PHOTOS: Texas parents use their kids in Schiavo trespass

[Bluebear]

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'." (Not that she could have said that it was an illegal act and she forbade it, even though it was the "children's idea".


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.

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.

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.

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And in Alabama, 2003:


Chris Keys, also of Burnet, had another motivation to get arrested.

"I didn't want my sons to know that their dad sat around and fussed about it over coffee and didn't do anything about it," Keys said.

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/specialreports/TENcommandments/StoryAlabamamonument21w.htm

[RubyDuby in GA]

1. What a god damned circus this has become!

Don't any of these people have any shame? Or common sense for that matter?

[Bluebear]

4. No and no!

These folks certainly put the mental in fundamental!

[SammyBlue]

10. They also put the moron in Oxymoron

Social conservative. Please, dead G-d, give me strength.

[BlueManDude]

6. Shame? Common sense? How 'bout a job?

I thought these were hard working GOP types?

[sniffa]

9. or jobs?

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Obviosuly not

So pathetic. Don't they know SHE CAN'T SWALLOW?!

[sniffa]

2. Look at this hussey!

you can aLmost see her ankLes.



how many parLocks are there in the worLd?

[BlueManDude]

3. When will they appear on FalseNews?

You know they will.

[Bluebear]

7. Linda Vester will have little Gabriel on tomorrow

You know she will. The little Flanders boys will sniffle "Waaah. We just wanted to give Terri a drink of water!"

[FreedomAngel82]

12. LOL

The Flanders. :eyes:

[maveric]

5. Terri would aspirate on a cup of water. Stupid fucks!

Thats why she's on tube feeding.

[ohio_liberal]

8. It's "symbolic"

They're going to try to hook up a garden hose to her stomach next ;)

[DearAbby]

13. What they are teaching their children....same as radical islamist in the

Middle East. Its damn right scary. I am speechless.

[jbond56]

14. Headline should read "Texas family tries to kill Terri"

[Ganja Ninja]

21. Let them drown her.

Then throw them in jail for manslaughter.

[FreedomAngel82]

27. Where were they

for the little baby boy? :eyes:

[Johonny]

51. Agreed

I want my "The moron that murdered Terri with a glass of water trial" now!!!

[seabeyond]

15. not gonna say anything bad here. the media and r politicians

did this. but this issue is strong and true to a lot of people, regardless of belief. i can totally understadn those that emotion has played on now for the last 5 days, and now has gone to an hysteria. and the child, the kids of this world, and their wanting to take back their world. to look at this woman, absolutely their heart, would and should automatically go to saving this life

i am not going to say anything negative about these parents nor kids

i pat the kids on back for being true and brave and courage in their conviction, regardless of the misplacement

the repugs christian and politicians have manipulated the pictures, the story, told lies.

we gotta understand where it is now. these people have been lied to, and doing this out of emotion

[Bluebear]

24. Fine, but this was not the kids idea

Any family that travels to Alabama to chain themselves to a 10 Commandments statue has too much time on their hands.

[seabeyond]

30. you dont know how passionate my 9 year old is bluebear, and i

am not convincing or doing to him. i pulled him out of all politics after the election. i pulled all news out of my house and away from kids last spring. but just the other nite he was saying so much on his mind and one of those were politics. what i say to him, i am not even talking it much, not getting it at school, took him out of private christian, where it was tlaked about. not talked in public

you know what he is doing bluebear, without me knowing

he is reading this board

9 years old

he feels this is his world too. and he feels he needs to be aware and educated, to help to make it a better place

what these kids are protesting, are thier beliefs. and i need to honor those kids. again, though i disagree, but with teri, and how it is being presented to them, i am not surprised out all by their passion

if i were to give this story to son. his instinct would be to save her too. i just would go further, explaining life death, state and federal and our constitution, courts role. i would give it to him all. i doubt these kids are being given that. ergo.....

the mistake i am seeing being made

[BOSSHOG]

16. And it was the conservative family's child's idea

to take a weapon into school and shoot up his classmates. Of course, wayne lapierre and the rest of the NRA members are god fearing life valuers.

[Bluebear]

17. NEW INFO: This family also went to Alabama for the 10 Commandments

Chris Keys, also of Burnet, had another motivation to get arrested.
"I didn't want my sons to know that their dad sat around and fussed about it over coffee and didn't do anything about it," Keys said.

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/specialreports/TENcommandments/StoryAlabamamonument21w.htm

[elehhhhna]

22. The Zelig!. Perhaps they should try feeding & clothing the folks

who are begging for it. Dallas has its share of homeless.

[Bluebear]

23. Sorry, they are too busy traveling the country getting on the news

Wonder if they know the Parlocks?

[elehhhhna]

31. Probably know the Gannon(s). Yes, I'm certain of it.

BTW I love the gospel where Jesus says "Exploit your little children".

[Bluebear]

33. "Suffer the little children to appear on Fox News"

Yeah, that's the passage.

[Drifter]

18. These kids need to be taken from their parents ...

and deprogrammed. This is nothing less than brainwashing. Some people are not fit to be parents.

