From jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU Thu Sep 9 12:30:03 EDT 1993 Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa Path: murdoch!hopper!jad From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo) Subject: Part 2, Corporate Gov't Genetically Engineering Slave & Master Races Message-ID: Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Keywords: Corporate Gov't Genetically Engineering Slave & Master Races Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: U.Va. Internet Public Access Project Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 14:27:11 GMT Lines: 162 ____ ____ ____ ____---- ----____ ____---- ----____ ____ ---- ---- ---- T H E P E O P L E'S S P E L L B R E A K E R ____ ____ ____ ---- ----____ ____---- ----____ ____---- ---- ---- ---- DATE OF PRINTING PRICE: __ CENTS THE NEWSPAPER FOR THE PEOPLE OF [your territory; example:] NORTHERN ILLINOIS * * * * * MORNING EDITION * * * * * EDITOR: John DiNardo PUBLISHER: [your name] (optional) ________________________________________ From the free airwaves of The People's Pacifica Radio Network station: WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 ________________________________________ Part 2, Corporate Gov't Genetically Engineering Slave & Master Races ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ANDREW KIMBRELL [author of "The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life"]: What we're seeing here is a very, very dangerous moment because, while they're analyzing and finding more and more of these genes, they have absolutely no protections in place that would make them PRIVATE. So, without too much surprise from the wise WBAI listener who understands how much of corporate America works, insurance companies and Fortune 500 companies are ALREADY using genetic screening in order to screen out workers who might be a liability because they may be predisposed to a certain cancer, let's say, in the workplaces of the chemical industry. Insurance companies are using genetic screening to make sure that they only insure people who are not predisposed to certain illnesses. The United States Government is denying people various jobs and denying them insurance based on their genetic readout. We have compiled over a hundred cases of genetic discrimination. And while many of us would want our genetic readouts, to understand and to make considered choices about our own health care, do we want our employers to know what we are predisposed to, whether it be to alcoholism or schizophrenia or certain other physical or mental problems? Do we want the insurance companies and the United States Government and our educational institutions to know what physical and mental problems we may or may not be predisposed toward? Right now, there are virtually no protections in place. And the one bill that we got introduced by Representative John Conyers, a bright light in Congress, has not gone anywhere because of pressure BY the insurance industry and by business interests. So, genetic privacy can well become the major civil rights issue of the future. But, additionally, I think it's very naive and incredibly unfortunate that they seem to have switched, due to the new and sometimes dazzling advances in genetic engineering, to thinking that so many of our human behavioral traits are in our genes and not in our environment. Recently, the National Institutes of Health had sponsored a colloquium on crime. THEIR view was that the real causes of crime are not social, that they have nothing to do with the gross inequality of wealth in our country, but rather that the causes of crime have to do with GENES: IF you've got that criminal gene, well that's going to make you a criminal. Fortunately, we [The Foundation on Economic Trends, Washington, D.C.] and others caused an uproar and they withdrew their support for that particular conference. ROBERT KNIGHT (with sarcasm): Is there a gene that is responsible for poverty? ANDREW KIMBRELL: The only gene that I'm interested in is the eugenic [eugenics being the science that tries to improve the hereditary qualities of races] gene that apparently causes genetic engineers to want to change everyone but themselves. I think the dangerous aspect here is .... You know, everyone is talking about the movie "Jurassic Park". Well, "Jurassic Park" is already happening, and it is in our own backyards. They are (and most Americans are TOTALLY unaware of this, and very few stations, except WBAI give them this kind of knowledge) .... they are spending our earnings, our taxpayer dollars on experiments which involve putting human genes into the PERMANENT genetic codes of other animals! Over twenty-four human genes have been put into other animals by our Government, and now, increasingly, by corporations. The United States Department of Agriculture took the human growth gene and put it into eight-cell embryos, pig embryos, and then reinserted those embryos into surrogate mother pigs in their attempt to create giant pigs. Now, what resulted .... I happened to see this creature, and I describe it in the book. Pig #6707 was actually bow-legged, cross-eyed, arthritic -- a really wretched product of a science without ethics. But the United States Department of Agriculture then said that maybe they had created a lean pig, a pig that had less cholesterol. They didn't consider whether or not Americans want to eat pork chops containing human genes. With these experiments, they are now creating well over a HUNDRED THOUSAND of these animal/human chimeras EVERY YEAR, most of them through our earnings, our taxpayer dollars. And, while some of these experiments raise some really grotesque issues of animal suffering and important issues of animal suffering, it goes beyond that. I describe in the book an AIDS experiment which was done for relatively altruistic reasons. There is a Dr. Malcolm Martin at the National Institutes of Health who decided to put the ENTIRE human AIDS virus, the entire genome of the human AIDS virus into mice. As we all know, mice are not very good research tools for AIDS, and so he wanted to create the perfect mouse research animal for AIDS. And this was a front-page story in the New York Times and the Washington Post. What most people DIDN'T hear, what they DIDN'T read was that several months later, a group of AIDS scientists, including Dr. Robert Gallo and others, published a report in SCIENCE Magazine saying that that AIDS virus had melded with native retroviruses in the mice to create a SUPER AIDS virus. And Dr. Gene Marx, in an accompanying editorial in SCIENCE Magazine, said that this super AIDS virus may well be transmissible through air. This went virtually unreported. Very few people understood the EXTRAORDINARY implications. MICHIO KAKU: Holy mackeral !! A super AIDS virus that is TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE AIR ?? ANDREW KIMBRELL: Transmitted through the air! MICHIO KAKU: We're talking about DOOMSDAY weapons now! ANDREW KIMBRELL: Well, that's right! The fact that they may have created a mouse with AIDS was trumpeted on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post. But THIS article in SCIENCE Magazine went virtually unreported! And yet, this is an EXTRAORDINARILY problematic situation. We're talking about a potential human health CATASTROPHE created by their putting human genes, in this case, putting the entire genome (the first time it had ever been done, by the way) of a human disease into an animal, in their attempt to create a research animal, but instead, of course, through this hubrous, creating a whole new human disease. And I describe it in great detail in the book. And what makes this even more unfortunate (some of your listeners may again be familiar with this because of the shows that I've done on WBAI and that others have done) is that these corporations and researchers are now attempting to PATENT these animals. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Please support the Foundation on Economic Trends in dealing with this threat by calling them in Washington, D.C. at (202) 466-2823.