Paging Aldous Huxley

I've been trying to tell people for quite a while now that things are bad in the UK, very bad, and that they will never get better. I'm not being pessimistic here, just acknowledging that societies do in fact die and decompose. In the UK the problems are manifold, from the renascent 1930s pacifism, to the rise of Islamic communities that feed off of British freedom while preparing to extort power from it, to the singular case of a British farmer sent to prison for shooting a burglar who had broken into his home and being kept in prison as a continuing danger to burglars because he refused to repent for engaging in self-defense.

Mostly I've been saying that Americans should prepare themselves for a Britain that will never join us in another military mission after Iraq. This is not your father's UK.

But this news via Reuters is insidious confirmation that the British are now moving into the pages of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, with nary a blink:

LONDON (Reuters) - The scientist who created Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, was granted a license Tuesday to clone human embryos for medical research.

Professor Ian Wilmut, of the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, plans to obtain stem cells for research into Motor Neurone Disease (MND), a procedure that divides the medical world along ethical lines.

Britain's cloning watchdog, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), granted the license Tuesday to Wilmut, Dr Paul de Sousa from Edinburgh and Professor Christopher Shaw from King's College London.

It is only the second such license granted in Britain.

Only the second such license. Do you realize that this represents the creation of individual human lives for the purpose of scientific experimentation? Yes, each embryo is an individual human life, here created intentionally to be destroyed for research. They're going to sell this to you as a pathway to curing disease. But the very fact of it is itself moral disease equivalent to eugenics and other forms of human experimentation. It's science with a blank check written against the account of human morality.