TYPICAL: PROGGIES COMPARE BLACKS TO CHIMPS

Is it 2013 or 1913?  When it comes to progressives, does it really matter?  Now, as then, they are still comparing black people with chimpanzees:

Chimpanzees should be freed from zoos for the same reason that African Americans were freed from slavery, a group of progressive legal entrepreneurs working 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 animals via 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.  The comparison "is completely outrageous," he added.

Apparently, these progressives argue that if black people can have their freedom then why not apes?  Woodrow Wilson probably would have disagreed with the proposition that blacks should have freedom but no doubt he would have appreciated the "logic" of his fellow progressives.

"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.

"We are arguing that an entity that is autonomous, that chooses how to live its life, that is self aware, that is self-directing, has the qualities that the American courts...hold sacred" enough to deserve legal rights, he said.

Got that?  Blacks, like apes, are autonomous and self-aware...even self-directing.  Obviously apes deserve the same legal rights as black folks.  Because equality.

In reality, we human beings are exceptional and endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  For the record, being "autonomous" has got absolutely nothing do with it.  If rights are derived from a creature's autonomy and intelligence, not from the basic fact that he or she is human, then people who lack autonomy also lack those rights:

All humans start their lives as developing babies without those capacities, and many humans are temporarily incapacitated during their lives.

If "people can lose those rights by losing their capacities, then no one is safe," Smith said.

In Europe, sick and morose people are already being killed under "assisted suicide" laws, and there's growing pressure in the United States to cut healthcare costs by truncating treatment for old or sick people, he said.

The point to be understood is that any effort to place lesser animals on the same level as humans is to fundamentally devalue human life.  And once human life becomes devalued - based on "science" - it's inevitable that horrors like the Nazi Action T4 program will occur.  As it is, we already have a killing industry in this country, founded by this monster.  

Please be sure and read the full Daily Caller article (and do check out all the links).  And, below, watch the clip of an elderly Margaret Sanger aka "Mrs. Slee" (Sanger's second husband was James Slee) and her chilling statement in 1947.