cross-posted from my kos diary, but BooMan’s been on the hunt for diaries, so here goes!
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. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
I saw this picture on Yahoo. The word disgusted doesn’t quite do justice to how I feel about this. Many of us have been involved in some sort of civil disobedience at some point in our lives, myself included. I have never seen, at any protest, a parent put their child forward to be arrested. There is no excuse for this. I’m assuming there was some point trying to be made here, but excuse me if I missed it. Sorry, but allowing your child to get arrested to prove your own political points is kinda shitty.
Perhaps the Florida Dept. of Children and Families could look into this kid’s parents once they’re done harrassing Mr. Schiavo?
so are the cops. What earthly good does it do to arrest this kid? There are much better ways to handle this. The handcuffs are too much. What’s he gonna do? Kick their asses?
Google “Phil Parlock” for an evening’s dose of ire…
Are these people sickos or what? Here’s another one:
So these retentive law-and-order fanatics are going to abduct Schiavo now? Will they do it themselves, or send their kids?
Gotta love that moron’s sig by the way. There is one man that comes to mind of whom it is literally true.
And let’s not forget, these are the “Family Values” freaks too.. the ones who say marriage and a family are the end-all-be-all and you have to protect your children against whatever may befall them.
Maybe somebody should reply to Mr. Search4Truth and suggest he start the march. Then place a call to the FL police and explain how a right-wing terrorist group may be coming to storm the hospital by force. Then sit back and hope that this time, maybe, they’ll at least keep their kids out of it.
And I’m being serious.
When we have people out there teaching their children that God WANTS them to do this sort of thing, people, we are so screwed it’s beyond measure.
When we have people out there who want to travel to Florida and remove this woman from her hospice by FORCE to…to what? Save her?
Oh, man. I don’t even know what to say to this.
In Iran, they sent their young children to the front to run in human waves against Iraqi armor and artillery and to clear minefields by blowing themselves to smithereens. It was considered both a sacred mission and a good education.
I never brought my dKos sig over here.
Problem solved!