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EXAMPLE
INTERVIEW 4
EXAMPLE
INTERVIEW:
28th April 2001
Sent:
Saturday, April 28, 2001 5:37 PM
From:
Julie ****
To:
RWicker@gateway.net
Subject:
My interview questions
Edited
by R. Moorgate
Dear
Mr. Wicker,
Thank
you so much for helping me. I've
been doing research on
human
cloning and I have a lot of information already.
However, I find
your
organization and the work you do fascinating.
I read the other
interviews
that you have answered to and I tried not to repeat or ask the
same
questions. However, there are some
standard questions that I am
required
to ask you as part of my assignment. I
apologize if they are
repetitive.
I
read about you in the February issue of Time magazine and it says that
you
are a spokesperson for the Human Cloning Foundation.
What exactly do
you
do?
In
what way are you involved in your organization?
Can
you tell me some things you feel are important to know about human
cloning?
How
has knowing about human cloning influenced your life if it has at
all?
I've
researched a lot on human cloning and I still haven't found out if
anyone
has attempted to clone a human. Has
someone attempted to clone a
human
before?
In
my interview, I need a description of your working environment (I was
supposed
to interview a person live but I was not able to get that but I
still
have to comply with the requirements). The idea is to get a visual
picture
of your working environment or where the interview takes place. In
this
case, it would be your work place (with Human Cloning Foundation).
Please
give me some details about: how the
room looks, things in the room,
your
clothing, etc.
Can
you suggest any other sources--media, places to visit, activities to
take
part in, or people I can contact--to make me more informed about human
cloning?
Can
you tell me what you are currently working on?
Has there been any
new
developments in human cloning?
Thank
you for taking time from your busy life to help me
answer
these questions. I know that you
are a busy man so I tried to keep
my
questions short.
Sincerely,
Julie
****
Date:
Sat, 28 Apr 2001 19:34:55 -0700
From:
Randolfe H. Wicker
To:
Julie ****
Edited
by R. Moorgate
Dear
Julia,
First
let me congratulate you for having one of life's most important qualities:
perseverance. I have so many
requests that I would spend my entire life sitting here typing if I answered
them all. However, your repeated
requests motivated me to respond. I
once had a poem which I used to hand out which said, basically, that the world
was full of unfulfilled genius and that the one thing in life that was important
was perseverance.
The
most important thing about reproductive human cloning is that it is a
reproductive right. That means that
every human being has the right to decide if they will have children and the
manner in which they will have them.
The
most important thing about human cloning is that the actual technology of human
cloning, creating cloned embryos, is actually more important than reproducing
through cloning. This technology
promises to cure many of the diseases and ailments facing all of us who are
living and will give each of us alive today a longer and healthier life.
They have just found a way to create brain cells and pancreas cells in
mice through stem cell technology (which is based on cloning technology) and
will probably soon be able to do the same for human beings.
"Knowing about human cloning" has not just influenced my life.
It has become central to my life. I
cannot explain to you the reasons why. I
see this great promising frontier for medicine and science (through stem cell
research) and this new capacity for any person to have a later-born twin as a
great new opportunity for all humanity.
To
date, we do not know of anyone who has attempted to clone a human being.
However, if you go to my Jan. 2001 Update under "Editorials" at
www.CloneRights.com you will see that I
believe the first child conceived through human cloning will not be identified
until many years after the event has happened.
The first "publicly identified children" conceived through
cloning are going to live lives without privacy like the Dionne Quintuplets, a
Canadian group of five children, who were used and abused and exploited and
robbed of their childhood by promoters. They
recently, finally, got a settlement from the Canadian Government for their
suffering.
You
can not only have a description of my working environment, you can have an
actual photograph of it, full page, if you can get a copy of the WIRED MAGAZINE
from February 2001. It is a small
cubicle in the corner of my art deco lighting shop in Manhattan.
I might be able to send you a copy of the photo from my files at the end
of this interview. I am like the
"Wizard of Oz" sitting at a computer.
On the walls of my office hang pictures of my dear friends and allies in
the human cloning movement. There
are a couple photos of Shauna Cutl (one as a young beautiful model and the other
as an older heavier kidney failure survivor). There
is a picture of "patient advocate" Mark Eibert and his wife when they
visited me in NYC and also a picture of the twin boys that just joined their
family and who are now taking up much of their time. There is a picture of my
mother who told me I could clone her if I wished.
There are also pictures from Jaramillo of multiple tigers and other
endangered species. There is a big
blow-up of a photo of my unborn twin brother which will probably be shown on
John Stossel's special show on June 29, 2001, and which can be seen in
"visuals" at www.CloneRights.com.
There is also a picture of Christopher Reeve and his wife.
I'm not sure that they support human cloning but they certainly support
stem cell research and are my heroes for that reason.
You can see that photo in the Wired Magazine story picture.
I usually dress casually. However,
I have my "television suits" --coats and ties--hanging nearby since I
never know when I might be instantly called to a major studio to debate some
famous personality.
If
you are up to a serious heavy dose of scientific information, please visit the www.ReproductiveClonging.net
web site. There you can read all
the mindboggling scientific papers about the problems and solutions to human
cloning (The "10 most useful scientific cloning papers" will be up in
a couple of weeks - Ed). This is a
scientific subject that few people can understand. The real problem is that most people have already made up
their minds (against) and are only looking for negative evidence against human
cloning. I know of no place other
than www.ReproductiveCloning.net
where you can find factual and valuable information.
You can see the filed testimony of those of us who went to Washington and
testified at the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce. I will try to add that link
at the end of this email. I am
currently working on trying to get the American public to, at least,
"listen" to the arguments for human cloning.
Everyone is very negative and closed minded.
It is difficult to be on the cutting edge of so much promise and to see
so many people rushing for darkness and trying to deny the truth you are trying
to offer.
I
am, at this time, supporting Dr. Zavos and the International Consortium in their
efforts to conceive a child through human cloning. The
"new developments" include attempts by radical right-wingers like
Senator Brownback (R-Kansas) to stop even privately-funded research on
"therapeutic cloning". This
is an artificial distinction which you will understand if you see Mark Eibert's
brilliant presentation to California's "Human Cloning Committee".
The highlights can also be gotten under "Update 2001" under
"editorials" at www.clonerights.com
under the title "Where, When , How?"
I hope this gets you an "A".
You deserve an "A" just for "perseverance".
Cloningly
yours,
Randolfe
H. Wicker
Director,
The
Human Cloning Foundation
Founder, Clone Rights United Front
Administrator, The Reproductive
Cloning Network
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