Posted on 03/23/2005 12:00:12 PM PST by 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.
Adults using children as pawns.
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I will join you in defending the LEO's here. They are charged with doing their job, no matter how disgusting it may be. The pictures of the kids in cuffs make a major statement about the injustice of this whole ordeal.
I would rather starve to death than be a paid policeman handcuffing Christian children who want to bring a drink of water to a dying woman. God is not mocked. There will be some major punishment for this cruelty.
These are the Christian leaders of the future. They are in the Right-to-Life marches, abortion clinic actions, and many have had handcuffs on by the time they are 16. These will be the battle-hardened Christians of the future. They will not be content to sit on their butts and let Satan's followers push them around. More power, God's power, to them.
A simple observation.
They look Pentecostal.
"This is the US? Right?"
Maybe they will execute them like they are executing Terri.
What a world!
Fair enough.
My six year old has a skirt down to her ankles. She's not homeschooled.
Dear God
Please forgive those who have abandoned YOU and YOUR LAW.
Please protect these children from evil.
Please forgive this nation.
AMEN
The kids looked old enough to make this decision on their own.
I hope this is the start of a flood of people peacefully bearing cups and bottles of water being arrested. (See Ghandi)
Down the block, crack heads are dealing drugs, but these warrior LEOs are handcuffing those little Texas Christians. But look on the bright side...they haven't burned them to death like they did 24 children in Waco...yet.
DemonRATS...the Party of Death...MUD
I had to drive through the hostage situation in New Brunswick yesterday to pick up my children from school.
The streets were full of gangster type people. I mean mobbed where it took an extra 30 minutes for me to drive a mile.
None of those people were asked to even clear the streets.
I'm just contrasting that to these pictures.
If we suppose that the dad put them up to it, I'd agree with you.
If, however, the kids decided they wanted to do it, and dad went along with them, I'd have to applaud them.
Based on no information other than the kids' ages, I personally believe the kids thought it up.
LOL Good one!
How are you & the family?
"They don't appear to be in school at all, at the moment."
All the schools where I live are on vacation this week.
It's Spring Break week here in Texas, perhaps it is also in Florida.
I see nothing wrong with bringing children of this age into it. Maybe I am wrong. As long as the parents have taught them to act respectful and peaceful, and obviously, these children did.
Danke, kamerad.
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