About a dozen people stood in front of the hospice to bring water to [Terri], but police arrested most of them, as they have done to others who had similar motives in recent days.
Chris Keys, 45, of Burnet, Texas, held his 2-year-old daughter, Farrah, as he prepared to get arrested with three of his other children. The toddler was taken by her mother so police could handcuff Keys and the other children.
"Jesus said, 'Whatever you do to the least of men, you do for me.' I'm a little nervous but I think this is what God wants me to do," said Keys' daughter, Josie, 14. She and her brothers Cameron, 12, and Gabriel, 10, kneeled on the ground as police handcuffed them.
I wish everyone had the ability to be there, and the moral conviction and courage to submit one's wrists to the cuffs for daring to take a cup of water to a woman dying of dehydration by court order. Were things as they should be, willing wrists would be in infinitely greater supply than available cuffs.
It’s a national tragedy, disgrace, and ill portent for our nation’s future that there resides so much more basic decency, ethics, and sense of humanity in the guileless 14 year old quoted above than our entire judicial system can muster.