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.

[Blzbba]

"Homeschooled Christian kids, I bet."


Kids skipping school and playing hooky, for certain.

[Blzbba]

"Those kids look home-schooled."


They don't appear to be in school at all, at the moment.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

I would say they dress rather conservative.

[livius]

I am proud of them for standing up against wrong.

I agree. What pictures these are!

[newgeezer]

if I lived there I would have my kids out there too.

Having the kids out there is one thing. Putting them on the front line to do the dirty work -- because the authorities won't prosecute kids like they would adults? -- is something else entirely.

Like I said before, I hope that's not what happened here.

[RobRoy]

This is the US? Right?

[Calpernia]

They put a baby in handcuffs!

[mlc9852]

It's spring break where I live - maybe there, too.

[HostileTerritory]

The skirts down to the ankles give it away.

[mlc9852]

It may have been the kids' ideas. Some kids actually have compassion.

[HostileTerritory]

They put a baby in handcuffs!

The next attempt will involve a litter of tiny kittens hitched up to a wagon with a glass of water in it. Or maybe a team of Westies...

[tfecw]

it's Die. Die Polizei

[thulldud]

They don't appear to be in school at all, at the moment.

No school this week in my county. "Holy Week", it used to be called, now just "spring break."

[Van Jenerette]

..reading.

[TopDog2]

True Christian Soldiers. How would the police deal with hundreds or thousands of them?

[Cindy]

I understand.

[Frank_Discussion]

"Those kids look home-schooled."

Your post looks like it smells. But who can tell?

Did you have a point?

[Bob J]

Kids have lots of ideas. I'm not criticizing the act, I don't think they should have used the kids. I don't like it when the libs do it and it would be inconsistent of us if we approve when it is for an issue we support.

[expatguy]

Thanks - These pictures are extremely powerful images.

For children to want to do this clearly shows the inhumanity of this.

Not the killing per se, but the starving and dehydrating a person to death. It is barbaric and evil.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia