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Subject: Senate passes stealth bill on human cloning!  IMPORTANT!
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Date: 01 Apr 2002 16:38:11 GMT
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The U.S. Senate secretly passed a bill allowing "limited human cloning in
circumstances of medical necessity or political utility"!  This bill bypassed
the normal checks and balances.  While Dubya will almost certainly try to
veto it, the votes suggest that it'll bypass him anyway.

This is a disaster!  The provisions in the bill are vague enough to allow
for essentially unlimited cloning of people who are important to the
functioning of the U.S. government; it may have been intended to strengthen
the shadow government.

The bill passed the Senate by a 327-99 margin.  I found out about this from
an AP story that interviewed several Senators:

	Tom Daschle (D-SD):  I am opposed to this bill, because it seems
	to me that we could have a real problem with the clones; what if they
	aren't exact duplicates, and end up with different goals?  They
	could outnumber us; there's nothing we could do.

They also interviewed Tom Daschle (D-SD):
	Tom Daschle (D-SD):  I think a lot of people are laboring under
	the misconception that clones are somehow different or evil.  They're
	not; they're indistinguishable from their "parents", and they will,
	necessarily, seek to serve the same ends.

And Tom Daschle (D-SD):
	Tom Daschle (D-SD):  Without this bill, we could conceivably run out
	of governmental officials in a matter of days.  When this bill
	becomes law, we will be able to duplicate crucial members of Congress,
	so that no single attack can deprive, for instance, South Dakota
	of representation.

It is VITAL that you act quickly to prevent this!  Write letters to your
Senator (in triplicate).