Posted on 09/01/2005 9:51:24 AM PDT by NYer
TAMPA BAY, August 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ten year-old Joshua Heldreth, the eldest of eight children, was arrested on Good Friday of this year for trespassing while attempting to bring a drink of water to Miss Terri Schaivo. Days later Schiavo died of intentional dehydration. In court Joshua pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 hours of community service and ordered to write an apology for his actions.
The boy whose arrest photo was splashed on front pages of newspapers across the nation wrote in his apology letter, "I was arrested on Good Friday for trespassing on the hospice center's property . . . Not giving Mrs. Shiavo (sic) food or water was wrong. The reason I had to go on your property was because Jesus would do the same thing. It made me sad that she was so thirsty and it made Jesus sad too. I knew she would die without water and I am called by Jesus to be a defender of the defenceless. So I had to go on your property to try to bring her a drink."
Joshua added, "I am sorry that you didn't like that and wouldn't allow me to help save her life and one day you will have to tell God why. I won't be able to help you then like I tried to help her. I will pray for you every day . . ."
LifeSiteNews.com caught up with Joshua's father Scott Heldreth today. Scott told LifeSiteNews.com he is very proud of his son. "My son has amazed me through this whole thing," said Heldreth. The proud father said it was his son's own initiative to attempt to give the starving woman a glass of water, and despite the warning of his parents that he'd be arrested, the boy insisted. "He was the one who begged us to go down, because he wanted to give her a glass of water . . . We explained that police will never let you help . . . you'll be arrested, but he went anyways."
Pro-life leader Rev. Flip Benham of Operation Save America told LifeSiteNews.com that the whole pro-life movement shares Heldreth's pride in his son. Benham recalls the reaction of Heldreth on Good Friday as he watched his son being arrested: "When that all took place Scott was weeping, this father was weeping tears of joy seeing his son not only talk the Christian talk but walk the walk."
While the apology letter has been submitted, Heldreth told LifeSiteNews.com he's not completely sure it will be accepted.
See Joshua's full handwritten apology letter here:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005_docs/JoshuaApolog...
Ah, this guy...
Thanks for Everett Rice's profile. He's so Dukes of Hazard. Reeks of it. Sometime, his little face will get slapped on the graphic. There's just enough room for him.
You know, you chose just the right jack-booted thug for the photo. I don't remember any of the others specifically, but that one had "the look." He could have been one of Hitler's own.
That JBT was also a LIAR and was RUDE to Terri's blood relatives. They must have paid him extra because he was extra thuggish.
Thanks, I was away. I wondered about that.
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After which the police presence clicked their heels smartly and gave a rousing "Heil, Greer!" as the changing of the guard performed with fine and much-applauded synchronized goose-stepping, as some headed to the Biergarten while others made for the crematoria chanting "Arbeit Macht Frei!"
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Whoever pushed to have this kid arrested and tried is a pig.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2005/0328/1107714850HM1SCHIAVO.html
They arrested Christians on Easter Sunday morning too. That's the wonderful world of Judge George Greer's Pinellas County, folks. Feel like spending tourist dollars here?
i totally can relate. I am not excited, but still am enoucouraged to read that some have filed complaints and want to keep this story alive. I for one wil never forget and whatever i can do to keep the story alive i will do it.
What irks me is the people who are so positive they want to be seen off the globe in this manner should they lose the ability to communicate, that they want a system making it easy for Terris to be likewise drug to their death. Why shouldn't the onus to indicate their wishes be on those who want not to be "saved" by being given food and drink. Anything less is asking for people who never wanted it, to get starved and mummified.
Not one dime.
Any idea who we can contact to push this issue?
Because they don't expect to be the ones tortured to death. Among those who have revealed their motives behind supporting forced euthanasia, all of them have in the past, and/or plan to in the future have someone else euthanized. We can only guess as to the motives of those who haven't revealed them.
I am often amazed at the things my children say and do. We are kind to them and try to raise them right. Then, out of the blue, we see them extend kindness to others. It warms a parents heart and often dumb founds people who don't have the same type actions from their children. Homeschooling definately helps.
Now there's a photo to remember: a little kid wearing a Jesus Christ T-Shirt, surrounded by cops and under arrest, forced to "apologize" for feeding a dying woman being starved to death by order of the state. A too painful microcosm of what has happened to America.
Now there's a photo to remember: a little kid wearing a Jesus Christ T-Shirt, surrounded by cops and under arrest, forced to "apologize" for feeding a dying woman being starved to death by order of the state. A too painful microcosm of what has happened to America.
Up is down, and down is up. Arrest the little boy for doing the right thing. Give awards to the criminals for committing murder.
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