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After Bush's visit to holy site, Mayan priests will purify for "bad spirits"

Posted by Jan Frel at 7:45 PM on March 9, 2007.


Jan Frel: Sprit guides will cleanse the area so their ancestors may rest in peace.
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I think Bush is going to have to cancel --

Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.

"That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture," Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday.

Bush's seven-day tour of Latin America includes a stopover beginning late Sunday in Guatemala. On Monday morning he is scheduled to visit the archaeological site Iximche on the high western plateau in a region of the Central American country populated mostly by Mayans.

Tiney said the "spirit guides of the Mayan community" decided it would be necessary to cleanse the sacred site of "bad spirits" after Bush's visit so that their ancestors could rest in peace. He also said the rites -- which entail chanting and burning incense, herbs and candles -- would prepare the site for the third summit of Latin American Indians March 26-30.

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Jan Frel is AlterNet's senior editor.


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How big a site can they cleanse?
Posted by: HeroesAll on Mar 9, 2007 8:13 PM   
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Darth Cheney just visited Australia, and we'd kind of like to banish the sulfurous stench...

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White house
Posted by: bookie on Mar 9, 2007 10:36 PM   
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Can they come purify the White House after Bush and his fellow criminals leave?

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Bush and his Cohorts...
Posted by: bob t on Mar 10, 2007 9:43 AM   
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...in the corrupted rethuglikkkan party leave a sulphurous stench everywhere they go. Most of us are reviled at what they do, it deeply offends our sense of appropriateness and propriety that we learned form our parents and others when we were growing up. One does not have to be a religious person as I am to have that sense. Most people have those senses and awarenesses just because they are human. The people who don't have it either once had it and lost it or they never had it to begin with like George Bush. Actually he cannot help that he is, a sociopath. His narcissitic and sociopathic tendencies are what keep him from feeling emotional hurt and pain. His hurts comes from a unique series of experiences which include the death of his sister and his cold and aloof parents especially his mother. Barbara Bush behaved the way she did toward Georgie boy because of her unique set of life experiences. Most of us rise above our emotional hurts and pains but George Bush was unable to do that. Others, not many have the same problem but they are either jailed or are somehow prevented from doing harm when they commit crime. Unfortunately George was never caught and punished because his parents protected him and bought him off, so he never learned. They went way far overboard, they totally 'spared the rod' which is actually no more than saying they let him get away with everything and prevented him from paying the price for his crimes. For them that was the easier thing to do than spend time teaching him what he did wrong. Having never been punished George thinks their is no punishment out there in the world and no price to pay for his crimes. And for him that has been and is true. UNFORTUNATELY he because of his wealth and connections provided by his parents through their own blind ambitions allowed him to become president, a very dangerous president and one who is now responsible for the deaths of a million or more people, in the US and around the world. Everytthing George Bush touches turns to death, either physical or emotional for millions of human beings.
Many people along the paths of his life could have stopped him, but they did not. They used him for their own blind ambitions. Cheney could have done a far, far better job of stopping him, but he had his own blind sick ambitions as did Rumsfeld as did/do Gonzales, Ashcroft and Danforth(both racists) and Laura Bush, and his brothers as could many others have stopped him and helped him, but instead they chose to be enablers. And millions have paid the price for what Bush and his cronies allowed him to get away with.
Maybe the worst of those who enabled him are the very ones who have been enabling the republican party for a long time and among these are those who should have known better. The religious right wingers, both Catholic and SBC. Pope John Paul II who put Reagan in power and then Bush41 and finally Bush43 should have REALLY KNOWN BETTER and could have stopped George Bush and the republican party by denying him the Catholic votes. Pope Benedict XVI can still at least slow him down, but as we all can see has chosen not to.
So I blame all of them who could have stopped him but am angriest at the Popes and the Catholic voters all of whom knew better but chose to let Bush do all that he did to destroy so many people.
Of course the Catholic voters do what the Pope tells them to do, so the ultimate responsibility for Bushs crimes goes back to all those I have mentioned but especially the Popes both of whom have chosen to enable him to do what he has done. To him who is given great power is given great responsibility and they ignored their responsibility, and so millions have paid the price for Bushs crimes.
Has this happened before? Yes it has. Pope Pius XI and Pius XII endorsed Hitler and the Nazi Party and we all know the results of that endorsement by those two popes. But the Popes never... cont'd.

