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Striking Analogy
Political Plaza ^ | April 6, 2915 | Retired UAL Capt.

Posted on 04/06/2015 1:33:58 PM PDT by yoe

Striking 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 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.

Lubitz was a nutcase. But now we are on a 'plane' piloted by a narcissistic megalomaniac who has locked everyone out of his cockpit.


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1 posted on 04/06/2015 1:33:58 PM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe

The only difference, we CAN unlock that door, easily, if our congress just grew some backbone. So I suppose it is up to us, the people, to find a way to firm up that backbone. We are not helpless, we are just lazy.


2 posted on 04/06/2015 1:36:45 PM PDT by erkelly
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3 posted on 04/06/2015 1:40:44 PM PDT by hiho hiho
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“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. “

Actually, the first screams were heard over five minutes before the crash.


4 posted on 04/06/2015 1:40:44 PM PDT by TexasGator
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You are sooooooooooo right! I just tried to reach my congressman, Martha McSally and will eventually plus have sent the letter to my list asking all to take action. How to reach those bookish intellectuals who voted for the fraud and still refuse to fault him...without taking the whole House with that one man....in a way they are right but should start trying to stem the bleeding with the rest of us. I am at a loss how to approach these common sense challenged people....any thoughts......


5 posted on 04/06/2015 2:07:52 PM PDT by yoe (un)
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6 posted on 04/06/2015 2:43:44 PM PDT by Fry Panny
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Thoughts? I read a book once about folks at the end “suffering a strong delusion”.


7 posted on 04/07/2015 7:47:28 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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