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Mayans to 'purify' sacred site after Bush visit
The Jeruselem Post ^ | 03/08/2007 | Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST

Posted on 03/08/2007 7:25:46 PM PST by Harrius Magnus

Mayan leaders announced that priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after US President George W. Bush visits next week.

"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 national association of indigenous people and peasant farmers, 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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; backward; bush; guatemala; idiots; immigration; maya; mayan; mayans; mayas; pinheads; superstitions
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To: Rodney King
Poor W. Thinks he can buy friendship with the latinos.

I don't think that's W's style. Rather he thinks it's the right thing to do.

121 posted on 03/09/2007 8:34:22 AM PST by edsheppa
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To: edsheppa
I don't think that's W's style. Rather he thinks it's the right thing to do.

Perhaps you are right.

122 posted on 03/09/2007 8:42:29 AM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: ichabod1

Me too, but I was SHOCKED at the jumping in the water trough scene!


123 posted on 03/09/2007 9:14:10 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: ichabod1; Freee-dame
It follows from the statement in the post to which you were responding and agreeing with, which said (as I interpreted it) that what was appropriate in your personal life did not make for good leadership.

I was specifically thinking of the President's treatment of Democrats (referred to in the original post) which tends to enfuriate all of us because he is far too kind to them.

I believe that in this man, his treatment of others is a by-product of his upbringing (class), and more importantly his faith.

The question I ask is, if his treatment of Dems is a result of his faith then does he need to set it aside to be a good leader?

btw, I don't think he trusts them any more than we do, nor does he trust world leaders. He just treats them as he believes a Christian ought to. For me, that is a critical difference.

124 posted on 03/09/2007 9:47:29 AM PST by ohioWfan (PRAY for our President and our troops!!)
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To: ichabod1
Well, I suppose that's better than some names.

I mean, they could have named her Ah Uincir Dz'acab or Chac Uayab Xoc.

That would have made a fun first day at school. :)

125 posted on 03/09/2007 9:52:05 AM PST by ohioWfan (PRAY for our President and our troops!!)
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To: ohioWfan
btw, I don't have a clue as to what those Mayan names mean.

I hope I didn't say anything nasty......

126 posted on 03/09/2007 9:53:24 AM PST by ohioWfan (PRAY for our President and our troops!!)
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To: Harrius Magnus
necessary to cleanse the sacred site of "bad spirits" after Bush's visit so that their ancestors could rest in peace

Hmmm, would that include those "ancestors" whom the Mayans put to gruesome death in their ritual human sacrifices?

After tearing the beating hearts out of their still-alive sacrifice-ees?

127 posted on 03/09/2007 10:13:54 AM PST by shhrubbery! (Max Boot: Joe Wilson has sold more whoppers than Burger King)
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To: Unam Sanctam
Does anybody in the world have any manners anymore?

Juan Tiney, the director of a national association of indigenous people and peasant farmers.......was paid good money to say this to the press.

128 posted on 03/09/2007 10:21:02 AM PST by prairiebreeze (I am PRO-VICTORY!!)
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To: LibKill
While they're purifying, sneak a Hellfire missle in there, that ought to help.....
129 posted on 03/09/2007 11:19:11 AM PST by b4its2late (Liberalism is a hollow log and a mental disorder.)
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To: ichabod1
Since you support these people's comrades in Sinn Fein, I don't see what you're complaining about. Gerry Adams and Mahmoud Abbas will probably be down there in solidarity with their fellow "indigenous pipples."

Just my luck to be born a redneck--we aren't indigenous to anywhere . . . except maybe Telmar (obscure C.S. Lewis reference)!

130 posted on 03/09/2007 11:26:00 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (HaShem, HaShem, Qel rachum vechanun, 'erekh appayim verav-chesed ve'emet!)
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To: Harrius Magnus

"...is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture."

You mean like sneaking on to someone else's land and trying to take advantage of their government? That kind of offense? The only time these people should be worried about offense is when they have to climb one.


131 posted on 03/09/2007 12:47:05 PM PST by NavySon (Liberals: oxymorons personified.)
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To: P-40

"I didn't know they were still around."

Well using their logic, let me just say "the Celts hate the Mayans."


132 posted on 03/09/2007 12:50:59 PM PST by NavySon (Liberals: oxymorons personified.)
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To: exit82

"Gee, at least President Bush didn't perform human sacrife like your ancestors did."

I think that was the Aztecs.


133 posted on 03/09/2007 12:58:29 PM PST by NavySon (Liberals: oxymorons personified.)
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To: Enosh

Yes, isn't it. I am sorry for that, but this kind of 'crap' is just getting really old for me. Frustration factor is at an all time high.

The way most talk you'd think W was the living breathing anti-christ, and I'm pretty well sick of it.

I've never seen a man so vilified in my life, not just here but abroad too.

Bill Clinto (whom I loath with a deep and abiding passion) makes a mockery of the White House and that's okay, W tries to do his JOB, the job we elected him for and he's mocked at every opportunity.

We get a DEM in 2008, and the World will have one big love-fest, while the citizens of the USA get -- well and plainly fubar.

It's enough to make a person scream.


134 posted on 03/09/2007 1:34:00 PM PST by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: Enosh

Yes, isn't it. I am sorry for that, but this kind of 'crap' is just getting really old for me. Frustration factor is at an all time high.

The way most talk you'd think W was the living breathing anti-christ, and I'm pretty well sick of it.

I've never seen a man so vilified in my life, not just here but abroad too.

Bill Clinton (whom I loath with a deep and abiding passion) makes a mockery of the White House and that's okay, W tries to do his JOB, the job we elected him for and he's mocked at every opportunity.

We get a DEM in 2008, and the World will have one big love-fest, while the citizens of the USA get -- well and plainly fubar.

It's enough to make a person scream.


135 posted on 03/09/2007 1:34:16 PM PST by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: NavySon

The Mayans and Aztecs both practiced human sacrifice. Mostly on each other.


136 posted on 03/09/2007 7:13:04 PM PST by exit82 (Defend our defenders--get off the fence.)
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To: Harrius Magnus

A POCKY LIP TOE?


137 posted on 03/09/2007 7:31:27 PM PST by Twinkie (Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God . . .)
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To: Harrius Magnus

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,” Guatemalan activist Juan Tiney said


IM AN FULL BLOODED NATIVE AMERICAN OF DA KIOWA AND CHEYENNE TRIBAL DESCENT. PErSECUTION OF OUR MIGRANT BROTHERS. WDF. YEAH I SAY THIS GUY IS DUMB TALKIN AS IF HE's a NATIVE. KEEP THEM OUTTA OF THA COUNTRY IS WHAT I SAY. ALL OF THEM. ATLEAST SHUT THE BORDERS DOWN FOR ONE YEAR. TO EVERYBODY TRYNA GET CITZENSHIP. THIS MAYAN MADE OFFENSE TO MY PEOPLE BY AGREE'n WITH ALLOWING BORDER JUMPIN. WOULD LOVE TO FIGHT HIM ONE ON ONE. AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT ACTIVIST. OH YEAH THE FEDS NEVER COULD BE TRUSTED!!!! REPPIN THA KIOWA/CHEYENNE TRIBES OF OKLAHOMA. http://www.myspace.com/firewaterempire


138 posted on 03/10/2007 7:45:42 AM PST by eaglefeatheredplayboi (NATIVE AMERICAN AGAINST JUAN TINEY COMMENT)
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