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Bioterrorism Charges Brought Against Professor
gnetwerker writes "Wired
and others are reporting about artist Steve Kurtz, professor at Univesity of Buffalo (NY), and member of the
Critical Art Ensemble will face a Grand Jury in two weeks on bioterrorism charges over artwork that used samples of harmless bacteria to make a statement about genetic engineering and food safety. He is charged with BioTerrorism under Section 817 of the PATRIOT Act. Apparently
John Ashcroft can't tell a weapons lab from an art installation. There is more info and a
Defense Fund on the CAE Defense Fund Site."
But I think creating genetically-modified foods in the first place are terrorist activites!
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
"Apparently John Ashcroft can't tell a weapons lab from an art installation."
I believe that should read: "Apparently John Ashcroft can't tell his head from his ass."
I took a shit today, and shit has loads of bacteria. I'm gonna be locked up and tortured in Iraq, help!
Table-ized A.I.
He should have incorporated under the guise of doing GMO development. Asscrap never would have touched him.
This is a conspiracy.
Microsoft and SCO must have secretly funded this person's art, and Ashcroft is taking advice from RIAA and the MPAA in order to prosecute him. Clearly, it's because he distributed his artwork over a p2p network and his wife was really murdered by secret microsoft ninjas.
Oh yeah, and BSD is dying.
The dark secret is that right now, a smart person could end all life on this planet with some broth, agar, a blender and an electric drill. This fellow had a lot more that that on hand.
His goal was to draw attention to the dangers of commercial genetic modification. He hasn't accomplished that because most of you sheep don't seem to understand that his message was this: GM is dangerous precisely because of its unpredictability. Life adapts, evolves, and mutates. Genes are transferred horizontally and vertically as well.
An unexplained death in an otherwise healthy 40-something woman is strange as hell. When she dies in the vicinity of a PCR machine, a centrifuge and a pile of bacterial cultures and the coroner can't assign a precise cause of death, this is a major cause for concern.
Get this, and get it good: when you start messing with gene sequences (and yes, he WAS doing that) and replicating organisms, ANYTHING can happen, and it cannot necessarily be easily categorized or explained.
It may already be too late, but this should be a wake-up call to freeze all GM experimentation except in Level IV labs.
One way or another, this is probably the index case. Wait. You'll see.
I think that just goes to show how egregious the rights violations committed by the Bush administration really are. If a man like Mr. Tipper Gore can get all huffy and upset about how invasive the government is becoming, it is perhaps already too late for the rest of us.
It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.