Posted on 12/02/2013 3:49:47 PM PST by lbryce
An animal rights group is taking to the courts in an effort to seek personhood for a chimpanzee. In a lawsuit filed today in Fulton County, New York, the Nonhuman Rights Project demands that "Tommy" — a privately owned chimp who lives on a reindeer farm in the state — be freed from his owners and moved to a sanctuary.
According to the group, they'll also file two additional lawsuits seeking sanctuary for chimps in other parts of the state. Those chimps are Kiko, living at a nonprofit center, and Hercules and Leo, being used for research at Stony Brook University. In all three instances, the group says, the animals are being held captive and, because of key cognitive capacities including the ability to make choices, have a limited right to freedom and cannot be held in captivity. "When we visited Tommy, we found him in a small cage at the back of a dark shed at a trailer sales park," a press release from the Nonhuman Rights Project reads. "Tommy was all by himself — his only company being a TV on a table on the opposite wall."
The lawsuits hinge on the use of habeas corpus, a strategy historically employed in cases of unlawful human confinement (slavery in particular). According to the group, led by legal academic and professor Steven Wise, one does not need to be human in order to merit certain rights — and as such, these chimpanzees are being illegally enslaved by their owners. "This petition asks this court to issue a writ recognizing that Tommy is not a legal thing to be possessed by respondents, but rather is a cognitively complex autonomous legal person with the fundamental legal right not to be imprisoned," reads the group's court filing, obtained by The New York Times.
The move marks a first in the US, but legal proceedings in other countries have sought — and sometimes obtained — certain rights for chimpanzees. Whether or not the case succeeds, it is bolstered by a growing body of scientific findings, which have concluded that chimpanzees boast complex cognitive abilities and profound emotional lives. And while this might be the most extreme effort to change how chimpanzees are perceived and treated, it's also one of several recent high-profile ventures in the same vein: the federal government earlier this year, for instance, announced plans to sharply limit the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research.
Once chimps reach puberty they are extremely dangerous. This is insane.
Another approach would be that of Probability Broach.
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Buy a vote with a banana in the banana republic.
Animals are animals because they fear, and they fear man.
Leftist terrorists want us there. They want the animals to not fear us and us to fear the animals.
It is all in the Obama panzy pants psychology.
It does not matter how equal we make ourselves to animals, animals will always fear us, and satan’s terrorist children in the White House will never have enough power to allay their fears.
Wake up America.
Unborn hell! There are leftists in the U.S. who claim that a child is not a person until they reach the age where they can fend for themselves completely, and, therefore, parents should be allowed to euthanize them.
Bill Clinton? Is that you?
sorry, couldn't resist. recall his words about the female mummy discovered while he was in office (and diddling Monica with a cigar).
LOL
Wish I didn’t remember....
Is that Al Sharpton after forgetting to shave for a month?
You send a normal kid to college and they come out a retarded liberal. What a freak show.
Gives new meaning to “I’ll be a monkey’s uncle”.
Satanism teaches that men are on the same levels as beasts and are just another “animal”. Coincidence? I think not...
My first thought also. I believe the left hates mankind for some mentally ill reason. They just get sicker and more perverted every day.
Oh good. Now gay guys can marry gay chimps.
And be enrolled in about 10 different “temporary assistance” programs...
The reason is more like my tagline. The left is just doing what their daddy does.
What,no demand for “marriages” between people and chimps?
Thanks lbryce.
‘Humans evolved after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig
Daily Mail | 09:45 GMT, 30 November 2013 | By DAMIEN GAYLE
Posted on 11/30/2013 6:12:24 AM by Eurotwit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3096779/posts
Well the thing is already smarter than most democrats. It might go GOP if we give it a banana.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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