "democracy,"
young soldiers have sacrificed their lives and their health to fulfill the
'behind the desk' daydreams of some American politicians.
The American public is outraged over the treatment of their troops.
However, so far, there is a lot of talk about the situation, but no
action---what specifically is being done to ensure that wounded soldiers
receive the best medical treatment and are housed in decent quarters?
Beyond that, much more can and must be done. We have the capability to give
a dead or maimed soldier a second chance at life---not the soldier his or
her self, but the soldier’s genes.
It is imperative that we begin discussing the cloning of these sacrificed
soldiers. They have given to us, and we must give back to them at a whole
life.
TO CLONE OR CREST DEAD OR MAIMED SOLDIERS IS ACTION.
Let’s put hope back in our hopeless civilization. Please help start this
most important discussion.
Friday, March 09, 2007
Saturday, February 24, 2007
THE CRESTING OF SACRIFICE
American troops sent to Iraq sacrifice their lives to preserve the wealth of the richest among us, and what they get in return for their pain is a paycheck while they are alive, and a letter of condolences to their relatives when they are dead.
The unprovoked war in Iraq remains illegal in the eyes of most constitutional experts. Further, administration officials who ordered the war do not expose their own lives to risk. So why should U.S. soldiers die for a policy formulated by a unilateralist government bent on ignoring the American Constitution?
President Bush represents the elite of the rich. While being wealthy has never been a crime in America, corporations such as Enron, not to mention Halliburton, have direct or indirect connections to the highest office, in Halliburton’s case, through Vice President Dick Cheney. The profits of these and other corporations involve billions of dollars. That is to say, the unilateralists not only declare illegal wars, but the men and women who fight and die in these wars do so to preserve and increase the wealth of the extremely rich.
These wealthy few are now waging war—and not only in Iraq—to gain monopoly rights over the economy of the world. Of course, such war cannot be waged in Russia and China because of their sizeable military powers. But the poorer regions of the world—Africa, South America, the Middle East, the Far East, and the borderlands of the wealthy lands themselves—are subject to corporate invasion in the name of democracy, free trade, and globalization. For this “opportunity,” th,e poor earn sweatshop wages. The poor, by the way, number at least three billion, half or more of the world’s population.
When a country’s wealth is based on violence, it takes ever more violence to maintain that wealth, because those who lost their economic well being to the violent ones have not given up fighting the injustice that violence imposed on them. The losers simply go underground.
One does not have to be a university professor to understand that the story of oil is a story of violence. Those who depend on oil from countries sitting atop oil fields have to keep increasing the violence to ensure their gain.
American troops have become martyrs on behalf of the wealthy. The country has spent 1.3 trillion dollars to keep the wealthy in luxury, while the rest of America reaps no benefit from the war. At the same time, the global ecological crisis accelerates to the point that it is now five minutes to Armageddon, according to the Doomsday Clock created by scientists to warn the public. The pushing ahead of the clock’s dials no doubt has something to do with the unusual weather patterns during the past year, but economic factors are at work as well. As Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, told the Senate budget committee, the recent improvement in U.S. public finances was only the “calm before the storm.” He urged immediate action to head off the looming Medicare and Social Security funding gap. And guess what action he recommends—reduce or eliminate the funding of same.
Soldiers’ sworn duty is to fight and sacrifice their lives even if they are being exploited. This oath to duty must be upheld.
At the same time, the lay public, the citizens, the so-called civilians must guarantee an honest government, a government that will not exact an unjust sacrifice of its soldiers. The citizens’ job is by no means easy, because the extremely rich own the media and prevent the public from being fully informed. Fortunately, the Internet has arrived, wresting control of information from media conglomerates and making a potential reporter of every citizen. This is why precisely at this time the conscience of citizens notes and reports the unjust sacrifice of soldiers taking place in Iraq.
But if soldiers must die serving in an unjustified war, that war having been ordered by the Commander in Chief, President Bush, the soldiers have the right to ask their commander and the U.S. public to recompense their sacrifice.
