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Boulder Colorado to Pass “Nature Rights Law” Giving Flowers a “Right to Life”
Life News ^ | September 12, 2013 | Wesley J. Smith

Posted on 09/12/2013 2:03:27 PM PDT by NYer

Anti-human radical environmentalism continues to advance with no push back in sight.

Boulder, Colorado appears on the verge of passing a “nature rights” law, which give the birds and the bees, the flowers and the trees a putative right to life equal to our own. From the Denver Westword News story:

Natural wonder: Boulder County has a reputation for leading the state in matters of open space, animal rights, environmental protections and all-around tree-hugging. But next week may present the acid test for local officials’ greeniness.

On Wednesday, September 18, the county planning commission will listen to a presentation from staff and ponder whether to include a statement in the comprehensive plan declaring that “Boulder County acknowledges the rights of all naturally occurring ecosystems and their native species populations to exist and flourish.”

And the leader of Angola, of all places, wants to institute ecocide in his country’s laws. As the story notes, if he does, that poverty stricken nation can kiss any hopes of prosperity goodbye. From the Angencia Angola Press story.

The Angolan head of State José Eduardo dos Santos Wednesday in Luanda ordered the setting up of a Work Team to study and draft proposals for incorporation in the country’s legal system of the Ecocide Convention, Angop learned from an official source. Ecocide is defined as the destruction or degradation of various ecosystems in a certain territory, through human action or others, putting at stake the full development of the resources by the population

The story says the UN backs ecocide laws. Not yet. Doing so is under investigation, but that decision hasn’t been made.

Of course, environmental protection is important. But there’s a wrong and a right way to do it. When we raise nature to the status of a rights bearer, when we pass laws criminalizing not just major pollution but development–we are like the proverbial lemmings jumping off the proverbial cliff.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: boulder; colorado; ecocide; environmentalism; flowers
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To: Dick Cinnamon

I get a different message from her sign. She is carrying a cross and has a picture of an unborn baby. I think her message is pretend the baby is a tree and you heathen tree huggers should care about the unborn more than a tree.


41 posted on 09/12/2013 2:49:52 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: NYer

All the while supporting the right to kill 55,000,000 babies before of immediately after their birth. Makes sense to me /s


42 posted on 09/12/2013 2:51:49 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: NYer

These people have way too much free time on their hands.


43 posted on 09/12/2013 2:52:40 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: hal ogen

No, they use selective indignation.


44 posted on 09/12/2013 2:55:01 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: NYer
NO MORE LAWNMOWERS!

45 posted on 09/12/2013 2:57:03 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: NYer
More evidence that leftists are in fact genocidal against human children. They don't actually believe any of their silly "personhood" arguments.

Can somebody PLEASE explain to me again why we are allowing leftists to continue breathing oxygen?!
46 posted on 09/12/2013 2:58:27 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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To: Dick Cinnamon
You know what, I completely misinterpreted that pic, at first glance I thought it was the typical hippie enviro-nut.

Good to see a pretty young lady who is an actual person rather than yet another leftist rat.
47 posted on 09/12/2013 3:00:34 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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To: PistolPaknMama; Dick Cinnamon

It’s crystal clear to me that you’re correct PPM. The girl is just trying to bring a bit of sanity and morality to the crowd. She’s one of the good guys.


48 posted on 09/12/2013 3:05:27 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: NYer

LOL! Serves ‘em right, because nearly everyone (all political parties) in some locales have robbed good ranchers and farmers of all that they had with false accusations and pretenses about animal rights. Enjoy Fido and the relatives.


49 posted on 09/12/2013 3:13:35 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: NYer
Stop eating the vegetables, they have feelings also!

Stop Michelle's Vegetable Thanatos now!

50 posted on 09/12/2013 3:20:16 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: NYer

BTW, that’s not about the birds and the bees. They’re lying. It’s a lawyer party (liberaltarian) front to take the properties of its own suckups NIMBYs and soon enslave them, too. That’s the thanks that people get for helping the evil ones with mercantilism against their own countrymen with fake environmentalist and animal worship fronts in local-yocal meetings. Fascists eventually consume everyone.


51 posted on 09/12/2013 3:20:21 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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52 posted on 09/12/2013 3:23:47 PM PDT by Lucky9teen ("The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative." ~ Edward Abbey)
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To: NYer

Save the corn babies!

/s


53 posted on 09/12/2013 3:35:30 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (dont worry about Mexico, put the fence around kalifornia.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Well, and I also just noticed that her hat says PRO-LIFE. Not pro-tree.


54 posted on 09/12/2013 3:36:27 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: Carry_Okie

“To claim to represent the rights of rocks is to project a subjective human impression of a rock’s preferences onto rocks.”

Too kind, too understanding IMHO.

Usually what the wannabe “constituency representative” is actually doing is the age old ‘shuck & jive’ whereby virtue words of that day are used to cover plain old theft.

I happen to like using turquoise in silver jewelry, and was able to observe SW Indian jewelers like Fred Kabote. From them, I learned “The Soul of the Stone” and am therefore best qualified to represent turquoise.

Based upon that, I must protect all turquoise and make sure no turquoise is hurt by nasty, selfish miners who are deaf to the suffering their cruel mining inflicts upon the soul of the turquoise.

Therefore, my fellow commies - oops, make that environmentally aware/concerned Americans, call upon your CongressPersons to enact laws creating the Department of Turquoise Protection.

Oh, don’t forget to have ME appointed Turquoise Czar for Life.


55 posted on 09/12/2013 3:53:16 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam is antithetical to, and Islam is irreconcilable with, America. Therefore - Islam Delenda Est)
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To: NYer

I just spoke to my liberal niece, who lives in Boulder and Boulder, at this minute, is being washed away.


56 posted on 09/12/2013 3:57:13 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: GladesGuru

There is a difference in this case, wherein there is little to no direct pecuniary benefit to the taker beyond the sating of a whim.


57 posted on 09/12/2013 4:13:52 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers choices: convert, submit, or die.)
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To: NYer

Grass has rights too. It should never be cut.


58 posted on 09/12/2013 5:36:01 PM PDT by Paladin2 (h)
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To: NYer

Looks like a lot of fruits and nuts have moved to Boulder Colorado.


59 posted on 09/12/2013 5:44:50 PM PDT by Moorings ("Tax and Spend Liberal" is not just a Republican campaign slogan anymore.)
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To: Ditter

Ask them if they feel like a threat to the earth today. I’m 20 miles east of Boulder, we measured 4.5” of rain in the homer bucket in 24 hours.


60 posted on 09/12/2013 7:38:38 PM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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