As an athiest, I have to say Father Roy is a prophet!

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Roy on Democracy Now

http://a4.video2.blip.tv/0370000351875/Demnow-DemocracyNowThursdayNovember202008493.mp4

[Judi Lynn]

1. Couldn't get a connection with your link, tried to find it in google. Is this the one?

AMY GOODMAN: Father Roy Bourgeois, we have to break in one minute. We’re going to be looking at the President-elect’s administration, the people he’s surrounding himself by. Do you have hope that School of the Americas—well, it’s called WHINSEC now, but for a long time called School of the Americas—that you’ve been calling for the closure of because of its training Latin American officers who have gone home to commit egregious human rights abuses—do you have hope it will close under an Obama administration?


FATHER ROY BOURGEOIS: You bet. I must say, this is, right now, with our new president and changes in Congress, this school, Amy, is on life support. We’re predicting that this is going to be the last year of this school of assassins. That school should not exist. It has caused so much suffering and death to others in Latin America. And it’s possible that we, this—you know, we’re going to meet here to say no, not in our name should this school exist. And hopefully, next November at this time, we will gather here for a huge celebration, because this school, hopefully, under our new president and members of Congress, this school will be closed.

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/20/vatican_threatens_to_excommunicate_catholic_priest

There's a video, an audio, and this transcript. Sure hope he wins his point with the Vatican, after his 36 years of service.

I REALLY hope he's right about the School of the Assassins.

He mentioned the SOA earlier in the interview, and said that agencies with power don't willingly give it up, that what is happening in Latin America will have to happen in the Catholic Church: change, due to a grass-roots movement from the bottom up. Here's his quote:

But again, at its very core, we’re dealing with power, those in power who have had that power and control for centuries, who simply don’t want to give it up. But I have to say, they must give it up. They will be, in a way, forced to give it up. There are many similarities about, you know, what’s going on in Latin America. We’ve learned that all of these repressive militaries that have held onto their power for so long were not going to give up that power and the abuse of their power through the goodness of their heart. And I’m sad to say that the patriarchy of faith communities, like the Catholic Church and other faith traditions, they will have to give up their power because of the grassroots movement from the bottom up organizing, like in Latin America, so many saying, “Basta! We will simply not allow you to repress us as you have been doing for so long.”

It's going to crush the right-wing psychopaths among us to see their filthy, illegitimate power by proxy slipping away from them in Latin America, bringing freedom, vitality and hope to the lives of the mass of humanity. But, they should look on the bright side: not being able to feast vicariously on the suffering of the leftists of Latin America will turn back so much time to them they will have far more opportunities to troll Democratic message boards.

Thanks for sharing this, if I've got the right interview, that is!

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2. That's it. This man is a hero.

He was excommunicated. This has really energized the women within the Close the SOA movement.