Posted on 11/08/2019 8:50:19 PM PST by simpson96
An orangutan who was granted legal personhood in a landmark 2015 ruling has moved into the Center for Great Apes in central Florida.
Judge Elena Liberatori's ruling declared that Sandra was legally not an animal, but a non-human person. That meant the orangutan was entitled to some legal rights enjoyed by humans, plus better living conditions, reports The Miami Herald.
"With that ruling I wanted to tell society something new, that animals are sentient beings and that the first right they have is our obligation to respect them," Liberatori said.
The 2015 ruling came after animal rights campaigners filed a habeas corpus petition—a document more typically used to challenge the legality of a person's detention or imprisonment—on behalf of the orangutan.
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Oh dear. The idiotocracy didn’t elevate simians. They instead devalued humans.
Dumb as a box of rocks.
Does it have a SS# and pay taxes?
What are her pronouns?
You can bet it votes
Perfect for Florida Man!
Whoa. Good point.
It was a foreign court that made the idiotic ruling, it has no force here.
Free college education, welfare and food stamps, child support from the cruel ape that got her pregnant, marriage rights, divorce rights, abortion rights, transgender/transition rights, driver’s license, rent control and subsidy, homestead protections, ObamaPhone (that might be rassssisss), public housing, gas and electric subsidies, voting rights, selective service registration, and finally - full ride scholarship at Harvard. But, really likes “Orange Man”....calls Trump ‘a homey’.
...this is why aliens don’t want to make contact with Earth. :o)
And the sliding down the slippery slope continues. When will antibiotics, chemo, etc be outlawed. And who are we to eradicate mold from our homes? Isnt a little respiratory problems worth saving the smallest of creatures? After all even germs, cancer cells and other micro organisms have feelings. Better keep my big mouth shut or they’ll get more dumb ideas.
I knew it! Fricking Florida again. State of the wackos.
She’s probably better behaved than 60% of Florida women...
Well, it’s Florida “man”.
headline “Florida Woman steals go cart- races down rt 1, then swings from tree to tree to escape police... News at 11”
If Maxene had a daughter......
Wasn’t she the drummer for Spinal Tap?
Wow - a Democrat with a relatively high IQ!
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When she votes for Trump in 2020 they’ll turn her back to animal status.
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