Earlier, I called Fox News' Josh Gibson's suggestion out for what it was--a fascist call to action to replace the government of laws which this nation has enjoyed for centuries with a naked appeal to power without regard for law.
It seems Jeb took him up on it. From the Miami Herald (Registration Required):
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."
We are a nation of laws. We must remain a nation of laws.
Hat tip: Talking Points Memo.
Update: 4:53 PM, Sat. March 26: Knight-Ridder Report on same incident.