Posted on 09/01/2005 9:51:24 AM PDT by NYer
TAMPA BAY, August 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ten year-old Joshua Heldreth, the eldest of eight children, was arrested on Good Friday of this year for trespassing while attempting to bring a drink of water to Miss Terri Schaivo. Days later Schiavo died of intentional dehydration. In court Joshua pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 hours of community service and ordered to write an apology for his actions.
The boy whose arrest photo was splashed on front pages of newspapers across the nation wrote in his apology letter, "I was arrested on Good Friday for trespassing on the hospice center's property . . . Not giving Mrs. Shiavo (sic) food or water was wrong. The reason I had to go on your property was because Jesus would do the same thing. It made me sad that she was so thirsty and it made Jesus sad too. I knew she would die without water and I am called by Jesus to be a defender of the defenceless. So I had to go on your property to try to bring her a drink."
Joshua added, "I am sorry that you didn't like that and wouldn't allow me to help save her life and one day you will have to tell God why. I won't be able to help you then like I tried to help her. I will pray for you every day . . ."
LifeSiteNews.com caught up with Joshua's father Scott Heldreth today. Scott told LifeSiteNews.com he is very proud of his son. "My son has amazed me through this whole thing," said Heldreth. The proud father said it was his son's own initiative to attempt to give the starving woman a glass of water, and despite the warning of his parents that he'd be arrested, the boy insisted. "He was the one who begged us to go down, because he wanted to give her a glass of water . . . We explained that police will never let you help . . . you'll be arrested, but he went anyways."
Pro-life leader Rev. Flip Benham of Operation Save America told LifeSiteNews.com that the whole pro-life movement shares Heldreth's pride in his son. Benham recalls the reaction of Heldreth on Good Friday as he watched his son being arrested: "When that all took place Scott was weeping, this father was weeping tears of joy seeing his son not only talk the Christian talk but walk the walk."
While the apology letter has been submitted, Heldreth told LifeSiteNews.com he's not completely sure it will be accepted.
See Joshua's full handwritten apology letter here:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005_docs/JoshuaApolog...
"In court Joshua pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 hours of community service and ordered to write an apology for his actions.
Unbelievable!"
I don't have time to read the whole thread so forgive me if this has been hashed out, but I see nothing unbelievable. He participated in civil disobedience for what he believed was right and now he has to pay a penalty. That's how life works. If he had gotten off with no penalty, that would be sending the wrong mesasge, IMO.
GREER'S ILLEGAL TV SPOT but here's an excerpt FROM BAD BOYS (The Empire Journal). Back to the ILLEGAL TV SPOT. The tv spot is circulating on the internet.
"...The law further provides that no person, and that would include state attorney Bernie McCabe, former Pinellas Sheriff Everett Rice and Bob Dillinger, the state public defender, shall make and no person, including Greer, shall solicit or knowingly accept any campaign contribution in a building owned by a governmental entity.
By accepting the “in-kind” services of state employees funded by tax dollars during working hours in a governmental building, it would appear McCabe, Rice, Dillinger and Greer all violated Florida’s campaign finance..." www.theempirejournal.com
FV says: The FEC and the JQC knew about the illegal commercial while it was playing in Pinellas and Pasco Counties. Did they investigate? No. Their dereliction of duty to investigate a Judge who was violating judicial canons along with his friends in Pinellas Cty Govt. CONTRIBUTED TO TERRI'S MURDER BY THE STATE.
Don't know yet. Yes, Greer will find that the sharks happily eat their own, discard used up tools like garbage. I guess ants do that too. Not much thanks or gratitude there. I see lots of parallels to fire ants.
8mm
The kid was treated harshly but the cheating judge has yet to be investigated for his illegal and barbarous acts against humanity and for ordering swat teams to have their ak-47s pointed at people at the Vigil who were praying.
I'm looking forward to Cheryl Ford's book.
It will be on store shelves too. It was misreported that it was only available on the internet. The cover is on my page and a link to Cheryl Ford's web page. see tag line.
If you can take the time, please do read the whole thread. Some of us were there as eyewitness and saw the huge thug cops cuff and haul away the kid who had stepped in a few feet into the driveway.
Law enforcement refused to come to my aid when a Michael supporter threatened me. LE said that was their "free speech" and told me to get away from them. I told LE I was worried about children who were in that pit with the inciters. They wanted me off of the sidewalk, told me to shut up and it went over their heads that I was trying to warn them of an escalating situation.
I think I warned parents to get their children out of there. There was a mish-mash of good and evil in a small pen. I had to lv there for other pens or for the media side where it was civilized because there was no law enforcement pushing us around.
they were jackbooted thugs who volunteered, not heroes. Guess you've never been to Pinellas Park.
Hostile.
If you read my posts you realize I am a supporter of the police in ordinary circumstances but in this case, the cops were huge, and were volunteers on the side of the bad guys. That's facts. They did behave that way.
Why are taxpayers paying a criminal a judge's salary, even when he retires? AND HE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A MOB BOSS IN A BLACK ROBE. I hope he gets nailed good by the feds.
Pinellas Park is in the United States, and the police are Americans.
They were there to protect Terri being murdered properly, not to "protect my weak behind". Your knee-jerk reaction does not speak well of you. It helps to read a bit before you react.
I understand why people were upset and disagreed with the decision of the law.
I do not think that is an excuse for calling our police officers "jackbooted thugs." Guess what, the people who sing about killing cops in the cities also have an emotional disagreement with the law. I don't want to "feel their pain," I want Americans to respect the brave people who put their lives on the line as policemen. I'm disgusted by people who would do otherwise because they find themselves on the wrong side of the law, no matter how strongly they feel.
Terri was an American too, HT.
I've been on Free Republic long enough to be thoroughly familiar with the Terri Schiavo case. As you know, people can be well-informed about the case and still disagree with those of you who are still keeping the flame alight.
Indeed, she was, but I disagree with you about the nature of her passing. No point in rehashing that. I try my best to respect people's different opinions on her case now that it has been concluded and she has rejoined the Lord.
However, I see no reason to make the police into collateral damage from the fight over Terri.
Read your own statement to see how stupid it sounds. Obviously you were nowhere near the scene.
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