Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid
White flag-waving chimps ordered out of town in San Francisco
By Judi McLeod
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Like the bad guys in a western movie, "April" and "Jake" were run out of town before sundown in San Francisco on Thursday.
But not before making their point.
The "surrender monkeys" that waved white flags outside the district office of Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco, were chimpanzees masquerading as monkeys.
Some would say that certain politicians are monkeys masquerading as people.
The chimps, April and Jake were in town as part of a protest organized by Move America Forward, which opposes Pelosi's support for measures that protest organizers say undermine the mission of the troops in Iraq.
The playful primates endeared themselves to the media while waving the white flag of surrender. April even went for a scooter ride, all the while holding onto her white flag.
"Surrender monkeys" also appeared outside Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's district offices in Las Vegas and Carson City.
But chimps or humans he doesn't want to see never make it through Harry's door, which was firmly slammed in a protester's face by the senator's staff.
It is illegal for chimpanzees, at least fur bearing ones, to be in San Francisco at sundown or any other time of the day, and somebody ratted on April and Jake.
An animal control officer showed up at the protest and recognized the two chimpanzees straight away.
San Francisco's health code prohibits anyone from possessing or having under their control without a permit a "wild and potentially dangerous animal". And that includes "the chimpanzee, the baboon, the orangutan, the gibbon and the gorilla, excepting the Family Hominidae (man)."
Kat Brown, deputy director of San Francisco's Department of Animal Care and Control could cite the health code, chapter and verse for the San Francisco Chronicle.
The handlers for the chimps owned up immediately that they did not have the required city permit to have the chimps in San Francisco and willingly left as soon as the animal control officer appeared on the scene.
The animals call Steve Martin's Working Wildlife, a Frazier Park-based company, home.
"We told them that if they were sticking around, there was a problem," Brown said. The chimps were loaded up and driven away and no citations were issued, Brown said." (San Francisco Chronicle, May 17, 2007.)
Take that, you mere mortals, including war veterans in Move America Forward!
The animal control officer noted the chimps appeared to be in good health and were well-cared for, including appropriate caging for transporting them. Indeed, in better shape than most city councillors.
Wayne Pacelle, president of the Human Society of the United States, decried t he use of live primates in a protest.
"It's a shame that Move America Forward is exploiting animals to score political points," Pacelle said. "Bringing chimpanzees into a crowded situation is potentially dangerous for the animals as well as the public. It also shows this group's disregard for the law, since it's generally illegal to have chimpanzees in San Francisco."
Pacelle could be the only public figure to ever note that a protest by a pro-troop contingent was in a "crowded situation" category.
Meanwhile, as the old Bing Crosby song says, "And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo, everyday you see quite a few."
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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