Physician who said to Cheney "Go fuck yourself" detained, cuffed, with no explanation.

Amazing. The "criminal" was Ben Marble, M.D., an ER physician and breast cancer fundraiser who lost his home during the flooding of New Orleans. While Cheney was standing in public making a statement to the press (in the vicinity of Dr. Marble's former home), Dr. Marble went through a security screening to be in the vicinity of Cheney, and said the following:

(link to my previous post, which includes video) "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney. Go fuck yourself."

What follows, according to Dr. Marble:

"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."

At least it's still the home of the brave.