Priests to Purify Site After Bush Visit

[Judi Lynn]

Priests to Purify Site After Bush Visit
Mar 9th - 12:21am

By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA
Associated Press Writer

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - 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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http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=456&sid=1083092

[Eurobabe]

1. LOL

:spray:

[Joe Bacon]

33. Yeesh, that will take Tons of Clorox!

They'll know where to purify the places Bush visits because everywhere he goes, he leaves a trail of slime!

[ProudDad]

2. Maybe we can ask

them to come to Washington, DC in January 2009.

We'll need a purification ceremony then.

[ClintonTyree]

17. We're going to need a freaking exorcist...

to remove the evil demons from the White House. Bush has so corrupted those hallowed halls it may need to be razed and we'll have to have a new one constructed. That much evil is bound to leave a malevolent residue on anything it touches. I would NOT want to be the first President to inhabit the place after Bush's evil presence, that's for sure. :scared: It would be like, The Amityville Horror, on steroids.

[Divine Discontent]

53. it'd be rather nice

if they tore down the current white house and built a new white house & the new president made a grandiose speech about "her people need to stand up and always keep this new white house clean of warmongers, profiteers, and imbeciles!"

I can dream...
www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <<<--- new 08 stickers and antibush stuff!

[TheBaldyMan]

26. sooner than that with any luck - impeachment is around the corner.

[LiberalFighter]

32. Could they please make him disappear?

[JanusAscending]

57. Absolutely!!

Sage in every freakin' corner of the White House!! Then lots of Clorox !

[aquart]

3. And so they should.

As should we.

[superconnected]

4. the mans killed tens of thousands more people than ted bundy

He's a mass mass murder.

Dang right they should purify the ground after he walks on it.

[oblivious]

21. I agree.

[Barrett808]

48. Don't forget Poppy Bush had some 200,000 Mayans murdered...

...in his Banzer Plan war against the Left in Guatemala. That was about 1/3 of the population.

[Cobalt-60]

5. Perhaps they'll pre emptively purify the site

By refusing entry to the Chimp.

[rumpel]

6. This is just wonderful!

We should ask them to come here and help us, too.

[truthisfreedom]

7. Go bush!

Oh yeah, you're winning now!

[krispos42]

14. He's winning hearts and minds

And doing his usual stellar job.

[superconnected]

8. The white house must be some kinda salems lot by now.

[Bitwit1234]

9. Think we could get him to bless the white house after bush leaves.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. Let's make sure we don't end up with some other unclean prez first...

Not much point in hiring the priests if Newt takes over.

[TreasonousBastard]

10. How many virgins will they have to sacrifice...

to really cleanse the place?

[file83]

29. No doubt - the Mayans are about as innocent as the Christians...

Don't get me wrong, Bush is evil, but it's not like the Mayan history/belief system is devoid of blood lust. So pot, meet kettle.

[greyl]

11. I love this story!

(even though I don't believe they can purify the place. :) )

[Surya Gayatri]

12. Good! How fitting for him to be "greeted" like the plague-

carrying outcast he is. Let the whole world be fumigated of his noxious presence. The real plague vector is Deadeye Dick, though, and he seems to flit around the world with relative impunity. I suspect that's because he moves in greater secrecy and with more subterfuge than *. SG

[Auntie Bush]

30. Well he IS a PLAGUE on human society...so should be greeted like the PLAGUE he is.

Seems to me that makes perfect sense.

[Solly Mack]

13. lol

[Vidar]

15. The most appropriate reaction to a Bush visit I've yet seen.

[sakabatou]

16. LMAO

[Quantess]

18. Those are wise priests!

I would have disinfected with bleach!

[Divernan]

19. Don't miss a chance to meet Mayan people - I really admire them.

Very intelligent,family oriented, decent, hard working, humorous culture. They surprised me, given their warlike, human-sacrifice heritage. Maybe there's hope for us Americans to cleanse our bad spirits too.

[WePurrsevere]

20. BushCo has absolutely no respect for other cultures and their sacred sites.

:grr:

Priests purified Ghandi's shrine after a Bush too. They were upset that it had been allowed to be defiled by dogs that sniffed over the place before Bush's visit.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1642376,001302100000.htm

New Delhi, March 5, 2006

Hindu priests, who take care of the Gandhi memorial, have conducted a purification ceremony at the shrine so as to cleanse it after it was scoured by Bush's sniffer-dogs.

