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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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Eternal Vigilance. Great to see you've got it right. What a battle that rages on right here!
you really don't need to school me on WWII......I studied it long and hard in ROTC......and I don't condone evil as I see it......so, let me just ask.....are you the judge here of what is evil and what is legal jurisprudence?...if so, pls by all means, tell the Pres, Jeb Bush, and the rest of them.....I stand quilty as charged as a NON-comprehender but they must be as well........I feel much better in their company than the holier than thou crowd here sometimes...see and I did that all without comparison or democratic ideology....see, I guess you just really don't know my form at all.......since you make judgments on limited or what we call small sample population of info
I'm glad I've met a couple of you folks tonight... I was actually starting to wonder if I was going to have vote Libertarian next time around.
I think this entire story reeks of B.S.
C.Y.A., Bush-style.
Thomas Jefferson: "The opinion which gives to the Judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what are not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch."
Thomas Jefferson: "The care of human life and happiness, not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."
The fundamental law of the United States is the Constitution. The President has the sacred duty to uphold the Fifth Amendment, which he swore a sacred oath to uphold.
Likewise, Jeb Bush swore to uphold the constitution of the State of Florida.
I challenge you, if you have the courage, to post Section Two of the latter document here now, and explain to us all why Governor Bush's primary duty is not to protect the life of the innocent citizens of his State.
They seem to have quite the corrupt machine operating there.
That weak attempt was it, it's now officially over.
Anybody remember the movie "Tank"?
Well, for what it's worth: http://www.novaemilitiae.squarespace.com/blogoslovi-nevskis-periodic-mu/2005/3/18/editorial-statement-on-terri-schindler-schiavo-revised-325.html
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haha.....you really are a nut.....extremeist.....hell, yesteday I was called a moderate.....which is probably more close to the truth......extremism does not sit well with those of us that are tolerant, flexible and willing to discuss as opposed to being preached to
Frankly, I think evidence should be compiled of the collusion and fraud in that county using the hospice to wrongfully bill the feds. Then arrest the good ol boys: Greer, Shiavo, and Felos & Rice. Seize and search the hospice. This requires arrest and search warrants. Seems justified to me. Wonder when the media will start to follow the money?
Don't presume to lecture me until you get out of college and spend a couple years in the world, kid.
Pure bull.
There is not one chance in a billion that the Pinellas Park Police, or the Pinellas County Sheriff's Department, will lift a single finger when the State Police roll up.
Just another lie created to fool the naive.
well you just might be right there.....funny that I was raised by about the most Christian people on earth and take it to heart, but somehow I find the extremist views and judgement a bit much for my taste...
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