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Ape in Argentina granted human rights
UPI ^ | January 9, 2015 | Brooks Hays

Posted on 01/09/2015 11:14:43 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- In the eyes of Argentina's courts, female orangutan Sandra is a person -- or at least worthy of rights and protections similar to those of a human being. As Andrés Gil Dominguez, spokesperson for the Association of Professional Lawyers for Animal Rights in Argentina, puts it: she's no longer just an "object" in the eyes of the law.

It's the first time an animal has been granted expansive basic rights on par with a human.

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: ape; argentina; humanrights
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To: BlackAdderess

No???!


21 posted on 01/10/2015 2:08:31 AM PST by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Seeing energy through fresh eyes
22 posted on 01/10/2015 2:14:21 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: MaxMax

Sarcasm?


23 posted on 01/10/2015 3:03:46 AM PST by sakic
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To: ConservativeStatement

Wow. I guess the left in Argentina is looking for new ways to pad their voting rolls. Talk about getting desperate.


24 posted on 01/10/2015 3:13:05 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: sakic
Yea, and the point is that their Government views their citizens as being
no better than animals. Very insulting from a political standpoint but I doubt
most citizens will get it. They might just as well give human rights to a steaming pile of crap.
25 posted on 01/10/2015 3:14:22 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: ConservativeStatement
In the eyes of Argentina's courts, female orangutan Sandra is a person -- or at least worthy of rights and protections similar to those of a human being.

What about Sandra's brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, are they enjoying the same benefits as Sandra? Or, is she a special case?

Can a female orangutan read and write and defend herself in court? Or is she dependent upon a lawyer spokesperson?

Which animals are next in line for human rights - dogs, cats, other monkeys, cows, goats, etc.?

Is there not some kind of a test to demonstrate that Sandra is a person? Can she communicate, do math, write, talk, answer questions, explain why she wants human rights? Or, is this just a joke to demonstrate how corrupt lawyers in black robes can be? PETA must be happy.

26 posted on 01/10/2015 3:19:01 AM PST by olezip (Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ~ Cicero)
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To: ConservativeStatement

And don’t forget about the Swiss government giving plants rights. Save the vegetables!

Swiss Government Issues Bill of Rights for Plants
http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/swiss-government-issues-bill-of-rights-for-plants.html


27 posted on 01/10/2015 3:43:19 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Stormdog

I recently visited Sandra at the zoo, coo coo ka choo.
She had the Bible open in her lap, and also a copy of Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’.
Frankly I was flummoxed, so I asked her what in the world she thought she was doing.
Using Koko the gorilla as a signing interpreter, she replied, “I’m trying to figure out if I’m my brother’s keeper or my keeper’s brother.”
This is Kent Brrrrrockman, Channel 8 news.


28 posted on 01/10/2015 3:53:48 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle...


29 posted on 01/10/2015 3:56:50 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: ConservativeStatement

It is impossible to grant human rights to a monkey, even if one tries.

Another illusion of the left.


30 posted on 01/10/2015 4:10:54 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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good, we needed more topics about this. ;’)

http://www.google.com/search?q=argentina+ape+rights+site:freerepublic.com/focus/


31 posted on 01/10/2015 4:29:38 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: lee martell
Or was it THIS NUTBAR? There are some seriously damaged units out there...
32 posted on 01/10/2015 4:55:21 AM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

That’s nothing

In America, a floppy eared monkey is President


33 posted on 01/10/2015 4:57:30 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: ConservativeStatement

so she can choose her own diet, vet, and more importantly, her orang lover?

If she were in the US with the same rights, and enrolled in Obamacare, she wouldn’t be able to keep her vet.


34 posted on 01/10/2015 6:50:44 AM PST by wildbill (If you check behind the shower" curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Next up: will she finally get the right to vote?

No, but she can get an abortion.

35 posted on 01/10/2015 8:25:44 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: Don W

That’s her! I recognize her wide hips and righteous strut of indignation! It’s hard to tell if she’s acting or sincere. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s an act.


36 posted on 01/10/2015 11:40:41 AM PST by lee martell
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