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2009-07-31 Home Front: Politix
In the 70s, Obama's Science Adviser Endorsed Giving Trees Legal Standing to Sue in Court
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Posted by Fred 2009-07-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 So if a tree falls in the forest and kills a mime...........................................

does anybody care?
Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-07-31 00:16||   2009-07-31 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 A follower of Harrison Chase?
Posted by Korora">Korora  2009-07-31 00:26||   2009-07-31 00:26|| Front Page Top

#3 all the old Politburo types from the SDS and Obama's mother's party of choice. Gus Hall would love them.
Posted by 3dc 2009-07-31 00:37||   2009-07-31 00:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe so. But I don't.
Posted by Secret Master ">Secret Master  2009-07-31 01:01|| www.blackwyrm.com]">[www.blackwyrm.com]  2009-07-31 01:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Could these same trees have sued Holden for killing several of their fellow trees while writing a book made of paper?
Posted by Scott R 2009-07-31 01:43||   2009-07-31 01:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Cass Sunstein the new "regulatory czar" (I suppose he would be the czar czar) has discussed at length the necessity of allowing your pets to sue you for abuse and believes that in the very near future animals will testify in court. Really. I couldn't possibly make this stuff up.
Posted by AzCat 2009-07-31 01:51||   2009-07-31 01:51|| Front Page Top

#7 I should probably also mention that Sunstein believes in assigning a quality of life measure to all living things and equating their worth thereby. Thus a particularly young happy border collie might well be considered as having more worth and merit than grandma if the latter tends to spend a lot of time sittin around drooling. Again, this is not a joke.
Posted by AzCat 2009-07-31 01:53||   2009-07-31 01:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe the trees were out standing in a legal field ...
Posted by Adriane 2009-07-31 06:36||   2009-07-31 06:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Trees? What's next rocks? This guy is both a fascist's dream and a lawyer's dream. No wonder Obama likes him.
Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-31 06:59||   2009-07-31 06:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Of course rocks are next. Gaia is mostly rock...
Posted by Spot">Spot  2009-07-31 10:36||   2009-07-31 10:36|| Front Page Top

#11 
We must give trees the right to sue in court.

Right now the state has a precedent of making inanimate objects into defendants (State vs $$$)

Its not a great jump to say that anything you can sue, should be able to sue you as well.
Posted by flash91 2009-07-31 11:17||   2009-07-31 11:17|| Front Page Top

#12 Â“Curiouser and curiouser!”
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-07-31 13:00||   2009-07-31 13:00|| Front Page Top

#13 As a friend said to me recently ... "Is there NO end to the idiotic bulls$$t these people can dream up? ... And then I reminded him he was referring to extreme left wingnut democratic liberals. 'Nuff said.
Posted by WolfDog 2009-07-31 14:42||   2009-07-31 14:42|| Front Page Top

#14 "We should give voting rights to Water. Fresh and Salt Water....but not Heavy Water, because it only encourages obesity."
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2009-07-31 14:54||   2009-07-31 14:54|| Front Page Top

#15 Ima played with Heavy H20 back in the Nam before he wented blind
Posted by .5MT 2009-07-31 17:43||   2009-07-31 17:43|| Front Page Top

#16 we wuz with a group callered Shroedingers Kats, it was purdy iffy all around
Posted by .5MT 2009-07-31 17:44||   2009-07-31 17:44|| Front Page Top

#17 Is Heavy Waters any relation to Mel Waters of Mel's Hole fame?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-07-31 17:47||   2009-07-31 17:47|| Front Page Top

#18 The lunatics are in charge of the asylum.
Posted by JohnQC 2009-07-31 19:02||   2009-07-31 19:02|| Front Page Top

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