Posted on 02/24/2009 11:31:21 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) - Eight days after a 200-pound chimpanzee critically mauled a woman in Connecticut, the House moved Tuesday to ban the transport of monkeys and apes across state lines for the purpose of selling them as pets.
The legislation to prohibit interstate commerce in primates also passed the House last year, but bill sponsor Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., said the "horrific chimpanzee attack" that stunned the nation last week would bring "renewed urgency" to the need to pass the bill into law.
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In her case I think they might want expand The Mann Act.
Where are they planning to house Helen Thomas?
Your guest room
...so is this a thin veiled attempt to discriminate against black people?
I’m serious.
Remember: according to the NAACP monkies in the media always represent black people. Isn’t that what they said during the New York Post Cartoon controversy?
“Transporting gulls across state lions for immortal porpoises”
People have kept primates as pets for thousands of years. It is a far less dangerous hobby than accepting Muzzies as immigrants.
they have federal issues to screw up and don't have time to usurp the states rights.
Geez, I’m glad there’s no other pressing issues out for the House to consider these days.
People have kept primates as pets for thousands of year
I know My MIL lives with us
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. — C. S. Lewis
If she'd had a man, she wouldn't have monkeyed around. :)
It's all about THE CONTROL. They could care less about the attack. It is just an excuse to get MORE CONTROL.
Sounds kind of racist to me.
You have to feel bad for her. Sitting there all alone drinking Banana Daiquiris.
Because when the see another chance to rape the 10th Amendment with the grossly expanded interpretation of the Interstate Commerce Clause, they move to tighten those federal shackles as quickly as possible.
This is Always the Dims answer to any problem: More Regulation. One monkey attacks someone, and they decide to tighten up on the kind of pet you can have. People are killed on the highways, and the Dims want to lower the speed limit to 55 and increase the number of cops. There is a financial crisis and the Dims want more regulations over the marketplace. The Dims need to find another solution to our problems, like lower taxes and No Regulation. Let the buyer beware.
Not a chance, my dogs would go insane...then again, she could use her current face being ripped off and replaced come to think of it.....
Great quote . . .
I wish these chuckleheads in Congress would get over themselves. All they know how to do is pass more regulations and spend money. Let the states deal with it - or not. Sometimes freedom means having the freedom to do stupid things.
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