Posted on 07/18/2008 9:13:32 AM PDT by pinkpanther111
Spain's parliament is poised to pass a bill granting great apes -- chimps, gorillas, orangutans and bonobos -- human rights.
Oh, don't worry, they are starting small, offering just four of the 50 rights that human Europeans enjoy.
Spain's proposed rewriting of our own Declaration of Independence reads something like this: All apes are endowed by parliament with certain inalienable rights, among them life, personal safety, limited freedom of movement and the right to claim property through court-appointed (human) guardians.
Not exactly Jeffersonian, but a revolution in human thinking nonetheless.
The poster boy, er, ape, for this great new cause is an animal dubbed "Matthew" by humans (I don't know what, if anything, he calls himself), whose future has been rendered uncertain because the Vienna animal shelter that cared for him is going bankrupt. There are easier ways to make sure Matthew lives in ape heaven for the rest of his natural life, but no matter. This isn't about protection for one ape; it's about a giant new step for mankind, putting Spain at the moral forefront as the first country to recognize that apes are, well, people too.
One of the questions lurking in the back of my mind is: What next?
What's the next great civil rights movement? I know there will be one, but what? [...]
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So when one of these apes kills a baby ape, he will be indicted?
Talk about jumping the shark, spains leaders have gone totally off the deep end. Why stop at apes, why not just include all animals in their little declaration and get it over with? Then the Spaniards can quit eating meat of all types, stop having pets because that will be violation of animal rights, stop eating eggs also because eggs are potential animals, etc. What a bunch of total idiots.
'bout time!
I had a dream: Could the next great civil rights movement be to protect the million not-yet-born children each year who are literally never permitted to see the light of day? Could the culturemakers who need to see themselves as participating in this great moral drama that gives meaning to their lives, come to recognize the incongruity of entertaining the idea that apes may have a right to life on the grounds they share "98.5 percent of DNA" while withholding it from real, living, developing human children?
Protection for apes but not humans..
An egg isa potential chicken and chickens have rights, but a human fetus is just a growth that should be killed. The left never ceases to amaze.
Yes, a legal nightmare.
Maybe they can put them in the same category as ‘the homeless’ as to their rights to poop in public, have sex in public, go naked, and throw their feces at people.
Banned in Spain!!
Turn UP the sound
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=4320416
Well, I for one will not rest until Apes are granted the right to same sex marriage.
"you ain't nobody nobody sent"
Will they be able to marry a chimp?
"Quit discriminatin against me! Playa hatas"
“the right to claim property through court-appointed (human) guardians”
Is this the governments way of saying your property is ours, not yours? Send an ape out to claim it????
This Spaniard was observing a large gorilla closely, leaning over the rail, when it became annoyed and grabbed him through the bars. The ape really worked him over, but without serious injury to the man.
He recovered and complained to a keeper, and the keeper asked him what he had done just prior to being attacked. He said, I just scratched my nose with my thumb. The keeper informed him that gorillas had a sign language and the man might have given him a `F*** you’ sign.
The Spaniard went home and stewed over the incident. He had been humiliated in front of a number of people, and by an ape estupido.
The next day, Sunday, he went directly to the gorilla’s cage and there was another crowd. In a sack he had two pinwheels, two sharp knives and two long sausages.
He knew that lesser apes would imitate humans, so—keeping his distance this time—he waved his arms wildly at the great ape. The gorilla waved back.
Next, he tossed a pinwheel through the bars. He waved his pinwheel and made it spin; the gorilla waved his pinwheel and made it spin.
The man threw a sausage threw the bars and one of the knives as well. He put the other sausage between his legs and sliced it off with the knife.
The gorilla looked at the pinwheel, then at the knife and the sausage and slowly thumbed his nose at the man.
The left is never satisfied. They never say “fine, we have achieved all the ‘rights’ that we wanted”.
No. They use each small victory as a stepping stone to bigger ones. They will not stop until they have monkeys voting, working, suing. Of course monkeys will vote democrat, being of lower intelligence than people.
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