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In case you can accept a harsh dose of reality, this is a copy of a St. Pete Times article a Terri supporter just sent me. Her niece goes to the school in question and says the parents are outraged by the conduct of the people who say they want to support Terri, but are doing nothing but angering the polulace.

Remember, this came from someone who loves terri, but hates what the fools are doing to kill public support for her.

OPEN OPEN OPEN STPETETIMES 223003971699932A

St. Petersburg Times - - Pinellas County Section B-3

"There is no way around it.

Cross Bayou Elementary School and Woodside Hospice House are side by side on a dead-end street, 102nd Avenue in Pinellas Park. To get to the school, you must pass the hospice, which these days means facing the knot of protesters in front of the place where Terri Schiavo lies dying, while legislators in Tallahassee debate her fate.

You must see the sign scolding Gov. Jeb Bush for failing to save Schiavo and the other sign that calls for the removal of Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer, who ruled against her parents.

There are times, I am told, when the signs speak of killing and murder.

The proximity of hospice and school has created a terrible conflict - not between the right to die and the right to live, but over what to tell the children.

People on the picket line say children can handle the words and should know the issues, as if they were little adults.

Some people at Cross Bayou disagree.

The signs are upsetting enough that the principal, Marcia Stone, calls the protests down the street a "major disruption."

TV satellite trucks jam the shoulder of 102nd Avenue.

What had been a two-lane road is temporarily reduced to one. School buses have trouble making their daily maneuvers.

And many parents who normally let their kids walk or bike to school - a route that took them straight through the crowd of protesters and the fleet of TV trucks - are instead driving them. Escorts shepherd the kids who still walk or take bikes.

On Monday afternoon, as school ended, the escorts included Stone and the school's PTA president, Marti Bouknecht. She pointed to a sign that read, "Terrorizing people with disabilities," and then noted that disabled children attend Cross Bayou.

What were those children and their parents to think, she asked.

Such niceties have been forgotten on 102nd Avenue, although protesters did stand clear of the sidewalk at a police officer's request so the parade of kids could leave school Monday afternoon.

The protesters did not do what the people at Cross Bayou really want. They want the signs to drop briefly in the morning and afternoon when the children are coming and going, so that kids don't have to look at the words, big and scrawled on poster boards.

The people at Cross Bayou seem leery of the protesters, so they asked the police to intervene and pop the question. The police said the signs are part of the protesters' right to demonstrate, and that nothing can be done.

Still, you'd think reason might prevail. Who would want to upset a kid?

Not me, said protester Jackie Miller, when I asked her. Then she pointed to her own sign and asked, "What's offensive with 'Give Terri to Her Mother'?"

Nothing, of course, but we're not talking about one sign.

Children are besieged by talk of death and dying, killing and murder. They see it on the street. They see it on the news. They talk about it in the school halls and get scared. They wonder if their moms and dads are going to be hurt.

And parents are then required to do the difficult job of explaining the protesters and the signs and the TV trucks.

"I wish these people would understand these are children," said Bouknecht.

Same here. I wish that the same people who purport to have such strong feelings about life would feel compassion for the young ones caught in the painful civics lesson under way in Pinellas Park.

How ironic it is. In the zeal to save the daughter of Bob and Mary Schindler, the protesters overlook the desires of other parents to love and protect their own children."

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Now do you realize how Anti-Terri these fools have made the people of Pinellas County. Can you inagine what the kids thought the day Randall Terry and his signs were there?

... and I'm a "troll..."

Sure I am......

Wow! I thought they'd stopped using the "for the children" ploy. The press these days - not even trying to disguise their bias now.

"There are times, I am told, when the signs speak of killing and murder."

I say, since killing and murder is what's being attempted, that's what should be spoken of.

"On Monday afternoon, as school ended, the escorts included Stone and the school's PTA president, Marti Bouknecht. She pointed to a sign that read, "Terrorizing people with disabilities," and then noted that disabled children attend Cross Bayou. What were those children and their parents to think, she asked."

They should think what the future of these disabled children will be should the death dealing euthanasia crowd get the precedent they want.

"Children are besieged by talk of death and dying, killing and murder. They see it on the street. They see it on the news. They talk about it in the school halls and get scared. They wonder if their moms and dads are going to be hurt."

Of course, neither the principal, these parents, nor the reporter would tell their own kids why they shouldn't play ball on the interstate. They could get killed. Wouldn't do to have them hear about that.... better let them find out for themselves.

Do they wonder how much their parents being eventually euthanized hurts? Do they wonder how much moms and dads will hurt from death by dehydration? When they're old, need lots of medical care, and some pencil-pusher decides they're too expensive -- and orders another administrative killing? Hurts.

Is it better to have them grow up not knowing about this, and not finding about it until it's the norm? Perhaps that's the motivation behind this article.

Or, is it better for them to know what the euthanizers plan for their future, and know it doesn't have to be that way, while there's still time to stop it?

(sarc-rant mode off)

I know that I said I would ignore mindbender from now on, but I just have to make at least one more reply to this lunacy.

Mindbender..If you believe everything you read in the St.Pete Times I have some swamp land to sell you.

That little boo hoo article the St.Pete published about how Terri's supporters were terrifying the poor little school kids is the biggest crock of hooey to make print in a while.

How do I know this? I was there..at the vigil..every morning and afternoon watching the little kids walk down the side walk.

I was there mindbender...not reviewing the situation in retrospect with a St. Pete rag and a cup of coffee.

Every morning and afternoon we cleared the sidewalk for the children, even the people in wheelchairs moved, and the only interaction they ever got from any of us was a reassuring smile...or an, "its OK. You can go through here...its alright..don't worry."

I witnessed this with my eyes wide open..no liberal slanted St.Pete Times crappola is going to change the facts about what really happened. Its only going to lure in people like you who still think they can believe everything they read in the paper, and that think judges are never dirty.....

TERRI SUPPORTERS...YOU ROCK!....KEEP UP THE FIGHT!...NEVER SURRENEDER! (no matter what the stupid St. Pete Times says)