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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Will Sasquatch, chupacabra, dogman and ghosts be next?
Dude used to serve a purpose... semi scientific nowadays I don’t think that’s so much the case. Can’t really release him into the wild at this point because they know nothing about living in the wild but we should certainly discontinue populating shoes with good fine specimens of fauna. Maybe for animals that have been dinged up and can’t really function outside of the zoo perhaps...
It’s kind of like the true story of the Orca that killed a couple people and now it’s “serving time” in solitary confinement... EXCUSE ME - BUT that is totally f****d up. Put that Orca out in the ocean and let it live out its days in a natural setting.
As for elephants... before one of the great Extinction events the skeletal remains prove that the North American continent had a large population of mammoths and mastodons, along with the accompanying predators large herds of big mammals attracts.
If the elephants win, they’ll officially have more rights than the pre-born.
Yes. For one thing, they should be allowed to drive.
The liberal mindset: Unborn human babies aren’t people, but elephants are.
Already got ‘em. Just refuse to appear in general.
A contempt citation from the House might be a problem.
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Thew elephants should file a complaint either in writing or orally alleging their awful experiences. No animal rights people should speak for them as none of them have the LIVED EXPERIENCES OF THE ELEPHANTS!
If answer to ?? is “yes”; then when will they be outfitted with cannons?
I’d bet money that the people who think elephants should have the same rights as people do NOT support the right of preborn PEOPLE to live.
It astounds me that people think that Extra Terrestrial aliens will consider us an intelligent species.
I have always thought that they at best will treat us as we treat our terrestrial animals.
We might possibly have a choice of being food, or pets, assuming we are not just eliminated.
I have heard rumors that we taste better after being tenderized by spike proteins.
This ridiculous concept of providing the same legal protections as humans not limited to animals:
Trees, rivers and mountains:
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-trees-rivers-mountains-gaining-legal.html
Minnesota’s Wild rice:
https://celdf.org/rights-of-nature/timeline/
Panama’s plants and ecosystems:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/legislation-giving-nature-the-same-rights-as-humans-gains-ground-in-some-countries/
I think cats should have the same rights. Not sure about dogs, but definitely not elephants or fat chicks.
Slippery slope leads to this. Animals are property and their welfare is the responsibility of their owner, or they are independent beings and everyone is responsible. I say property, and do away with all the government laws which are so stupid. You have a dog that can survive in the Arctic indefinitely, but the law says it is felony cruelty to leave him outside alone for two hours in the winter, yet the same person owns ten cows and four horses that stay oustside 24/7 all year and would die long before the dog.
Last week, the farmer I drive commercial truck part-time for had two of his drivers go to the west coast and bring an old elephant back to the Elephant Sanctuary near Hohenwald, TN.
Once loaded, the drivers team drove back, only stopping for fuel, and escorted by security and veterinarian personel.
They brought one back from the west coast a year ago.
Big money animal rights people donate thousands to keep the old elephants alive.
Colorado high court will probably release of decision that agrees with the wackos.
Rights and responsibilities are two sides of the same coin. No responsibilities, NO RIGHTS.
So if elephants are given rights, they also should be subject to income taxes, be required to register for the draft, and either show proof of health insurance or sign up for Obamacare.
I bet these “animal rights” “activists” are all in favor of killing human babies.
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