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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (757849)	12/15/2013 12:51:10 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1576711

You spoke up for the progressives who are suing to prevent animals from being held in captivity. Now you say you're against cruelty to all animals, but you are a carnivore. Do you only eat road kill? Say, how about banishing cars because they kill animals? And about the chimps who you want freed from zoos, simply saying there shouldn't have been any zoos doesn't explain how the freed chimps would live in NY. Again, are liberals too stupid to think of the consequences of their ideas? Progressive group claims chimpanzees are like African Americans in bizarre lawsuit 10:22 AM 12/14/2013 Neil Munro White House Correspondent Chimpanzees should be freed from zoos for the same reason that African Americans were freed from slavery, a group of progressive legal entrepreneursworking 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 animalsvia 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. The claim also makes a mockery of slavery’s real impact on people, Smith said. “Can you image what Nat Turner would said if the treatment he got was treated as equivalent to the treatment of a chimpanzee?” he asked. The comparison “is completely outrageous,” he added. “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. ............ Mansfield’s reasoning is far different from Wise’s progressive claim, which would 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. So far, the Wise and his allies have failed to persuade judges. This week, Wise’s lawsuit were rejected, but two judges indicated some sympathy for the group. Niagara County Supreme Court Justice Ralph Boniello said he did not want “to make that leap of faith” that animals deserve human rights, according to ScienceMag.org. “As an animal lover, I appreciate your work,” said Joseph Sise, a Fulton County Supreme Court Justice. ......... Read more: dailycaller.com