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.

[Poohbah]

Why does everyone automatically ASSUME that these kids are pawns?

Because they are minor children, well below the age of consent.

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

"I don't think they should have used the kids"

The kids just got a lesson they can't learn in school singing the nation anthem. Putting panties on terrorist heads to get information about future attacks – NOT OK. Starving a disabled woman to death for money – OK. Isn’t America great kids? Going to jail will open their innocent eyes. Waco, Ruby ridge, Elian Gonzalez, Terri …

[MizSterious]

I'm not sure how trying to save an innocent woman's life equates to suicide bombers who try to take innocent lives. Perhaps you neglected your meds this morning?

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I don't doubt that. But if he's sickened by this, if he knows what's right, his obligation is to God, not the state.

It's that old saying about evil and what happens when good men do nothing.

[philman_36]

Just trying to offer some suggestions that might be worthwhile to follow...

[Blzbba]

"Anyone ever stop to think that whatever they've been taught in church and brought up to believe in by their parents inspired them to ask to do this on their own? "



Please remember this the next time you see a group of liberals with their kids holding anti-Bush signs at an anti-Iraq War rally. Remember that they may have been taught in church that killing people is wrong and their parents brought them up to believe this.

[txradioguy]

The same people deriding these paretns were the ones speaking admiration of the little girl who was standing at a political rally back in September who had her Bush/CHeney sign ripped to shreds.

No comment back then that her dad might be exploiting her for political purposes...

[nutmeg]

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[Palladin]

Even the secular psychologists agree that a child's conscience is formed by age 12.

These wonderful children comprehend more about this moral issue than 50% of those posting on FR today.

[McGavin999]

She can swallow Destro. They didn't have any tubes in her mouth to suck out the saliva.

[Wallace T.]

I am not saying they should disobey the orders of their superior officers. However, lawmen should also be men of conscience. I cannot perceive how a man who calls himself moral can in good conscience enforce orders that will result in Terri Schiavo's death. The LEO must take the course of honor: resignation from the police force.

As far as the validity of the argument of "I'm just obeying orders," there was a court in Nuremberg, Germany, that met over a half century ago to try war criminals and lawmen who committed genocide. That court did not accept obedience to orders as an excuse for the murder of human beings.

[Badray]

They don't appear to be in school at all, at the moment.

I thank God for that. If only more children were not in government schools being indoctrinated. There is no exploitation going on here, but rather a very valuable lesson in life and principle. I applaud the parents for raising two great kids. It was the kids idea to do this, if you had bother to read the article and photo captions. Not that you seem to care about facts.

[txradioguy]

"Because they are minor children, well below the age of consent."

So that automatically means they are incapable of feeling this kind of compassionon their own?

[msamizdat]

Now, if minors can't be given the death penalty for murder can they be prosecuted for trespassing????

[Long Cut]

So, it'd be just fine if they got arrested at a protest for, say, save-the-trees?

C'mon, Tx...these kids couldn't do this without their parent's approval and encouragement.

There are, in addition to the sincere protestors down there, undoubtedly some lunatics. These kids wereplace right between the maniacs and the cops. Wonderful.

I'll say it again...kids have NO PLACE at such a thing, and NO PLACE being arrested for it. Their parents either allowed it or put them up to it. Thus, those parents are either blindly stupid or fanatically foolish.

[msamizdat]

You sound defensive and guilty. I see children doing the job of adults. God bless them.

[daylate-dollarshort]

"These forays are one of the perks of home schooling."

I suppose that being arrested and thrown into a juvenile detention center is your idea of a perk? No thanks....

[jjmcgo]

"Imagine the outrage if these kids were protesting the Iraq War or Bush. There'd be no adulation of them then."

This sentence would be apt for those who believe in moral equivalency but not those who can recognize right from wrong.

[HighlyOpinionated]

If anyone gives a cup of water in the name of a prophet, he shall receive a prophet's reward.

And a little child shall lead them.

[Poohbah]

So that automatically means they are incapable of feeling this kind of compassionon their own?

Even if they did, their parents were grossly negligent of their duties in allowing them to execute this stunt.