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Chimpanzee should be a legal person, animal rights activists say
CNA ^ | 5/23/2008

Posted on 05/23/2008 12:04:31 PM PDT by markomalley

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I post this in "News" vice "General", as while the article is just plain odd, there are some pretty serious implications to it. Particularly considering that it has not been dismissed outright by the European Court of Human Rights.
1 posted on 05/23/2008 12:04:31 PM PDT by markomalley
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Aren’t Chimps polygamists????


2 posted on 05/23/2008 12:05:21 PM PDT by Rick.Donaldson (http://www.transasianaxis.com - Please visit for latest on DPRK/Russia/China/et al.)
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Another Democratic voting constituency?


3 posted on 05/23/2008 12:09:19 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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4 posted on 05/23/2008 12:09:23 PM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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I hate every ape I see from Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z
But they’ll never make a monkey out of me.


5 posted on 05/23/2008 12:10:26 PM PDT by Borges
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Why not? He’s probably smarter than most of the animal rights activists anyway.


6 posted on 05/23/2008 12:10:38 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting CONSERVATIVE in memory of 5 children killed by illegals 2/17/08 and 2/19/ 08)
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If you prick them, do they not bleed?


7 posted on 05/23/2008 12:10:46 PM PDT by eastsider (/s)
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...abducted into an alien environment, traumatized and locked up in an enclosure...

Musta' had the cubicle next to me at GE.

8 posted on 05/23/2008 12:11:09 PM PDT by realdifferent1 (I hope the 'War on Terror' goes better than the 'War on Poverty'.)
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Aren’t Chimps polygamists????

Even Worse.

Matthew lives with another chimpanzee and a crocodile in an animal shelter.

Hopefully all three can be given legal status so they can then push to get their marriage legalized.
9 posted on 05/23/2008 12:11:12 PM PDT by contemplator (Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
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Great more democratic voters.


10 posted on 05/23/2008 12:11:20 PM PDT by Kimmers
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New tax enhancement scheme, EU-style.


11 posted on 05/23/2008 12:11:49 PM PDT by toddlintown (My kingdom for a beer!)
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URPeans have long ago left the reservation...


12 posted on 05/23/2008 12:11:49 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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Maybe after they grant the chimps human status, they’ll start considering unborn persons.


13 posted on 05/23/2008 12:12:01 PM PDT by Marie2 (“I don’t want to give up eating all I want because of a failed hypothesis,” said Robinson)
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The chimp will soon be able to get married in California.


14 posted on 05/23/2008 12:13:47 PM PDT by A message
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To: Borges

On my God, I was wrong
It was earth all along.


15 posted on 05/23/2008 12:14:51 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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Would I be able to legally marry one or at least get it under my health insurance plan as a domestic partner? Can I marry more than one? Would he/she be able to qualify for Affirmative Action? If I and it are discriminated against, would that be covered as a hate crime?
16 posted on 05/23/2008 12:16:04 PM PDT by fish hawk (Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.)
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I guess a free education is next. It wouldn't noticeably change the demographics of most classrooms or the behaviors of most students.
17 posted on 05/23/2008 12:16:46 PM PDT by WesternPacific (I am tired of voting for the lesser of two evils!)
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Why can’t a chimp be a “legal” person ... a lot of jackasses are ...


18 posted on 05/23/2008 12:18:45 PM PDT by clamper1797 (It would be insane to vote for Hussein)
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Nice Simpsons reference. A musical version of Planet of the Apes. The "Dr. Zeus" chorus always cracks me up. That aside, when will the California judiciary step in and demand the right of interspecies marriage? How many more must suffer the stigma of discrimination and speciesism? You think I'm kidding? Just wait......
19 posted on 05/23/2008 12:19:14 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Peace Is Not The Question.)
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I’ll consider it if apes can do the jobs that Americans’ can’t.


20 posted on 05/23/2008 12:19:18 PM PDT by AU72
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