Police 'Showdown' Averted ['Team of State Agents Were En Route to Seize Terri']

Miami Herald ^ | Sat, Mar. 26, 2005 | CAROL MARBIN MILLER

[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.

[Antoninus]

The pro-murder side of the Republican party is execrable. Why should I continue to support a party that welcomes this evil?

You shouldn't. But you should give generously to those Republicans who stood up to be counted on the side of LIFE. Rick Santorum is one.

Personally, I'm done giving to the "GOP Senatorial campaign committee" and similar party-wide organizations. The RINOs need to have their feeding tubes pulled (if you'll pardon the expression).

[MTOrlando]

Anybody remember the movie "Tank"?

Now THAT is an idea!

These guys are selling Soviet T-34s pretty cheap.

[northernlightsII]

Its not that simple it is never that simple.
And if you check US history there have been moments where the facts were such as to necessitate ignoring the written law to uphold the moral law.

[politicket]

Zechariah 8:16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor;

Please expand on your premise because I'm not sure what point you're trying to drive home...

[EternalVigilance]

Those who ignore the Bill of Rights and Section Two of the Florida constitution, and kill helpless women through starvation and thirst, are the extremists, in fact.

[NorCalRepub]

hey, there are many of us in fact the majority that think kind of the same.........but when the crap starts flying alot of them dont' bother sticking around for the fight cause it is just not worth it and let those "other guys" discuss and rant among themselves.......if it wasn't for us, they would get rusty.

[northernlightsII]

I agree,I thought that DCF was bringing a new motion based on new info.
However the content of the order enjoining sherifs and state troopers from followind an order by JB is clearly outside his jurisdiction.

[nopardons]

You are just plain old nuts. Enjoy your delusions,because you are going to be quite shocked on your day of judgment. ;^)

[Regulator]

But Doesn't Bush need the attorney general to do this. Isn't he a problem?

Yeah, he probably does. And I don't know about him.

There are a lot of markers being called in right now. Bush needs a friendly state court judge, a good line with the AG. He needs his people, so he can fight back.

Don't know what the guy is doing along those lines. Every politico needs allies. He better get his guys together quick and get on with the battle. Basically his political life hangs in the balance.

[Just mythoughts]

"Christ had told them explicitly that he had to be captured. Note that He did *not* tell Peter he was wrong to have a sword! (In fact earlier Jesus told him that it was a suitable weapon.) So in that case, Peter was wrong because of explicit revelation otherwise.

God has NOT told us explicitly that Terri has to be held in the hell-clutches until she dies. Only those who want to be complacent in the time of evil."


Really, you think we in the flesh should receive better treatment than Christ did. Terri has served to let the world know who supports starvation, while claiming her to be dead. Christ fasted 40 days and then was tempted by the devil, and note what the devil offered Christ.

You don't think this has not exposed the godless leftists that serve the system of "we are gods", which is how we got in this mess in the first place. There are plenty of fingers to point the blame and I'm sorry tooooo many Christians have gone to sleep and are equally to blame.


How many know what soul even means? It means 'breathe of life', now shouldn't Christians be doing some teaching about what courts and men and their scans are ignorant of.

Matthew 10:28 and FEAR not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather FEAR Him Which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Somebody is supposed to be doing some killing.

[nopardons]

Then you don't know scripture at all,sweetums. :-)

[Orlando]

theater of operation.
Bring our troops home.
We can-not win anymore when the nation have no soul, or mercy for one child. We need to perpare our soul,spirit,and mind to God. I think God will response to this. I feel like all this was/is a nightmare dream, and I can't wake-up from it, because it's SO HORRORABLE and COLD-BLOODED. I never cryed so much and I am surpose to be a hard-core vet....

I am sorry, i feel sick,sick to see our new nazi america.
lord, GOD...don't let this happen no more, please..remember us, and protect us when the angel breaks the final seal.
amen

[EternalVigilance]

Why should I continue to support a party that welcomes this evil?

I can't give you a good reason now.

[k2blader]

Thanks for the reply!

And yes, Santorum definitely did take a stand on the side of Life. I confess I'm still a tad put off by his support for arch-RINO Specter, but this issue counts for more.

[DoughtyOne]

Excerpt of my comments in post 320. I just don't see how we can kill a woman, who with food and water will keep on living.

Your response in 339. see.....I actually agree totally with your sentiment on the issue.....I really do......but when we have exhausted our resources, then we also must practice "acceptance" and leave it now in God's hands.....


Now. You tell me who is attributing what is happening to Terry as evil? You said you agreed that Terry should not be killed. Evidently you must think it's evil too, so don't throw out that crap about me "trying to be" the sole judge here. That's B.S. and you know it.

[politicket]

You are just plain old nuts. Enjoy your delusions,because you are going to be quite shocked on your day of judgment. ;^)

What kind of a debate style is that? I want to hear specifically why you think that he is nuts. And please make sure to base it on something other than your individual opinion.....scripture would be nice.

[Flamenco Lady]

It was my understanding that Jeb was assisting DCF, not that he had a separate motion all on his own. Is this not correct?

[jpsb]

I have read numerious references to "relegious right wing nuts" and such so I will pose again a question unaswered

name a belief system other then NAZI/Communists that condones the murder of innocents? This is not a Christan vrs good old boy Repubs, this is a good vrs evil as EVERY belief system (Except the afore mentioned) in the world defines good and evil.

[politicket]

Then you don't know scripture at all,sweetums. :-)

Oh...that was BRILLIANT! Such in-depth commentary, you must debate at Oxford?

[Just mythoughts]

""Zechariah 8:16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor;""


"Please expand on your premise because I'm not sure what point you're trying to drive home..."


TRUTH is what? where does one get TRUTH from? Nothing in here about spilling blood in the streets now is there. Christ is TRUTH and that is what Christians are to be doing, the Parable of the Sower lays it out plainly and simply.