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.

[TopDog2]

I think they arrested them for trespassing. They probably haven't made giving those that thirst a glass of water a felony yet. Give them time...

[Simcha7]

Shalom & Blessings!

May The Living GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (ISRAEL) Bless These Precious Little Ones for trying to Give to Terri The Water of LIFE!

"Yeshua / Jesus (our Risen Messiah) answered ..."Everyone who drinks of this water (well water) will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him/her will Never Thirst. Indeed, the water I give him/her will become in him/her a spring of water welling up to ETERNAL LIFE."

The Gospel According To JOHN, Chapter 4, Verses 13-14.

Amen ~ and ~ Amen.

[johnnyb_61820]

"Except she can't drink water."

And you know this because?

She doesn't drool -- that means she can swallow liquid. Probably not in large amounts, but she is certainly capable of it.

[Palladin]

Hildy, it is OK to break the law in order to save a life.

Have you forgotten Holocaust history? Did you ever see "Schindler's List"? Was it OK for Schindler to break German law to save Jewish lives?

Be sensible.

[freebilly]

It's nice to know that some homeschooled children are being taught it's ok to break the law, sometimes

2000 years ago there was a carpenter who pissed off the authorities by healing people on the Sabbath. He broke the laws of the day, too, because he answered to a higher authority and was not afraid to suffer the consequences of his actions.

[Melas]

Please, please, if these were Democrats protesting something, anything, freepers would be screaming to high heaven about the loathsome liberals using children, CHILDREN for political gain.

This is no more right because the cause is different. I don't blame these poor kids at all. I feel for the poor little guys being handcuffed. However, these parents need to be jack-slapped for exploiting their own children like this. It's beyond the pale.

[Asphalt]

We aren't. It's only a crime to tresspass. It's called doing your job as a police officer, if I was there I would go and get arrested to, but that fact is they are breaking the law, no way around it.

[MizSterious]

Many people broke laws to help slaves flee to safety and freedom, too. There are times when the laws are not just or moral, and must be broken--and eventually, hopefully, changed. I hope we never ever again have to sit by while a woman is starved to death.

Or, maybe this is the Democrats' plan to save social security--just starve to death anyone over 50; problem solved.

[XR7]

Criminal...

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 approved the murder of Terri Schiavo by
rejecting a request from her parents to order her feeding
tube reinserted to save her life.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050323/ids_photos_ts/r4209066064.jpg

[Melas]

I just commented on the very same thing. You know some of these people lauding these parents would be screaming if it were liberals using their children to make a political point. The hypocrisy stinks at the moment.

[txradioguy]

"Prolife Christians, prolife Jews, Evangelicals and prolife Catholics will all band together on this issue."

Yes and I fully expect the DemocRATS to use pics like this to mock the people of faith and try to point to this incident as further proof of why a) faith based initatives are wrong for America and b) why there must be an absolute seperation of church and state...I'm surprised CNN hasn't had Michael Neudow on as an expert on a guest panel...

[freebilly]

Many people broke laws to help slaves flee to safety and freedom, too. There are times when the laws are not just or moral, and must be broken--and eventually, hopefully, changed. I hope we never ever again have to sit by while a woman is starved to death.

Amen, amen....

[Badray]

Regardless, I would not allow my kids to do this. Kids do not belong in the middle of this. They belong on the sidelines, either listening to or watching their parents take their stand on the front lines.

I have to respectfully disagree. These kids may provide the tipping point where adults learn from the children. Bringing water to a thirsty dying woman is not, or shouldn't be, a crime. I would love to see thousands bring her a cup of water. What could the police do?

They should provide an escort, but I doubt that they have the courage to do what's right.

[Palladin]

Exactly. Sometimes the end justifies the means.

As an example in prolife lectures, I always used the case of a burning building with a child at the window. A passerby, to become a rescuer, must break the minor law against trespass to serve the higher law of saving a life.

Intervention in favor of life trumps minor civil law every time.

[k2blader]

Exactly.

Also, why do those in opposition to these children believe it wasn't their free choice to attempt to help Terri?

[Serenissima Venezia]

Why are you trying to pick a fight?

I am not aruging with you, you are doing it by yourself. And calling me and others names in the process!

I must be talking with a liberal....

[L`enn]

There my friend is what happens when the country kneels at the altar of "The rule of law". I don't konw about anyone else but that phrase makes me absolutely sick.

[Brad’s Gramma]

If you can turn on Sean's radio show, there's ANOTHER nurse on now saying the OPPOSITE of what you claim.

[Hildy]

There ya go...the kids are suffering the consequences of their actions so why are people here whining about it?