But they were determined to do that. I half-jokingly noted that this was Greer's army vs. the governor's army. But in fact, that is exactly what went down. Sabers were rattled, and the governor backed down.
That is what's happening. And it's the Pinellas Sheriff's department that made it that way. They are acting as a warlord clan against another clan, and trying to legitimize it by chatting about "the court order" as if the court order overrides every other law and institution in the state. Or the country, for that matter.
Bush should have declared war on those SOB's right there. They're not just out of line, they are way OVER the line.
I think that it's just more evidence of something far deeper going on here than a fight over a court order. The Sheriff and his department keep popping up in the resume's of various people in this deal - Schiavo himself, Mrs. Schindler, Felos and his buddies in the hospice. Those deputies are holding the line for something else - like someone looking into the dark attic and finding the skeletons.