Posted on 08/02/2021 6:13:03 AM PDT by rktman
A Colorado mountain town long known for its off-the-charts wackiness – one resident stored his father's dead body on dry ice for years pending some expected resurrection process – now has voted to give its watershed "inalienable rights."
It is the Denver Post's Bruce Finley who captured the story of a vote by leaders in Nederland, a short drive west of Boulder, to give their "surrounding 448-square mile watershed 'fundamental and inalienable rights.'"
The Constitution, of course, describes those inalienable rights held by people as "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
The Nederland resolution, adopted on a 5-1 vote this month, tells the town officials to name "guardians" who can speak for nature in decision processes, much "the way court-appointed guardians speak for children, dementia-stricken elders" or others.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Sounds like a job for GROOT!
This is a good start, perhaps we’ll get some of those “inalienable rights” !
Hey, don’t push it buddy. 😲😂
Pot is legal in Colorado, isn’t it?
It shows!
Should the water be given the right to vote? I would think so.
But should it be one vote per quart of water, or one vote per gallon of water? The devil is always in the details!
Whatever happened to property rights? Can anyone else see eminent domain issues arising here?
Or Swamp Thing.
Typical classic liberal insanity at its very finest and on full public display.
The loons should ALL be in an asylum, not anywhere near the levers of govt.
I dont think the town limits extend to the entire 448 square mile watershed. They might as well appoint a guardian/advocate for Antartica. Which they will probably do in their next session.
How long before the tyrant makes his horse a senator?
To start, if anyone “gives” you inalienable rights, then they aren’t rights, nor are they inalienable.
“...a short drive west of Boulder...”
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There’s the problem right there. Says it all.
Extra Democrat votes.
“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” Attributed to H. L. Mencken (1880–1956)
I just tossed a head of broccoli into the yard to set it free and assigned the yellow kitty as its guardian. Its so grand to be woke.
Chilling.
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