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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A strong leader gets the job done.
The only strong leader I've seen in this fiasco is the leader of the murderers, Greer.
Thanks for your kind words, and same to you.
A physician called the Mark Davis show on WBAP Dallas today and gave the K level. He also related there was no glucose level on that admission record. Also the bone scan record was read on that show. Apparently those are public somewhere but I do not have a link.
"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."
Apparently the team was not large enough to take on the local police.
This must have been a propaganda ploy to control political damage.
Thanks for the interesting point of view. I've never seen very much on what those in the area think of this story.
You missed the point: the estrangement is the disqualifier. So if a husband wants a say on a sick wife he can't go shack up with another chick and make illegitimate children with her.
This is good law anywhere anytime.
No worse state intrusion than saying you cannot be married to 2 women at the same time.
well.....if you go against it then you pay the consequences...in hindsight we see many things wrong..when you give me your crystal ball, then I may be in agreeance..sorry you had to spoil the story and turn Ole' Jim in.....
That was not directed at you personally.
I know, and I agree. But I draw the line at advocating a Theocracy.
Can't the people on our side ever follow through????? How sickening. Florida State Law Enforcement should have waited for some more troops and headed in to get Terri.
So you admit that what you want him to do is not "uphold the law" (as he has been charged), but to break it.
A lot of us want a legal solution to save Terri Schiavo. I have a Democrat "governor" (Washington state), and I would hate to see her taking the law into her own hands, no matter how strongly she believed something.
Well, I'm still glad I read it.
Did you see this?
it must not since they backed down without a court order. I"m not saying they can't go into places, but not against the courts rulings....
My understanding is that technically, no, it's not "hearsay", because they heard it directly and not from a third party.
It is also apparently admissible in Florida law.
"I'd be backing Bush today big-time if he'd have ordered his men in there and stopped this murder."
Me too.
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