Posted on 10/24/2024 7:40:42 AM PDT by dynachrome
Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou, and Jambo have lived in Colorado Springs for decades in the elephant exhibit at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Now an animal rights group is trying to release the elephants from what they say is essentially a prison for such highly intelligent and social animals known to roam for miles a day in the wild.
Colorado's highest court will hear arguments Thursday on whether the older African female elephants should be legally able to challenge their captivity under a long-held process used by prisoners to dispute their detention. The animal rights group NonHuman Rights Project says the animals are languishing while “unlawfully confined” at the zoo, and wants them released to an unspecified elephant sanctuary.
“They are suffering immensely and unnecessarily. Without judicial intervention, they are doomed to suffer day after day, year after year, for the rest of their lives,” a lawyer for the group, Jake Davis, said in a May brief submitted to the Colorado Supreme Court.
The main legal issue is whether or not the elephants are considered persons under the law, and therefore able to pursue a petition of habeas corpus challenging their detention. The NonHuman Rights project argues that legal personhood is not limited to humans.
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The level of idiocy from animal rights activists grows worse each day.
Whoever filed this lawsuit. The attorneys should face legal sanctions for frivolous lawsuits wasting court time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Was_a_Man
Jerry’s level of self-awareness is minimal, but his lawyer demonstrates his humanity through three traits: first, his fondness for singing “Jingle Bells”; second, his ability to tell a lie in order to obtain a cigarette; third (and most significant) his sense of self-preservation, which is demonstrated through video footage of Jerry cutting away from where a mine is so a fellow minesweeper gets blown up instead.[1]
I have always detested wild animals locked in cages, or dogs chained to a stake. Most zoos nowdays do have suitable enclosures for their wild animals and that seems OK.Their medical and nutritional needs are well met.
Give it time and they’ll say vegetables have the same rights, too.
Save the vegetables!
The Swiss are Nuts … About Plants’ Rights, Anyway
https://cei.org/blog/the-swiss-are-nuts-about-plants-rights-anyway/
A new amended law in Switzerland protects the dignity of vegetation.
Switzerland Places Ban on the Humiliation of Plants
https://planetsave.com/articles/switzerland-places-ban-on-the-humiliation-of-plants/
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Ask Lizzo..................
If the elephants have hired a lawyer they should absolutely be present in the courtroom.
I think elephants are smarter than all Democrats and most of today’s college students, so...
“Elephants Don’t Vote!” At least they’re not supposed to. No telling what’s going on in George and Pennsylvania.
You ain’t seen ‘nothin yet:
Put them in charge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights
History of human rights. Animals have none........................................yet.
Which side won at the lower level?
Of course, they should, but they should refrain from entering an airplane, et al.
The real question is should animal rights perverst be allowed to bring law suits on behalf of elephants and of course the root cause, horses. Should animal rights be allowed to walk among us. Are they any better than the animals they so lovingly obsess over.?
The answer of course is no. The wackos should be exiled to the UK where they can find comfort among such other intellectually disturbed humans.
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