Re: First they came for the guns. Then the swords. Now the sheep-shears.

scottlowther@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> One protester declared: "Sheep have rights too."

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=63900


"07/30/2007 05:29 PM                  ID: 63900
Animal Molester Found Not Guilty After Sheep Fails to Testify
        
A man in The Netherlands who stood accused of having *** with a sheep
walked
free from court because the animal was unable to testify that it hadn't
given him prior consent or that it had suffered emotional stress as a
result.

Without this testimony people cannot be found guilty of bestiality in
Holland. Animal rights campaigner Jos van Huisen noted "Short of putting
the sheep in the dock, at the moment these perverts cannot be prosecuted."

The country's Minister of Justice, Ernst Hirsch Ballin, has since stated
that he will fight to change the law so that in future it will be a
criminal offence to have *** with animals."