EMOTIONS RUN HIGH OUTSIDE HOSPICE

From the New York Post comes this Saturday article on the vigil outside the hospice where Terri Schiavo is being starved to death. With over 300 persons supporting Terri Schiavo and only 4 fanatics crying out for her death, the media revealed its agenda by including a quote by 1 of the lattter.

EMOTIONS RUN HIGH OUTSIDE HOSPICE
By KENNETH LOVETT

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — Resignation was mixed with anger yesterday among the protesters standing vigil outside the hospice where Terri Schiavo is nearing death.

The solemnity of the day was punctuated with prayers, Good Friday services and the arrest of 10 people — including three children — who made symbolic efforts to cross police lines to bring water to 41-year-old Schiavo.

"I'm hopeless," said Ashley Giacomelli, 20, a former Catholic-school student of Terri's brother Bobby Schindler.

"I don't have any hope right now. If nothing is done, it makes people like me and other people feel like we can't change anything," she said.

Many protesters found a symbolic link between Good Friday and Terri's situation.

Mata Bruno, of Rochester, N.Y., carried a basket filled with tinfoil balls, which she said represented the 30 pieces of silver given to Judas to betray Jesus.

The Rev. Ed Martin urged Florida Gov. Jeb Bush: "Please do not repeat Pontius Pilate's mistake this Good Friday.

"We beg the governor to be a real man," he said. "He's got to go in and rescue her."

As the night went on, protestors hooked up a TV and watched Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ."

"Terry Schiavo may be spending her last hours just as Jesus spent his last hours," said Chet Gallagher, who works for Operation Save America, an anti-abortion group.

Only a handful of the more than 200 people gathered outside the hospice supported Michael Schiavo and the removal of his wife's feeding tube.

One, John McCann, 60, of St. Petersburg, Fla., carried a sign declaring, "Thank God for the rule of law, protect us from fanatics."

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