Thursday, June 01, 2006

Stop Monkeying Around

Found this on another blog.

The Spanish Socialist Party will introduce a bill in the Congress of Deputies calling for "the immediate inclusion of simians in the category of persons, and that they be given the moral and legal protection that currently are only enjoyed by human beings." The PSOE's justification is that humans share 98.4% of our genes with chimpanzees, 97.7% with gorillas, and 96.4% with orangutans. The party will announce its Great Ape Project at a press conference tomorrow. An organization with the same name is seeking a UN declaration on simian rights which would defend ape interests "the same as those of minors and the mentally handicapped of our species."According to the Project, "Today only members of the species Homo sapiens are considered part of the community of equals. The chimpanzee, the gorilla, and the orangutan are our species' closest relatives. They possess sufficient mental faculties and emotional life to justify their inclusion in the community of equals."
I've always thought that the ultimate goal of the animal rights wackos was to give political rights to apes. If baboons get the right to vote, there will never be another conservative in the White House. Also, ape intelligence is the last hope for socialism.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

HaHa LOL, so how do you think we got where we are now?

Trader Rick said...

I think chimps christmas treeing their ballots would do us more good than democrats voting for democrats.