The Schiavo issue

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Good for them, I'm all for civil disobedience, but c'mon Leo, "arrested for giving her water"? You're above that kind of propoganda.

Well, the link I posted only said water. Sandwiches, stupid, yes. Of course they were trying to get arrested, and it's pretty effective propaganda, really.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Well, the link I posted only said water. Sandwiches, stupid, yes. Of course they were trying to get arrested, and it's pretty effective propaganda, really.

Go walk into any stranger's ICU room with a bottle of water in any hospital in this country and see what kind of reaction you get. What they were doing was a protest, they were protestors doing something illegal trying to get arrested. They weren't trying to give her water.

[SacTown Chronic]

Did somebody say civil disobedience? This changes everything. Let me grab my water hose, swing by Subway to get her a meatball sub and I'm there, man.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Go walk into any stranger's ICU room with a bottle of water in any hospital in this country and see what kind of reaction you get.

I'd be escorted out, but not arrested, unless I decided to do it several times.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I'd be escorted out, but not arrested, unless I decided to do it several times.

Okay, now imgine the same scenario, but add a court order that she is not to be fed or given water, plus a high profile which means a increased probability of escalation. The job of the police is to maintain order. Following normal procedure where infractions are overlooked so as not to create a scene does not work in an abnormal situation. In those cases, they have every right to follow the letter of the law if it will maintain order. Just as they have every right to be more lenient if it's not necessary.