And you can bet he wasn’t treated well by either one. While he’s looking through what’s left of his house, a couple goons with M-16s handcuff him for a while to let him know who’s boss. Meanwhile, E-bay removes his photos of the wreckage from his website.
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 for OpEdNews.
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 Dick Cheney to “go fuck 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…
“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.”
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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
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 Dick Cheney to “go fuck 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, who was wearing an old Mr. T “I Pity Da Fool” t-shirt since
he was sifting through the wreckage, asked a couple of police officers
if he and a friend could walk down to Cheney. They told him Cheney was
“looking forward