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Report: Jeb Sent Agents to Rescue Terri
News Max ^ | March 26, 2005 | News Max Wire

Posted on 03/26/2005 3:47:20 PM PST by Cherokee Conservative

The Miami Herald reported Saturday that Florida Gov. Jeb Bush sent a team of state agents Thursday to rescue Terri Schiavo - but it was stopped short by local police.

"We were ready to go," Bush spokesman Jacob DiPietre told the Herald.

Doctors say that unless her feeding tube is reinserted, Schiavo, 41, will die a week or two after March 18. That is when a judge ordered it removed, having siding with Schiavo's huband's argument that Terri would have preferred it that way.

On Saturday, the Herald reported that local police in Pinellas Park, the small town where Schiavo lies at Hospice Woodside, were expecting "a showdown" between law enforcement agents.

But the squad from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Department of Children & Families charged with taking custody of Schiavo and reinserting her feeding tube backed down after police told agents of the FDLE that they would enforce state judicial rulings preventing any actions to save Terri Schiavo.

"We told them that unless they had the judge with them when they came, they were not going to get in," a source with the local police told the Herald.

Apparently, the only showdown occured over the telephone.

"The FDLE called to say they were en route to the scene," an unnamed official with the city police told the Herald. "When the sheriff's department and our department told them they could not enforce their order, they backed off."

In ordering the move, Gov. Jeb Bush used state procedures allowing public agencies to freeze a judge's order whenever an agency appeals it. "We didn't want to break the law. There was a process in place and we were following the process," DePietre told the Herald.

On Wednesday, Pinellas-Pasco County Circuit Judge George W. Greer had signed an order forbidding DCF from taking the patient from the hospice, directing "each and every and singular sheriff of the state of Florida" to enforce the order.

But Thursday morning, DCF lawyers appealed Greer's order to judges at the Second District Court of Appeal in Lakeland, legally creating a window of opportunity to seize Schiavo, the Herald reported. The appeal created a stay in the judge's ruling.

It took nearly three hours before the judge found out and took steps to block that legal window, the Herald reported.

In the meantime, "there were two sets of law enforcement officers facing off, waiting for the other to blink," an unnamed official told the paper.

The Florida Department of Children and Families has been besiged by calls alleging Schiavo is the victim of abuse. On Wednesday, the governor and DCF chief Lucy Hadi made it known that they were considering sheltering Schiavo under the state's adult protection law.

According to Herald sources, DCF intended to take Schiavo to Morton Plant Hospital, where her feeding tube had been reinserted in 2003 following a previous judicial order allowing its removal.

Schiavo suffered brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped briefly from a chemical imbalance believed to have been brought on by an eating disorder. She left no living will.

 


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: bush; dcf; jeb; jebbush; pontiuspilate; schiavo; terri; terrihysteria; terrischiavo
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This really brings home how powerful our judiciary is. State agencies, governors, our elected government are powerless to do anything. The courts basically have their own police force available to enforce their will. No matter how you feel about the Schiavo case, all you need to do is insert another issue that you are concerned about and imagine the same situation. Or apply it to history. Had they had activist judges during the Civil Rights movement, and had they been unanimous in their opinion against civil rights for blacks, we would have been powerless to affect change. The same can happen with euthanasia, assisted suicide, homosexuality, and the list goes on. The judicial crisis is real.

I appologize if this has been posted, I did search for it but couldn't find it.

1 posted on 03/26/2005 3:47:22 PM PST by Cherokee Conservative
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To: Cherokee Conservative

Im still waiting for the Omnipotent Judge Greer to issue a "court order" stating that Terri Schiavo goes to Heaven.


2 posted on 03/26/2005 3:48:44 PM PST by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: expatguy

LOL! Did you hear that Greer's Baptist church asked him to leave?


3 posted on 03/26/2005 3:51:02 PM PST by Cherokee Conservative (The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary - Jefferson)
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To: Cherokee Conservative

funny you couldn't find it.....there was a 1,000+ post thread last night precisely on this same issue


4 posted on 03/26/2005 3:51:03 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: Cherokee Conservative
SSDD @ the Hospice Woodside, Florida


5 posted on 03/26/2005 3:51:24 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: NorCalRepub

I already apologized. I did look. I can grovel and beg forgiveness if you'd like.


