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Police 'Showdown' Averted ['Team of State Agents Were En Route to Seize Terri']
Miami Herald ^ | Sat, Mar. 26, 2005 | CAROL MARBIN MILLER

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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To: Fitzcarraldo

Personally I think that his nursing studies were a good story to get a bigger award in damages.
Once anurse with the award in his pocket,he may well have come upon the plan to do that.
I believe there is the affidavit of the nurse that found an insulin syringe in the wastebasket of Terri's room,an injection marks on her body and Terri very lethargic and sweaty. She reported it to the police and was fired promptly.
Why the police did not investigat further is beyond me but the way this is playing out,this is very unsettling.


401 posted on 03/25/2005 9:12:54 PM PST by northernlightsII
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To: Antoninus
Wake up. We already have a dictatorship. The judges run this country.

No, we don't. You are forgeting that the legislative branch could simply eliminate that court if they wanted to do so. And I think this is more of a case of a "Bad Law", which ties everyone up until the legislature fixes it.

402 posted on 03/25/2005 9:13:13 PM PST by KillBill
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To: NorCalRepub

You do not know what would have happened. You have a situation where everyone is armed and tempers are short and emotion is high. Also the Pinellas Police have a huge stake in continuing the coverup. They do not want to lose their sixty grand a year plus benefits for disobeying Felos-Greer-Rice-Michael Schiavo's orders. One gun misfire could have caused mayhem.


403 posted on 03/25/2005 9:14:05 PM PST by samantha (relax, and cheer up the adults are in charge)
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To: ni4ni
Welcome to Free Republic ni4ni. We are all angry and frustrated. As a Christian I have felt the profound symbolism of Terri's fate on Good Friday. I feel for Jeb Bush who has been cast in the role of Pontius Pilate against his wishes. I feel for Mother Mary who is forced to watch helplessly as the authorities kill her child in a ruthless way. And the crowd of 60% are screaming crucify her. My husband had a powerful Good Friday service tonight using the 7 final utterances of Christ on the cross. When he got to "I thirst", I lost it because I instantly thought of Terri.

BTW (by the way), you did just fine with your post. Hang around and you will soon learn all the tricks. Free Republic is one of the few places where conservatives can really speak their minds. Of course that is why it is sometimes messy, but most of the time we manage to pull together and get things done. Keep remembering that God is in control. Who knows what Terri's death will accomplish? I strongly suspect that it will change a lot of things. And those who killed her will answer to God.

404 posted on 03/25/2005 9:14:11 PM PST by WVNan
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To: West Coast Conservative

Greer allegedly raised one of the biggest war chests ever in a judicial campaign with contributions over $144,000.

The contributors included members of the Michael Schiavo legal team, Hamden Baskin III, $500; Deborah Bushnell, $250; Felos and Felos of which lead Schiavo attorney George Felos is a principal, $250; Gynethe S. Stanley, $150 and $250; Steven Nilsson, $250 and $250.

The maximum contribution allowed by an individual is $500.

Felos is also the former chairman of the board of the Hospice of Florida Suncoast, owners and operators of the Woodside Hospice where Terri resides although not in a terminal illness—not terminal except by the judicial homicide decree of Judge Greer. Felos resigned his position after he and Michael Schiavo were successful several years ago in having her moved there. Although the recipient of over $1.5 million from medical malpractice claims including $750,000 earmarked for the rehabilitation of his wife, Michael Schiavo asked Greer to place Terri on Medicaid and Greer approved. Schiavo and his fiancé each drive Mercedes sedans and reside in an above average home with their two children.

Also contributing to keep Greer in office and on the Schiavo case were Kay Dillinger, $250, wife of Bob Dillinger, the Pinellas County public defender who allegedly violated state statutes by allowing employees of his office, assistant Paula Shea, and the prestige of the office to be used in Greer’s campaign in Greer’s political TV commercial; James Hellickson, $150, assistant state attorney from the office of Bernie McCabe, state attorney of Pasco/Pinellas Counties who has stonewalled any investigation of alleged criminal wrongdoing in the Schiavo case including the DCF investigation;


405 posted on 03/25/2005 9:14:13 PM PST by bluebeak
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To: Fitzcarraldo

"I agree. There should be enough to put a halt to this."

There is - for a person of courage. I wish (PRAY) there was someone who had that attribute.

I am sickened.


