Posted on 03/23/2005 12:00:12 PM PST by 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.
Yeah! Thoughtless liberals do this kind of stuff all the time. Let's act like thoughtless liberals!
Why not? Does hospice prevent people from bringing water to their other patients? Wasn't the order just against the _feeding tube_ and not the food and water (I could be wrong on this, haven't read the court order)?
Similarly, I believe He is equally displeased by other motivations.
I'm sure those children have His full blessing.
Palladin,That picture will be shown all over the world.
Trespassing is illegal.
According to the text of the article, the father was arrested with the children. The mother was not. Me, I would've left them on the sidelines with their mother.
"Does hospice prevent people from bringing water to their other patients? Wasn't the order just against the _feeding tube_ and not the food and water "
Mr Schiavo has had strict orders in place that nothing that could be construed as "rehabilitation" be done to his "wife". This included at one point treatment for a urinary tract infection which took a court order telling him to allow the treatment.
He's banned her parents from bringing video camera's into her room and at other times banned them from coming to see her.
Call me a bad father if you must...but my son...who is a Boy Scout working on his Eagle Scout...who is very involved in his Church youth group came to me and said he wanted to do something like this...knowing the risks...I'd be very hard pressed to tell him no.
Maybe the kids are on SPRING BREAK. God bless 'em!!
I will have to turn on CBS Nightly News tonight so I can hear an ethicist tell me if this is right or wrong.
that should have been "if my son came to me and said"
his doddering old father can't type this morning :)
Neither-- high grade marine aluminum.
"You grossly overestimate the maturity of children."
Yeah, you're right. Freddy Adu should have to wait until he's 21 before he plays for D.C. United.
I suppose you don't think individual kids have individual levels of maturity? I thought your FR page said you were pro-individualism? Maybe you think you are, but you're not.
Great post!! Thanks!! You are absolutely correct.
Nice! 6061? Who built it?
I certainly wouldn't allow the 14-year-old girl to do it. But, I tend to be rather old-fashioned that way.
bump for mark
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