At this time in history, the only recompense that can do justice to a dead soldier is cloning, more properly called cresting.* To clone means to duplicate. A cloned individual is a duplicated individual, a clone. A crested individual is not duplicated, but renewed. In short, the recompense due soldiers for the loss of their lives is cresting, that is, the renewal of their lives. Of course, what is renewed is not the sacrificed ‘I,’ but the Self within which the ‘I’ is imbedded and out of which another ‘I’ will arise. This other ‘I’ will have a sovereign existence as well, except that—like a sovereign country—it will know it has a history by way of having a record of an earlier Self.
Notwithstanding the hullabaloo over cloning among the orthodox religious, it would be absurd for the religious to insist that soldiers sacrificed in battle remain dead, when the possibility exists for their sacrifice to crest in the rebirth or renewal of the former selves. One would hope that the new ‘I’ of each will crest a career as bravely as did the former selves, which is not to say that they will return to a military career. Indeed, a human crest is more likely to do everything possible to achieve peace, because war means being born into a violent world again. Dying as a sacrifice of the powerful in battle should never be repeated. The next time the Selves would rather give their lives over to peace.
Therefore, the Congress of the United States of America must finance a major research project in human cresting. If the U.S. President has the legal right to override America’s legislative body, that body can at least cleanse itself from complicity in the death of American troops by giving them a chance (and choice) to come into this world again, perhaps even be reborn in a peaceful America.
*Crest—as in the crest or top of a hill or a wave; the high point as in the crest of my career; the boat crests the wave; also, a family crest or shield, suggesting the family has a history. Cresting, as in the cresting moon; the sun crests the horizon in a blaze of light.
The unprovoked war in Iraq remains illegal in the eyes of most constitutional experts. Further, administration officials who ordered the war do not expose their own lives to risk. So why should U.S. soldiers die for a policy formulated by a unilateralist government bent on ignoring the American Constitution?
President Bush represents the elite of the rich. While being wealthy has never been a crime in America, corporations such as Enron, not to mention Halliburton, have direct or indirect connections to the highest office, in Halliburton’s case, through Vice President Dick Cheney. The profits of these and other corporations involve billions of dollars. That is to say, the unilateralists not only declare illegal wars, but the men and women who fight and die in these wars do so to preserve and increase the wealth of the extremely rich.
These wealthy few are now waging war—and not only in Iraq—to gain monopoly rights over the economy of the world. Of course, such war cannot be waged in Russia and China because of their sizeable military powers. But the poorer regions of the world—Africa, South America, the Middle East, the Far East, and the borderlands of the wealthy lands themselves—are subject to corporate invasion in the name of democracy, free trade, and globalization. For this “opportunity,” th,e poor earn sweatshop wages. The poor, by the way, number at least three billion, half or more of the world’s population.
When a country’s wealth is based on violence, it takes ever more violence to maintain that wealth, because those who lost their economic well being to the violent ones have not given up fighting the injustice that violence imposed on them. The losers simply go underground.
One does not have to be a university professor to understand that the story of oil is a story of violence. Those who depend on oil from countries sitting atop oil fields have to keep increasing the violence to ensure their gain.
American troops have become martyrs on behalf of the wealthy. The country has spent 1.3 trillion dollars to keep the wealthy in luxury, while the rest of America reaps no benefit from the war. At the same time, the global ecological crisis accelerates to the point that it is now five minutes to Armageddon, according to the Doomsday Clock created by scientists to warn the public. The pushing ahead of the clock’s dials no doubt has something to do with the unusual weather patterns during the past year, but economic factors are at work as well. As Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, told the Senate budget committee, the recent improvement in U.S. public finances was only the “calm before the storm.” He urged immediate action to head off the looming Medicare and Social Security funding gap. And guess what action he recommends—reduce or eliminate the funding of same.
Soldiers’ sworn duty is to fight and sacrifice their lives even if they are being exploited. This oath to duty must be upheld.
