Posted on 03/22/2005 1:21:25 PM PST by Asphalt
St. Francis Catholic worker Lana Jacobs (R) is arrested by Pinellas Park, Florida police officers and is handcuffed by Pinellas Park Sheriff deputies for trespassing. Jacobs tried to take a bottle of water into the Woodside Hospice for Terri Schiavo in Pinellas Park, Florida on March 22, 2005. Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman who resides at the Hospice had her feeding tube removed last Friday, March 18, 2005 by a court order. REUTERS/Rick Fowler
Just look at this picture with all these police officers taking this woman away to jail for trying to bring water to a dying, innocent woman. Then remember the picture of the rapist being escorted to court by ONE deputy in Georgia and the aftermath of that. SIGH
For how long? This has been going on for 15 years or so, right?
I really should have stayed off of these threads. I'm going to go back to something non-controversial, like the crevo threads....
I can't believe I'm rooting for a peacenik. Strange times.I'm going to shake her hand next Saturday at the Post Office. BTW, read her shirt!!
By the way, you might want to take your own advice . . . lighten up and live a little.
Terry can swallow. She's been swallowing her own saliva (about a quart of liquid a day) for the past 15 years. She is NOT being suctioned. Think about it.
My God, I am now brought to tears. This did it. A kind woman performing a humanitarian act of mercy, and the effing GOVERNMENT ARRESTS HER.
I wish I was in FL. Anyone not getting arrested should have a very good reason why.
Oh, for God's sake, Terri can swallow. Otherwise, she'd be covered in drool.
I don't think the poor thugs in the SS should be catching any flack for shoving Jews in ovens. They didn't make the orders, they didn't interpret the orders, they were just there to enforce it.
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No one is putting her to death - it's the nameless, faceless, lifeless system that's doing it - that's the logic they use to sleep at night.
The deputies are just following orders.
The judge is just offering his interpretation of laws he didn't write.
The legislature wrote the laws but doesn't apply them to specific circumstances.
The Governor doesn't have the authority.
People other than this lady don't want to, or won't risk what they have to forceably do something...but complaining is easy.
I can recognize the courage of this lady to do things others won't. (myself included.)
Sooo sad and depressing! I hope there are more like her around that Hospice!
Where are the priests and bishops?
1 Corinthians 2
1When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] 2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. 4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, 5so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.
Can't believe no one else thought of it, too.
True. All they'd get for doing the right thing is fired. The problem is bigger than the officers on the street.
"I hope there is karma and Michael pays every day of his miserable life for this."
Do you ever watch "Cold Case Files" or other detective shows like that?
All I keep thinking is that we're witnessing history and we'll be hearing about Michael Schaivo in the future on one of these shows. There are plenty of "Black Widows/Widowers" out there that pull off these stunts and get away with it through a few spouses and boy/girlfriends.
OK. Now I just sound like a nutcase myself, LOL! I just feel so bad for Terri and her REAL family. (Mom, Dad, siblings, etc.)
"Lana Jacobs would in no way consider herself Conservative. She is very consistently Pro-Life, Anti-war, Anti-Death Penalty, Anti-Abortion."
A democrat(deathocRAT) with brains. I never thought I would see it.
Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com
I'll expect you at the next MN freep...until then please take my place in FL.
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