Hello guys,

Here is something interesting and controversial. Spanish government wants to grant human rights to monkeys. Monkeys would not anymore be anyone’s property and would be placed under legal guardianship similar to that in cases of infants, handicapped and elderly people. The same political coalition supports the right to abortion and medical euthanasia, stating that great apes have more self-awareness than infants and elderly people. In consequence, monkeys would have more rights than unborn children. It is serious legislative proposal.

There is an article about it, which also explains ideological background behind the proposal:
http://europeancourier.org/Rights_for_Apes.htm

Here are other interesting articles about this issue, if you are interested:
http://monkeydaynews.blogspot.com/20...an-rights.html

Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...10/wapes10.xml

BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5058986.stm

That’s something unusual.
Europe always has had bright ideas about how to change the world.

Well I'm sure Gaar wants his "Human Rights" protected also. Or Monkey Rights, Apeman Rights, Chimp Rights, or whatever it is you want to call them.

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Gorillas, okay. Even those nasty bonobos can have rights.

But Chimps - no way. Not in this life, bud. Besides, they're not wearing uniforms, so they don't get any rights.

A-Gitmo-we-will-go
A-Gitmo-we-will-go

Let's waterboard 'em and then we'll see what they've got.

Wouldn't you like to interrogate the one that did the Van Halen video?

"Well, there I was, just standing there peeling my banana, and then the music started and there was this incredibly foxy blonde chick dressed like a nurse...."

So first you "blame me" for speaking for you; which I don't believe I did but oh well...

And now you are going to try to speak for me, outright?

You don't mind me speaking for myself, do you?

Regards,
Gaar

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Isnt it odd that Spain wants to grant human rights to animals, while the US would like the right to treat humans worse than animals?

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Um...you people DO know that Apes and Monkeys are not the same thing, right?

The bill proposes to grant rights to Great Apes, not monkeys. Please read your own links before posting them.

And it is Americans that are supposedly uneducated, heh heh

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I wonder what kind of rights average apes get.

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About the same as a giraffe.

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

Yeah, and humor and subtle irony are sometimes lost upon us too.

You just got your human rights and now want to speak for yourself? Well go ahead....me...me...me...me....me...me. You primates are so self centered.

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