The Banana Republic of Pinellas Park, check out this article

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11233240.htm

Police 'showdown' averted

BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER

cmarbin@herald.com

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.

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much more to read..... 3 hour gap in time almost led FDLE to seize TS.

The state has a truly incompetent state government: they don't know how to run elections, their child welfare agency has been a mess for years, their public schools are overcrowding and their politicians are more interested in grandstanding than doing anything productive.

from the Elian one? Answer that, all lurking Freeptards! When it is YOUR cause, the tactics you supposedly denounce are suddenly OK? Mark another point on the Rightwing Hypocrisy Scorebook.

There's one big difference.

That Kid was sent back to his Father.

a Court Order, not carrying one out as was the case with Elian.

(Can I answer even though I'm not a lurking Freeptard?)

And I agree with both you and GGM. I was trying to predict what the Freeps would say (They were/and still are bitching about the Elian thing. Only in this Schiavo case, I bet most of them were solidly cheering the Agents who went to "rescue" Terri, see?). It is a consistent pattern with the Rightwing. Everything that they claim is deplorable, they applaud when it serves their purpose.

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DCF INTENTIONS

According to sources, DCF intended to take Schiavo to Morton Plant Hospital, where her feeding tube had been reinserted in 2003 following a previous judicial order allowing its removal. But hospice officials were aware that the hospital was not likely to perform surgery to reinsert the tube without an order from Greer.

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Due to changes in law, FDLE is directly under Jeb's control. I think it is highly unlikely they set out to do this independently, but rather did so under his orders, or at most a "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?" kinda situation.

:(

Pinellas Park (where I live) isn't the Banana Republic in this case. According to the article, the police here were ready to take a stand against the lawlessness of the State.

I should have excluded PP from that characterization. My apologies.

time over in Pinellas County (have lots of friends there still)...I recall having to drive west on Hillsborough to the county line on Sundays because Hills County didn't allow beer sales. There was a little 7-11 right about Racetrack road that did a land-office biz on Sundays. :D
Never had a problem with the Pin. Co. sheriff people. Tampa cops were pricks back then though...;-)

I'd always thought of Pinellas Park as a sort of a country/redneck stronghold. It is next to St. Petersburg, where I live. So you have this Florida judge and local police standing up to FDLE and the governor.