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.

[syriacus]

I think some of the policemen could come down with the "Blue Flu." [a sickout]

[johnnyb_61820]

Is there never a time to question? In this case, Terri isn't even accused of doing anything wrong, and the children are only accused of bringin water to someone thirsty. Don't you think someone would stop and say, "Chief, why are we barring children from bringing water to a law-abiding thirsty person?"

[Doe Eyes]

Now, if minors can't be given the death penalty for murder can they be prosecuted for trespassing????

I'll bet they don't get the death penalty.

[Palladin]

I don't know what Ed. psych. texts you are using in your pursuit of a teaching degree, but I would suggest you read more than the standard texts.

Children are perfectly capable of making moral decisions at an early age. Have you ever raised any children? Even a 3 year-old knows when she is lying.

Piaget is a fraud.

[jjmcgo]

"protesting the death of innocent Iraqis", eh? Very clever of you but I believe the protests have been against the entire war. The left didn't say, "The war is just but we're protesting the sloppiness."
No one on either side of the American political spectrum wants to see "innocent Iraqis" killed. America went to war to topple their mayhem-exporting dictator on behalf of the "innocent Iraqis."
Many brave Americans have given their lives to make others free and ensure our own safety after our country was attacked.

[Badray]

Just because you do not understand the principle in this issue doesn't mean that these young children do not.

They know instinctively that it is wrong to starve someone and deny them water.

What happened to you that you can't understand or care?

[Asphalt]

The crime was tresspassing, not carrying water.

[txradioguy]

"So...you don't have a problem with children of liberal parents attending anti-war/anti-Bush rallies?"

I'm not gona fall into the "gotcha" trap you're trying to set me up for. There is no hypocristy in what I say.

I'm against indoctrination on EITHER side.

But I will say that it is awfully cynical to just automatically assume these kids were forced...FORCED to go and do this as some kind of repugnant publicity stunt.

Not ALL of the youth are as bad or as self absorbed as what the MSM leads us to believe.

As I told Long Cut. I have kids from 15 down to 7.

I'm amazed all the time at the things they come up with on their own.

And to follow your line of reasoning that if kids are at a rally like that they muct have been forced to do that and couldn't possibly have felt the urge to do this on thei own because "they're minors", does that de-legitamize someone like young Kyle Williams who writes the "Veritas" column at World NEt Daily? He's a published conservative author as well...and he's only 14. I've ben reading his column for 2 years?

But then I guess he was forced into doing all of that by HIS parents too huh? I mean after all he IS just a minor right?

[LisaMalia]

Sickening, just downright sickening.

At work today, I had to explain Terri's situation to a lady who is very active in a local ministry. She was almost clueless about her situation, and said she had been under the impression that Terri was hooked up to all kinds of life-support. Believe me, I explained some key points to her, in a very nice way.

WE CAN BLAME THE MSM FOR ALL THE MIS-INFORMATION OUT THERE!

[rdcorso]

I get sick to my stomach when I think of how different some of these liberal executioners would feel if it was their daughter being starved to death by her lowlife husband.I'm sure the outcome would be much different if this was Greer's kid or one of the other blow-hard judges who condemned Terri to death.An estranged husband shacked up with some pig that he has kids with should automatically lose custody of his disabled wife,especially if there is evidence that he caused her disability.They should have at least investigated all the evidence before they killed her.

[MizSterious]

"I'll bet they don't get the death penalty."

No, that's apparently reserved for innocent, disabled women.

I simply cannot believe this is happening in this country.

[Asphalt]

Yep, shirt tucked in, they look very homeschooled.

[johnnyb_61820]

That's the great thing about homeschool, you can go on field trips whenever.

[Hildy]

And when liberals use their children to further their agendas, we call THEM "unfit parents." It's nice to know that some homeschooled children are being taught it's ok to break the law, sometimes.

[Palladin]

This will be a big issue in the Congressional elections in 2006. Good people are disgusted with all these fat well-fed politicians who will not take a stand against starving Terri to death.

That includes all those absent from the vote last weekend, as well as those who opposed intervention.

Prolife Christians, prolife Jews, Evangelicals and prolife Catholics will all band together on this issue.

[freebilly]

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

I'm not sure the kids were used....

[k2blader]

No doubt there are some who believe children should be arrested for trying to give water to someone being murdered via forced dehydration and starvation.

No doubt their only argument is, "It's the law."

But moral law trumps human law.