At the same time, the lay public, the citizens, the so-called civilians must guarantee an honest government, a government that will not exact an unjust sacrifice of its soldiers. The citizens’ job is by no means easy, because the extremely rich own the media and prevent the public from being fully informed. Fortunately, the Internet has arrived, wresting control of information from media conglomerates and making a potential reporter of every citizen. This is why precisely at this time the conscience of citizens notes and reports the unjust sacrifice of soldiers taking place in Iraq.
But if soldiers must die serving in an unjustified war, that war having been ordered by the Commander in Chief, President Bush, the soldiers have the right to ask their commander and the U.S. public to recompense their sacrifice.
At this time in history, the only recompense that can do justice to a dead soldier is cloning, more properly called cresting.* To clone means to duplicate. A cloned individual is a duplicated individual, a clone. A crested individual is not duplicated, but renewed. In short, the recompense due soldiers for the loss of their lives is cresting, that is, the renewal of their lives. Of course, what is renewed is not the sacrificed ‘I,’ but the Self within which the ‘I’ is imbedded and out of which another ‘I’ will arise. This other ‘I’ will have a sovereign existence as well, except that—like a sovereign country—it will know it has a history by way of having a record of an earlier Self.
Notwithstanding the hullabaloo over cloning among the orthodox religious, it would be absurd for the religious to insist that soldiers sacrificed in battle remain dead, when the possibility exists for their sacrifice to crest in the rebirth or renewal of the former selves. One would hope that the new ‘I’ of each will crest a career as bravely as did the former selves, which is not to say that they will return to a military career. Indeed, a human crest is more likely to do everything possible to achieve peace, because war means being born into a violent world again. Dying as a sacrifice of the powerful in battle should never be repeated. The next time the Selves would rather give their lives over to peace.
Therefore, the Congress of the United States of America must finance a major research project in human cresting. If the U.S. President has the legal right to override America’s legislative body, that body can at least cleanse itself from complicity in the death of American troops by giving them a chance (and choice) to come into this world again, perhaps even be reborn in a peaceful America.
*Crest—as in the crest or top of a hill or a wave; the high point as in the crest of my career; the boat crests the wave; also, a family crest or shield, suggesting the family has a history. Cresting, as in the cresting moon; the sun crests the horizon in a blaze of light.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
CAN DEAD SOLDIERS HAVE "CHILDREN?"
WITHOUT FURTHER ISSUE?
Dear Soldier,
The UPI recently carried a story about the mother of a slain Israeli soldier living in Ramat Gan, Israel, who won court permission to use her dead son’s sperm, extracted from his body, to fertilize a donor egg and thus create for him a son and for her a grandson. The dead soldier had not married, but had expressed a strong wish to have an heir were he killed in combat. (See http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20070119-010448-3336r )
Perhaps you too are unmarried and want an heir. That should be your right, but at present your government does not grant you this right. Should you sacrifice your life in combat, your government would rather that you remain without an heir. Your semen or eggs will not be extracted from your body. Your line will come to an end.
More importantly, perhaps, you do have your DNA, which—given an enlightened government—could be harvested and deposited in a DNA bank. This DNA could then be used later when cloning becomes safe for humans, and you could return to your loved ones as a newborn again.
Is this controversial? Of course it is. But why should you stay dead after being killed in combat, when the possibility exists that you could again come to life through your “offspring”—in this case, your clone.
Indeed, the issue of cloning concerns all sodiers and their families.
The slain Israeli soldier’s mother would most likely have preferred to see her son reborn rather than the son of her son (though she will love him, too). But at the present time, outdated religious scruples stand in the way of making such a course a reality.
Nothing comes without asking. A letter requesting that the government harvest your DNA, should you be killed while in service, may be in your best interest.
The letter, attached below, asks for two things:
1) that your DNA be preserved in a DNA bank; and
2) that research in cloning human beings be given the green light and proceed at full speed.
It is irresponsible and immoral of your elected representatives to send you into situations where you may have to sacrifice your life, but are offered no biological recompense when today such a recourse is possible and when with further research, cloning offers such an opportunity to both sexes.
Please read the DNA HARVESTING FOR FUTURE CLONING Request Form below and act!