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Bush and His Cohorts...cont'd
Posted by: bob t on Mar 10, 2007 9:43 AM   
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But the Popes never pay the price for what they have done, the little people, the helpless people do. People like you and me. As a result of WWII and the papal endorsement of Popes Pius XI in 1933 and later Pius XII in 1939 the entire world got WWII and the death how millions and the Holocaust(and the present manifestation of that war are the Neocons, the american warhawks/chickenhawks and the Isreali gov't warhawks, and the Islamic fundie warhawks. So one can most easily see that war begets nothing but more war. That si the true lesson of war, ideological fundamentalism, religious fundamentalism, republican fundamentalism and corporate fundamentalism and white racism/fundamentalism.
So in the Middle East we have another Holocaust against the Iraqis and here in America we have another Holocaust against the american people. As not only do our troops die, get maimed, suffer family destruction and mental destruction. So never believe any one especially a republican who says he is Pro-Life, when in reality he is only Pro-Birth and Pro-Death. So not only do our troops pay the price but so to do we the American people and also our democracy is being destroyed as well.
Yes, absolute power corrupts absolutely. By absolute power I mean even just a bit too much power as the republikkkans have had since the days of Reagan and most especially for the last six years of the Bush Republican admin.
Many are involved in this death struggle, beginning with Bushs
parents, including the republican party of hate, intolerance, and war and death for PROFIT, and the Popes who put the republicans in power and gave them so much power via the Catholic votes. I would also blame the SBC but they are so far gone that nothing will convince them of their own evil because thay KNOW THE MIND OF GOD and will kill anyone who gets in their way.
Is there any hope for us, for our America against these powers. I don't see any unless the congress can slow Bush down until the next election. Bush has two more years and he can do terrible things in that time. His finger is on the big red button and many other buttons and levers of uncontrollable power. If congress can't slow him down until the next election than I can see no hope. So much power rest in the hands and mind of ONE MAN(BUSH and Pope Benedict).
But I won' be here to see that. Amen and

PRAY FOR PEACE

Prayer and hopew are all that we have and that ain't much, not in these times of George Bush. If we are to see the end of times at least the SBC people will be happy.

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new party
Posted by: pacto on Mar 10, 2007 9:46 AM   
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do you think we can ask them to form a third party,they seem to be in touch with reality.THE MAYAN PARTY, TAKIN CARE OF BUSINESS.

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sociopath
Posted by: robmikejas on Mar 12, 2007 8:35 AM   
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Once a sociopath, always a sociopath. You can run the entire liteny of evil done by George Bush and it won't mean a thing in terms of the future of the American People. It is so clearly evident that this country is overrun with sociopathic or near sociopathic types...all George Bush supporters. The level of ignorance and selfdelusion is like a river running over its flood level and sweeping this country into the ocean of fallen nations. We the people simply means we the freedom lovers VS> we the sociopaths. It isn't about Catholics or the Pope. Their complicity is a given. Our only hope for a return to REAL American values is to constantly and consistantly speak out to the world against the bible thumping sociopathic idiots on the right. It will all be over soon....one way or the other

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White House
Posted by: charemor on Mar 12, 2007 8:48 AM   
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The White House will have to be power washed to get rid of the accumulation of BS.

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Our founding fathers...
Posted by: apeshow on Mar 12, 2007 9:31 AM   
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Are rolling in their graves at the thought of Bush. Who will go to Washington D.C. and bless their graves so they may rest in peace too?

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» RE: Our founding fathers... Posted by: bettyn
I have to go to red state Florida a few times a year
Posted by: Ellie1 on Mar 12, 2007 4:54 PM   
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and when I get home, I take a long, hot shower to wash off the stench of stupidity.

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