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Woman Arrested Trying To Take Terri Schiavo Water
Reuters ^ | 3/22/05 | Rick Fowler

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



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KEYWORDS: allterriallthetime; anotherterrithread; boycottflorida; schiavo; schiavorepublic; terri; terripalooza; terrischiavo; water; worldwaterday
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To: stylin_geek
NOTICE

I have been a Freeper for 7+ years and this issue has been one of the most divisive...pitting FREEPER against FREEPER and in many cases displaying the coarsest of our postings...


361 posted on 03/22/2005 4:00:31 PM PST by cbkaty
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To: Bluegrass Conservative
The Schiavo case does not go beyond the United States (and I'm not so sure it goes beyond Florida)..

It started out small in Germany. Look where it ended.



362 posted on 03/22/2005 4:01:22 PM PST by garybob (More sweat in training, less blood in combat.)
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To: connectthedots
Good luck trying to find a jury to convict her of anything.

Oh, they don't need juries, they'll just asign one of those Jim Dandy Florida judges. She'll be lucky to get off without a death sentence.

363 posted on 03/22/2005 4:01:41 PM PST by McGavin999
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To: Stakka Skynet
I appreciate your candidness. If more of the pro-death crowd would come out front about their views (instead of taking cheap shots at the doctors and family who support Terri etc...), and be willing to have an open, sincere debate about it, much of the vitriol would diminish, IMHO.

Thank you. However, I would still say that I'm not a member of the "pro-death crowd". Rather, I'm pro-law.

364 posted on 03/22/2005 4:02:36 PM PST by Bluegrass Conservative
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To: Grampa Dave

Amazing. These people are condemning themselves by their hard heartedness; even the cops who are "just following orders" in arresting the woman trying to succour Terri.

Some things are more important than keeping one's job, following orders, obeying the law, being popular, etc. etc.


365 posted on 03/22/2005 4:02:36 PM PST by little jeremiah (Resisting evil is our duty or we are as responsible as those promoting it)
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To: Coop
Don't blame the police officers. They're put in a very difficult situation.

Then don't blame the gestapo, either.

They were also following the law.

366 posted on 03/22/2005 4:05:44 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: goldstategop
The police should have arrested Judge Greer for murder

You are becoming visceral and it is not becoming.

367 posted on 03/22/2005 4:06:04 PM PST by verity (The Liberal Media and the ACLU are America's Enemies)
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To: FreedomCalls
Wow! It seems it's all up to Jeb at this point.
368 posted on 03/22/2005 4:10:34 PM PST by Concentrate
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To: cbkaty

Yeah, things like murder often tend to do that.


369 posted on 03/22/2005 4:12:59 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

The cops aren't Nazis. This comparison isn't even close.


370 posted on 03/22/2005 4:13:01 PM PST by notigar
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To: Concentrate
Wow! It seems it's all up to Jeb at this point.

Unfortunately that executive order was Jeb's response to the Florida legislature passing that very law. But the court somehow found it "unconstitutional" for some or another reason unknown to me.

371 posted on 03/22/2005 4:16:24 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: notigar

This comparison isn't even close.

They arrested the woman for trying to give a dying woman a drink of water. How much closer can the comparison get?

372 posted on 03/22/2005 4:20:20 PM PST by garybob (More sweat in training, less blood in combat.)
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To: Bluegrass Conservative
I thought the reason for law was justice. Apparently not, anymore. It seems any crank can twist the law to suit their agenda is defendable by someone.

Did you even bother to look up what you're defending?

373 posted on 03/22/2005 4:20:57 PM PST by monkeywrench
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To: notigar

Yeah, the scale is entirely different. Here this is only one person being denied food and water, whereas Nazi guards rounded up millions of people and starved, gassed or worked them to death.

I'm not sure it is a matter of comparrison so much as slippery slope. The worry being is that if cops are willing to do this, what is the next step?

Plus, the track record of FL courts is abysmal when it comes to national issues.

Election 2000
Elian Gonzalez (remember the illegally issued search warrant that was used as a pretext for the raid?)
Now, Terri Schiavo.


374 posted on 03/22/2005 4:25:30 PM PST by stylin_geek (Liberalism: comparable to a chicken with its head cut off, but with more spastic motions)
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To: monkeywrench
I thought the reason for law was justice.

Correct. And if the current law does not result in justice, then, by all means, the law should be changed. However, the law has to be changed through the legislative branch, not the judicial or executive.

375 posted on 03/22/2005 4:29:52 PM PST by Bluegrass Conservative
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To: stylin_geek

The principle is the same.


376 posted on 03/22/2005 4:31:37 PM PST by monkeywrench
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To: spetznaz

Yes it is ironic that a life-giver would be jailed rather than the life-taker.


377 posted on 03/22/2005 4:34:59 PM PST by Dixielander
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To: Bluegrass Conservative

The bottom line: a disabled woman is dying of thirst while we dance around with semantics.

That fact trumps everything as far as I'm concerned.


378 posted on 03/22/2005 4:38:00 PM PST by Stakka Skynet ("Actors are cattle." -Alfred Hitchcock)
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To: expatguy

Being arrested by yourself is just not smart.. Where are the Florida Main line churches in this conflict.? Would they stop and arrest 1000 ppl, all bringing water at once??
Be not proclaimers of the Word but doers also. Guees they only do candles for dead ppl. Alas!


379 posted on 03/22/2005 4:38:51 PM PST by glowworm ( Rats and rat behavior, a rat is a rat is a rat..)
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To: expatguy

Being arrested by yourself is just not smart.. Where are the Florida Main line churches in this conflict.? Would they stop and arrest 1000 ppl, all bringing water at once??
Be not proclaimers of the Word but doers also. Guees they only do candles for dead ppl. Alas!


380 posted on 03/22/2005 4:40:53 PM PST by glowworm ( Rats and rat behavior, a rat is a rat is a rat..)
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