Is this what the future holds for us in Massachusetts?
Life Without Mikey
Michael J. Fox was right. California's Prop 71 will put an end to
the
shakes. The 27 million dollars that the biotech companies invested
to
convince Michael that they could stop his disease was well spent.
He
bought it; then, sold it to us. We should all feel really happy
for
him, and all the other people that are inflicted with
Parkinson's
disease. Michael is a brave man. And the good news is that, thanks
to
71, my children's children won't have to deal with poor folks
like
Michael, because they won't exist. Parkinson's won't exist. Oh,
and
let's not forget Arnold. A big thanks to him as well.
Although the majority of scientists have resigned themselves to
the
fact that embryonic stem cell research will never find the cure
to
Parkinson's disease, they do all agree that Prop 71 will put an end
to
it. I guess Michael didn't notice the winks and the nods going
on
behind his back as they convinced him that thiss is the way to
save
the world from such disease. Why couldn't he see what
Proposition
"Adolph vision" was really about? Did he ask why the 'oversight
board'
that was created by Prop 71 had been given three Billion
dollars
without having to be accountable to the taxpayers? Or why the
press
was specifically singled out as not being able to gain access to
the
future state of affairs?
Did he ever wonder what "somatic cell nuclear transfer" was?
It
couldn't be cloning; because the bill specifically denies the use
of
cloning, right, Michael? Did he not want to know exactly how Prop
71
was going to eradicate Parkinson's disease? I'm sure they told
him
that it will also wipe out other diseases as well. Does Michael
know
that in the event they do not discover any cures, (as they have
not
done in the more than two decades of embryonic stem cell
research)
that at least they will have come up with hundreds of patents
on
cloning and discovered thousands of unique cells that will allow
the
world to selectively control the existence of people with
Parkinson's
and other diseases. I doubt they told Michael that he would have
been
avoided, skipped over, passed on.
They didn't tell him that with the patents they get, from
the
knowledge they learn through the milions of lives they create
to
destroy, from the billions of dollars they were given from
the
millions of suckers they snowed: that they will be able to rid
the
world of homosexuals and Native American Indians and fat people
and
ugly people and people like John Kerry. Hey Doc Hollywood, you
dont
know what you have done for the world. But stop fooling
yourself.
Please realize that if we had realized the benefits of Prop 71
fifty
years ago, chances are damn good that, for better or for
worse,
America would not have had "Life with Mikey" or "Family Ties" or
"Back
to the Future". But be assured, Michael J. Fox will get his wish;
in
the future there won't be a whole lot of shaking going on. Those
kind
of folks will be avoided. There will, however, be great
opportunities
for Brad Pitt to make a financial killing. When he's too old and
ugly
to act, he can sell his DNA for millions and we can have thousands
of
duplicate Brad's running around Hollywood. Maybe next time the
people
of California will do a little homework. There are a lot better
ways
to spend six billion dollars if you really care about people.
