As can be seen in these two recent and consecutive California Politics Today article/interviews, "Public interest lawyer asks for public hearing to discuss proposed reforms for ICOC" and "Dana Cody, executive director, Life Legal Defense Foundation, explains its anti-Proposition 71 lawsuit" the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (ICOC), and Proposition71 , the horse on which they both rode in, are now under severe attack from both the pro-life and the anti-corporate movements.

While these two movements and the individuals and groups that belong to them are acting separately, their criticisms of what Stanford-trained lawyer and multi-millionaire real estate developer Robert Klein II has done in writing, funding, passing, and implementing this $3 billion dollar experiment in the public financing of bio-medical research are remarkably similar.

Both efforts, the law suit brought by Dana Cody at the Life Legal Defense Foundation asking the California Supreme Court to declare Proposition 71 an unconstitutional delegation of authority and money to a group that is ""not under the exclusive management and control of the State as a state institution" and the petition for an open public hearing to discuss reforms to the ICOC filed by Charles Halpern and Dr. Philip R. Lee focus on the lack of accountability on the part of those given the authority by Proposition 71 to spend $3 billion in taxpayer dollars on bio-medical research, largely without any external constraints.

No one is saying that Berkeley-based secular humanists appalled at the continued accretion of wealth and power in the hands of a few bio-technology corporations and universities and the possible handing over to them of control of the evolutionary fate of humankind and those who oppose embryonic stem cell research on the grounds that it necessarily means the destruction of innocent human life are about to unite in some ecumenical alliance, but it is quite apparent from the pending legal actions brought separately by Halpern and Lee and Cody that Deep Blues and Deep Reds both believe that Robert Klein and his associates have gone too far this time and need to be stopped, and that taking legal action right now to curb their power and what many call their egregious self-dealing is the right thing to do.

One can only wonder what might happen with this and possibly other public and private issues given the emergence of a Deep Purple Alliance that brought together, on a practical and principled basis, both secular and religious opponents of corporate hegemony and the consumerist spectacle by which it rules.