Protester a Sex Offender

So the religious right comes to protest and either get arrested themselves, or allow their own children to be arrested for "trying to bring water" to Terri Schiavo. Of course this is all covered non-stop by the mainstream media (MSM), and then they report this on TV, in the print news, and on their websites. Well here is what they didn't tell you: From Editor and Publisher NEW YORK As protests outside the hospice housing Terri Schiavo in her final days mounted last week, numerous newspaper reports, many based on an Associated Press account, mentioned or quoted 10-year-old Joshua Heldreth and/or his father, Scott Heldreth. Josh was one of several youngsters arrested for crossing police lines in Pinellas Park, Fla., in an effort to take water to Schiavo. None of the stories revealed that Scott Heldreth, a religious activist and anti-abortion crusader, is a registered sex offender in Florida-- until The Charlotte Observer mentioned it on Sunday. Take a look HERE. The Charlotte Observer story, however, revealed that Heldreth had pleaded guilty to sexual battery, was in jail for parts of 1992 and 1993, according to court records, and served time on probation. “The former Naperville, Fla., resident remains listed on the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's sex offender registry,” the Observer reported, “but he's not registered on North Carolina's; the N.C. equivalent applies to offenders convicted on or after Jan. 1, 1996.” According to the story, Heldreth claimed that his religious beliefs came to him while in jail. Before then, he said, "I basically agreed with everyone trying to kill Terri Schiavo." Then, he said, he accepted Christ and turned his life around.? So now we have to not only watch what the right wingnuts are doing and saying, we also have to watch what the mainstream press feeds us? Come on MSM start thinking for yourselves for a change, and get out from under the rightwing talking points and the thumb of the republican party!!!