Written by John Vibes at trueactivist.com
Princess Michael of Kent thinks that animals don’t have rights and that people only have rights if they pay taxes. She made these outrageous claims while speaking to an audience at the Henley Literary Festival, saying that while she is an animal lover, they don’t have rights because they don’t vote or pay taxes.
She said, “I’m a great animal lover and I’m involved in a lot of conservation, but animals don’t have rights. They don’t have bank accounts. They don’t vote. We have obligations. We have obligations to animals, but to say they have rights? They don’t have rights. You only have rights if you pay your taxes. You earn your rights.”
Elisa Allen of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta), told The Times “Peta urges Princess Michael to study the subject, rather than making an off-the-cuff statement that reflects ignorance of the issue of what fundamental rights animals have, which do not include the right to drive a car or build up an overdraft. She should also exercise caution in opining at all on such issues because her daft assessment would mean that children and certain classes of human beings are also not entitled to rights.”
Her comments call attention to a deeper question: Are we born with our rights, or are they granted to us according to our subservience to a specific government or monarchy? While her comments are threatening to animals, they are certainly also threatening to humans as well, who according to her don’t have rights unless they are voting and paying taxes. Also, it is important to point out that the princess doesn’t pay any taxes either, nor does any of her royal relatives, so with that being the case can we suggest that they don’t have rights either?
The princess is fairly well-known for her rude and unsettling antics. Back in 2004, she was in the news for telling a group of black customers at a restaurant to “go back to the colonies.” When speaking about the event she referred to the group as “a bunch of rappers” when in reality they were high-class clientele that included an investment banker and a lawyer.
John Vibes writes for True Activist and is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war.
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She is correct, and this is not an argument as much as you, the editor, wants it to be. I want animals to have rights to life. You want it and many others want it, but what she is saying is true. People go to Africa to kill big cats and such for pleasure, and never get arrested or scorned by their peers, but celebrated. So its our duty to give animals rights they deserve, they don’t deserve being stuck in a cage for our pleasure, and so forth, a right to life is a right all Earthlings should enjoy. There is no such animal who has rights but those who pay taxes.
you are no better
stupid elitist cow
why are you ofending the cows, cows are a noble creature she is a protozoa
liar… rights in a human world… tell that princess to go nude to meet a lion and to try to have a discussion about rights… rights and duties is what this, how should i call it system, impose to us… dolphins are proven to be more intelligent than us and they don’t have rights??? ahahahah…. call the alien cousins of the dolphins to have that discussion with the elite… don’t be trapped in consciousness because elite is not far away, they need people to think in the wrong path to give them time to be better than you… as you see they still need to talk about bullshit and they are all humans without extras… and they are even more stupid because they don’t have gifts, they think their ideology of giving orders will solve problems like string theory and natural disasters… they are so wrong, scientists and hackers create solutions not them… those are indeed gifted… animals have their own place in nature, they don’t need human rights… humans came billion years after… so tell that princess to go live in the desert or in the deep ocean to check by her own eyes what is the difference between survival and rights… AND RIGHTS DON’T EXIST IN SURVIVAL FROM NATURE DISASTERS PLANE OF EXISTENCE OR ARE YOU ELITE FROM THE MATRIX THAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT… track the source and the target of the information, and intelligence, and you shall be free beings and animals humans
Does that mean that bankers and corporations don’t have rights? They never seem to pay taxes either!
I can’t wait for the next species of animals to gain sentience and shut people like her up.
Hmmmmm so then I guess all children don’t have rights either. Good one you dumb royal tweet, god all the imbreeding over the years has clearly clouded her judgment lmfao. #offwithherhead
Ms Michaels wife doesn’t understand law. Good clothing doesn’t indicate intelligence.
Of Kent? Are you certain, dear? Because she sounds a bit like our good old archduchess of Austria, Dauphine of France…
Sad really, that someone with so much power and influence came out with such insensitive claptrap. Possibly a reflection on how cruel and callous the population has become, we don’t care about helping our fellow man, let alone any animals.
Another case of human arrogance (often fanned by massive wealth and disconnect) over the natural order of things, nature will overcome our impact eventually, but not without our serious demise or depopulation in the process.
Royals are parasits. They do nothing but they have all they want…..One day all royals will disappear….
I wonder just how much She, personally, pays in taxes? Probably less than most in England.
Real leaders are the revolutionaries. Someone needs to change the trajectory of this evil ridden world.
i feel that this human being i use that term loosely feels as if she lives in a 3rd world apart from all of that of the common human that lives a ordinary life should live i life of servitude to her convection’s and morals when in all reality the social class of people she is a part of has one goal to hoard all the wealth of the world to a certain few they will stop at nothing to guard it no one should respect or care for what she stands for in her eyes all of us are simply animals to use as she and her kind may use in any form they please so i dont care how you dress a pig how much lipstick you put on it its still a pig when i say pig i mean a glutton for control of all the lives around her she is one of the slave masters of the world i believe in a society of the people by the people that the needs of the many out way the needs of the few and that personal freedom is not some thing that you buy
I think she nailed it with THEY DONT HAVE BANK ACCOUNTS!! As long as someone is pushing money their way…highest bidder wins. Seeing that is only a hundred or less elitists….money rules the world…not smarts. I guess babies and homeless people dont have any rights either!! If anyone shouldnt have rights its prisoners(criminal) etc AND animal/human abusers!
Just shoot the twat……
This is The Princess of the dawn…
Sick assholes all in governments mainly USA! THESE RETARDED PSYCHOPATHS KILLING DEPENDENT AT THIS KILLING! This world is not fucking people’s property! Without animals people die! Animals are the important part of nature! Never fucking sick people nad idiots at governments! They have no right say who can or not to die be killed!!! Typical barbarians and thieves!!!