<snip>

Bush had visited the memorial on Thursday during his three-day visit to India. The site, where Gandhi was cremated, is considered sacred and it is mandatory for all visitors to remove their shoes before entering the premises.

The dogs, flown in from the US, were part of the intense security for the president, but the Hindu priests believed they tainted the site.

Letting dogs into the memorial also drew sharp protests from Hindu politicians and Gandhi's great grandson Tushar Gandhi, who called the incident a "national shame."

~*~
edited for additional punctuation.

[Vinca]

22. The poor Mayans. They have no idea the magnitude of the job

they face. There aren't enough herbs, candles and incense in the world to deBushify their sacred site.

[llmart]

23. The entire United States...........

will need to be purified after that asswipe leaves office.

[samscafe]

24. ROTFL

[ricochetastroman]

55. Oh Gawd, that's funny

And to think that years ago, as he boarded a plane in Latin America to come home, he told the "audience" as he was leaving, "It's a shame I didn't learn more Latin."

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[rock]

25. I recommend Lyesol

[paparush]

37. That's LIEsol

[Why Syzygy]

27. Would it be great if the ancestors

raise a holy hell while he's there? :evilgrin: They should give him a BIG welcome. A visit from beyond the veil. If it would do them no harm.
I don't think he will go through with it. I don't believe he will visit this site.

[Mnemosyne]

28. Let's have a giant exorcism of DC! Hey

it might work. :shrug:

[Joe Chi Minh]

50. Particularly the White Halliburton - I mean - White House, and the Enron Office - I mean -

Oval Office.

[Mnemosyne]

51. I believe you had it right the first time, KCDM, the

White Helliburton. :evilgrin:

[Joe Chi Minh]

62. Tee hee. You got that right, Vicki!

[Mnemosyne]

63. Mad world, KCDM, very mad world. n/t

[Dover]

31. I wonder if they do freelance? It will take a looong time to cleanse America of these 'bad spirits'

for which nothing is sacred.

[rodeodance]

34. didn't Chavez send some Sulfer to one of the bush visit countries?

[Judi Lynn]

39. Right! He sent it to Lula a couple of weeks ago. Forewarned is forearmed! n/t

[Javaman]

35. Just short of salting the earth is what it will take. nt

[mod mom]

36. Impeach, Remove, Exorcise! (found at HuffPo comments) roflmao!

[Dover]

38. What.......no poison darts?

I hear they work much faster.:P

[JanusAscending]

58. I had a dream about that very thing the other night!

Wonder if it was prophetic?:woohoo:

[0007]

40. Thanks for the great article......nt

[Catherine Vincent]

41. Poor freepers!

Everything bad thing they have said about President Clinton while he was in office that wasn't true actually became true when their guy was installed. It puts a smile on my face everytime.

[Joanne98]

42. HAHAHA!

:spray:

[lumpy]

43. Oh boy I wish this would end up on the 6:00 news

where it belongs.

[AikidoSoul]

45. Bush defiles the entire world...most likely the most hated person in the world

[Megahurtz]

46. ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!

:spray::rofl:

[Exultant Democracy]

47. It is hard to get out the smell of sulfer...n/t

[mdelaguna2000]

49. Haha - good one!

[VegasWolf]

52. Ahh, I remember the days when an American President was respected here and abroad! nt

[calimary]

54. They'll need to get that done in the White House in January '09.

Bring on the exorcists! And the fumigators! Working round-the-clock.

[c2farr]

56. Why Bush-Rove-Cheney Love Their War Machine

1) War greatly enhances their grip on power. On 9-11 Bush-Rove-Cheney wondered...What took them so long.

2) War boosts profits for the kinds of companies they love: Oil and Defense, the kinds of companies that stuff gazillions into Republican pockets.

[unhappycamper]

59. Welcome to DU c2farr!

:hi:

[Chovexani]

60. Ain't enough sage on planet Earth to clean up after that bastard

But they are welcome to try.

I shudder to think of what it'll take to clean the White House after he gets tossed out.

[BenDavid]

61. Tis so funny, it's sad ;-(

but bushit has taken this country down this long road but hopefully our national disgrace will be soon over....November 08 and the deal is sealed January 20th 2009....

[Say_What]

64. Maya to 'cleanse' sacred site after Bush visit

<clips>

Mayan leaders will spiritually "cleanse" ancient ruins in Guatemala after a visit by US President George Bush, unpopular because of foreign policies going back to Central America's civil wars.

The leaders said they would hold a spiritual ceremony to restore "peace and harmony" at the Mayan ruins of Iximche after Bush tours the site on Monday.

