Custer's America

George Armstrong Custer

          
"I challenge the annals of warfare to produce a more brilliant or successful charge of cavalry."

-George Armstrong Custer, writing in his report after he led a mounted charge of the 1st Michigan Cavalry just east of Gettysburg in which he severely damaged the Confederate army while losing 257 of his own men

The death and wanton destruction of the American Civil War produced a number of soldiers of fortune.  After the war ended and the Confederate enemy resoundingly defeated by total warfare, these men merely picked up their sabres, saddled their horses, and rented themselves out to exploit the western lands for European monied interests.  Some, like Custer, were especially driven by want of fame and fortune.  His want was different than some men who fought for merely a paycheck.  Custer wanted to parlay his "successes" into political might.  Men with exceptional appetites for greedy ambition flourished in the West during the mid to late-nineteenth century as enormous environmental crimes were supported and promoted by the U.S. Government as it confiscated the land of human beings and delivered it into the hands of the men that would become the first "cattle barons."

"You ask me if i will not be glad when the last battle is fought, as far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end."

-Custer 

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
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The West during the time of Custer was still wide open with free beings living on the land.  Had the destruction of America not been sealed with its inception, the United States Republic could have protected the land, the animals, and the human beings that lived on it.  Instead, the United States was compromised by corporate ownership from the first days of the "national bank."  Greed and exploitation were the motivating forces for men, as they raced from coast to coast destroying everything in their path.  Land, water, people, animals-  nothing could escape the insatiable greed of some men.   

Custer with scouts and dead bear

   Perhaps this is why a cocky dandy, and no doubt all-around ambitious asshole like Custer rose to such a high rank in the world were destruction and control is a career.  Military men destroy for a living.  Their lives are dictated to by the many wants of a world set on exploitation and rape instead of life and prosperity.  Military men can hardly be called family men as they destroy families to support their own ilk.  As a matter of occupation, military men cannot live and let live, full-time soldiers have to destroy as they live under the orders of an earthly master whose main gain is total victory over "free life."  Through violence, these masters want to dictate how life will be lived.

"There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry."

-George Custer

America today is not unlike the ill-fated 7th Cavalry on that hot, sunny day in late June, 1876.  Moneyed  interests- greedy, power-hungry interests are leading the American people directly into a buzz saw.

Why do people follow ignorant psychopaths like Custer?

A logical person would think, since Custer clearly made so many obviously blatant  blunders during the summer campaign of 1876, that the U.S. Army and Government would want to put as much distance between Custer's legacy and future campaigns.  This is hardly the case since counties in six states bear his name.  The 85th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army is named  "The Custer Division."  Even in the 21st Century, in Fallujah, Iraq, during the town's siege by American forces, a major Forward Operating Base was named Garryowen, after the drinking song men under Custer's command played as they rode.

 Unbeknownst to most Americans, the dye is already cast.  The lot of Americans has been thrown in with leaders just as cutthroat and as idiotic as Yellow Hair.  No matter how many times patriotic Americans recall their "hammer and anvil" successes on the battlefield, their monetary prowess and stuff accumulated, no matter how many times they play Garryowen, their own defeat and destruction is assured.  America has accepted the bugle call of the megalomaniac, the tyrant, and the sadist.  Illogical reasoning due to propaganda, death and destruction, supported by greed has won the lead and the path has been chosen.

Some will continue to ride.  Others, as the Crow Indian scouts parted with Custer before his ill-fated invasion, may look elsewhere for their "fame and fortune" and just be happy with moderate prosperity.

Looking south/west from the top of "Last Stand  Hill"

                                   

Blowback in Fallujah, 10 Years Later

                       
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
                       
-Winston Churchill
                 
As the world tumbles forward, inching closer to something, marked by moral epiphanies and collapsing economic bubbles, it is helpful to remember instances in the past and how past events relate to the present and the future. 
                               

