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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I'm sorry, you really got me there. What are you talking about?
I agree, we don't need a "civil war"
I really don't where all this Hate-Jeb talk is coming from, and lots of it from names I don't recognize.
Not that I know everyone, but still, he tried,
I mean, it's the CLINTON-APPOINTED Judges that
are doing this.
CLINTON.... Not Bush
What a shame if this tragedy pushs conservatives,
or even the liberal media, to prop up a Third Party
Candidate to help Hillary ride to power in 2008.
Will we ever learn?
but they felt they were just as Christian as you or I...and they worshipped the same diety, used similar doctrine and dogma.....any way you shape it, the Christian Church had some very dark moments in history.....they killed in the name of Christ....just as sure as the terrorists kill in the name of Islam
Heck, I think they've even started a chapter of FReepers for Dictatorship! All this talk about the executive branch acting outside the law and intervening in states and local jurisdictions makes me wonder what these HysTerricalTM posters would have thought if Clinton had sent his stormtroopers down to Texas to free some of those murdering scum that Bush had executed, claiming it was his right as president because it was the moral thing to do to save a life...after all, the Pope is against the death penalty, right?
Well, to be fair (and I try to be) for centuries, Christians were persecuted horribly for their faith... Eventually, however, Christianity got even more organized, and eventually were in charge of nations, armies, etc... and once it got strong enough, began to persecute in return. Even Christians fell victim to human nature, and ya know what they say about power, and what a corrupting influence it is. Those who opposed it were "removed", savages were "saved" by death, or forcibly converted, and heretics were killed... Christianity was covered with the stench of Death... I think that was what finally awakened it to what it was doing, and over time policies changed, time went on, governments and nations came and went, and eventually...
... Christianity ended up as it is today. I like the Christianity of today, personally... :o)
LOL! HysTerrical (tm). That was good.
OK, then Jeb, send the state police and arrest him on grounds of making an illegal order, and bring him to the scene.
I can write it in crayon, if it will help comprehension. I was telling someone else that we have to be a little kind because emotions are raw and we haven't thought this out yet.
As for wingnuts...the difference is that in time most of us will process the information and deal with this rationally.
Others will never deal with this rationally, because they don't deal with anything rationally.
I don't hate Christians, especially since I am one. However, I can face up to what was done in the past in the name of my God. Can you? Or will you deny historical fact?
Christianity has not killed people. People have killed people by perverting zChristianity and employing man's law over God's -just like the case is now
Yea but yall have to go back hundred of years, back into another time and diferent civilization to justified your hate of Christans. Now we only have to go back to 1930's Germany to show you the evil that comes from your thinking.
*blush*......thanks so much......would you mind stopping by and turning all my useless water into wine with your new found powers.....it will save me a trip to the store..
Why should he? They're doing their job, even if in fact you don't agree with them.
Enforcing an illegal order.
Just so. Greer has issued some truly awful rulings, and Whittemore ignored the plain face of the law. Judges are jealous of their power.
Ahem. Can he do Clos Du Bois?
Those practicing Christianity killed in the name of our God. Fact. It had nothing to do with "Man's law" - it all had to do with God's word, and who was interpreting it rightly or wrongly, and who genuflected on which knee, and who worshipped correctly etc...
Let's see...
Jesus of Nazareth went to a place where He knew He would be killed, and did things that He knew would condemn Him. God ordered the Israelites to massacre many enemies. Samson crushed himself to crush others.
Methinks God isn't so absolute on the "Pro-Life-At-All-Costs" thing. Early Christians weren't so tied to earthly existence as Christians are today, I guess...they realized that there was another existence waiting for them...and they wanted to be with their Father.
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