"If you had bothered to read the text accompanying the pictures you would have known that the kids decided to do it on their own."
You're right, I believe everything I read in the papers and in particular the things parents say about their kids.
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.