Meet Hiasl

That's pronounced "HEE-zul." This is the animal at the center of an effort being made by activists in Austria to pronounce the chimp a person. If that doesn't cause your jaw to drop the moment you hear that, you have some serious issues. Click here to read the article about Hiasl for yourself. I looked at Dictionary.com to find the definition for the word "person." The first definition goes like this: a human being, whether man, woman, or child. The second definition goes like this: a human being as distinguished from an animal or a thing. There, that settles it. The chimp is not a person. Hiasl may be an extremely smart animal, but he is not a person.

The "activists" who are fighting on Hiasl's behalf are a part of the human race who have some of the most twisted philosophies on life and morals that you will ever find. They speak of the animal's rights to life, not to be tortured and freedom. Most civilized societies have laws protecting animals from pointless torture. What these "activists" don't realize is that there are millions of people around the world who don't have these rights...and they're fighting for a chimp! Most of the arguments they use to "prove" that Hiasl is a "person" could apply to my old dog. However, it would be quite ridiculous to argue that my dog was a "person."

The part of the article that really fires me up is when it refers to the Seattle-based international initiative called the Great Ape Project. Their goal is to extend "fundamental moral and legal protections" to apes. Isn't it funny how liberals can develop morals so quickly when we're talking about protecting apes. The irony is that we live in a country that doesn't extend "fundamental moral and legal protection" to unborn human beings. We're talking about calling an ape a person before we call an unborn baby a person. Again, if this whole situation doesn't cause your jaw to drop, you've got some serious issues.

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him..." - Genesis 2:27