NAF CLU vs SGC Transplantation Act by Dan Bieger
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SUMMARY: For the February Flash Fiction RunoffSpace Station Omega, 04/01/01.Combined Press Resources Intersolar.
The Ultimate Court agreed today to accept the case of the Civil Liberties Union of the North American Federation versus the Solar Governments Cooperative re the matter of The Transplantation Act of "96. Chief Justice Amala Themis, speaking for the Court, agreed the CLU's case appeared to present a valid ecological argument to the intent of the legislation therefore meriting consideration by the high court. The Transplantation Act, passed in 2996, provides for the transplantation of specified persons into the physical remains of serial killers below the age of 30 after removal of the criminal aspects of the body. Since its passage, the Act has come under fire from a variety of sources, e.g., the various religions holding all life sacred, legal purists considering the act a violation of the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, fringe groups believing targeting serial killers constitutes a subtle form of racism as all known serial killers have genetic strains of predominantly anglo-saxon origin. The CLU disdained all these arguments in favor of the more compelling argument from ecology insisting that serial killers perform an essential philosophical, psychological, and biological function within the society as a whole. Even with the population of Earth down to a relatively stable 5 billion, Mars at 1.5 billion, and so on through the solar system, the press of humanity against itself results in an ever escalating pressure that, unchecked, could result in the ultimate catastrophe, the meltdown long predicted by the suspected but never proven physicist-sociologist-biologist academic cabal.
In execution, the Act seems to provide the SGC a means to preserve its membership as the number of Representatives (250) far exceeds the number of verified serial killers in captivity. Since Representatives, once elected, seem to have jobs for life, the number of truly and prospective ancients grows larger very year. In competition for the resources are the Ultimate Court Justices and the individual CEOs of the Favored 500 corporations, only one of whose members has been transplanted and that because an eligible Representative decided to opt out and transferred her allotment to him, an act neither party seemed anxious to explain.
The current Ultimate Court case record includes more than 4,000 cases heard. Analysts note that, of that number, the Court has found in favor the ecological argument 99 44/100 percent while other argument bases have lost at a failure rate of more than 95 percent. These statistics prompted the CLU's spokesperson to acknowledge they had high hopes for victory.
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