To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (757705 ) 12/14/2013 11:45:42 AM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to Progressive group claims chimpanzees are like African Americans in bizarre lawsuitChimpanzees should be freed from zoos for the same reason that African Americans were freed from slavery, a group of progressive legal entrepreneurs working to level the courtroom rights of humans and animals claimed in a recent lawsuit.The offensive comparison is a dangerous and self-serving effort by progressives to win legal rights for animals via courtroom decisions, said a fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Wash., Wesley J. Smith, an author and a critic of the claim that legal rights should be shared with animals.“We’re not saying blacks and chimpanzees are alike, except in their legal status,” said Steven Wise, the president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, which filed three cases in New York seeking the forced release of animals, including “Tommy,” a chimpanzee.end the assumption that humans have rights simply because they’re humans, said Smith. If that assumption is fractured, the nation’s dominant and self-serving business — the diverse array of high-IQ, self-serving professionals working in universities, courtrooms and legislatures — will be able to advance their careers by chopping, changing and shrinking humans’ rights. The country’s legal system has done this before. In 1927, a previous generation of social engineers used new social-science data to persuade the science-dazzled Supreme Court to approve government-imposed sterilization of poor women. That eugenics campaign died in 1945 after the discovery that Adolf Hitler’s national socialists applied similar theories to Jews, Slavs and gypsies. ScienceMag.org .dailycaller.com