DNA HARVESTING FOR FUTURE CLONING
Request Form
I, _______________________, a citizen and soldier of the United States of America, while expressing loyalty to my community and government, which loyalty includes the sacrifice of my life if circumstances demand, believe that it is my right as a member of this community to expect that:
in the event of my death in service, my community and government will offer me the opportunity to be reborn as an identical twin, i.e., a clone.
Therefore, I respectfully request that
1--my community and government pursue all phases of research in human cloning;
2--my genes be preserved in government-maintained gene banks in perpetuity;
3--when human cloning becomes possible, in the event of my death, my genes be implanted and carried by a volunteer mother;
4--following my rebirth, I find myself in a household that nurtures me and supports me through childhood and indeed is a base of support to me throughout my life; and
5--the household/community recognizes my life sacrifice and therefore pursues a course of peace with determination.
In return, I swear allegiance to my community in perpetuity.
Signed: ____________________
Date:
Your address:
Please read, sign, and mail by means of the U.S. Postal Service, to the President, your Congressman or Congresswoman, your Senator, and your favorite media outlets. This form is your direct address to the President and the Nation.
Addresses:
President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC 20500
For your senators and representatives, check the Congressional Email Directory:
www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html
Dear Soldier,
The UPI recently carried a story about the mother of a slain Israeli soldier living in Ramat Gan, Israel, who won court permission to use her dead son’s sperm, extracted from his body, to fertilize a donor egg and thus create for him a son and for her a grandson. The dead soldier had not married, but had expressed a strong wish to have an heir were he killed in combat. (See http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20070119-010448-3336r
Perhaps you too are unmarried and want an heir. That should be your right, but at present your government does not grant you this right. Should you sacrifice your life in combat, your government would rather that you remain without an heir. Your semen or eggs will not be extracted from your body. Your line will come to an end.
More importantly, perhaps, you do have your DNA, which—given an enlightened government—could be harvested and deposited in a DNA bank. This DNA could then be used later when cloning becomes safe for humans, and you could return to your loved ones as a newborn again.
Is this controversial? Of course it is. But why should you stay dead after being killed in combat, when the possibility exists that you could again come to life through your “offspring”—in this case, your clone.
Indeed, the issue of cloning concerns all sodiers and their families.
The slain Israeli soldier’s mother would most likely have preferred to see her son reborn rather than the son of her son (though she will love him, too). But at the present time, outdated religious scruples stand in the way of making such a course a reality.
Nothing comes without asking. A letter requesting that the government harvest your DNA, should you be killed while in service, may be in your best interest.
The letter, attached below, asks for two things:
1) that your DNA be preserved in a DNA bank; and
2) that research in cloning human beings be given the green light and proceed at full speed.
It is irresponsible and immoral of your elected representatives to send you into situations where you may have to sacrifice your life, but are offered no biological recompense when today such a recourse is possible and when with further research, cloning offers such an opportunity to both sexes.
Please read the DNA HARVESTING FOR FUTURE CLONING Request Form below and act!
DNA HARVESTING FOR FUTURE CLONING
Request Form
I, _______________________, a citizen and soldier of the United States of America, while expressing loyalty to my community and government, which loyalty includes the sacrifice of my life if circumstances demand, believe that it is my right as a member of this community to expect that:
in the event of my death in service, my community and government will offer me the opportunity to be reborn as an identical twin, i.e., a clone.
Therefore, I respectfully request that
1--my community and government pursue all phases of research in human cloning;
2--my genes be preserved in government-maintained gene banks in perpetuity;
3--when human cloning becomes possible, in the event of my death, my genes be implanted and carried by a volunteer mother;
4--following my rebirth, I find myself in a household that nurtures me and supports me through childhood and indeed is a base of support to me throughout my life; and
5--the household/community recognizes my life sacrifice and therefore pursues a course of peace with determination.
In return, I swear allegiance to my community in perpetuity.
Signed: ____________________
Date:
Your address:
Please read, sign, and mail by means of the U.S. Postal Service, to the President, your Congressman or Congresswoman, your Senator, and your favorite media outlets. This form is your direct address to the President and the Nation.