Sirte, Libya, October 2011

The physical world is being consumed at a frightening rate driven by unquenchable greed.  All that is life-  nature, humanity continues to suffer incalculable loss due to the evil ambitions of  a few warped minds.  After a century of warfare mostly orchestrated to happen by a singular evil, the tide is turning once again-  this time, the rifles are pointed at everyone who isn't on the side of the economic winners.  To accomplish this seemingly impossible task of subjugating everyone and everything, the evil forces have sought to monopolize the entire planet with a steady onslaught of psychological fear and economic pressure to achieve compliance.
                           
"Now is the winter of our discontent."


-William Shakespeare
        
 This week the North Pole came to the United States and froze nearly the entire continent of North America.  Winter is, indeed, bleak.  Most years, the promise of the spring offers solace to the weary.  However, with a cascading economy shrouded by lies that protect greed and power,  the outlook is negative, to say the least. 

The most frustrating part, for The National Pulse, is the dreadful slowness of the people to realize what is being done to them over and over by greedy psychopaths.
         
JP Morgan Chase bank won't be criminally prosecuted for stealing, either concerning the Bernie Madoff hedge fund Ponzi scheme, nor for owning the parking meters in the city of Chicago from which they steal every day.
        
The police state that has flourished in a paper money Ponzi scheme now is its own judge and jury, absorbing the surviving raiding soldiers from the fields and cities of Afghanistan and Iraq.  And so today, the U.S. domestic police force operates very similarly to the hired guns from the most recent wars-  do your job with blinders on, when in doubt kill everyone not wearing a costume.     
                         
Certainly the totalitarian forces have had no desire for the greater public to question their brutal tactics or motives and so their presstitute minions helped lie, cover up, and deceive as each moment prepares them for their next assault, takeover, injustice, and bloodbath.
                     
8"The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings:  they have made them crooked paths:  whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.  9Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us:  we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness."
      
- Isaiah 59  
           
Since history is written by the victors, events have to be pored over and examined by objective eyes.  The victors-  the totalitarians-  are adept at covering things up, hiding truths, and influencing public sentiment to support their next transgression.
            
The U.S. war machine has been instrumental in destroying all rules pertaining to autonomy and security.
      
Many still remain incredulous to the fact that the people in the Middle East, who were attacked because of lies, don't want their help and hate them for destroying the land of their ancestors.
       
This week, the Iraqi people reclaimed Fallujah.
       
 "I don't think anyone had the grand illusion that Fallujah or Ramadi was going to turn into Disneyland, but none of us thought it was going to fall back to a jihadist insurgency. It made me sick to my stomach to have that thrown in our face, everything we fought for so blatantly taken away."
       
-Adam Banotai, a former Marine sergeant and squad leader involved in the 2004 invasion of Fallujah
            
The only thing gained be the U.S. invasion of Fallujah was pain.  Pain on both sides created by imperialist meddlers, inhuman automatons brainwashed by evil masters determined for world domination.
           
The invasion of Fallujah was a reaction.  The United States Marine Corps, made up of enlisted soldiers, raided the city in retaliation for the murder and mutilation of 4 private military contractors receiving $600/day to invade a foreign country and create a structure by which the people could be more easily controlled and exploited.  One of them happened to be the great-great nephew of  one of the first Globalists, Elihu Root.

On March 31, 2004, the contractors were dragged from their car, their bodies burned and hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River. The following months saw the most intense urban warfare since the war in Vietnam.  The U.S. finally assaulted and re-captured the city in November with a classic hammer and anvil strategy, blocking all highway exits and bridges while tanks and humvees attacked from the north.
           

War is ugly but Americans, in general, have a distorted view of war. Would Americans have supported an all-out genocidal offensive, shooting up mosques and medivacs?  Would they have consented to preventing the escape of civilians and snipers killing them as soon as they went outside?  Would they have consented to preventing Iraqis from collecting and burying their dead and caring for their wounded?

For some, still wandering in their clouded world of "American exceptionalism" it must seem as if theses things happened and have passed.  This idea is as naive as believing 19 hijackers planned the 9/11 attacks all by themselves.  The truth is all these transgressions, the mix-ups of standard operating procedure, and unclear rules of engagement have been and continue to compact into one giant snowball that will one day have to be reckoned.