The Deguello – the bugle call of No Quarter – may be ringing around the world today.
If you know your Texas history, then you know that “El Degüello” was the last bugle call the defenders of the Alamo heard before they were slaughtered by the Mexican army. To hear the tune bugled is to know that the army playing it means to wreak havoc: to kill without mercy. To punish those who dare to stand up against them and the tyrant(s) they serve.
According to an online history source I consulted, “El Degüello is a bugle call of Moorish origin notable for its use as a march by Mexican Army buglers during the 1836 Siege and Battle of the Alamo. ‘Degüello’ is the first-person singular present tense of ‘degollar,’ a verb that means ‘to cut the throat.’ More figuratively, it means ‘give no quarter.’ It signifies the act of beheading or throat-cutting, and in Spanish history, it became associated with the battle music, which, in different versions, meant complete destruction of the enemy without mercy.”
I’ve heard “El Degüello” many times. It is a bright, lilting brass piece that caused Davy Crockett to say to Col. William Travis, “Kinda pretty,” in the 2004 film, “The Alamo.”
It is pretty.
And it is chilling.
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This was just posted this weekend (Saturday, 12 OCT 2024) by a trusted correspondent.
Given other reports, this may be true. If readers have any more info, please share it:
The ‘net is filled with ideas of exactly why FEMA and the FedGov are seemingly playing games with the people of the Carolinas, Tennessee, and those on the Gulf Coast. Who is right? Playing politics to keep Trump out and Harris moving into the White House? Punishment for failure to kowtow properly to DC? Getting rid of the deplorables? Just sheer incompetence?
The reasons may be many, and we will almost certainly never know all (or any) of he real reasons.
But we can still learn many lessons from what we are seeing. Government is not the solution to life’s problems. Including natural and manmade disasters. In fact, governments almost always make things worse. The governments’ actions over 150 years have set up conditions to be truly horrific for natural events like Helene and Milton.
But we did it to ourselves, for far too many people have put their faith into governments and the laws and rules and aid in time of distress. Faith that has been betrayed time and time again.
In the past, governments accepted – even encouraged – people and private, voluntary organizations to help out in responding to and recovering from natural disasters. Today, on the surface, they still do: look up information on “Community Emergency Response Teams” (CERT), and all the glowing information about “voluntary organizations” found on FEMA and State websites. But that is now being revealed as eyewash. Government agencies (not just FEMA) do everything they can to keep volunteers and their aid out – and failing that, seek to micromanage their activities. They demand permits and plans and even things like background checks and safety inspections. These all can be justified in the bureaucratic (and often public) mind, but they are tools of control and oppression.
Why? The long-term game, no matter what the reasons, is to expand control over every aspect of life. (Yes, that is totalitarianism, we know.) And that means destroying the ability of people: individuals, families, businesses, communities; to resist. And make everyone more and more dependent on government control.
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