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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Thank you! I believe I made a better post at #201.
I agree and believe more than ever this is an attempted murder case by MS. It appears he has been shooting up Terri with insulin at times in the past 15 years. Insulin can cause potassium definciency and low blood sugar, heart problems and damage the brain.
SOme of the extreme pro-life crowd won't be happy until there are several killings in order to save this woman... It would be funny if it wasn't so scary.
If you can't see any diffrence between the parties now, I don't know what to say to you. Have YOU been storming the hospice? Remember, we all want "someone" to do "something." Keep praying for Jeb and our leaders to have strength, and keep your faith in God..for HIS will.
When did the Judicial Branch under Reagan decide to kill an innocent woman who should have lived on for decades? Your examples aren't getting any better.
Why are we outmaneuvered? Because we're too damn busy with our golf games, stock portfolios, taking the kids to football, and dreaming of how great the future will be. We have been outmaneuvered, and the fingers of the Commie-'Rat-Nazi Left are around our throats. Complacency kills!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
It's this kind of hyperbolic crap that has started making this place look like DU. And you think I'm not reasonable? ROTFLMAO
SO sorry. Obviously it has no parallels to this situation.
"Was Elian hours from death? Please elaborate on your ability to comprehend the difference between these two cases."
Obviously they're two different cases. Obviously they have similarities in terms of a president having the backing of the pertinent courts in calling out the troops in one case, and we castigated him for it; Bush has no such backing in this casem and now we're demanding he do so.
Please elaborate on your ability to comprehend the difference between these two cases.
I'd like to think that Reagan would have made a personal appearance with a bottle of water in his hand.
I feel sorry for him because he is a man of faith so this is hard for him at all levels.
I share everyone's mounting rage at the horrific torture that is being applied to Terri at the hands of this sadist judge.
But it is really too easy to say what we would do, when we know we don't actually have to do it.
Judge Greer will have his reckoning one day that will dwarf all that mere mortals could possibly devise.
I don't know what he has done. I just know what he is doing now, with the aid of state and federal courts and woefully ignorant and misguided local police officials.
You may be right about backing off at the time. But for many conservatives, he came off terribly foolish and cowardly looking; I doubt he'll do anything in the future politically.
thanks.....as usual I admire your spunk and reasoning in most cases......we are both kind of sarcastic most of the time, and hell, I'm on my 3rd glass of wine so I'm much smarter....LOL.......more handsome, witty, funny too.....haha
I'm with you.
So many people are acting like this is an episode of 'Law and Order'. It's not. I would hate to be in the position the local police are in. This 'Team of State Agents' just showed themselves to be either A. Grandstanding hotdogs who got some free sympathetic press by taking a cheapshot at the local boys, or B. A fanatical flying squad of so-called Christians. Sort of akin to the Religious Police in Saudi Arabia.
Jeb Bush has done everything LAWFUL that he can and he should be commended instead of vilified as some 21st Century Pontius Pilate.
You've summed it up well.
It is a judicial murder, and the judge violated the law by threatening armed force against the executive branch enforcing the law, which is its prerogative.
I believe that Judge Greer should be arrested for interference with law enforcement.
Yep, seems some are playing right into their hands.
Sad on so many levels. Most importantly, is that a woman's life has been put in the hands of the courts by hear-say evidence(thanks to her adulterous so-called husband), and some crooked Judges. WE NEED TO WORK TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM, AND MAKE SURE THE RIGHT JUDGES ARE ELECTED/APPOINTED.
The other is that some are jumping at the chance (almost salivating) to bash Gov. and Pres. Bush, especially after they have done so much to help her.
Prayers continuing for Terri and her Mom, Dad, and siblings.
go ahead.
No, I think you are the one who is going to have to deal with that one. I've been around here long enough to recognize you guys when you invade this site and pretend to be conservatives and pretend to be the religious right. You are such a total characture that you give yourselves away every time.
So she broke the law by calling in the "stormtroopers"? Really?
And now you want to call in the stormtroopers to do the same thing?
"What is it with these brain dead comparisons."
Braindead people like you need to be spoken to in broad comparisons, that's what.
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