Can you imagine telling Adolf Hitler to go ***** himself and
getting it on video tape? The tape would be worth _millions_.
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Physician who told Cheney to go F*ck Himself Lost his Home in Katrina,
Detained, Cuffed by Cheney's M-16-carrying Goons
by Jackson Thoreau
http://www.opednews.com
Dr. Ben Marble, a young emergency room physician who plays in alternative
rock bands and does art on the side, needs our help. Since he was the one
who told ***** Cheney to "go ***** yourself" on Sept. 8, that's the least we
can do.
Marble is a complex guy, to say the least. Some of the lyrics he writes can
be considered harsh by some - personally what I've heard is very much on
target - but he has a softer side as an organizer of breast cancer
fund-raisers, not to mention an ER doctor.
When he, like thousands of others, lost his home due to Hurricane Katrina
last week, it was the single most traumatic week of his life. That led to
his Sept. 8 confrontation with the man who best represents the worst of the
most callous, heartless, shittiest administration in U.S. history.
As Marble explains, he was driving to his destroyed house Sept. 8 in
Gulfport, Ms., when military police refused to allow him to cross a
barricade that was about 200 feet from his home. They forced him to drive
an extra 20 minutes and spend even more on gasoline.
"Thanks to Dubya Gump and Mr. Cheney, gas is really expensive and extremely
hard to get anywhere Katrina has destroyed," Marble wrote. "So needless to
say, I was extremely aggravated that they wouldn't let me pass."
Suddenly a long line of dark cars pulled up, and they honked at Marble to
back up to let them through the barricade that supposedly no one could
drive through. That only made Marble madder so he did what most of us would
do - or at least consider doing.
"I waved a middle finger at the caravan," Marble wrote.
After driving the extra 20 minutes and filming video of destruction along
the way, he made it to his home. Marble overheard a neighbor say that
Cheney was down the street talking to people. That's when he got the idea
to go meet Dr. Evil himself.
"I am no fan of Mr. Cheney because of several reasons," Marble wrote. "For
those who don't know, Mr. Cheney is infamous for telling Senator [Pat]
Leahy 'go fu** yourself' on the Senate floor. Also, I am not happy about
the fact that thousands have died due to the slow action of FEMA, not to
even mention the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time, i.e.
Iraq."
So Marble asked a couple police officers if he and a friend could walk down
to Cheney. They told him Cheney was "looking forward" to talking to "the
locals."
"So we grabbed my Canon digital rebel and my Sony video camera and started
walking down the street," Marble wrote. "And then right in front of the
destroyed tennis court I used to play on ***** Cheney was giving a pep
rally, talking to the press. The Secret Service guys patted us down and
waved the wands over us, and then let us pass."
As he stood about 10 feet away from Cheney and his friend and some camera
operators from CNN and other media filmed the scene, Marble suddenly
yelled, "Go ***** yourself, Mr. Cheney! Go ***** yourself, you *****!"
Hey, at least Marble was polite. After all, he referred to Cheney as "Mr.
Cheney."
"I had no intention of harming anyone but merely wanted to echo Mr.
Cheney's infamous words back at him," Marble wrote. "At that moment, I
noticed the Secret Service guys with a panic-stricken look on their faces,
like they were about to tackle me, so I calmly walked away back to my
former house."
His friend videotaped a little bit longer and then came back to Marble's
house. As they were salvaging a few things from Marble's home, two military
police waving M-16's showed up and said they were looking
for someone who fit Marble's description who had cursed at Cheney.
"I told them I was probably the person they were looking for, and so they
put me in handcuffs and 'detained' me for about 20 minutes or so," Marble
wrote. "My right thumb went numb because the cuffs were on so tight, but
they were fairly courteous and eventually released me after getting all my
contact info. They said I had NOT broken any laws so I was free to go."
So let's get this straight: A physician with a newborn baby loses most
everything he owns in the hurricane, does what most of us WANT to do and
"echoes" Cheney's words he spoke on the Senate floor last year, walks away
harmlessly, mission accomplished, and then once the media cameras leave, he
is treated like a foreign terrorist as Cheney's goons waving M-16s handcuff
him in front of his destroyed home? Had it not been for the media cameras
filming the initial scene, I doubt Cheney's goons would have just let
Marble go after 20 minutes.
America, land of the free?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_jackson__050909_physician_who...
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