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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Well wouldn't it just be interesting if a cop didn't want to kill a fellow cop and decided to take a reprimand rather then commit murder for judge Greer?
Doesn't seem like that big a sacrifice by a moral man to me.
Amen to that. But he brought it upon himself. Maybe he'll yet take anothr shot.
Good question. Poor Jeb.
What you say is right on the money. If Jeb had done for Terri what every person in the world would have done for their own daughters, then I would be undyingly grateful, too. Jeb doesn't need his job, but the country desperately needs men and leaders willing to be men.
Because the local police DON'T work for him. Their paychecks come from the city, not the state. The hospice is in the city jurisdiction. There is something smelly going on in that city and I think both the state and the feds need to find out what it is.
why do people always have to invoke the Nazis...is that the beat you can do...and Bush is Hitler is OK????......if you equate the two than any discussion would be pointless
I think you've jumped a grove there bud. Terry is an innocent non-convicted citizen. Those on death row have been convicted, are not innocent and deserve to die.
Does Terry deserve to die?
I think you're wrong. I think it's exactly what's needed. If these local boys were willing to fire on others to enforce a "kill order" against this woman, I'd be glad to see 'em on the ground.
Anybody seen old REV. Jesse Jackson , yet ?
Where's the REV. AL ?
This is the HOLY WEEK , so why are they hiding
It is not credible that a country judge, that Jeb could remove from office in a heartbeat can thwart the President of the USA and the governor of Fla, not credible at all.
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I've steer clear of jumping Jeb over this. He's between a rock and a hard place. I think his instincts are good, but his advisors and strategic plan weak.
Carl, maybe you're toooo far North to see it clear. But if he loses here and now, he'll do nothing politically in the future. IMHO.
There are some good Republicans in Congress, and they all need to remember that our hard work put them there.
But they're still part of the Executive branch of government.
Under the principle of Separation of Powers an official of the Judicial branch has no authority over them.
???
hold your fire there, friend
anger at the situation should not be an opportunity to vent regional bigotry,
i know you are upset, but please direct your anger at more appropriate and more specific targets
no need for apologies, or arguements,
this is a battle with an out of control judiciary,
that is spread throughout our country and is not specific to one region.
Keystone Cops at best, pulezze.
JEB should have pushed them out of the way.
STOP THAT!
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