Posted on 12/26/2014 10:44:39 AM PST by Brother Cracker
An orangutan held in an Argentine zoo can be freed and transferred to a sanctuary after a court recognized the ape as a "non-human person" unlawfully deprived of its freedom, local media reported on Sunday. Animal rights campaigners filed a habeas corpus petition - a document more typically used to challenge the legality of a person's detention or imprisonment - in November on behalf of Sandra, a 29-year-old Sumatran orangutan at the Buenos Aires zoo. In a landmark ruling that could pave the way for more lawsuits, the Association of Officials and Lawyers for Animal Rights (AFADA) argued the ape had sufficient cognitive functions and should not be treated as an object.
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I had a non-human roommate in college. Not an ape, but very much ape-like.
Wait till it finds out it has to pay taxes too.
Yeah wait till he finds out he has to work for food and pay for a place to lay his head. He’ll be back. The left wont like these answers tho because they’ll hit too close to home.
Will chimpanzees and gorillas also receive human rights privileges?
After the snail darters have them.
Court Rules In Favor Of Orangutan’s “Non-Human Person” Right To Freedom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj7W3jcolOo
They tried to have human rights bestowed on an ape here in the US. The same liberals who would do that would deny human rights to an unborn baby
I had a roommate that was a pig.
So when do they turn it loose?
FMCDH(BITS)
I researched this. And the Judge DID NOT RULE THIS WAY!!!! In fact she ruled against granting Habeas Corpus for the Ape, saying the principle applies only to human persons. She did, however, order an investigation of conditions at the Buenos Aries Zoo relating to Argentina’s 1954 Animal cruelty Laws. . .
This WHOLE FLURRY of repeated echo chamber stories are the result of a SINGLE source they all quote that does not cite the name of the court or the judge! That source is prone to hyperbolic news and prints stories on ghosts and UFOs with just as much proof as this. SHEESH!
Interesting. So why not post the source of your research?
Brother, I have, this is literally the FIFTH time this story has been posted on FreeRepublic. . . and I’m tired of beating this dead horse!
But, since you asked nicely:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3239732/posts?page=9#9
Now freedom just means an enclosure called a “sanctuary.”
Argentine Judge Elena Liberatori
I think the original 2014 ruling went nowhere because the judge at that time didn’t but the habeus corpus argument but it appears they did some judge shopping.
Apparently this was also tried with a chimp in Brazil.
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