Picture of the children arresting for trying to bring Terry [Schiavo] water (God Bless Them!)

US News ^ | 3/23/05

[areafiftyone]

Pinellas Park police Lt. Kevin Riley, standing upper right, prepares to arrest members of the Keys family as they were attempting to bring Terri Schiavo water Wednesday morning, March 23, 2005 outside the Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla. The Keys family, of Burnet, Tex., kneeling, from left, Josie, 14, Gabriel, 10, Chris, the children's father, and Cameron 12, were all taken into custody. Galen Keys, upper left, the children's mother looks on, but was not arrested.The mother insists it was the children's idea: "I am proud of them," said the boys' mother Geilen Keys from Texas, who was not arrested. "They are very mature and they said 'we want to go and offer some water to Terri'."

Pinellas Park police Lt. Kevin Riley, second from left, handcuffs 14-year-old Josie Keys, left, while Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies place her father Chris in the back of a van after arresting members of the family for trespassing Wednesday morning March 23, 2005 outside the Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla. The family members were attempting to bring Terri Schiavo a cup of water.

Gabriel Keys (foreground) is arrested by police officers for trespassing in Pinellas Park, Florida, March 23, 2005. The young protester attempted to take a glass of water into the Woodside Hospice for the brain-damaged Terri Schiavo. A federal judge rejected a request from the parents of Schiavo to order her feeding tube reinserted, dealing a blow to attempts by the U.S. Congress and the White House to prolong her life.

[d-informed-1]

i agree

[Petronski]

Who says these kids don't understand the statement they're making? What's so complex about giving water to those who thirst?

[jude24]

They may "understand" the issue as well as the average emotion-fueled onlooker.

That's a pretty low standard to meet....

[Spiff]

My kids would do the exact same thing on their own, if we were there. They are loathe to let such a huge injustice go unchallenged. I would explain the ramifications to them first, but I would allow them to do this peaceful bit of civil disobedience.

So would my kids. Likely, ashamed of my own lack of bravery, I would have to explain to them why they shouldn't do it, what the consequences may be, and that I forbid it. They might do it anyway despite anything I had to say. They've been taught from a young age to question and to resist illegitimate authority.

[verity]

It is difficult to believe that the parents did not sanction this. But, then again, what does it matter if they did.

[MTMS]

It is spring break here in Montana...coordinated with Easter weekend. I homeschool and have for 16 years. We use lots of unique and different opportunities to educate our children. They don't play 'hooky'. Many of life's experiences are much more educational than the public school system. I bet these kids in these pictures are getting a good education today and are doing this on their own. Just my opinion.

[EternalVigilance]

Indeed, these are homeschooled kids.

As usual, the cream of the crop.

They made the choice to do this themselves. And it is obvious to anyone who has met these young people that they are more than capable of making the decision for the right reasons, which they obviously did.

God bless 'em, and may God convict the hearts of every American who is complacently sitting on their arse while a judicial tyranny is replacing our free republic.

[PA Engineer]

BTTT.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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GOD Save the Vulnerable from the Bullies

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TERRI = Breathes, Eats, Speaks / MICHAEL = "When is that B-ITCH gonna die?" ..per Nurses

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1366750/posts

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TERRI's Former Nurse Accuses MICHAEL SCHIAVO

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1368060/posts

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Second, Third Nurse Accuse MICHAEL SCHIAVO

http://www.Newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/22/235813.sthml

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[Stopislamnow]

Well, the girl is not pregnant, nor tattooed, and eyes/nose/lip piercings are not evident, so, according to the leftist views, she must be one of those "homeschooled Jesus freaks".

Personally, I salute those kids and thier parents.

And to those calling this a publicity stunt....just go away and strangle some more puppies, you'll feel better.

[Ladysmith]

Those kids are our country's future. May God bless them with strength and wisdom!

[ArmyTeach]

#17 What an insightful analysis...

[EricT.]

Immoral cop pig bastards slime of the earth stinking vile demons of satan

It's not the cops' place to decide which laws to enforce. It is the legislature's job to write good laws in the first place. It is the judiciary's job to interpret the laws as they are written and intended. It is the doctor's job to honor the Hippocratic oath to keep patients from harm or injustice. It is the citizen's job to elect good and decent people to office, for they write the laws and appoint the judges and enforce the laws.

There is lots of blame to go around. Very little falls on law enforcement officers.

[TexKat]

The most disturbing thing about the whole Schiavo mess is the number of jackasses who are using it as an opportunity for a publicity stunt. There are way to many screeching nutters on both sides of this issue.

Amen.

[finnigan2]

This event was portrayed on CNN as a "publicity stunt" in which the authorities were willing participants by arresting the children. The MSM aren't going down without a fight folks!

[HitmanLV]

Ahh! This makes me all nostalgic for the first time I was arrested, also in my childhood! You never forget your first time, we used to joke at the Juvenile Detention Hall!

And the coppers never had anything on me, either! Hahaha! (Chomping my cigar in my Las Vegas apt, now in my mid 30s!)

[Petronski]

First you say:

Oh that's right - you know everything about everyone, including those you've never met!!

Then you say:

These kids were exploited, plain and simple.

And all that with no sense of irony whatsoever.

How do you know these kids are being exploited? That they don't know EXACTLY what they're doing and want to do it?

You don't know.

[d-informed-1]

any links to the OTHER side of the argument?

[GaltMeister]

Those danged kids better be glad Janet 'The Wookie' Reno wasn't elected Governor, they would have been butt-stroked in the face by a JBT with a machine gun in a kevlar helmet!