The PERFECT analogy!!!!
From a former Navy fighter pilot and a retired UAL Captain
We are all flying on the Germanwings plane, with a twisted pilot at the controls. Will we just wait, and assume the “Crash Position”?
The ‘real’ pilot was locked out of the cockpit.
That set of circumstances finally revealed the full horror of the crash
of Germanwings flight 9525. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz waited for the
pilot to leave the cockpit, then locked the door to prevent his
re-entry. Then Lubitz, for reasons unknown and perhaps unknowable,
deliberately steered the jet into a harrowing 8-minute plunge ending in
an explosive 434 mph impact with a rocky mountainside. 150 men, women
and children met an immediate, unthinkably violent death.
Lubitz, in his single-minded madness, couldn’t be stopped because
anyone who could change the jet’s disastrous course was locked out.
It’s hard to imagine the growing feelings of fear and helplessness that
the passengers felt as the unforgiving landscape rushed up to meet
them.
Hard ... but not impossible.
Because America is in trouble. We feel the descent in the pits of our
stomachs.
We hear the shake and rattle of structures stressed beyond their
limits. We don’t know where we’re going anymore, but do know it isn’t
good. And above all, we feel helpless because Barack Obama has locked
us out.
He locked the American people out of his decision to seize the national
healthcare system. Locked us out when we wanted to know why the IRS
was attacking conservatives. He locked us out of having a say in his
decision to tear up our immigration laws, and to give over a trillion
dollars in benefits to those who broke those laws.
Obama locked out those who advised against premature troop
withdrawals. Locked out the intelligence agencies who issued warnings
about the growing threat of ISIS. He locked out anyone who could
haveinterfered with his release of five Taliban terror chiefs in return
for one U.S. military deserter.
And, of course, Barack Obama has now locked out Congress, the American
people, and our allies as he strikes a secret deal with Iran to
determine the timeline (not prevention) of their acquisition of nuclear
weapons.
Was Andreas Lubitz depressed, insane, or abysmally evil when he decided
to lock that cockpit door and listen to no voices other than those in
his head? Did he somehow believe himself to be doing the right thing?
The voice recordings from the doomed aircraft reveal that as the jet
began its rapid descent, the passengers were quiet. There was probably
some nervous laughter, confusion, a bit of comforting chatter with
seatmates, followed by a brief period in which anxiety had not yet
metastasized into terror.
It was only near the end of the 8-minute plunge that everyone finally
understood what was really happening. Only near the end when they began
to scream.
Like those passengers, a growing number of Americans feel a helpless
dread as they come to the inescapable conclusion that our nation’s
decline is an act of choice rather than of chance. The choice of one
man who is in full control of our 8-year plunge.
Lubitz was a nutcase. But now we are on a ‘plane’ piloted by a
narcissistic megalomaniac who has locked everyone out of his cockpit.
It is very sad that our first African American President will be judged
in history as the most inept, corrupt, wasteful, subversive,
destructive, and divisive President ever. A man twice elected because
of the color of his skin rather that the content of his character
RE: “A man twice elected because of the color of his skin rather that the content of his character.”
Very well said. Disastrous for our nation.
I really like your posting! The comparison of Obama and the co-pilot was very good.
Content of His character,,,
well said.