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06-11-2003, 01:58 PM
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Testimony of RaÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂà ÂÃÂÃÂël at the US Congress.
March 28 th, 2001
To: The Honorable James C. Greenwood Chairman.
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
I wish to dedicate my testimony to Giordano Bruno, who was burned
alive 4 centuries ago, sentenced to the death penalty by the
Christian power of the Catholic Church.
The same that sentenced Galileo for saying that the earth was
revolving on its axis.
The problem today is not to be in favor or against human cloning, but
to be in favor or against freedom of science.
I have with me a manifesto signed by 31 top scientists and
philosophers of the world, including Francis Crick, co- discoverer of
the structure of DNA, and numerous Nobel Prize laureates who support
the freedom for human cloning as a part of freedom of science, and I
have copies of this manifesto for each and every one of you.
Why did I ask Dr Brigitte Boisselier to create the first human
cloning company in America?
Because as The Country of Freedom, you have a Constitution which
should be a model for the whole world, and -the most wonderful jewel
of your system: the Supreme Court, which guarantees the respect of
your Constitution and the freedom of your citizens even against your
own government and law makers.
This includes the separation of church and state, and it means in
fact a separation of church and science.
I am quite confident that even if human cloning was banned, the
Supreme Court would cancel this law as unconstitutional, as they did
for IVF.
If, 100 years ago, the religious powers could have passed laws
against the freedom of science, we, today, would have no antibiotics,
surgery, blood transfusions, organ transplants, vaccinations, cars,
electricity, computers, airplanes, etc.
Stopping science is a crime against humanity.
If discoveries were forbidden 100 years ago, 3 billion people would
never have enjoyed life, dying at very early stages of their
existence, and that may have included your own parents, and yourself.
We can say that at least 90 % of us are still alive today thanks to
science.
3 billion people, this is more than any other criminal against
humanity ever killed, including Hitler or Napoleon.
Today you have in your hands the life of billions of people, alive
now, and future generations.
You have the choice to be remembered as heroes for saving billions of
lives or as criminals against humanity for denying them a possible
cure or a new life by retarding scientific progress.
Retarding only, because it will be done anyway, somewhere, some day,
as, thankfully, nothing can stop science. But laws can slow down
research and it is the people who will suffer from it.
And you will be responsible for the delay and the deaths and the
suffering it will create.
These deaths and suffering can be yours as well, as lawmakers are not
immune to sudden diseases, or those of your own children or grand
children.
Remember that they may die without a cure because of your own laws
slowing down science.
Religious people who are against human cloning should be free to
refuse it for themselves or their own children, as they are free to
refuse abortion, blood transfusion or surgery.
If one day human cloning makes it possible for us to reach eternal
life, and it will, they should also be free to die, as nobody should
be forced to live eternally.
But for those who enjoy life, are atheists, and want to enjoy the
fruits of scientific progress, including human cloning and eternal
life thanks to it, should also have the freedom to benefit from it.
If religions and superstitions, which are the same, had power over
science, we would still be living in the dark ages.
Your great Constitution includes the freedom of religion, and that
means also the freedom to be atheist, like we, the Raelians are, the
freedom to believe that there is no god as we Raelians believe and
more and more Americans believe.
We, Raelians, believe that science should be our religion, as science
saves lives, while religion and superstitions kill.
Science destroys superstition and supernatural beliefs.
That's why religion was always an enemy of science and progress and
is again trying to stop science at its best.
By letting the people decide if they want to benefit or not from
human cloning, you are protecting the rights of the "unreborn", as
cloning makes possible a second chance to live for infants like the
one we are cloning now, a 10 month old baby killed by medical
malpractice. It could be your beloved child or grandchild. Think
about him?
Lawmakers should not be accomplices of dark age powers and
superstitions as they will be judged by History.
Don't burn Giordano Bruno alive again!
Killing him was a crime against humanity by the Catholic church.
As well as burning alive thousands of people during the Inquisition,
thousands of Moslems during the crusades, thousands of Jews,
thousands of Protestants, thousands of black people by supporting
slavery.
What would the world say if the nazi power was still in place in
Germany and didn't apologize for his crimes?
The power in Rome is still in place and is now committing a new crime
against humanity by trying to slow down science and human cloning
with a new inquisition.
But I am avenging Giordano Bruno!
