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

[bigdblogman]

Me too.

[Asphalt]

But don't you see? Those are human beings, that lady is a retarted good for nothing waste of space, plus, she is costing us money that could be spent on more important things. /sarcasm

Makes a heck of a lot of sense doesn't it.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

It's going to make a lot of folks shake their heads in disbelief.

I am shaking my head in disbelief. How did a woman that old and that size get past those deputies to begin with?

[Rumplemeyer]

Deputies: "We had our orders, Sir, we where only following orders"

Him: " Thats nice, try again"

Deputies: "But they gave us the orders, Sir."

Him: "You know the differance between right and wrong, don't you?"

Deptuies: "Yes, but the Judge..."

Him: "You knew the differance, I'll deal with "His Honor" in a moment. You like Orders, here's one for you, Go to Hell"

Him: "Your up next "Your Honor", what do you have to say for yourself?"

[notigar]

The cops rot in hell for murder? Little extreme.

[tomahawk]

In America today, starve an animal to death, go to jail.

Starve your disabled spouse to death, you're a hero.

This nation is sick.

[bluesagewoman]

Ping guys!

[firewalk]

bttt

[alnick]

Senior citizen? How old are you? 20? LOL. The woman appears to be in her 40s or 50s. :-)

[proust]

"That's right! How dare them do their job! <./sarcasm off>"

If that argument didn't work for the Nazis, how could it work here?

[Sybeck1]

[Leatherneck_MT]

I'll bet you money if 500 people went there with a bottle of water they wouldn't arrest them all.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Sheesh, even an injured dog on the side of the street wouldn't be given this painful treatment of starvation to death, denial of food and water, and blocking those who would bring even just water.

Now I don't recommend cruelty to animals, but somebody might think about bringing a parakeet or rabbit in a cage to that site, and stay there 24/7, and publicly deny it food, even if for a week or more, and wait how long until the local Florida Humane Department comes over and breaks it up and feeds the animal, causing a ruckus. Then, news reporters could film that and the American people could be shown the amazing contrast.

The animal outside gets food/water and police protection; the HUMAN BEING a few yards inside the "hospice", doesn't.

[La Enchiladita]

Lana Jacobs is a true hero!!! God bless that lady!!! I don't think it's possible but I pray that someone is sneaking fluid into Terri somehow ...

[joyce11111]

Imagine the out cry if we treated our war prisoners this way.
Or Scott Peterson.

[George from New England]

Don't officiers have a duty to ignore unlawful laws?

[stevio]

This is all to weired that this is happening this week.

This is probably the most perfect time for this to be happening. Maybe it's a test from God, and our country is failing.

[Asphalt]

If you bet against yourself I bet you'd come out even. But the message it would send might help.

[RebelBanker]

Be glad the MSM is not covering the three arrested the other morning - they were led by James "Bo" Gritz. Having his name associated with the effort to save Terri would be about like having David Duke constantly identified as a Republican.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

If that argument didn't work for the Nazis, how could it work here?

Okay, I don't think these poor deputies should be catching any flack. They didn't make the law, they didn't interpret the law. They are just there to enforce it.