Aussie Academic: Hey, Let’s Give Kangaroos Property Rights!…
Complete with, you guessed it, kangaroo courts.
(AmSpec) — Kangaroo courts are one of the latest proposals from the green movement in Australia. No, not, as in previous usage of the term, courts in which legal niceties are set aside, but courts for kangaroos.
An Australian academic, Dr. John Hadley of the University of Western Sydney, has broken new legal ground by suggesting the setting up of courts to protect property rights for animals.
Certain difficulties seem to lie in the way, however. How will Counsel take instructions from clients? How will questions of undue influence be avoided in the case of less intelligent creatures? (Wombats and the like are not generally distinguished by their brain-power.) Who will have locus standi in cases of sheep owned by farmers? Should the creatures concerned decide to bequeath their property, how are wills going to be witnessed and proved valid?
Another problem: koalas are said to be permanently drunk on the alcohol fumes from the eucalyptus-leaves that form their diet. Here again forensic difficulties may arise.
Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, April 26, 2011, at 8:10 pm | 
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Can’t. Take. Much. More. Idiocy.
Lets see, the UN is trying to give Mother Earth rights, why not every animal on the planet.
The, lets give the death penalty to anyone who runs over, shoots, kicks or has one for dinner.
Liberals are going to be the death of this world. How about we open a season on them?
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Kang’ we all just get along ?
This is all because a kangaroo was recently beat up at McDonald’s in Sydney.
Guaranteed to keep things hoppin’ !
I think it is a fair call. It is a big country -they should have rights to their ancestral homelands.
Works for Jews – why not Kangaroos. (who are quite often better looking ).
@reality,
Works for Palestinians too.
And kangaroos are much better looking than Palis. Smarter too.
With rights come responsibilities. Hmmm, how is that going to work out? Did you ever notice that most of the stupidest ideas always come from academics?
I think all animals should have rights. The right to be shot and eaten!
Kangaroos are closer to humans than are muslimes. Let’s get our priorities straight.
LOL everyone ! Kangaroos are very responsible. They do not fart. Geneticists are isolating the non farting gene /bacteria combo so they can stop cows pooffing off into the air all day.
It could come in handy for some people.
Kangas have a very light footprint have a very low fat level & do not giv birth if conditions are poor.
They also beat the shit out of dogs. Mine have some impressive tales & scars to match.
They DO fart.
They jump up and down to distract you so you don’t notice.
You try telling a big 6′ red that he has just farted.
Like all Western nations, Australia’s universities have been taken over by the Greens and commies.
Ignore everything you hear coming from universities today, everywhere – they are totally stuffed!
Tadpole. That university did a good study of the Dingos of The blue Mountains.
Iv learnt a lot & find the studies from there to be different . It is a University serving the working class & all its courses have a high practicality component.
No need to drop the ability to discern into a grab all anti intellect bag.
“Another problem: koalas are said to be permanently drunk on the alcohol fumes from the eucalyptus-leaves that form their diet.”
No wonder they’re so cuddly. They’re just happy drunks.
Burn some fire wood for heat and atmosphere and I will sue you for killing the trees. Charles Chainsaw attorney for Mother Earth.
wonder what the fine will be when cow trespasses on sheep’s property, mows the food supply there, and craps all over the place before wandering over to deer’s land.
if fly relentlessly swarms around horse’s ass, can horse have fly arrested for sexually harassing horse, while on his own property no less?
will herd animals get communes or individual plots?
how will birds work? airspace volumes? no-fly zones?
what about fish and migratory creatures? mobile property zones?
which animals get the land around the lake?
when animals get convicted and put in jail will that be like a locked cage? a fenced in field? a stable full of cells?
will they have to work on a chain gang?
somehow that doesn’t sound like much of a punishment to me. I’d like to know what they come up with for that.
if they get a court don’t you think they’ll need a legislature too? I mean how can they enforce thru a court system laws that don’t exist? they’ll have to get some of the animals working up the new laws first.
will judges be confirmed based on how high they can jump?
if owl eats mouse is owl guilty of hate crime? will it depend on how lion feels about it or how antelope feels about it?
you know, after thinkin about this for a little while, I think it would be best to just leave things as they are.
Hey. We shouldnt forget that there needs to be room for all Gods creatures. Right next to the peas and mashed potatoes.
For anyone who is interested, I have an absolute must try recipe for ‘roo tail stew, and a killer back strap curry.
As for property rights, I guess the Kangaroos could lay claim to my lounge room – theres 9 of them tanned and covering the floor in there at the moment.
Tadpole, it’s not only the universities, but the entire Australian government is tainted with a green tinge, since the Australian Labor Party did a deal with the Greens in order to hold on to power after the 2010 election. This is likely to bite them in the ass as they and the Greens are pushing for a carbon tax, and the unions have basically said they will withdraw support for the Labor Party if the carbon tax costs one job……which of course, it will. Result – goodbye Labor and hello the right-leaning Liberal Party.