You Have GOT To Be Kidding!

Via Drudge:

EUROPEAN COURT AGREES TO HEAR CHIMP'S PLEA FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

...An anonymous businessman has offered a substantial amount to cover his care, but under Austrian law only humans are entitled to have guardians....The country's supreme court has upheld a lower court ruling which rejected the activists' request to have a trustee appointed for Matthew.

So now 36-year-old Miss Stibbe and the Vienna-based Association Against Animal Factories have filed an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. ... Organisers could set up a foundation to collect cash for Matthew, whose life expectancy in captivity is about 60 years.  But they argue that only personhood would ensure he is not sold to someone outside Austria, where he is protected by strict animal cruelty laws. . . . 'His life depends on this decision. This case is about the fundamental question: Who is the bearer of human rights? Who is a person according to the European Human Rights Charter?'

For crying out loud.  Set up the foundation or lobby the Austrian Government to change the law, but this ridiculous approach is demeaning to the actual HUMANS who are victims of real rights abuses. So the governments, who have what appears to be a policy of ignoring genocide and ethnic cleansing because they have neither the political will nor military resources to intervene, are going to waste time and resources on this garbage?

Let's get this straight...baby in the womb not a PERSON...a fricking monkey...potentially a PERSON!!!! Disgusting!

I knew that chimps were involved in writing European human rights law, but I never realised that they might be protected by it.