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by European white guys, in two world wars in the last century, in the horrendous bloodshed in Vietnam (2 million slaughtered in Southeast Asia before it was over, including over 55,000 U.S. soldiers, in a completely unnecessary war), and in the wholesale slaughter of indigenous people in north and south America prior to these other mass deaths, and the 200,000 Mayan villagers slaughtered in Guatemala with Reagan's direct complicity, and many thousands more Latin Americans in various U.S.-backed tortures and slaughters, and even unto the last five years and the slaughter of a million Iraqis, and the torture of thousands of innocents, by rich American white guys, to get their oil, the ancient Mayan sacrifices to propitiate the gods seem almost...civilized.
In fact, I have an anthropologist friends who somewhat jokingly suggested that we re-institute ceremonial human sacrifice, in lieu of modern warfare.
How dare you refer to these ancient Mayan religious practices, as if to say that modern Mayans deserve to be slaughtered, without mentioning the horrendous slaughter and mayhem that supposedly civilized white men have instigated, mostly on behalf of war profiteers and corporate profit?
Cold, calculated "shock and awe" from sleek modern jets rained upon poor children, mothers, the elderly, with nowhere to run, and slaughtering them in the tens of thousands. Cold, calculated application of electrodes to genitals, beatings, inhuman deprivations and death inflicted at random, in wholesale roundups and jailings, on a traumatized civilian population in Iraq, and also on complete innocents in Guantanamo Bay--people sold to U.S. forces by drug lords, mere bystanders, or simple patriots with rifles defending their homeland from invasion--scooped up, whisked round the globe in inhuman flights (bound, gagged, hungry, peeing in their seats), incarcerated for years without charges or trial, tortured, driven mad, killed. Many of them still there, in fact--the forgotten prisoners.
Really, nothing that the Mayan priests did even comes close to horrors thought up by the Bush Junta, and modern "civilization."
So, really, get out of here with your cruel little joke about the heart surgeon who ran for vice president, on a progressive ticket, and won. Specifically, he and his presidential running mate said that the drug war mayhem must be solved in peaceful ways, not with a police state (as their rightwing opponent advocated). And you are comparing his former profession, heart surgeon--during which he performed thousands of free surgeries for Guatemala's poor--to Mayan ritual sacrifice? That is a truly disgusting joke.
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