Posted on 03/25/2005 7:55:28 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Hours after a judge ordered that Terri Schiavo was not to be removed from her hospice, a team of state agents were en route to seize her and have her feeding tube reinserted -- but they stopped short when local police told them they would enforce the judge's order, The Herald has learned.
Agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement told police in Pinellas Park, the small town where Schiavo lies at Hospice Woodside, on Thursday that they were on the way to take her to a hospital to resume her feeding.
For a brief period, local police, who have officers at the hospice to keep protesters out, prepared for what sources called ``a showdown.''
In the end, the squad from the FDLE and the Department of Children & Families backed down, apparently concerned about confronting local police outside the hospice.
''We told them that unless they had the judge with them when they came, they were not going to get in,'' said a source with the local police.
''The FDLE called to say they were en route to the scene,'' said an official with the city police who requested anonymity. ``When the sheriff's department and our department told them they could not enforce their order, they backed off.''
The incident,known only to a few and related to The Herald by three different sources involved in Thursday's events, underscores the intense emotion and murky legal terrain that the Schiavo case has created. It also shows that agencies answering directly to Gov. Jeb Bush had planned to use a wrinkle in Florida law that would have allowed them to legally get around the judge's order. The exception in the law allows public agencies to freeze a judge's order whenever an agency appeals it.
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There has to be some background that Jeb through the FL attorney general can provide to Greer to throw suspicion on MS.
illegal orders need not be followed......if there were any question about it, it would be addressed almost immediately....I know how many are thinking but we just can't run rough shod over the law if we simply dont' agree with it......
Jeb Bush says he doesn't have the power you claim he does.
Who should I believe knows more about the job - MTOrlando, or Governor Bush? Answer me honestly, please.
Everybody's jumping on the death wagon. Socialists/liberals and pond scum lawyers are dutifully jumping to Satan's commands, slathering at the jowls like a pack of hungry wolves over a fresh deer carcass. It's getting easier all the time to tell the sheep from the goats.
And thank you.
They don't need your money they have Greer's money,Hospice Money,felos,and Hemlock society money. There needs to be a huge demonstration where all the media will be and have signs indicating the corruption in those Pinellas County police agencies must be dealt with by grand jury indictments. There are many people that work in those agencies that know what is going on and are keeping quiet either by threat of their job or other means of coercion.
The crime is the ruling of the judge, which by virtue of the guns that backed it, placed human beings in danger.
Anarchy is ugly. Greer has stubbornly - highhandedly - created a situation where a woman will die or two branches of government will shoot it out.
I'm certainly not place by God in the position that Jeb Bush is and neither is any us. I'm placed where I am and I am doing as God calls me.
I wish I could laugh with you, but every time I start to, I suddenly envision "Starving for Attention: The Terri Schiavo Story" on Oxygen or the freaking Woman's Channel.
Which will start production in, well, how much time do they say she has left?
Sigh. Then it occurs to me: who will (because you know damned good and well that there are 'talks' going on, even as we speak) sign off on release forms? The Schindlers or, well...
Sorry for being so cynical, but, man, this whole circus is depressing the hell out of me.
Apparently, it's not.
http://help.senate.gov/bills/hlh_70_bill.html
http://enzi.senate.gov/schiavo.htm
Your response would suggest you don't know what happened at Nuremberg.
Nuremberg was a repudiation of the Nazis.
Nuremberg said "I was only following orders" is not an acceptable excuse for unacceptable behavior.
Oh really? When you voted for Jeb (BTW, how did you do that when you live in New Jersey?) did you tell him you expected him to storm a hospice?
Wow. What an astute observation... completely lacking in any fact, accuracy, or truth, but astute nontheless...
ready to fight for my rights
Well, don't sit around here talking to us... get going!
"(20 minutes with cue cards)"
ROFL
In this case yes, if you think it is lawful or moral to starve a defenseless woman to death, well have fun trying to sell that to the American people. Cause it ain't gonna fly. This is not Germany.
see.....I actually agree totally with your sentiment on the issue.....I really do......but when we have exhausted our resources, then we also must practice "acceptance" and leave it now in God's hands.....
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