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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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Tancredo would send state police in to save Terri.
Jeb Wont.
The guy's nowhere near that important. He's a county probate judge, about a step above a Justice of the Peace - a position that typically doesn't even require a law degree.
Greer's a nobody who is doggedly trying to be a somebody. What's funny is that the somebodies are letting him kick them around. He has now stuck his tongue out at the President, the Governor, Congress, pretty much everyone. The courts go along with him because, well, they're all attorneys wearing black robes too - they like the idea of being in control. So they won't jam him up.
If a few insubordinate county deputies want to hold off the State Police and disregard an order to stand down by the Chief Executive of the State, I'm saying you can go all the way down the continuum. In the end the govenor has both the authority and the man power to put an end to any of the nonsense going on there.
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My gut instinct tells me Greer has overplayed his hand here and the Bush brothers & GOP will crush that little a##hole within the next two years. Greer is miscalculating how America and the GOP will react to this case and I think a day will come when he greatly regrets his decisions in this case.
Because we don't live in a world where individual governors get to do everything they think is right, even when doing so violates the law. It not only would be wrong, it wouldn't work. Jeb would not be governor and Terri would be starved. And Jeb doesn't have all that much moral authority to do something when the damn republican legislature failed to pass supporting legislation.
Yep, and Terri's still dead.
Actually it would be an interesting constitutional question as it pertains to Florida's constitution. I have to admit ignorance to Florida's constitution but the case for this issue on a national level has flip flopped several times in the history of this nation of states, in that the executive has ignored the judiciary and the judiciary has overridden the executive. But I don't think I've ever heard of it happen at the internal state level. It would be those forces following the will of Florida's state judicial system versus Florida's executive branch. It seems currently the executive branch is not willing to supersede the judicial branch's ruling but it would have been a historical event and something to see
Go pout with your self-righteousness. No one is stopping you from expressing your lack of knowledge. Just don't expect any kind of serious debate when all you offer is hotheadedness and no evidence of knowing the facts.
I read it, just what you wrote!
Good observation. Brother W comes more brom the outspoken Barbara side.
I see sarcasm is lost on you.
You cannot possibly be as fatalistic and negative as you write. Do you have credentials to run the state or the country? I thought not. Most all of us are really down and upset about Terri,but we do not try to blame anyone that is handy to lame. Try to think what you will feel like if you read your post a year from now.
What? And miss out on all the fun that everyone else is having by being hysterical? Bite your tongue...
And I'm sure you do, but where does our obligation end here? Does it end before death? I think not.
I will continue to voice my opinion that murder is being perpetrated in Florida, and that it is wrong. I don't care who says it's okay to commit murder, it isn't.
This is like some Orwellain nightmare, where up is now down, light is now dark, death is now good, and life is unsupportable.
You're obviously practiced at the postings. But thanks for the prayers.
No, actually, I've read her posts, and have found her to be sincere, intelligent, and informed. Can you say the same?
I have many family members and friends who have served our country. Some died for our freedoms. Can you say the same?
I believe in Conservative and Christian beliefs, and our elected officials abiding by the laws of our country until they can be changed... even though the laws set forth by some Liberal judges may seem repugnant to me. Can you say the same?
I'm still praying for Terri and her Mom, Dad, and siblings....CAN YOU SAY THE SAME?
Bravo
I concur with your assesment (as well as the smidgen of sarcasm you leveled it with).
I'll tell you what, if folks like Randall Terry are convinced that the November election gave them a mandate, they're going to be very surprised.
There are a lot more conservative moderates and even atheists who feel mighty uncomfortable with theological radicals declaring what's in effect, a freaking holy war, advocating violence and condemning a duly ELECTED official, who has a responsibilty to uphold the law.
Jeb Bush may have to hold his nose over this, but, unlike demogogues and rabble rousers like Randall Terry and his ilk, he has to work within the system.
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