Posted on 09/25/2017 12:04:41 PM PDT by kevcol
An environmental group is filing the first lawsuit of its kind on Sept. 26 in the U.S., attempting to force the state of Colorado to recognize the “legal rights” of the Colorado River and the surrounding ecosystem.
Activist organization Deep Green Resistance (DGR) has signed on as the river’s “next friends” in Colorado River v. State of Colorado. The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is a legal adviser in the case, according to a CELDF press release.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycallernewsfoundation.org ...
It started when we created laws giving animals rights.
http://www.thedogpress.com/Columns/Unconstitutional-Animal-Laws-bl-1704.asp
These people are beyond insane.
Wait, you idiots! you have to first declare monkeys human, then dogs, cats, rabbits, and all the other domestic animals. Then farm animals. Then wild animals. Then you can declare plants human. Finally, at last, you can declare non-living matter human.
Insanity.
Well OK...as long as it doesn’t want a sex change.
In the spirit of helpfulness, let's tie rocks to their feet and throw them in.
Making the river human:
So it would be against the law to look on it, because it’s nude.
So you couldn’t swim it, float a boat on it, because that would be sexual abuse.
So you couldn’t drink water from it, because that would be cannibalism.
Yeah, what a swell idea. See, we all can play this outlandish game.
This is nothing new. U S Courts have granted legal standing to a mountain called Mineral King when Sierra Club filed a suit in 1972.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club_v._Morton
So, I can marry the river, right?
Unless the judge in this court is a complete lunatic (like these enviroNazis), this should be thrown out of court...and the filers fined for wasting the court’s time.
"These are sad times indeed when Labour says shrubbery should have legal standing, while their stooges in robes deny challenges by plaintiffs demanding to know the eligibility of a king candidate: "No standing!", an odd fellow who admitted on the flyleaf of his haintwritten book that he was born in Nubia." Roger the Shrubber
Sometimes I think that CW2 can’t come fast enough.
Exactly how many people can be allowed in a "'sustainable' culture" without fossil fuels? Who gets to decide when and how this level of population is achieved?
Note that the residents of Southern California will be out of luck for drinking water and electrical power when the Colorado dams are removed to allow the Colorado to be free. Hope they don't mind sweating during the day, living in the dark at night and waiting in line for rationed water.
A river is not human, next case..
They probably need more democrat voters.
This has even less logic than the monkey owning its selfie. At least the monkey could hoot and holler to show approval or disapproval.
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