Go F#ck yourself Mr. Cheney

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Wed, 14 Sep 2005 05:53:13 -0400

Go F#ck yourself Mr. Cheney

 

 

 

 

 

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 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 " to talking to " the locals. "

 

" So we grabbed my Canon digital rebel and my Sony videocamera and

started walking down the street, " Marble wrote. " And then right in

front of the destroyed tennis court I used to play on Dick 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 fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney! Go fuck yourself, you

asshole! "

 

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?

 

Marble and his family have been in the media spotlight before,

including his wife, Lisa, and baby, Sofia Grace, who was born shortly

after the storm, on CNN. Marble has also been interviewed in art

magazines and the Biloxi Sun Herald about his concert fund-raisers and

musical success — one of his bands, dR. O, has had at least 20 No. 1

songs on the MP3.com charts.

 

" The truth is even with all our losses, we are still luckier than many

people down here because at least we didn't die, " Marble wrote. " But I

thought I could try to raise some awareness to the bad policies of the

Dubya Gump administration and also possibly raise some money to

replace the many things we lost, and so I decided I would auction the

videotape my friend shot of the event. I will also grant an interview

to the winner if so desired. "

 

So go to eBay here and place a bid for this important video to help

Marble raise some needed funds. I have done so and was at least at one

time the high bidder.

 

Marble also has an Internet site with photographs of some damage in

his town at www.HurricaneKatrinaSucked.com. A photo of him is here,

and you can also email Marble at clone9.

 

Dr. Ben Marble, you rock. May we all return the favor.

 

UPDATE: Late Friday, Sept. 9, and again on Sept. 10 and Sept. 11,

eBay, which is owned by strong Bush-Cheney supporters, took down

Marble's site.

 

Marble said it was because he didn't bleep out the first " fu " of

" fuck, " which he said in an email to me was " pretty silly. " I think

it's a bunch of BS – I did some searches on eBay of profanity they

allow that is not even partially bleeped out and found more than 1,250

items on there with the word " bitch, " more than 400 items on there

with the word " bastard, " more than 60 " go to hell " phrases and even

two " goddamned son of a bitch " items. Yet, they say they won't even

allow " f***. " That's fu****. If you want to complain to an eBay

bigwig, email meg.

 

 

 

The bidding on Marble's second auction was over $1,900 at one time. He

is also considering auctioning off some of his paintings.

 

 

 

New article:

Jackson Thoreau:

 

Donate to help Ben Marble, the physician who lost his home in Katrina

and told off Cheney Ebay has pulled the auction twice, so we'd like to

do more to help the man a lot of our readers are calling a hero.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_jackson__050910_donate_to_help_the_p.htm

 

 

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Jackson Thoreau is a Washington, D.C.-area journalist/writer. The

latest book to which he contributed, Big Bush Lies, was published by

RiverWood Books of Ashland, Ore. He is working on another book called

" Thou Shalt Not Cheat: How Bush and Rove Broke the Rules, From the

Sandlot to the White House. " He can be contacted at jacksonthor.

 

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