A Green MP wants tohorā/whales to be recognised as legal persons.
In New Zealand, laws have been passed to grant legal personhood to natural features, allowing them to be represented in court and have rights similar to those of individuals.
Teanau Tuiono has lodged a member’s bill, the Tohorā Oranga Bill, which would give whales inherent rights, including the right to freedom of movement, a healthy environment, and the ability to thrive alongside humanity.
Why not give them the vote also?
And why stop at whales? How dare they say whales deserve legal personhood but not snails.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
8 comments:
Well, according to your latest poll, over 10% of our population would vote for these idiots. How sad is that?
Let all the Green MPs go live in the ocean for a day.
Preferably beyond the 200-mile economic zone in international waters.
And see how many whales come up and personally thank them.
Whales are intelligent creatures. Imagine giving them the vote and finding that they don't vote Green.
A clever ploy by the whales to be treated as legal persons - this way they will get royalties from having their whale song playing to restore the health of kauri trees.
How are the Greens and the Maori Party going to sort out their differences regarding dead beached whales ?
It would be offensive to the Greens to have a human body dismembered, but Maori demand the right to remove some of the bones of whales to carve for profit.
For example :
"Whalebone Wahaika by Alex Sands
Regular price $4,600.00 NZD "
This is a result of pantheistic thinking.
Incitatus was the name of Roman Emperor Caligula's favourite horse that he supposedly made a consul but it seems more likely it was a joke .
Let's call this special lunacy of making whales people 'incitatus disorder' and therefore relegate the idea to the correct comedy category as the Romans did.
And you expect anything less from the Watermelon Party. This is why the taxpayer pays them the big dollars. May God help them (and NZ)
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