BB62


406 posted on 03/25/2005 9:14:23 PM PST by BB62
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To: Fitzcarraldo

Yes, admission K level was 2.something. Exogenous Insulin in large dose causes decrease in K level too.


407 posted on 03/25/2005 9:14:31 PM PST by Hattie
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To: KillBill
You are forgeting that the legislative branch could simply eliminate that court if they wanted to do so...

Nope, Judge Greer would issue an injunction against his court being eliminated, and that would be the end of that.

408 posted on 03/25/2005 9:14:51 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Fudd Fan; snowsislander

You are welcome. Sometimes when we are angry we lash out at our nearest and dearest because we hope and expect they will save us. Many of us have done LESS than Governor Bush - we are just all haertsick at our impotence. And this situation reminds us rudely of how astray our country has gone. The flip side of which is we asked to be God's hands, NOW we have our assignment.


409 posted on 03/25/2005 9:14:57 PM PST by Libertina (Hey temporary Governor Christine Gregoire - don't get too comfortable in that mansion!)
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To: Darkwolf377

I disagree with you. I know Randy personally and you have painted a wrong picture of him.


410 posted on 03/25/2005 9:15:10 PM PST by Daisy4
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To: hocndoc
How many gun shots and gun shot wounds would it have taken for you to be satisfied?

What a stupid question.

The Governor sent in agents who met local police. The only recourse was to shoot or back down.

The chance they would have shot is close to nil. It's a chance the governor should have taken and to make sure it was nil, he should have shown up in person and offered himself for arrest if they dared to try and stop him. What do you think the local cops would have done in that situation? You're right, they would have stood aside.
411 posted on 03/25/2005 9:15:10 PM PST by Antoninus (In hoc signo, vinces †)
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To: carl in alaska

I've been battling old Solomon all night with his holier than thou attitude.....he seems to just want to "chuck" the law for some reason.......


412 posted on 03/25/2005 9:15:47 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: NorCalRepub
every damned court ruled agains them, like it or not, they have followed their due course....my opinion is not on her death on this thread but what others are willing to do.......and asking the cops or whatever no to enforce the law is just too far out for me

The court are no longer lawful or legitimate. They have proven themselves to mere a bunch of goons wearing black robes.
413 posted on 03/25/2005 9:15:53 PM PST by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: GarySpFc
Tonight I saw the sheriff on Fox News. The woman, not lady, answered Gretta's quesions with very simple answers, and appeared to have an IQ of 80. Okay, maybe her's was 85. The sheriff only has one brain cell,And it's stuck on stupid!
414 posted on 03/25/2005 9:15:57 PM PST by Boazo (From the mind of BOAZO)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Jeb Bush just fumbled this ... he should have never held the press conference ... he was asking for the judge to tell him not to do something.


415 posted on 03/25/2005 9:15:59 PM PST by bluebeak
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To: billbears

Re: 368,

I just hope you brought plenty of popcorn, cos' it isn't going to end with Terri's demise. Wait until the battle over her remains begins...

Aside from that, my greatest fear is that some instigators will infiltrate the crowd outside the hospice, and with insuing violence, Jeb has to call out the NG...


416 posted on 03/25/2005 9:16:35 PM PST by LRS
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To: northernlightsII
believe there is the affidavit of the nurse that found an insulin syringe in the wastebasket of Terri's room,an injection marks on her body and Terri very lethargic and sweaty.

Another freeper pointed out that insulin overdose can cause potassium deficiency (hypokalemia). We've heard that the initial cause of Terri's heart failure was potassium, which has been explained by bulemia.

I have been cross-posting a snippet of a court case where the murder weapon used was insulin in the hopes that some medical experts would think this out some more.

417 posted on 03/25/2005 9:17:22 PM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: bluebeak

Did you know in FL, if an attorney contributes to certain campaigns they get "in kind" reciprical work via court appointed cases?

Contribute $500 to Judge X and you will get a court appointed case to cover the contribution and at least and additional one as a "thank you."


418 posted on 03/25/2005 9:17:34 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Who should I believe knows more about the job - MTOrlando, or Governor Bush? Answer me honestly, please.

What about the Thomas Moore Law Center that Jeb requested guidance on this issue? They wrote him back and provided evidence that he did have the authority.

419 posted on 03/25/2005 9:17:43 PM PST by nunya bidness
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To: JonDavid
Better to know this now & not in 2008 or 2012.

Amen to that.
420 posted on 03/25/2005 9:18:03 PM PST by Antoninus (In hoc signo, vinces †)
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