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Illegal Beings: Human Clones
One Piece at a Time
SC ( 02/14/2004, 06:56:41 )The current struggle over cloning is symbolized in many ways by an old Johnny Cash song entitled "One Piece at a Time." In this song, the narrator lives a life that in some ways is patently absurd: he works all day assembling luxury cars, yet can't afford one of his own. Rather than overtly fighting the economic and legal system, however, he embarks on a plan to get the beautiful car he has always wanted, without going to jail: he elects to steal the car, one piece at a time.Today, years after the song was written, we are all in much the same situation as the assembly line worker. We clone ourselves all day long, some of us would like to have the best product that process is capable of producing, and yet society will not allow us to openly obtain it.Doctor Zavos has responded to the opposition he faces in cloning a baby by announcing that he is doing it in smaller steps: attempting to clone an embryo, cloning an embryo but arresting its growth, cloning an embryo and then implanting it, although the process did not result in a viable pregnancy, and so on. Therapeutic cloners have done much the same thing, gradually growing cloned masses of cells to more advanced stages of development, and all the while proclaiming that reproductive cloning is wrong. Religious advocates say that cloning using adult cells is acceptable, but the use of embryonic cells is wrong. Condemn the cloning package all you want, popular sentiment says, but just allow me to have the little bit of acceptance that I need for my piece of it.In the end, Johnny Cash's character got his dream car. It took him so many years and so much effort that, had he been paid for all his labour, he might have bought it outright. The final product was a mishmash of not quite compatible parts, and each one had to be registered separately.Unfortunately, where cloning is concerned, we're headed down the same road. Our bodies and our legal systems are set to evolve in the same way as the stolen Cadillac.Here's the story, in Johnny Cash's words: Well, I left Kentucky back in '49 An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry 'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black. One day I devised myself a plan That should be the envy of most any man I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand. CHORUS I'd get it one piece at a time And it wouldn't cost me a dime You'll know it's me when I come through your town I'm gonna ride around in style I'm gonna drive everybody wild 'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round. So the very next day when I punched in With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends I left that day with a lunch box full of gears Now, I never considered myself a thief GM wouldn't miss just one little piece Especially if I strung it out over several years. The first day I got me a fuel pump And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome The little things I could get in my big lunchbox Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home. Now, up to now my plan went all right 'Til we tried to put it all together one night And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong. The transmission was a '53 And the motor turned out to be a '73 And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone. So we drilled it out so that it would fit And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit We had that engine runnin' just like a song Now the headlight' was another sight We had two on the left and one on the right But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on. The back end looked kinda funny too But we put it together and when we got thru Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin About that time my wife walked out And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin." So we drove up town just to get the tags And I headed her right on down main drag I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around But up there at the court house they didn't laugh 'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds. CHORUS I got it one piece at a time And it didn't cost me a dime You'll know it's me when I come through your town I'm gonna ride around in style I'm gonna drive everybody wild 'Cause I'll have the only one there is around. (Spoken) Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER This is the COTTON MOUTH In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER You might say I went right up to the factory And picked it up, it's cheaper that way Ugh!, what model is it? Well, It's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56 '57, '58' 59' automobile It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67 '68, '69, '70 automobile.
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