A squadron of law enforcement agents and chainsaw-wielding contractors descended on a suburban Boca Raton home Friday, destroying a healthy ruby red grapefruit tree whose owners had attempted to save it from Florida’s citrus canker eradication program by citing the Geneva Convention... ...Barry Silver, the Gersteins’ attorney. “The only safe place for citrus in Florida is on a license plate.” Silver added, “This citrus eradication program will end when there’s no more privately owned citrus in South Florida. That’s the Department of Agriculture’s goal. They’re not trying to eradicate canker, they’re trying to eradicate private trees.”