Woman Arrested Trying To Take Terri Schiavo Water

Reuters ^ | 3/22/05 | Rick Fowler

[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

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

You echo my sentiment that if we condone this, the same dark cloud comes over America that was over the evil empires of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

It's truly despicable. It is shameful. It is a disgrace.

How have we come to this? Tolerance? The mental gymnastics of moral relativism? Selfishness? Pure evil?

[Cultural Jihad]

Comment from the police : Just following zee orders ve vere given.

The Allies successfully argued against the "I was only following lawful orders" defense at the Nuremberg Trials. From that point on, all people everywhere are obligated to adhere to their own consciences above any merely human laws.

[Ethrane]

I almost do not want to ask this question, but....

If one of Terri's family somehow got a gun into her room and shot her (Please, I am NOT saying they should do this nor am I advocating it..I am only asking a philosophical question here), would they be charged with murder?

If so, why?

[Cinnamon Girl]

The cops are just following the law. And as we know from history, the law is ALWAYS RIGHT.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

dumbstruck

Nothing more needs to be said.

[bourbon]

We don't kill dogs or cats like this. They get a shot.

"Dying Like A Dog," by Nancy Harvey (First Things, April 1995).

[Terpesman]

I'm with you on that one.

I think you still have time to post your apology before they demonize you. I was a little slow on another thread and now, according to a few people, I'm in league with satan!!

[the Deejay]

Well ALL the MEDIA, Fox, msnbc, etc. said, "Bread & water."

On ONE OF THE CLIPS.....I SAW SMALL BAGS OF BREAD, as well a bottles of WATER!

DUUUUUHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[Netizen]

I'm really, really sad at those that don't know what they are talking about, post after post, thread after thread.

Why do you keep posting your misconceptions then?

[Asphalt]

I'm not a lawyer, but yes, I would imagine so. Killing someone with malicious forethought counts as 1st degree murder. Are they really doing anything worse than what is being done right now? no I would say it would actually be a thousand times easier for her to end it in a second.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

If one of Terri's family somehow got a gun into her room and shot her (Please, I am NOT saying they should do this nor am I advocating it..I am only asking a philosophical question here), would they be charged with murder? If so, why?

I'm betting yes. Not sure how the Florida statutes define murder, so I'll just go with the generic Webster's dictionary definion, which is:

"The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice."

Your scenario would be murder because it would be an unlawful killing, and most likely would be premeditated.

[cbkaty]

That's what's driving Freepers nuts - this is one of those times they want the courts to be activist and not follow the law

The courts created this "right of the husband...." I wonder when this right will be applied to a wifes lack of a will? ....Where is the living will that formally documents the wishes of the wife?

[the Deejay]

she has swallowed liquids in the past.

DONKEY'S YEARS AGO........

[knarf]

It's a good thing they've got some big guys escorting her ... she's no lightweight and ... who knows ... she might've ... well .... SQUIRTED them!!

[balrog666]

Holy ever loving smokes -- the bozos have infested this thread!

All of them actually.

[GulfBreeze]

You don't call when the end of the story is. No matter how good of a human being any of these officers are, arresting this woman and doing their jobs was probably as big a moral lapse as sitting around typing out messages instead of getting on the road and helping this woman. I am sick and tired of people equivocating. She is alive. No judge's order changes that. They are starving her!!!

I think a mass Ghandi type approach would be the greatest thing in the world they could do. All march peacably in a line with water in hand. Let them club them down one by one. Test their stomaches.

[Asphalt]

I'm going at the fact that a lady was arrested for taking water to Schiavo, not the philisophical arguments of wether the cops should have ignored the law and let her through.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

I'm disgusted to be a citizen of a country that does this to people.

[FreedomCalls]

What law?

This law is interesting. As is this Executive Order.

[tutstar]

poing