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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Thanks for the fascinating debate.
"I have been praying for God to guide Jeb. This is agony for him, too."
Finally a voice of sanity. Thank you.
Please knock it off with the spamming. Thanks.
Actually we thought about going to Florida, but I got the flu at the beginning of the week.
I hope Jeb is drawing up the papers tonight, so that when Terry passes, Judge Greer will be tried for a capital crime. Leave plenty of slots open Jeb, there are going to be a lot of co-conspirators.
But I read such nonsense on here that I have to speak up. Yes, the rule of law means something. And yes, the various branches have their own authority. But the judiciary has always been recognized as the arbiter of the law. Once the pitch is thrown, the court is the umpire.
You all forget that the Florida legislature, just like Congress, failed to pass a law to give Jeb some concrete authority to protect Terri. And the governor cannot have state agents brawling or shooting it out with police enforcing a court order. The suggestion is insanity and it would mean a total breakdown in our system of governemnt.
Further, you are all missing the reality that as civil war breaks out in Florida, Terri would not be saved for more than a day or two. Because the legislature, Congress, president, courts and people would NOT support the action and Terri would be starved and Jeb put in prison. The whole scenario is lunacy and Jeb has big ones if he even considered it.
Having said that I think Greer is an ass and the court system insensitive but it was all put in place by the elected representatives of the people.
Me too.
The only parallel I can think of this is where Andrew Jackson defied the Supreme Court to send all the Indians to Oklahoma.
I don't care what the courts say. As Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush is required by his oath to execute their orders after all appeals are filed. He can oppose it personally or resign if he can't do that. If he can just decide to violate an order, then we have a dictatorship and a tyranny which I will not tolerate.
"I'm sure jeb is working on Greer as we speak"
Oh yeah. Like, what's he saying? I'm going to tell on you!!!LOL!!
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
You musta missed on another thread where a poster suggested "we" make sure that we get ahold of her corpse for an autopsy before Michael can cremate her.
Good grief!!
LOL Post Of the Day
Perfect. I can't add to that. Very well done!
" assume you also saw Nurse Trudy, shortly after the dumb cop.........I'll swear that Trudy was about to reveal that she and MS had a fling during her first term of employment at a facility where Terri was during the malpractice trial......"
We saw it and thought the same thing. Trudy is and was single , MS needed some hand holding during a deposition and Trudy said she went with him and waited for him all day-in the car.
Trudy's comments about MS saying he had no idea what Terri would have wanted, because they never discussed it-matched the words of another mutual friend who told H&C that MS would constantly whine, in front of other friends, that he had no idea what Terri would have wanted.
I'm beginning to think that Terri could have made a video saying she would want all efforts exhausted to save her life and Judge Greer would have ruled that she clearly wants to die.
EXACTLY.
And I'm sure that the political ramifications, like re-election and stuff are always at the front of his mind when dealing with teh Shiavo case... yeah. Ok.
I believe that this has probably been harder on Governor Bush than perhaps anyone else involved because of the weight of the authority and the responsibility he is vested with.
That's not the way it should be. Judge Greer should be the one sweating bullets, because he has acted in a manner not only inconsistent with his position as a probate judge but in furtherance of carrying out a foul execution by starvation.
But bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people. In this evening, as Mrs. Schiavo's life draws to a close, my thoughts go out to her. If there is some means left for the executive to save her, then I am hoping beyond all reasonable hope that it will be found soon.
The glee evident in Mr. Felos quote at the end of this story is perhaps the most repugnant thing that I have heard from the Felos/Greer/Schiavo gang, and that's saying a lot. But there is many slip between cup and lip, and perhaps, just perhaps, something good will happen for the victim, Mrs. Schiavo.
Florida has been in a lot of headlines with the word constitutional crisis in it lately though.
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