Time to start screaming!
by Pete Wheeler
The pilot was locked out of the cockpit.
That was the horror of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash.
Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz waited for the pilot to leave the cockpit, then locked the door to prevent his re-entry, then for whatever reason, deliberately put the jet into an 8-minute descent ending in an explosive 434 mph impact with a rocky mountainside. 150 men, women and children met an immediate, unthinkably violent death.
The lunatic co-pilot couldn’t be stopped because the pilot and passengers were 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.
America is in trouble. We feel our own descent in the pits of our stomachs. We don’t know where we’re going anymore, but know it isn’t good. And above all, we feel helpless because Barack Obama has locked us out.
He and his friends locked the American people out of his decisions to use the IRS to attack conservatives, to tear up our immigration laws, and to walk guns across the border to drug cartels in Mexico and biggest of all, to nationalize healthcare while at the same time mismanaging the Veterans Administration healthcare system.
Obama locked out those who advised against premature troop withdrawals and those 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 Army deserter, those who sought a rescue of our people at Benghazi, and those who seek to investigate Benghazi today.
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 legitimize their acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Was Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz depressed, insane, or abysmally evil when he decided to lock that cockpit door?
Voice recordings from his doomed aircraft reveal that as the jet began its rapid descent, the passengers were quiet. It was only near the end of the 8-minute plunge that everyone finally understood what was really happening. Only near the end did they begin 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 chance. The choice of the one man who is in full control of our 8-year plunge.
A man who has locked everyone out. . . . .
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