Posted on 04/10/2015 6:30:14 AM PDT by JayAr36
Subject: Great Analogy
If you read this and do not feel compelled to do something else, at least forward it to others- it is very good
Crash Position
The pilot was locked out of the cockpit.
That phrase 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. After which 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 have interfered 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.
A man who has locked everyone out.
- Author unknown
LET’S ROLL!!
Yet when things go terribly wrong, it will be someone else’s fault.
Well, not really. This is still a Republic despite Obozo's attempts to create a monarchy. No...he didn't lock us out. Rather, it's a bunch of gutless representatives we put in office that have locked us out. We watch over and over as they pass legislation and regulations that are killing this Republic and we do nothing. They vote for stuff that gets them re-elected, not what's right. Free cell phones for deadbeats? Really? Politicians don't do what's right any more, they do what the unproductive members of society thinks is right. I can live with this hypocrisy, but I fear deeply for my children and grandchildren.
The cockpit door, designed to ensure the integrity of the crew piloting the aircraft and therefore all the passengers, functioned to protect a single evil doer while all perished - The media is the cockpit door.
BUMP
Bull——!!!!
We are NO LONGER a republic, haven’t been since 2008. What part of the words of the article don’t you understand????
Of course YOU are one of the people in the plane, talking with others assuming any minute now, any election now, the ship will right itself and get back on course.
The rubicon has been passed, America is not going to right itself short of some really ugly stuff and whether or not that happens, ugly stuff is ahead.
Agreed.
We have about 6 minutes left.
LET’S GRUMBLE!!!
(Fix this.)
Gees...why the vent on me?
“Barack Obama has now locked out Congress”
The Congress has the cockpit door keys: it’s called
IMPEACHMENT! I will never understand how Congress has
allowed - yes allowed- itself to be locked out!
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