Addresses:
President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC 20500
For your senators and representatives, check the Congressional Email Directory:
www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html
Friday, January 26, 2007
REBIRTH THROUGH CLONING
DEAR SOLDIER! A soldier’s sacrifice should be rewarded by a rebirth through cloning.
Soldiers who give their lives deserve the option to be cloned when the technology becomes available.
It is immoral to oppose the cloning of service men and women who give their lives for their country simply because of outdated beliefs and fear of the new or unknown.
The DNA HARVESTING FOR FUTURE CLONING Request Form, shown below, asks that
1--your DNA be collected at the time of your enlistment and be preserved in a government DNA bank in perpetuity;
2--research into safe cloning proceed at full speed with the support of all branches of government; and
3--in the event you sacrifice your life, if you wish, you be given the opportunity for rebirth.
Please read, sign, and mail the DNA HARVESTING FOR FUTURE CLONING Request Form below, by means of the U.S. Postal Service, to the President, your Congressman or Congresswoman, your Senator, and your favorite media outlets. This form is your direct address to the President and the Nation.
Soldiers who give their lives deserve the option to be cloned when the technology becomes available.
It is immoral to oppose the cloning of service men and women who give their lives for their country simply because of outdated beliefs and fear of the new or unknown.
The DNA HARVESTING FOR FUTURE CLONING Request Form, shown below, asks that
1--your DNA be collected at the time of your enlistment and be preserved in a government DNA bank in perpetuity;
2--research into safe cloning proceed at full speed with the support of all branches of government; and
3--in the event you sacrifice your life, if you wish, you be given the opportunity for rebirth.
Please read, sign, and mail the DNA HARVESTING FOR FUTURE CLONING Request Form below, by means of the U.S. Postal Service, to the President, your Congressman or Congresswoman, your Senator, and your favorite media outlets. This form is your direct address to the President and the Nation.
DNA HARVESTING FOR FUTURE CLONING Request Form
For Soldiers Facing Death: DNA HARVESTING FOR FUTURE CLONING Request Form
I, _______________________, a citizen and soldier of the United States of America, while expressing loyalty to my community and government, which loyalty includes the sacrifice of my life if circumstances demand, believe that it is my right as a member of this community to expect that:
in the event of my death in service, my community and government will offer me the opportunity to be reborn as an identical twin, i.e., a clone.
Therefore, I respectfully request that
1--my community and government pursue all phases of research in human cloning;
2--my genes be preserved in government-maintained gene banks in perpetuity;
3--when human cloning becomes possible, in the event of my death, my genes be implanted and carried by a volunteer mother;
4--following my rebirth, I find myself in a household that nurtures me and supports me through childhood and indeed is a base of support to me throughout my life; and
5--the household/community recognizes my life sacrifice and therefore pursues a course of peace with determination.
In return, I swear allegiance to my community in perpetuity.
Signed: ____________________
Date:
Your address:
Send by the U.S. Postal Service to:
President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC 20500
For your senators and representatives, check the Congressional Email Directory:
www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html
I, _______________________, a citizen and soldier of the United States of America, while expressing loyalty to my community and government, which loyalty includes the sacrifice of my life if circumstances demand, believe that it is my right as a member of this community to expect that:
in the event of my death in service, my community and government will offer me the opportunity to be reborn as an identical twin, i.e., a clone.
Therefore, I respectfully request that
1--my community and government pursue all phases of research in human cloning;
2--my genes be preserved in government-maintained gene banks in perpetuity;
3--when human cloning becomes possible, in the event of my death, my genes be implanted and carried by a volunteer mother;
4--following my rebirth, I find myself in a household that nurtures me and supports me through childhood and indeed is a base of support to me throughout my life; and
5--the household/community recognizes my life sacrifice and therefore pursues a course of peace with determination.
In return, I swear allegiance to my community in perpetuity.
Signed: ____________________
Date:
Your address:
Send by the U.S. Postal Service to:
President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC 20500
For your senators and representatives, check the Congressional Email Directory:
www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html
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