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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What a 'brilliant' retort. No sir, I am a conservative along the ideals of Reagan. Too bad Republicans don't have anyone with those views elected into national office
Bingo. Hit the nail on the head
Greer's army is tougher than the DCF's army.
The police and sheriff have a chain of command. My belief is that Jeb is at the top; he should be.
Every person in the chain of command who obstructed Jeb's order should be given the equivalent of a bad-conduct discharge and fired, immediately.
Those same people should be ready to find themselves the receiving end of some world-class wrongful-death lawsuits, also.
These are the same people that 2000 years ago would have blamed Christ for wimping out and dying without a fight rather than calling out a legion of angels to smite the heathen.
The last time I read "we were just following orders", the venue was Nuremburg.
You're on bozo filter, son. Go post to somebody else. You're just out to harrass, which means you won't last long.
Yeah by Jeb Bush at his press conference. Duh? You think someone had to call Felos? It was obvious what Bush said he was going to do.
You should be blaming the law enforcement officers who signalled they would oppose him. Jeb didn't avert a state civil war over one woman. He single-handedly LOST a state civil war here.
Yeah his wife divorced him after he had an affair(smart move), his son went gay, two of his daughters have three illegitimate kids. Seems like Randy should have stuck around home a bit more and took care of business there.
The officers were on their way during the press conf. The tip-off came from a weasel on the inside.
Listening to Boortz yesterday afternoon, I believe he read something about Terry and who he has been connected too (some of his 'followers') in the past. If that's the same guy it's not somebody I would claim as one of our own
You know that is pattently false. All of the arrests are scripted. The cops know which kids are coming and the kids have agreed what they are to do when they are "arrested." Its all sympbolic and no cop is pulling a gun on a kid. They are hancuffed because that is police policy.
Not a single demonstrator has engaged in a single act of violence, yet the fascists are responding as though they are the ones under siege.
No but one member of your kook group in FL was arrested breaking in to a gun store to get a weapon to break out Terri with. Another has been arrested by the FBI for solititing the murder of MS and Judge Greer over the internet. Not too bright but then some of you hayseeds dont know what to believe until your minister tells you.
Far too many Southern Baptists do not believe that Roman Catholics are Saved Christians. Apparently the leadership of Greer's church do not ascribe to this demonic view.
Pull up the Nazi Party Platform and tell me where you can find that? You don't.
We have to judge them on their actions...Nazism can't get away with saying "that was just our actions of our corrupt leaders, but our platform doesn't advocate it!"...and the Church can't say "that was just our actions of our corrupt leaders, but our Scripture doesn't advocate it!"
The victims got just as dead, all rhetoric aside.
75% (of those polled) are agreeing with the lies presented by the MSM.
When each is told the whole story, each person I've talked changes their mind.
Except the rabid pro-abortion crowd, including Boortz, who are suing this for their pro-death agenda.
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And, it would no matter if 99% of those polled agreed or disagreed with something.
Right and wrong CAN'T be polled.
Nope.
The SS were merely following German laws, and legal German orders.
You don't know that.
We don't know that.
Give her some therapy, some movement, brush her teeth. Get an independent doctor to treat ehr, instead of looking at her to kill her, and let her recover.
Then let's see whether she can talk, write, or mumble, or use a voice machine.
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