South Korea bars cloning sect leader (Raelians are back)

BBC ^ | 2 Aug 2003 | BBC

[RoboticMouse]

S Korea bars cloning sect leader

South Korea has denied entry to the leader of a religious sect that claimed it had produced the first cloned human.

The founder of the Raelian movement, Claude Vorilhon, was forced to leave the country after being detained for nine hours at Incheon airport in Seoul.

The Justice Ministry said it was concerned that he might engage in cloning activities.

Clonaid, the sect's cloning company which Mr Vorilhon set up, has been investigated over reports that South Korean women have been involved in its cloning experiments.

The sect said Seoul's rejection of their leader was discrimination against religious minorities.

[RoboticMouse]

South Korea has denied entry to the leader of a religious sect that claimed it had produced the first cloned human.

A big mistake - he will come to North Korea and offer to clone the Dear Leader !

[jocon307]

"S Korea bars cloning sect leader"

Now I first read this as meaning the saloons of S. Korea were cloning a sect leader.

But, no smoking!

[Mike4Freedom]

This is just one more example of a very bad thing. The world is moving in the direction of the movie "Minority Report". We punish people because we think that they might commit a crime in the future.

At least here, they just denied him entrance. Our government attacked Iraq because they might give WMDs to terrorists. (No need to actually have WMDs for this one.)

In my state of Kansas, they are trying to put a man away because he admitted to having dreams of molesting children. No need to have actually molested any. (Full disclosure-he made some harassaing phone calls and spent time in jail for that. Sentence served.) Now they want to lock him up pre-emptively. Sound familiar?

[genefromjersey]

Return with me now to those thrilling days of yesteryear:

THE CLONE RANGER RIDES AGAIN !!