JDRP
I would like to establish a new project, entitled the "Jewish DNA Restoration Project." At present we do not know how to restore a whole human being from a piece of DNA. Unlike the "Jurassic Park" concept of restoring dinosaurs, there are still far too many unknowns to clone a human from DNA. But, in case in the future, as I suspect, such a process will become scientifically feasible and not just a matter of science fiction, I propose that we start now finding, purifying and extracting samples of DNA from Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust.
Of course, it will never be possible to restore six million lives that were cut off and destroyed by German and other European's hostility, hatred and indifference. But, I propose that the EU Parliament pass a resolution supporting the establishment of a Bank for the DNA that can be harvested from the field as it were. The Germans were clever in destroying the Jews in some of the Concentration camps in that they burnt many of them, sometimes alive, thus destroying their DNA in the process. In other cases they had prisoners ground down their victim's bones and throw the dust into European rivers. But, in many hundreds of thousands of cases they murdered Jews all over Europe and we have an almost complete map of thousands of camps. Also, the many sites of massacres in Ukraine and Byelorussia are becoming known. Plus there are sites such as former Ghettos, where hundreds of thousands of Jews perished from starvation, disease and maltreatment. FInally, there are sites where Jewish bodies were buried, without individual identification, in mass graves or large pits, such as in Camp 4 in Kovno, where tens of thousands of Jews were simply thrown into a deep pit to die.
I am prepared to go out and scour Europe for sites where Jewish DNA can be harvested, mainly from bones. Then to establish an identification process whereby the millions of records held at the Bad Arolsen identification center and other repositories of where Jews were concentrated and murdered, can be correlated. Finally, a lab must be established where the actual restoration of cloned Jews can be made. In this way we could restore to life some of those Jews who whose DNA is still viable. In this way we could achieve the resurrection of the innocent dead. This would be the ultimate revenge against Hitler and his generation of anti-Semites.
There are two arguments against this process. First, if the methodology can be achieved, then it could also be applied to the murderers, such as Hitler himself, as envisaged in "The Boys from Brazil" by Ira Levin and in Woody Allen's comic triumph "Sleeper," where fortunately attempts to clone the dictator from a piece of his nose fail. But, if this process were to be limited by international law to those whose lives were cut short by vast human rights abuses, then it might be controlled. Also, what will the cloned people do once they achieve life again? They might want to wreak revenge on their former murderers, or rather the offspring of their murderers. So there would have to be a rehabilitation program to adjust the cloned resurrectees to their new circumstances. After all, they may be clones but they cannot be entirely the same individuals with the same memories and experiences.
There is one final point, such a process would be a way for the grandchildren of those who murdered my people to try to make amends in some small way for the hatred and participation of their forebears in the greatest crime in history. Maybe it's not feasible, but I would like to see my grandparents again.
Of course, it will never be possible to restore six million lives that were cut off and destroyed by German and other European's hostility, hatred and indifference. But, I propose that the EU Parliament pass a resolution supporting the establishment of a Bank for the DNA that can be harvested from the field as it were. The Germans were clever in destroying the Jews in some of the Concentration camps in that they burnt many of them, sometimes alive, thus destroying their DNA in the process. In other cases they had prisoners ground down their victim's bones and throw the dust into European rivers. But, in many hundreds of thousands of cases they murdered Jews all over Europe and we have an almost complete map of thousands of camps. Also, the many sites of massacres in Ukraine and Byelorussia are becoming known. Plus there are sites such as former Ghettos, where hundreds of thousands of Jews perished from starvation, disease and maltreatment. FInally, there are sites where Jewish bodies were buried, without individual identification, in mass graves or large pits, such as in Camp 4 in Kovno, where tens of thousands of Jews were simply thrown into a deep pit to die.
I am prepared to go out and scour Europe for sites where Jewish DNA can be harvested, mainly from bones. Then to establish an identification process whereby the millions of records held at the Bad Arolsen identification center and other repositories of where Jews were concentrated and murdered, can be correlated. Finally, a lab must be established where the actual restoration of cloned Jews can be made. In this way we could restore to life some of those Jews who whose DNA is still viable. In this way we could achieve the resurrection of the innocent dead. This would be the ultimate revenge against Hitler and his generation of anti-Semites.
There are two arguments against this process. First, if the methodology can be achieved, then it could also be applied to the murderers, such as Hitler himself, as envisaged in "The Boys from Brazil" by Ira Levin and in Woody Allen's comic triumph "Sleeper," where fortunately attempts to clone the dictator from a piece of his nose fail. But, if this process were to be limited by international law to those whose lives were cut short by vast human rights abuses, then it might be controlled. Also, what will the cloned people do once they achieve life again? They might want to wreak revenge on their former murderers, or rather the offspring of their murderers. So there would have to be a rehabilitation program to adjust the cloned resurrectees to their new circumstances. After all, they may be clones but they cannot be entirely the same individuals with the same memories and experiences.
There is one final point, such a process would be a way for the grandchildren of those who murdered my people to try to make amends in some small way for the hatred and participation of their forebears in the greatest crime in history. Maybe it's not feasible, but I would like to see my grandparents again.
posted by Jack Cohen at 11:30 AM
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