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.

[silent_jonny]

Agreed.

[Cultural Jihad]

It's not at all unlike the late 1980s massive arrests of peaceful, praying children during the Operation Rescue campaigns against the abortoriums. Was that sad and outrageous of their parents, too? Or as sad and outrageous as abortion or assisted spousalcide?

[Chad Fairbanks]

It's Spring Break in at least three counties surrounding this Pinellas County hospice. Sorry to burst your bubble!

If the kids were actually from Pinellas, you might actually have a point.

[ClancyJ]

Just think - only a few more hours and there will be so many who have their bloodlust satisfied for the week.

Oh, the power - the utter power.

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What is amazing to me - all these courts and none of them can make a right decision for life, none are willing to reopen this case and let the light in.

A major war is coming - we are seeing the left and the death culture in America. Not a pretty sight.

[GulfBreeze]

So is criminal neglect. Especially when it is for the express purpose of causing DEATH.

[little jeremiah]

Soldiers and other government authorized people - goes along with my point.

[little jeremiah]

There's evidence she can - for instance, she swallows saliva. Nurses have fed her, but her "husband" forbade anyone to feed her.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

can it be sent my mail - special delivery - the mail must get through ?

[daylate-dollarshort]

C. Tremblay a Marine Architect in Montreal. You into sailboats?

[Cheapskate]

Bail???? These felons deserve no bail!

[ladyjane]

Man, doesn't this just make you proud to be an American? /Sarcasm on and going full blast!

It's a strange feeling - losing respect for one's country. I've never felt ashamed of my country like I do today.

[Bob J]

The kids were handcuffed and taken away to jail.

[daylate-dollarshort]

Sorry, it's your bubble that is broken. The children are from Texas, not Pinellas County, FL.

[HKMk23]

Nobody's "using the kids". If you had bothered to read the text accompanying the pictures you would have known that the kids decided to do it on their own.

If you won't read; you're no better off than those that can't.

[Cultural Jihad]

I don't know what that has to do with anything. I was just answering a poster's question.

As you said, they are being charged with trespassing. I read it as a statement of fact rather than of judgment.

Similarly, it is a statement of fact that human laws are not the highest arbiter of right and wrong, of what should be allowed and not allowed. People everywhere are always obligated to follow the dictates of their own consciences above any merely human law.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Do you believe everything the media places before you?

[kcat]

Amen to that!!! My two cents, since everybody else is giving theirs, I would do this with my kids in a second. I don't even care if it is "grandstanding". You've got to have the guts to act on what you think is right and this is a great opportunity for action because somebody is being treated in an inhumane way. A lot of things that are right are not popular. Most "learning" happens out of school.

[pgkdan]

The crime was tresspassing, not carrying water.

Oh well in that case shoot the little buggers! God forbid they should TRESPASS in order to give comfort to a dying woman! Wouldn't want those trespassing little delinquents upsetting your delicate sensibilities.

[mjtobias]

What's happening to our country?

This is a disgusting indecency - arresting children who bring water to a dying woman.