Posted on 06/26/2008 3:41:42 PM PDT by ari-freedom
Spain's parliament voiced its support on Wednesday for the rights of great apes to life and freedom in what will apparently be the first time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans.
Parliament's environmental committee approved resolutions urging Spain to comply with the Great Apes Project, devised by scientists and philosophers who say our closest genetic relatives deserve rights hitherto limited to humans.
"This is a historic day in the struggle for animal rights and in defense of our evolutionary comrades, which will doubtless go down in the history of humanity," said Pedro Pozas, Spanish director of the Great Apes Project.
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And we thought the good ole USA was the country we no longer recognized, its the entire planet.
This clears the way for Obama to choose Lord Hanuman as VP running mate...
How do I get to Gym class? Where are the monkey bars?
Secular humanism has a real big tent as this action indicates.
Now they’ll want the “right” to marry
If the monkeys get the right to vote, the Dimocrats will win every election.
lotta apes in spain i guess...
Go Germany!
And we thought the good ole USA was the country we no longer recognized, its the entire planet.
And the world is going to get the biggest, nastiest wake up call in the history of the world. Soon.
Will apes be serving in the Spanish parliament? They’re probably smarter than the current representatives.
Why the history of Humanity? I would think it would go down in the history of monkeydom.
Dang, I just thought of something. Under Heller will monkey-rights include the right to keep and bear arms?? Monkeys are bad enough when they can only throw a handful of crap at you. And now we're gonna give 'em guns??!!
“Theys gone Apey!”
........while in Spain, Lancelot Link celebrates his right to marry his boyfriend.
I hope the apes gain seats in parliament... after seeing the Spanish “intelligencia” fill the streets in protest of Aznar the night of the al Qaeda bombings. What a spineless reaction for a European democracy!
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