ONE SMALL ACT OF HEROISM... FOR MANKIND
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OK, imagine someone really smart, maybe a bit eccentric, but brilliant like Einstein, comes up to you and explains that he has a time travel machine and he needs a volunteer. You can go back in time and you'll know everything then that you know now. Hmmm... some good bets could be placed... Anyway, you're in an expansive mood and you go for it. The machine is built for 1928 and its going to land you in Germany. You're going to know something no one else in the whole world (then) knows-- that Hitler is soon going to be directly responsible for the deaths of something like 30 million men, women and children. And Professor Brilliant-Like-Einstein has put a mighty advanced weapon in your pocket as a goodbye present. (It was a one-way trip.) What would you do? What would you do even if you were certain to get caught (and killed) if you used that advanced weapon to stop the right-wing maniac from wreaking havoc on the world?
I don't know anyone with a time travel machine. But the other day we were all introduced, briefly, to a brave and courageous man who struck a blow for liberty. And he's from our time. And from Mississippi. I'm talking about the guy who said to Cheney in Gulfport last week exactly what Cheney said to Senator Patrick Leahy on the Senate floor a couple years ago-- "go fuck yourself"-- Dr. Ben Marble. He's a young emergency room physician (and a punk rocker on the side). He lost his home in Hurricane Katrina. A tense, on-edge Dr. Marble wrote that he's "no fan of Mr. Cheney... 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." He walked up the street from his destroyed home, got about 10 feet from Cheney and, while Cheney was doing public relations for BushCo on TV, he yelled "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney! Go fuck yourself, you asshole!" Cheney made a concerted effort to drone on with his bullshit speech by a TV reporter interrupted him and made him acknowledge the verbal assault. Marble walked back to his house where he was picked up by military police brandishing M-16 rifles a few minutes later. They handcuffed him for about 20 minutes and-- probably because so much of this played out on national television-- released him (after carefully writing down his name and contact info).
His band, dR. O has songs you can hear on mp3 sites. He's also raising money by auctioning the videotape of the whole event on eBay (a page with around 3,000 views, bids over $1,200. The item # is 7712202734.) "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." Maybe this will encourage more of us to do little heroic deeds like this. God knows we can't count on the Democrats to do anything about these tyrants they allowed to seize the government!
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 9:52 PM
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Dr. Marble's verbal condemnation to cheney should be applauded by the masses.
Most of us in our lives do not get the opportunity to express our well thought out, articulate reactions to what people in power do. At least not on the public stage, on television. His emotions are raw and they are real.
Here is something else that is raw and real that few people even know.
In 2001, in Cincinnati Ohio, (one of the most conservative city's in America) bush came to Union Terminal to launch his plans to the nation to unleash his horror for war.
Gathered outside were hundreds of anti-war, anti-bush protesters, along with equally as many bush supporters.
The crowd continued to swell. Hundreds turned into thousands of people.
As we anti bush protesters screamed in defiance, the landscape of the protest began to change. By the time bush had hit the stage, our loud voices of protest moved the bush supporters out of the scene. They simply left. I'm convinced they were embarrassed by their support of the commander and thief as they listened (by no choice of their own) to what we had to scream about. We were loud, we were many and we moved the needle, literally.
Unfortunately, the media at the time chose to ignore the scene outside. They covered the speech inside and in essence, silenced the crowd outside by not representing the people. It was unpatriotic to voice opposition to our own government you see. It was too soon after 9/11 to be a dissenting voice and the media was too confused to do their job and focus on the people and be the watchdog of government. Instead, like the lap dogs they were and still are today, the media let the people down.
So I ask those who read this to understand that our voices of oppostion to madness and war were real that day and we literally overwhelmed bush supporters in one of the heaviest republican, conservative city's in America.
Like Dr. Marble in New Orleans, whenever we have the chance, we need to express our views whenever the camera is on and forget about being articulate.
"Go Fuck yourself mr. cheney" is as articulate as normal Americans need to be, especially when the media gives us little platform and voice. And Fuck you mr. cheney is about all he deserves to hear. What else do you have to say to a war profiteer and pimp for the oil company thieves? Let me repeat Dr. Marble .... "Go Fuck yourself mr. cheney!"
I do believe this is one of the coolest comments I have read yet on what happened. thanks guys
Ben Marble, M.D.
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