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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. He locked out
the truth on Bengahzi. 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. He locked out Israel, our only real ally in the Middle East.
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.
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Author unknown
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