Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Cheney's words come back to haunt him.

A blast from the past.. Remember Hurricane Katrina and this guy:

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 f*ck yourself", that's the least we can do.

When he, like thousands of others, lost his home due to Hurricane Katrina, it was the single most traumatic week of his life.


As Marble explains, he was driving to his destroyed house Thursday 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 explains. "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 talk 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 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 f*ck yourself, Mr. Cheney! Go f*ck yourself, you asshole!"

"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 his former house. As they were salvaging a few things from Marble's home, two police waving M-16's showed up and said they were looking for someone who fit my 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."



And here is the video:

2 comments:

KittyBowTie1 said...

Right. He had not broken the law. It was free speech, and it was not being broadcast during Super Bowl halftime.

I said something similar to a dude with a congressional license plate a while back. The dude passed me illegally in a no passing zone in a school zone, when the speed limit was only supposed to be 20 m.p.h., and there were kids on the sidewalk. Fortunately, the guy got caught by the traffic light, had his window rolled down, and I caught up. I said, "Don't you know that's a school zone? You don't pass people in a school zone like that." When he motioned for me to shut up, that's when I got mad. I asked him, "Are you an ass hole?" I asked him a question. It was free speech. When the light turned green, he took off like I scared the living hell out of him.

SP Biloxi said...

I asked him, "Are you an ass hole?" I asked him a question.

And cats like you need a good timeout in the garage! LOL! And I hope I don't bump into you on the highways. ;O