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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and he also equated Islamic Facism to Florida.....wow, I only though liberals made such leaps in arrogance....
What "illegal order"?
Nothing of the New Testament authorized such conduct, so you can't blame the bible.
Chad, chad, chad. C'mon, Buddy, it's the new, gentle Christianity that some of these folks adhere to. And if you don't like it, YOU'RE GOING TO BURN AND HELL AND YOU'LL HAVE PLENTY OF COMPANY!!!! BWAHHAHAHHAHA.
To bar Bush from carrying out the DCFS statute.
Good. You're boring enough as it is.
Get someone to explain it to you. LOL
don't worry, they are too busy making bombs and planning a hospice invasion in lieu of Easter service.......
God has not become soft.
Quit perverting Christianity to fit your argument It is self evident thsat you agree that Christianity did not kill people -people killed people!!!
So, you are advocating an abuse of power. How unfortunate.
Now, I've asked you guys politely to start warning people when you post this stuff...
Your nexted ~ there my three cents.
You're losing it. I'm not justifying a hatred of anything. I merely raised some historical facts. Facts that you, apparently, can't accept, and will never accept, because you are blinded by your zeal to root out what you deem to be "non-believers" or something...
We dont' have to go back a hundred years. One only needs look back at people like Eric Rudolph and Paul Hill, and people who bombed abortion clinics... That's not "justifying hatred of Christians", but merely pointing out that many Christians will often use God's word to justify any action - including the killing of innocents.
No, I am advocating Bush resisting an abuse of power. Greer's abuse.
Not YOU; that's for sure and certain,newbie of two months of FR. :-)
What is Christianity without people?
You can't have it both ways, because you disagree with the situation.
That's like condemning guns because some people murder with them.
Good -you are getting it! To suggest such an argument would just be raising a straw argument.
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