6 posted on 03/26/2005 3:51:59 PM PST by Cherokee Conservative (The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary - Jefferson)
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To: Cherokee Conservative
This really brings home how powerful our judiciary is.

No...this really brings home how WEAK the republicans are. In the words of JR Ewing...."Real power is not given....IT'S TAKEN!"

7 posted on 03/26/2005 3:52:46 PM PST by Taggart_D
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To: Cherokee Conservative
The Govenor of Florida ALLOWS the judicial branch to be most powerful because he won't stand up to them.

The judges have been able to get away with things just like this because no one has the courage to push them back into their place.

8 posted on 03/26/2005 3:53:04 PM PST by ViLaLuz
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To: Cherokee Conservative

Chief law enforcement officer in the state backs down from a probate judge and county law enforcement. Jeb wimped out.


9 posted on 03/26/2005 3:53:11 PM PST by kenth
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To: Cherokee Conservative
Me thinks somebody doth protest too much: From the article:

"Apparently, the only showdown occured over the telephone."

and...

"In the meantime, "there were two sets of law enforcement officers facing off, waiting for the other to blink," an unnamed official told the paper.

10 posted on 03/26/2005 3:53:14 PM PST by 1 spark
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To: ViLaLuz

Amen!


11 posted on 03/26/2005 3:54:48 PM PST by Taggart_D
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To: ViLaLuz

I'm not diagreeing with you at all, but what should Republicans do to fight back other than demand up or down votes on judges. I wish they could force the judges to follow the law rather than make it up as they go, but not sure what they can do in the immediate?


12 posted on 03/26/2005 3:55:04 PM PST by Cherokee Conservative (The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary - Jefferson)
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To: ViLaLuz

...hence this propaganda piece that there was a showdown.


13 posted on 03/26/2005 3:55:58 PM PST by 1 spark
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To: Cherokee Conservative
This don't make any sense to me.....Jeb Bush is the most powerful person in Florida. There is something else going on here. You can't tell me that Gov Bush....the commander in chief of the Florida nationl guard and the chief executive of Florida could not have ordered the state police to stand down.

If it is as you say, and the judges have an enforcement arm of their own that even the Governor will not take on, then we are truly in deep chicken fat trouble.

Governor Bush....if you are lurking, or have people lurking....you had better get your power back....and do it quick. These are the things that real revolutions are made of.

14 posted on 03/26/2005 3:56:48 PM PST by B.O. Plenty (Liberalism and islam are terminal.......)
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To: Jeff Head

Is not a Sheriff still the highest authority in a county ?


15 posted on 03/26/2005 3:58:38 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: B.O. Plenty
Governor Bush....if you are lurking, or have people lurking....you had better get your power back....and do it quick. These are the things that real revolutions are made of.

Too late. Governor Greer's staff will be in Tallahassee next week taking measurements for new drapes in the Governor's Mansion.

Jeb might as well go play golf until the end of his 'official' term, for all the authority he has left is illusory.

Watch how the rest of the Florida state government bureaucracy treats Jeb now. He'll be lucky to even get those slobs to return his phonecalls.
16 posted on 03/26/2005 4:01:09 PM PST by Mad Mammoth
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To: Cherokee Conservative

Bunch of wusses.


17 posted on 03/26/2005 4:01:22 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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To: Cherokee Conservative

This is propaganda. Pat Moynahan called it "boob bait for the Bubba's". Results matter, not intentions.

He trembles in fear of some state judge.

He's made his decision, and shown that deferring to a judge is of the highest priority. The Bushes won't take on the establishment because they ARE the establishment.

Darn shame.


18 posted on 03/26/2005 4:01:35 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (Open borders=National suicide)
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To: B.O. Plenty

I do wish folks would stop making apologetcis for little Jeb ... he was so impotent. He asked Greer's permission before sending anyone out into the swamp to rescue Terri. That is real leadership, don'tcha think? Greer told the boy to sit down and shut up until the real power in Florida was finished exercising their muscles executing a disabled, abused woman for the heinous crime of inconvenience ... and Jeb was a good boy and sat down and did nothing more than whine excuses of how the courts wouldn't let him play governor for this issue.


19 posted on 03/26/2005 4:02:14 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Cherokee Conservative

Never trust the medical community.


20 posted on 03/26/2005 4:02:17 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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