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An orangutan which spent 20 years in an Argentine zoo is being moved to a US animal sanctuary after being granted the same legal rights as humans.
Lawyers won a landmark appeal for Sandra in 2014, arguing she was being detained in Buenos Aires illegally.
The ruling found her to be Argentina's first "nonhuman person, with the right to liberty".
The 33-year-old arrived in Kansas on Friday and will undergo tests before moving to her new home in Florida.
THIS is how fundamental the misunderstanding of Liberty has become.
Are we suggesting this animal has RKBA? Get it an SSN and a background check. Don't nobody throw the red flag on this...
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”–G.K. Chesterton-Illustrated London News, 3-14-1908
Republicans.Hate.You. See2020.
"Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams to Mass Militia 10-11-1798
The Yurok Tribe, or “downriver people” of northwestern California where the Klamath River meets the Pacific Ocean, have declared that the river now has the “rights of personhood.”
SNIP
National Radio Public (NPR) interviewed Amy Cordalis, Yurok Tribe member and its general counsel.
“What does the status of personhood mean for a river?” NPR asked in the interview.
“What it means is it gives the right to the river to exist, to flourish and to naturally evolve and a right to a stable climate free from human-caused climate change impacts,” Cordalis said. “What that means is that anytime the river is hurt, for example, there’s a toxic pollutant that is, gets into the water of the river, we could then bring a cause of action against that polluter to protect the river.”
Damn. We can't even say that about our own offspring.
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”–G.K. Chesterton-Illustrated London News, 3-14-1908
Republicans.Hate.You. See2020.
"Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams to Mass Militia 10-11-1798