Timothy Birdnow

More proof the nation has gone mad, and especially Colorado. I guess it's the thin air up there.

Can an elephant sue to leave a zoo? Colorado's top court must now decide

Bet the pachyderm's lawyers work for peanuts!

Civil rights are reserved only for human beings. Animals do not possess them. Nor do they have any means of accessing said rights. Somehow I doubt these elephants interviewed lawyers and paid them with money they squirreled away in their trunks. I doubt they signed a retainer, not with their big feet and I doubt they did with that big flexible shnoz of theirs.

Let's talk about the elephant in the room; this is an attempt to extend human rights to animals and is in essence an assault on our Judeo-Christian heritage and beliefs. It is demoting Man to just another beast, something purely material and carnal in nature. It is promoting beast to the status of Man. Equating the two dismisses the very real Divine nature of Man as opposed to the animal nature of an elephant. That is ALL this is; an attempt to desacralize humanity. That has always been at the center of the Progressive project.

That a court of law is wasting time hearing such a case - most especially since America and Colorado in particular are overrun with illegal aliens who need court hearings - is a travesty. This is well established jurisprudence. If I cared to I could look up the multiple legal precedents that make this outlandish suit ridiculous.

yes, the ridiculous Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals did rule monkeys and other animals had a legal right to sue in court, but who has ever taken the most overturned circuit in America seriously? This flies in the face of all legal precedent in America. Animals are livestock, property. Yes, there are anti-cruelty laws on the books - the law recognizes they are creatures with emotions and suffer pain - but they have always been regarded as property. You have to be sentient to have rights.

Even during slavery it was recognized that the African slaves were human beings. They were considered lower human beings, closer to animals, but still human. And that was proven right by the fact that many of them went on to do amazing things. Take Stephen Douglass, for example. And society was always ambivalent to slavery, even though they couldn't find a way to end it.

Animals are not human beings. But then men without penises are not women either and you can't tell the Left that. They want what they want.

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