His will specified that his body be preserved in a glass case so that he could attend all the board meetings of University College, London. His head eventually fell off (that's it between his feet) so they made a wax one to take its place.
Posted on 09/10/2009 6:02:37 PM PDT by RobinMasters
NEW YORK – President Obama's newly confirmed administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has several times quoted approvingly from an author who likened animals to slaves and argued an adult dog or a horse is more rational than a human infant and should therefore be granted similar rights.
A brief video on YouTube captures Cass Sunstein at a 2002 event using the writings of Jeremy Bentham, a 19th Century social reformer and animal rights pioneer.
"You've heard a reference to Bentham, so let's listen to him, shall we," he begins in the video.
He then quotes from Bentham's 1789 primer, "Introduction to Principals of Morals and Legislation," written just after slaves had been freed by the French but were still held captive in the British dominions:
"The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor," Sunstein states, quoting Bentham.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Ping.
I thought (unborn) human infants didn’t have any rights.
Does this guy have children? Has he observed the development of a human child?
It is a wonderful thing to behold.
The list, ping
His will specified that his body be preserved in a glass case so that he could attend all the board meetings of University College, London. His head eventually fell off (that's it between his feet) so they made a wax one to take its place.
I love my dogs, but um... this guys is out to lunch.
And everyone thought michael jackson was a pioneer...
An adult dog or horse may well be more “rational” than an infant human, but I defy most Democrats to debate any one of them.
bttt
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