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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Thank you! I might've used something a bit more colorful, such as a common euphemism for the Droppings of a Male Bovine, but 'Nonsense' works for me, too.
your conclusion and premise are wrong, misguided and a passive/agressive attempt to insult me.....sorry, it has no effect....maybe on FR the majority see this as murder, the majority of the country does not......sorry about that
"God knew, and knows, what will happen to Terri. He allows it to happen through no understanding of our own. That does not take away the responsibility of Christians to pray and ask God to intervene in the events taking place if it be His will."
That is correct and pointing fingers of blame is really more about God not doing what people have been praying for God to do. So think about it, obviously there is a larger lesson to be learned than about saving Terri's flesh body.
She could very well be a good and worthy servant sent by the Heavenly Father for people to make their choices.
The governor doesn't need the state police to rescue death row inmates. All he needs is a pen to sign the pardon.
BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All this swagger and bluster is B.S. It's safe sitting at the keyboard typing what OTHER'S should do.....in the name of God, no less.
"Everyone else is doing it."
Yeah, that's telling 'em. *LOL*
And the majority of people who are throwing out all kinds of ridiculous statements,such as "I'll NEVER vote for Jeb now", never voted for him to begin with,since they live in every place BUT Florida !
Pinellas County is made up of retired northern union members who are as liberal as they come.
I graduated from Pinellas Police Academy in '74. Well over 2/3 of enrollees were from northern departments.
Massachusetts and New Jersey were the most arrogant libs!
That has less than NOTHING whatsoever to do with the Shaivo case.
The pro-murder side is pretty good at trying to tell other people what to do, yep.
This puts Jeb Bush's part in a different perspective.
Obviously you can't have this erupt into a shooting war.
(I would still have brought up the Guard and the tanks and dared them to take the first shot.)
But I want to know the name of the mayor or county executive who allowed Judge "Adolf Eichmann" Greer to turn his police into Nazi concentration camp guards? You cannot hide behind "just following orders."
Maybe it WAS worth a fight. 65 or 145 years ago there probably would have been. The Civil War proved that if it were a state versus the federal government, the federal government would not have been turned back.
IOW, "Oink Oink"
I pray they will repent quickly. Just love you tagline BTW. That explains a lot of why the foolish just seem to get more and more foolish!!
Bingo. It's frightening to behold this. By read some of the comments, you'd swear that some of these people have come to hate Jeb Bush more than Sadam or Osama. The blame game is being played with hate and frenzy.
I think we're hearing the usual wing nuts on this subject. Others, I think, are trying to process this in awkward ways. I'm trying to give everyone a break here.
But of course, you wouldn't engage in ad hominem attacks.
For someone "posessing" intelligence so superior to mine, you ought to learn how to spell. Do that, then come back and insult me some more...m'kay? Moron.
but you are placing yourself in the position of judging what God thinks about Bush and using bible verses to substantiate what you wrote to darkwolf earlier....how do you know anyone turned their back to God, and yes the Pres is sworn to uphold the law of the land....yes, Christ did say that his law was supreme.....he also said render on to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's.....we can taught and led by the principles of the bible but sometimes they do not translate well in matters with mutiple sides in this complex society....saying "do what God would have us do".....is simply not the best answer always in an ordered society....
Case closed! :-)
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