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.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Wow. I've really been holding it back this week until now. Those photos finally made me break down and cry.

And I'm not crying from sadness (though that is a part of it) but from PRIDE that there is a family like that out there that would do this for Terri.

[daylate-dollarshort]

Oh? You're familiar with the laws and their enforcement in Florida?

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Okay... until now I have been able to keep my emotions in check.

May God bless those children, Terri and all who are touched by this appalling ordeal.

[beansox]

Ouch! That one is gonna leave a mark~ :)

[Cultural Jihad]

Would that thousands would show up and overburden those officers so that enough got through )with trained medical volunteers) to help Terri.

The IWW and the Fight for Free Speech

Well, their techniques were something like the Freedom Riders of today. They would send out telegrams, and; I am explaining, you understand, I am not agitating, they would send out telegrams something like this, and say: "Foot Loose Wobblies, come at once, defend the Bill of Rights", and they would come on top of the trains and beneath the train, and on the sides, in the box cars and every way that you-didn't have to pay fare, and by the hundreds literally they would land in these communities, to the horror and consternation of the authorities and they would stand up on platforms or soap box and they would read part of the Constitution of the United States or the Bill of Rights.

I remember one big and strong lumberjack who, frightened to death, went up on the box and read the First Amendment to the Constitution and then looked around rather helplessly for the cops, but the cops went elsewhere so he read it again and when he read it about three times, the policeman came along and yanked him down, much to his relief, and these performances were repeated innumerable times. They would fill the jails and, of course, that was quite an expense to a small community. Eventually the citizens would say, let them speak, why not, and the ordinance would be declared null and void and a great victory was won for Civil Liberties, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and they would go back to their criticisms of these employment shops . . .

Source

[Palladin]

"A little child shall lead them..."

[finnman69]

a nurse from years ago

[davidosborne]

LINK to ROLL CALL VOTE..

Bill Number ....: CSSB 804 Date: 3/23/2005
Amendment Number: Time: 04:43PM
Reading Number .: 3 Roll Call: 3
Floor Actions ..:

Yeas - 18 Nays - 21 Not Voting - 1 VA VO MEMBER VA VO MEMBER VA VO MEMBER _ N Alexander _ N Dockery _ Y Peaden _ N Argenziano _ Y Fasano _ Y Posey _ N Aronberg _ Y Garcia _ Y Pruitt _ Y Atwater _ N Geller _ N Rich _ Y Baker _ Y Haridopolos _ N Saunders _ N Bennett _ N Hill _ Y Sebesta _ N Bullard _ N Jones _ N Siplin _ N Campbell _ N King _ N Smith _ N Carlton _ N Klein _ Y Villalobos _ Y Clary _ Y Lawson _ Y Webster _ Y Constantine _ Y Lee _ N Wilson _ Y Crist _ N Lynn _ Y Wise _ EX Dawson _ N Margolis _ Y Diaz de la Portilla _ N Miller Presiding: Lee President: Tom Lee 'VA'=Vote After Roll Call 'VO'=Chamber Vote

NAMES IN BOLD ARE REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED AGAINST TERRI SCHIAVO...

LINKS TO THEIR WEBSITES....

Senator JD Alexander Majority Whip

Senator Nancy Argenziano

Senator Michael S. "Mike" Bennett

Senator Lisa Carlton

Senator Dennis L. Jones, D.C.

Senator James E. "Jim" King, Jr.

Senator Evelyn J. Lynn

Senator Burt L. Saunders

[Palladin]

Lawyers all day on TV have been saying that in Pinellas, the actions of the protesters so far are only misdemeanors.

So, yes, that is Florida law.

And I know a bit about the Constitution and freedom of speech and assembly.

What do you know?

[richmwill]

The idea is good, but I still have a huge suspicion that this was more the parents saying "Here- bring her water, they won't arrest you!", which would be wrong.

[Aussie Dasher]

Children arrested for attempting to help the sick - what total moral degradation!!!

The Lord must be weeping.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Yep. She had the same things to say. Terri COULD take liquids. She went to bed like we do, got up in the morning like we do.

She (Heidi, the nurse) was ALSO told to watch what she said because of Michael.

[JFC]

call ASAP... THEY HAVE TO HEAR FROM US NOW.

Contact info for DCF

Lucy D. Hadi, Secretary 1317 Winewood Blvd.
Building 1, Room 202
Tallahassee, Florida
32399-0700

Phone: (850) 487-1111

[Aussie Dasher]

Got an email address?

[txradioguy]

Not to thorw gasoline onto an already hot fire...but isn't this the same kind of "civil disobedience" that was praised when Dr. King did it in the deep South 40 years ago?

Why do we laud it then and disparage it now?

[texpat72]

This is a learning experience. There is more to education than books and classes.

[atlaw]

They put a baby in handcuffs!

Your reaction is, of course, precisely what the manipulative parent wanted.

Using your child as publicity tool by deliberately putting him/her in the position of being handcuffed by the police is, well, revolting. But the parent and the parent's crusade come first in this "me-first" day and age, I suppose. What good's a kid if you can't use him to do the dirty work, right?

[JFC]

Contact info for DCF

Lucy D. Hadi, Secretary 1317 Winewood Blvd.
Building 1, Room 202
Tallahassee, Florida
32399-0700

Phone: (850) 487-1111

call now... IT IS WORTH IT.

[Badray]

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

Yes, it is. But somehow you failed to meet it. Sad.

[texpat72]

Oh please! My kids understand this issue!