Report: Jeb Sent Agents to Rescue Terri

News Max ^ | March 26, 2005 | News Max Wire

[Cherokee Conservative]

This really brings home how powerful our judiciary is. State agencies, governors, our elected government are powerless to do anything. The courts basically have their own police force available to enforce their will. No matter how you feel about the Schiavo case, all you need to do is insert another issue that you are concerned about and imagine the same situation. Or apply it to history. Had they had activist judges during the Civil Rights movement, and had they been unanimous in their opinion against civil rights for blacks, we would have been powerless to affect change. The same can happen with euthanasia, assisted suicide, homosexuality, and the list goes on. The judicial crisis is real.

I appologize if this has been posted, I did search for it but couldn't find it.

[expatguy]

Im still waiting for the Omnipotent Judge Greer to issue a "court order" stating that Terri Schiavo goes to Heaven.

[Cherokee Conservative]

LOL! Did you hear that Greer's Baptist church asked him to leave?

[NorCalRepub]

funny you couldn't find it.....there was a 1,000+ post thread last night precisely on this same issue

[Diogenesis]

SSDD @ the Hospice Woodside, Florida

[Cherokee Conservative]

I already apologized. I did look. I can grovel and beg forgiveness if you'd like.

[Taggart_D]

This really brings home how powerful our judiciary is.

No...this really brings home how WEAK the republicans are. In the words of JR Ewing...."Real power is not given....IT'S TAKEN!"

[ViLaLuz]

The Govenor of Florida ALLOWS the judicial branch to be most powerful because he won't stand up to them.

The judges have been able to get away with things just like this because no one has the courage to push them back into their place.

[kenth]

Chief law enforcement officer in the state backs down from a probate judge and county law enforcement. Jeb wimped out.

[1 spark]

Me thinks somebody doth protest too much: From the article:

"Apparently, the only showdown occured over the telephone."

and...

"In the meantime, "there were two sets of law enforcement officers facing off, waiting for the other to blink," an unnamed official told the paper.

[Taggart_D]

Amen!

[Cherokee Conservative]

I'm not diagreeing with you at all, but what should Republicans do to fight back other than demand up or down votes on judges. I wish they could force the judges to follow the law rather than make it up as they go, but not sure what they can do in the immediate?

[1 spark]

...hence this propaganda piece that there was a showdown.

[B.O. Plenty]

This don't make any sense to me.....Jeb Bush is the most powerful person in Florida. There is something else going on here. You can't tell me that Gov Bush....the commander in chief of the Florida nationl guard and the chief executive of Florida could not have ordered the state police to stand down.

If it is as you say, and the judges have an enforcement arm of their own that even the Governor will not take on, then we are truly in deep chicken fat trouble.

Governor Bush....if you are lurking, or have people lurking....you had better get your power back....and do it quick. These are the things that real revolutions are made of.

[Squantos]

Is not a Sheriff still the highest authority in a county ?

[Mad Mammoth]

Governor Bush....if you are lurking, or have people lurking....you had better get your power back....and do it quick. These are the things that real revolutions are made of.

Too late. Governor Greer's staff will be in Tallahassee next week taking measurements for new drapes in the Governor's Mansion.

Jeb might as well go play golf until the end of his 'official' term, for all the authority he has left is illusory.

Watch how the rest of the Florida state government bureaucracy treats Jeb now. He'll be lucky to even get those slobs to return his phonecalls.

[yldstrk]

Bunch of wusses.

[Finalapproach29er]

This is propaganda. Pat Moynahan called it "boob bait for the Bubba's". Results matter, not intentions.

He trembles in fear of some state judge.

He's made his decision, and shown that deferring to a judge is of the highest priority. The Bushes won't take on the establishment because they ARE the establishment.

Darn shame.

[MHGinTN]

I do wish folks would stop making apologetcis for little Jeb ... he was so impotent. He asked Greer's permission before sending anyone out into the swamp to rescue Terri. That is real leadership, don'tcha think? Greer told the boy to sit down and shut up until the real power in Florida was finished exercising their muscles executing a disabled, abused woman for the heinous crime of inconvenience ... and Jeb was a good boy and sat down and did nothing more than whine excuses of how the courts wouldn't let him play governor for this issue.

[yldstrk]

Never trust the medical community.