Cheers
Drifter

[seabeyond]

37. how dare you. stop it please,

i have actually had people say that to me because i smoke. this isnt who we are or what our role is. they live differently than you and i. but betcha, those kids would not want any other parent. my kids love me for exactly who i am, they would not want a different mom

[MissMarple]

39. Contributing to the delinquency of a minor is certainly not good parenting

Trespass, assault on a vulnerable individual, intending bodily harm are not moral acts, they're criminal acts. After their trial, perhaps they should be sentenced to a vigorous round of parenting classes? (That's a joke, I realize they are probably incorrigible.) :-)

[merci_me]

19. Has anyone thought

what in the hell effect this circus is having on other families who have loved ones at the hospice?

They and all their holier than thou enablers are treading on the last days of others at the hospice and their families. They are using their own children.

Sure it was the kids idea. Who took them from Texas to Florida? Geez when my kids were that age, they thought up the idea of going to a cemetery at Halloween and making spooky noises to scare people. I found out and grounded them. I told them what they thought was a neat idea was being played out where people had buried their loved ones. It was sacred, not a playground.

Those people are turning a hospice area into a circus that other families have to pass through to spend last moments with those they love!!!! Have those demonstrators no shame?

[RubyDuby in GA]

25. "what in the hell effect this circus is having on other families who have

loved ones at the hospice?"

I've been thinking about that a lot lately. Don't those families have any rights to privacy? To see their loved ones with a billion cameras and nutjob fundies blocking the entrance?

[Bluebear]

26. And in their grief getting the message that they are "killing their kin"

After all, hospice is the place to die with dignity, yet some people will get the message that they are doing the wrong thing by letting their loved ones go.

[FreedomAngel82]

28. It is sad

Someone else on another board claimed the husband took his wife to hospice to murder her. So now misinformation about hospice is floating around. :mad:

[Amaya]

34. Yes, it's a scary thing.

I work for a hospice and my job is to make the patient as comfort as possible. Also, to help the families cope and keep them informed on the dying process. It's quite a shock to people what's involved.
It's a very emotional time and I can't imagine one of my clients and their families going through that. What a nightmare.

[recoveringrepublican]

35. Already is happening according the one patient granddaughter

It was in the St. Pete times yesterday. She claims she was held up in security and missed saying goodbye to her dying grandfather. The hospice denies this and I kind of want to take them at their word in my family we have had nothing but positive experiences with hospices (not this one though).

[Bluebear]

49. I hope these stories come to light too!

[flakey_foont]

20. Uh, Yeah

she's been in that state for 15 years, and finally, somebody gets the clever idea.."Maybe she would like a drink of water"...??? what? letting their kids get arrested for that? what kind of parents are they? hope they get outta jail soon, can't be late for the Rapture, now can we?
I don't suppose their parents let them read "Harry Potter"

[DesEtoiles]

29. Flashbacks to the Republican National Convention

[BrklynLiberal]

32. I have seen photos in other protests of these RW Fundies setting up their

kids to be arrested...or have their protest sign "destroyed" by police or some other attention getting ploy involving their kids.. They have no shame whatsoever. Sort of a political version of Munchausen by proxy.
It is disgustingly pathetic.

EDIT: After reading thru the thread, my guess is that family I saw was the Parlocks.

[illflem]

36. We ain't seen nothing yet

just think of what kind of martyr they'll make Terri into if she dies on Easter.

[Bluebear]

38. Holy cannoli you are right

[merci_me]

40. Worse yet

Good Friday. Then they'll hold some big "she has risen" on Easter. Probably shopping around for a look-alike now.

[Bouncy Ball]

41. I wonder if they are Seventh-Day Adventists.

The girls have long hair and skirts. That's not always conclusive, but usually a giveaway.

SO ridiculous. Yeah. She can just drink up that water, uh-huh. You'd be more likely to KILL her trying to give her that water.

:eyes:

[flvegan]

42. Conspiracy to commit murder by drowning, I say.

I'm ashamed that this is taking place 30 miles away from me.

[Bluebear]

43. Can you hear the wailing from 30 miles away?

[flvegan]

44. No, but I work with juuuuust enough Fundies to enjoy it anyway.

[Bluebear]

45. Bless your heart.

As they say.

[flvegan]

46. I can't really complain. They're ignorant, and where I work

they're vastly outnumbered by libruls like me and former Bushbots that woke up last election. The guy that owns the joint is a Dem, so they gotta keep in on the down low. But the lunchroom...the praying...maybe I could gather all the food in the fridge and dump it on top of 'em. Tell 'em it's a donation for Terri.

[Lisabtrucking]

47. The kids should be taken away. I don't care what the adult does, but

don't teach your child to break the law. The picture of the young boy in hand cuffs is disturbing. This kids mind is developing, and this is dangerous.

[deadparrot]

48. Good job there, kids. Drown her. nt

[oldcoot]

50. Where were they when Sun Hudson died?

Since they were from Texas, surely it would have been relatively affordable for them to go to Huston to try save poor Sun Hudson.

[librechik]

52. somebody please tell these people that TERRI CAN'T SWALLOW

so they would risk a choking death if they managed to get her some water.

[SouthernDem2004]

53. hmmm, What about this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1679206&mesg_id=1679206

What is the difference?