Just in time for May Day: another great idea from the Socialists

MaggieL · 05-01-2006, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by spainherald.com

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.

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Urbane Guerrilla · 05-01-2006, 05:05 PM

An act of political masturbation: no accomplishment, but it makes them feel good.

Happy Monkey · 05-01-2006, 05:36 PM

The article wasn't on the linked front page, but a search found these two blurbs.

MaggieL · 05-01-2006, 05:45 PM

yeah...sorry. I'd followed a link from jwz's LJ and drilled up to the top of the site to try to get a read on how reliable it might be; I'd have been willing to believe it was a humor site, but apparently not. Ended up pasting the wrong link.

I'm guessing they're hoping the "undocumented persons" will vote Socialist.

Happy Monkey · 05-01-2006, 10:05 PM

I'm guessing it's probably about zoos.

MaggieL · 05-01-2006, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

I'm guessing it's probably about zoos.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Great Apes Declaration

"We demand that the community of equals be extensive to all the great apes, humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans."

If it's about zoos, somebody needs to rewrite the manifesto.

Words matter.

05-01-2006, 05:05 PM	#2
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	An act of political masturbation: no accomplishment, but it makes them feel good. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

05-01-2006, 05:36 PM	#3
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	The article wasn't on the linked front page, but a search found these two blurbs. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

05-01-2006, 05:45 PM	#4
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	yeah...sorry. I'd followed a link from jwz's LJ and drilled up to the top of the site to try to get a read on how reliable it might be; I'd have been willing to believe it was a humor site, but apparently not. Ended up pasting the wrong link. I'm guessing they're hoping the "undocumented persons" will vote Socialist. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."

05-01-2006, 10:05 PM	#5
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	I'm guessing it's probably about zoos. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

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