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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It might be MY place to choose to starve MYSELF for the sake of Jesus Christ. It sure as h*** is not my place to choose or acquiesce that TERRI should starve for the sake of Jesus Christ.
Jeb is a hero to me in all of this. No jeb, Terri is dead long ago. People are just going nuts.
I think those that are for this end don't know the facts of the case.
The prophesied Messiah, was supposed to come to free the Jews from earthly tormentors; or was GOD lying to the Jews? Or are Christians mislead in believing that the Christ si the Messiah foretold ?
See what a mess you get into,when you start playing games?
And since WHEN has Socrates a source for Messianic truth?
You've dug yourself a hole,have kept on digging, and now proclaimed that you've refuted me. LOL
If GOD is truly the author of every act,then HE was responsible for Hitler and the holocaust. And then you manage to meander down the primrose path of Manachism with that one, and worse.
So just let it drop, before you humiliate yourself further.
The state cops come in dressed bulletproof from head to toe and carry the nastiest machine guns in the armory.
Cynicism 'R me...
It's almost always turned out to be the truth. If anything, it's usually worse than I imagined!
GOD was certainly the author of the chance that Hitler used for evil. But it is not GOD who will be to blame when Hitler appears before the Great White Throne, it will be Hitler.
I ask you one thing only?
why did they pick the most Holiest weeks to murder Terri ?
please explain that
Read his posts to me and if you think he isn't "nuts",then YOU are as well.
I like your way of thinking.
If he understood to what degree he is harming Terri's cause, he would surely shut up and sit down.
The activies of some who love to claim that title of 'religious' right are NOT right. I have not seen them bear fruit, rather use and abuse people for their own personal gain.
Stop it, or at least warn people: I just spit about two dollars worth of Clos Du Bois Cabernet all over my keyboard and monitor.
In one sense, it is. It hinges on the use of the Cruzan decision by the Supreme Court in 1992. In that case they did the usual legislating from the bench: declared food and water to be "medical care". Babblespeak, nothing more.
But in the current case, that's not what's happening. All we are seeing is the result of ruthless men taking advantage of an opening created by judicial activism.
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