Picture of the children arresting for trying to bring Terry [Schiavo] water (God Bless Them!)

US News ^ | 3/23/05

[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.

[Lazamataz]

Personally, I'd force 'em to kill me.

[tutstar]

ping

[RightWhale]

This whole thing is surreal!

Agreed.

[jude24]

I sure hope this isn't a case of grown-ups exploiting children, the way the liberals do when they send kids on protest marches and sit-ins at state capitols, etc.

They almost certainly are. There's no way in heck that they did this on their own intitiative because this is a belief they themselves hold. Far more likely, they're like the ubiquitious kids I see at anti-abortion rallies - there because Mommy is an activist. They may not even understand the issue.

[d-informed-1]

what's more appalling?:

- children arrested for trying to take water to Terri

or

- children's parents using them for media coverage

[TexKat]

Homeschooled Christian kids, I bet.

So why are they not at home being schooled or is this spring break?

[sarah_f]

How would the police deal with hundreds or thousands of them?
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Let's hope to have that answer very soon...

[Dont Mention the War]

How many times have we on FR attacked those on the left (correctly) when they use their children as public political pawns, when they're too young to understand the "statement" they're making?

[atruelady]

Children have fought wars and built nations.

They are a blessing, and their have great parents.

[EternalVigilance]

Can't do the time, don't do the crime.

What kind of country are we living in, when it is a crime to want to bring a woman who has been deprived of water for 5 days a drink?

These people, and their defenders, are making a mockery of the law, and breaking down law-abiding citizens respect for them and the law.

The criminals are wearing uniforms today.

In the most literal sense of the words, LE are accompices to a murder in progress.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"I'm not sure I agree with using the kids this way."

You don't need to be 18 to express your opinion.

Just 18 to cast a vote.

[Blzbba]

"You may have your opinion about this being exploitation"


Thanks for letting me have an opinion that differs from yours, O Mighty One.


"but you apparently have no experience with children raised with decent morals."


How would you possibly know? Oh that's right - you know everything about everyone, including those you've never met!!

These kids were exploited, plain and simple. I am against it when the Dems do it with anti-war protests, etc. I am against it here.

You may have your opinion about this being exploitation, but you apparently have no experience sticking to your convictions, unless you have no problems with the Dems using kids in similar situations.

[snarkytart]

>>And a block away crooks are robbing a house.:)<<

No a block away a registered Florida sex offender, that police lost track of, is kidnapping raping and killing another little child.

[tatsmom]

It's insane. Honestly, the time for protests is here. Those children obviously value the life of an innocent person and were willing to stand up for her, even to their detriment. It's really scary. I have two little ones. Our rights are being taken away every day, while the rights of thugs and Hollywood are embraced.

[Skooz]

Kids skipping school and playing hooky, for certain.

It's Spring Break. For certain.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

What a courageous and heroic family. Those children now know more about how our government really works than any high school civics teacher.

[Fitzcarraldo]

It is time for non-violent civil disobedience. I see looming in our future seas of blood and hills of skulls comprised of those who are not socially acceptable or incoherent. Eugenics has returned.

[clintonh8r]

My guess is that they asked their parents' permission to do this. I doubt they're being used, but then again I've been fooled a few times...

[sport]

Who do you think loaded the cattle cars?