OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion: "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?"
I had heard somewhat about this, Hood; but I hadn't heard all of THESE details! Thank you for sharing them! I add, and a MAN who didn't break any laws is handcuffed (of course as intimidation and a veiled threat warning)! That is an arrest; and, under the law in most States, once they make an arrest, they have to take you into full custody, and to Booking if not an actual jail cell! It sounds like these guys agree with the Good Doctor, and didn't like what they were ordered to do; and they probably didn't do ALL that they were supposed to do, like ruff him up (or actually, if he hadn't been a doctor and lost his home, he probably would have been ruffed up---and who knows what else)! In fact, those goons probably got in some kind of trouble for not thoroughly humiliating Marble. What a MAN of rock-hard marble! I say, good for him that he spoke up and expressed what all of us who have any brains are feeling! Right on, Doc! And right on to you too, Hood!
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