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.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

You are so right. Another benefit is we more clearly see the face of evil and of good. I suppose we are still reaping the "benefits" of our first parents eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

[harpo11]

"All that is necessary for evil
to triumph
is for good men to do nothing."

God Bless these brave children and their noble father.

Quote: Edmund Burke, January 9, 1795, in a letter to William Smith.

[HKMk23]

Nobody, not even I, asked you to "believe everything" without conclusive evidence, but it's a little bit over the top to imply that the only reasonable position is to believe NOTHING without evidence. You've put yourself in the place of assuming the worst of people you don't know until you're proven wrong. That's pretty offensive. Why not at least grant neutrality and see which way it goes from there?

You have NO association whatsoever with this woman or her family. You know nothing of her character; nothing of her beliefs or her philosophy of government. Yet, here you sit condemning her out of a clear blue sky just because her kids acted similarly to others elsewhere who did so out of ulterior motivations. So now, in your world, EVERYONE who acts similarly MUST ABSOLUTELY be doing so out of equally ulterior motivations? What kind of doctrine is that, "Guilty by circumstantial similarity?"

That's an awfully broad brush to paint with.

All you know is what I know:
She said it was something her kids decided to do.
(Believe her or don't, but you've no good reason not to.)
Her husband went with the kids so he would be with them whatever happened.

We may safely presume that they'll post some token bail and be together again by dinnertime. The only possible thing they have to worry about would be that their tresspassing case might come up before Judge Doom. At the end of it all, it's a great lesson in civics; free men exercising moral courage in the face of judicial tyrrany.

I think it's great that those kids did what they did. I think it says volumes that their Dad went with them to do it. (How many kids have a Father like that, eh?) Yes, make the cops arrest them. Make their day hard as they stand the line for their tyrant judge master. Make them earn that blood money. If the system is going to run amok, make it spend some big dollars doing it. Make the place a bees nest. There need to be several hundred more; an endless stream going in there the same way: carrying cups of water. Overflow the jail. Keep the judge up all night long. Send everyone home tired and worn out. If somebody's going to die in all of this, nobody involved should get away with being merely inconvenienced.

Make 'em all pay -- dearly.

[hobson]

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.

I must say I have never seen such a perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black. Good job.

[anymouse]

So where did the $2M go to then?

Why has Micheal Schiavo kept medical workers from doing recuperative therapy on Terri, that the was already paid for in the malpractice settlement?

Since when does Bulimia cause such a condition? Broken bones, chemical imbalance/stroke, bruises. Medical records sealed to independent medical reviewers. It doesn't add up. One wonders how this would be playing out had the police not botched the original investigation, which had been considered an attempted murder case.

[gitmo]

I seem to recall a story about someone offering a dying person vinegar to drink. Maybe that's what the kids should have done. The government would be pleased.

[Critter]

What if 15,000 people each brought a bottle of water and one at a time approached the hospice with the intention of giving it to Terri or getting arrested?

Would take a lot of manpower to arrest every one of them. It might actually overwhelm the police department to the point where one or two bottles might make it in. hmmmmmmm

[Blzbba]

"I must say I have never seen such a perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black. Good job."


That's easy for you to say, Mr. Kettle.

[gathersnomoss]

Another crucifiction of sorts. This country is in very deep trouble. Pray for us.

[eternity]

Remember government is good. It will take care of you. Yea right.

[gitmo]

Funny. The morality of this story is obvious to the kids. Mine nailed it right away.

[hobson]

The truism is lost on you.

[freebilly]

Thanks for disrupting, troll....

[Destro]

It's under 2 million since the 1990s. Medical expenses probably ate it up since then -its not a lot over a decade spent on this type of care. But if you Internet detectives want to play Agatha Christy with all these conspiracy theories nothing I will say will change your mind.

[M. Espinola]

Everything the world is witnessing is a sample of the Florida 'justice' system, coupled with the radical Left's unmasked, death driven agenda.

[freebilly]

I don't debate trolls.

[FreeReign]

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." God Bless these brave children and their noble father.

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good children to do nothing?

I say let the children watch, it's us grownups who need to do something...like being arrested. The parents should have found somebody their own age...