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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Being condescended to by someone concerned about Christian values is always nice.
If you really believed what you're saying, you would be at the hospice yourself. Why aren't you? Or are you afraid to break a vacant, immoral law?
I love this--now Bush is suddenly not a believer. LOL! Ahhhhh, that's just awesome.
"if Jeb Bush did everything these Freepers wanted"
Everything sounds too many.
The people want Terri freed. Did he also want Terri free? So far, the answer to the latter IS a resounding NO. Had he (or brother Jeb) wanted to free Terri, all they had to do was issue an executive order.
The President or the Governor can are still in time to write an executive order to get Terri into a hospital immediately. It is not breaking any law to do so. This action would not interfere with the judge. And since Greer already flaunted a Congressional subpoena his ruling is highly questionable.
Executive orders are lawful. They've been written by presidents ever since Washington on a number of different issues.
But of course that display is legal today only because it's one in a group of scenes of OTHER, man made, law givers. Can't have that pesky 10 commandments being supreme anymore!!!
I believe it was Rush today who said countries like ours make mistakes, and sometimes very serious ones. Generally the good people eventually straighten them out. For me, both Bushes did all they could, the FL legislature bears most blame, plus the trial judge. A bad blot, bad mistake for our country. But if they go any further, Jeb would be arrested, impeached by his own legislature and Terri would still die anyway. JMO.
So the judge's police were actually going to get into a firefight with Jeb's police over this issue? Sounds like a successful bluff to me.
I can not (other then NAZIs/Fasists) think of a belief system that condones murder. But hey, if murder is moral to you then you should run for county judge.
Terri Schiavo needed Janet Reno to get the job done - the Bushes have no guts!
ah yes......cowards and traitors....name calling is so effective......well go watch the polls tomorrow...you'll see the nation is not on your side.....they don't want Terri to die but they don't want the feds meddling in the state or family affairs in this nature.....really, just look at the national polls....something over 65% say that they believe, as horrible as it is, is the right thing to do......no need to flame me for being the messanger
You're right. The good guys blinked first.
Chivalry is dead. We'll save the lady in distress as long as it is not raining.
But of course I did nothing too.
How come you can see the injustice of the order of no food or water by mouth,and I can see it, and everyone except a few deatocrats but all the appellate judged can't see it,and say, well this is beyond the pail, her lawyers need to go back to school,but we will use "an equitable remedy"(real legal principle) and let her have a shot at swallowing a few sips of water,on the off chance that she could.
The more the judges at State and federal level especially SCOTUS refuse to grant that remedy,the more you really have to believe that they have an agenda:ie.Warning shot to those who want to tell the robes what to do.
Mayberry is the town featured on the Andy Griffith show. The case in question is Marbury v Madison.
my solution.....is to practice "acceptance", pray on the matter, follow the laws of the land and change any existing laws we don't like......before you flame me, the rest of the gov't in their wisdom or ignorance is doing the same thing.......
So ou are cool with straving a defenseless woman to death huh. How nice for you
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