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/People/bruno.html
Testimony of RaÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂà ÂÃÂÃÂël at the US Congress.
March 28 th, 2001
To: The Honorable James C. Greenwood Chairman.
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
I wish to dedicate my testimony to Giordano Bruno, who was burned
alive 4 centuries ago, sentenced to the death penalty by the
Christian power of the Catholic Church.
The same that sentenced Galileo for saying that the earth was
revolving on its axis.
The problem today is not to be in favor or against human cloning, but
to be in favor or against freedom of science.
I have with me a manifesto signed by 31 top scientists and
philosophers of the world, including Francis Crick, co- discoverer of
the structure of DNA, and numerous Nobel Prize laureates who support
the freedom for human cloning as a part of freedom of science, and I
have copies of this manifesto for each and every one of you.
Why did I ask Dr Brigitte Boisselier to create the first human
cloning company in America?
Because as The Country of Freedom, you have a Constitution which
should be a model for the whole world, and -the most wonderful jewel
of your system: the Supreme Court, which guarantees the respect of
your Constitution and the freedom of your citizens even against your
own government and law makers.
This includes the separation of church and state, and it means in
fact a separation of church and science.
I am quite confident that even if human cloning was banned, the
Supreme Court would cancel this law as unconstitutional, as they did
for IVF.
If, 100 years ago, the religious powers could have passed laws
against the freedom of science, we, today, would have no antibiotics,
surgery, blood transfusions, organ transplants, vaccinations, cars,
electricity, computers, airplanes, etc.
Stopping science is a crime against humanity.
If discoveries were forbidden 100 years ago, 3 billion people would
never have enjoyed life, dying at very early stages of their
existence, and that may have included your own parents, and yourself.
We can say that at least 90 % of us are still alive today thanks to
science.
3 billion people, this is more than any other criminal against
humanity ever killed, including Hitler or Napoleon.
Today you have in your hands the life of billions of people, alive
now, and future generations.
You have the choice to be remembered as heroes for saving billions of
lives or as criminals against humanity for denying them a possible
cure or a new life by retarding scientific progress.
Retarding only, because it will be done anyway, somewhere, some day,
as, thankfully, nothing can stop science. But laws can slow down
research and it is the people who will suffer from it.
And you will be responsible for the delay and the deaths and the
suffering it will create.
These deaths and suffering can be yours as well, as lawmakers are not
immune to sudden diseases, or those of your own children or grand
children.
Remember that they may die without a cure because of your own laws
slowing down science.
Religious people who are against human cloning should be free to
refuse it for themselves or their own children, as they are free to
refuse abortion, blood transfusion or surgery.
If one day human cloning makes it possible for us to reach eternal
life, and it will, they should also be free to die, as nobody should
be forced to live eternally.
But for those who enjoy life, are atheists, and want to enjoy the
fruits of scientific progress, including human cloning and eternal
life thanks to it, should also have the freedom to benefit from it.
If religions and superstitions, which are the same, had power over
science, we would still be living in the dark ages.
Your great Constitution includes the freedom of religion, and that
means also the freedom to be atheist, like we, the Raelians are, the
freedom to believe that there is no god as we Raelians believe and
more and more Americans believe.
We, Raelians, believe that science should be our religion, as science
saves lives, while religion and superstitions kill.
Science destroys superstition and supernatural beliefs.
That's why religion was always an enemy of science and progress and
is again trying to stop science at its best.
By letting the people decide if they want to benefit or not from
human cloning, you are protecting the rights of the "unreborn", as
cloning makes possible a second chance to live for infants like the
one we are cloning now, a 10 month old baby killed by medical
malpractice. It could be your beloved child or grandchild. Think
about him?
Lawmakers should not be accomplices of dark age powers and
superstitions as they will be judged by History.
Don't burn Giordano Bruno alive again!
Killing him was a crime against humanity by the Catholic church.
As well as burning alive thousands of people during the Inquisition,
thousands of Moslems during the crusades, thousands of Jews,
thousands of Protestants, thousands of black people by supporting
slavery.
What would the world say if the nazi power was still in place in
Germany and didn't apologize for his crimes?
The power in Rome is still in place and is now committing a new crime
against humanity by trying to slow down science and human cloning
with a new inquisition.
But I am avenging Giordano Bruno!
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/People/bruno.html