Posted on 03/25/2005 12:34:02 AM PST by ambrose
Posted on Fri, Mar. 25, 2005
Deputies: Man tried to steal gun to "rescue Terri Schiavo"
Associated Press
SEMINOLE, Fla. - A man was arrested after trying to steal a weapon from a gun shop so he could "take some action and rescue Terri Schiavo," authorities said.
Michael W. Mitchell, of Rockford, Ill., entered Randall's Firearms Inc. in Seminole just before 6 p.m. Thursday with a box cutter and tried to steal a gun, said Marianne Pasha, a spokeswoman for the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.
Mitchell, 50, told deputies he wanted to "take some action and rescue Terri Schiavo" after he visited the Pinellas Park hospice where she lives, Pasha said.
The feeding tube that has kept Schiavo alive for more than a decade was removed March 18 over objections from her parents. Schiavo's husband has said his wife would not want to be kept alive artificially.
Doctors have said she would probably die within a week or two of the tube being pulled.
Randy McKenzie, the owner of Randall's Firearms, said Mitchell pulled out the box cutter and broke the glass on a couple of display cases.
"He told me if I wasn't on Terri's side then I wasn't on God's side, either," McKenzie told The Associated Press.
McKenzie said he then pointed his own gun at Mitchell and ordered him to lie on the ground. But Mitchell fled out the store's back door before police arrived, he said.
Mitchell was later arrested in a parking lot and was scheduled to appear in court Friday. He was being held on $125,000 bond on charges of attempted armed robbery, aggravated assault and criminal mischief, officials said.
It was not known if he had a lawyer.
Seminole is about 5 miles west of Pinellas Park.
Here I thought I was being unkind. I noticed that too.
No, it is even more unbelievable that we have so many people here who support here death.
We should all root for her death in a 'sophisticated and eloquently spoken' manner, unlike those 'crude barbarians' who stand for life... /extreme sarcasm
No one supports death. Please don't say things like this. It's beyond childish.
We all love Terri just as much as you do.
People like you have turned Terri's life and impending death into a circus. It's very unbecoming.
Wrong! The headlines from around the world are like this one:
Terri Schiavo Would Not Be Starved in Israel"
That is what the world sees. A supposedly God-fearing nation that touts "life, liberty, ..." STARVING TO DEATH and innocent women.
Yes and if you aren't "on Terri and God's side" its OK to rob and possibly kill in their name apparently.
Thank God this nutcase was caught before he got to the hospice and started shooting up the place!
That is flat out not true. The 'facts' to support my statement are posted here several thousand times. How on earth can you deny that?!
I don't think there is a wrong moral side to this case. I believe that each side thinks they are doing the moral thing.
Without the living will I very hesitatingly vote to keep her alive despite my belief that there isn't a chance in hell that she would want to live like this.
It's sickening that some who want to keep her alive take many hours of tape of her in order to get what appears to be 5 seconds of conscious life when there is no conscious life.
Every doctor agrees on this except for the ones who work for the idiot James Dobson.
If we knew for sure that Ms. Schaivo had signed a legal piece of paper years ago to not allow her to be kept alive by machines would all of you have a different opinion of all of this?
I certainly would.
Those of you who would vote to keep her alive even if there were such a legal paper are nothing short of supporters of a fascist state.
Uh, it's a four hour drive to Georgia.
That would be one heck of a car chase for Fox to cover.
I'm not advocating violence but I will make an observation.
I've watched the rightfully incensed reactions of so many to what is being done to Terri Shiavo, the frantic DEMANDS that congress, the President, the Governor, DO SOMETHING.
The supporters of the Shindler side on this issue have screamed from the rooftops that Terri is being murdered and our government officials with be complicit in her murder if they don't take action, any action, to save her.
Once Terri dies, that is it. This isn't a policy issue being debated here. This isn't about an unfair tax hike or some other such bad legislation that the people can always go back and have redressed at a later date.
So why is it that with such high stakes involved, with all the impassioned pleas for SOMEONE to do SOMETHING, why is it that a man who tries, albeit in a misguided way, to take some real concrete action and not just type away on a keyboard with CAPSLOCK turned on, why is he a nut and an embarrassment.
At least he realizes there is no turning back once Terri is gone and is willing to put his freedom where his rhetoric is.
Just an observation.
Give a couple of links, because I haven't seen that at all.
That was in 1990. Name one thing he has done (or allowed to be done) since then.
I, like you, don't advocate violence but do find it equally disturbing how many sound EXACTLY like those on the left who consider themselves so 'intellectually superior', mocking those 'Bible-thumping, simple, uneducated, red-neck, pick up truck driving, red staters', It's the same attitude that European elites have towards us conservatives in the US. The same attitude! "Oh, how crude and crass, someone actually wants to save an unborn baby or an innocent women..."
I've been waiting for those links. It's been half an hour now.
I don't think is the way to go....
So lets be clear here.
You think this nut was justified in robbing an innocent businessman with a deadly weapon to get an even deadlier weapon and go to the Florida hospice and probably kill one or more of the police officers guarding the place.
Is that correct?
well, isn't that the issue? She is not being kept alive by machines. Her autonomic functions work fine. She is being kept alive by primary care (turning to avoid bed sores etc) and application of food and water. These are hardly heroic measures: old people's homes are full of people receiving the same level of care.
It would develop into a riot.
And if any of what you say is true it still has NOTHING to do with Terri's right to life and right to representation under the Constitution of the United States of America.
Here is a link to over 5,000 posts. You'll find them there! If you're too lazy to look, don't expect me to waste my time.
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