"No, Mr Bush, you cannot trample and degrade the memory of our ancestors," said indigenous leader Rodolfo Pocop during a press conference. "This is not your ranch in Texas."

Bush will arrive on Sunday night in Guatemala, his second-to-last stop on a five-country tour of Latin America, where his approval ratings are low. His visit sparked violent protests in Brazil and Colombia. Social groups are organising marches against his visit to Guatemala.

On Friday, some 150 student protesters blocked off a street in Guatemala City near two US fast food outlets to burn an American flag and set off firecrackers.

"We've burned this flag for what the Yankee did all over the world. We remember the CIA's policy in our country, which promoted scorched-earth policies and the bloodshed of our people," the protest leader shouted, standing on a car.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/travel/bush-visit-to-spark-cleansing/2007/03/12/1173548056657.html

[Botany]

65. The boy is a uniter!

The whole world is united against him. And 70% + of America too.

Maybe the Mayan leaders can "cleanse" Columbus, OH .... the S.O.B.
has been here too fucking many times.

the worst was 11/2/04 with Rove to meet Blackwell & Franklin County BOE
head Matt Damnschroder

[WCGreen]

67. You know our Buckeye lost the Championship this year because

Tressel openly supported Bush...

[Botany]

68. Well that and the fact that Florida was by far a better team.

Tressel although a repug to the core has kept his bush support
quite ......

Tressel is wicked smart .... I am sure he knows that bush is a fuck up.

[jaysunb]

66. Wonder why the MSM isn't reporting this...

:evilfrown:

[Say_What]

69. Things are heating up in Guatemala...

Link to Bush visit sparks protests in Latin America slideshow

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/030907bushlatinamer/im:/070312/481/gua10503120256;_ylt=AoDeIH4ld4S6F.zxOU_or6blWMcF


A demonstration in Guatemala City against the upcoming visit of US President George W. Bush, 10 March. Bush was set to arrive in war-torn Colombia, on the third leg of a Latin American tour meant to build bridges, but which has stirred protests across the region.(AFP/Orlando Sierra)

[Quantess]

72. I actually did hear about this on the news.

MSNBC, I think?

[Say_What]

70. Bush Must Support Accountability in Guatemala

<clips>

Washington , March 9, 2007–The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) today urged President Bush to make justice and accountability for human rights abuses a priority during his upcoming visit to Guatemala, particularly by emphasizing support for the legal cases against General Efraín Ríos Montt and members of his military high command.

“The case against Ríos Montt is not only about addressing some of the worst crimes committed in this hemisphere in the last century. It is also involves tackling the ongoing problem of impunity, and demonstrating that Ríos Montt’s ties to organized crime do not put him above the law,” said NISGUA National Organizer Andrew de Sousa.

Legal proceedings in both Guatemalaand Spainare attempting to hold the former dictator and his military high command responsible for genocide and other gross human rights violations. President Bush’s visit to Guatemalathis weekend comes at a pivotal time in these cases, with Ríos Montt planning to launch a run for the Guatemalan Congress on May 2 in a bid to gain immunity from prosecution in the national court system. Although holding a seat in Congress will not legally block the extradition of Ríos Montt to Spain, it will likely kill any political will to bring such a powerful figure to justice.

“Ríos Montt serves as a highly visible example of the fact that if you are corrupt and brutal enough, you are guaranteed impunity in Guatemala. We see the consequences of this phenomenon play out every day, as continued threats and attacks against civil society leaders are never investigated or prosecuted by the authorities,” said Catherine Norris of NISGUA’s Guatemala Accompaniment Project.

President Bush’s tour of Latin America is intended to reestablish U.S. influence in the region, but serious conflicts remain between the image the Bush Administration is trying to portray this week and its actual policies over the past six years. In Guatemala, the Administration has been supporting the physical harassment and suspension of civil rights in rural communities under the guise of the Drug War, pushing for Congress to increase training and funding of the deeply corrupt security forces, and limiting economic opportunities and access to affordable medicines through the DR-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA).

While international arrest warrants for Ríos Montt and his military high command have been in effect in the U.S.since last year, the Bush Administration has yet to publicly acknowledge the warrants or show support for legal initiatives in Guatemala. Given the strategic importance of Guatemala’s relationship with the U.S., any message from President Bush supporting anti-impunity efforts and the prosecution of Rios Montt would have a strong impact on the ground in Guatemala.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00199.htm

[Say_What]

71. Oops... dupe. Mods please combine....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2760583&mesg_id=2760583