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. . . . .
Absolutely true. And most put their head in the sand, and hope it will get better. I don’t think it will. But we will be pacified with the media nonsense, pro sports, the kardashian/Jenner type stories, so no one needs to watch the crash, nor think about it till it’s too late. Never mind the sinking ship, the band’s still playing!
I am ashamed of what my country has become, and of the people who have brought us here.
Should I have spoken out sooner? Fought harder? Or is that coming soon? Civil war part 2?
In any event, I fear for our children and the future they face.
That post is probably just preaching to the choir and a particularly bad metaphor.
I have faith that there are others out there seeing clearly, and a subset of them have the foresight and fortitude to be preparing and meet the conclusion head on. That we cannot change what is going on in Washington doesn’t make us totally helpless in our fate.
Those who are effective at navigating life have mastered ignoring the problems they cannot change and focusing on those they can.
Dear Sir,
I am curious as to your comment “…preaching to the choir and a particularly bad metaphor.” Please, educate me so I may perhaps learn from someone who seems to be more enlightened than I.
The good news is that many people are getting prepared for what is coming.
It’s not too late to start preparing. If you get involved in the preparation community, you will meet some of the most wonderful, kind, moral, normal people out there.
Some very bad times are coming. But, I am also very optimistic about the future. As Lt. Col Grossman said in his recent lecture at the NRA convention: “Don’t you dare give up on this country”. There are men and women of great courage and conviction all around us.
I see things a bit differently than bangbang.
Rather than ignore the problems on the assumption you cannot change them while focusing solely on preparing for the disaster to come, perhaps you should be a bit less fatalistic and at least attempt to avoid the disaster.
We teach that the best way to handle a self-defense situation (the disaster) is to avoid it in the first place. Avoidance of disaster is furthered by such actions as choosing carefully when and where you go, the people with whom you associate, the activities in which you engage, making yourself less attractive to those who would harm you, and perhaps most important of all maintaining situational awareness.
That we cannot, or more appropriately have not yet, changed what is going on in Washington doesn’t mean it’s time to hunker in the bunker. I grant you that between those who regard our freedoms with disdain and those who would further their own short-term interests by agreeing to erode those freedoms a bit more slowly, we face an uphill battle. I believe our efforts are well spent, though, and far from futile when we both prepare ourselves to deal with the disaster that may one day befall us and at the same time take all reasonable steps to prevent the disaster.
Choosing carefully when and where you go suggests we should NEVER accept the politicians’ rationalization that by giving away some of our freedom the government will be better able to protect us.
Choosing carefully the people with whom you associate suggests we should support, by whatever means we are able, those who advocate for and insist upon protecting and restoring personal freedom and individual responsibility.
Choosing the activities in which you engage suggests avoiding dependence on government and voicing loudly our displeasure with those who would force us to do otherwise.
Making ourselves less attractive to those who would harm us by diminishing our freedoms and imposing further on our individual choices in pursuit of happiness suggests speaking in a clear and loud voice and leaving no doubt that we possess the will, the skills and the means to fight for those freedoms.
Finally, situational awareness suggests looking beyond words and appearances and deciding, each of us for ourselves, who shares our love of freedom and who would put on sheep’s clothing to lead us to disaster.
America isn’t yet lost, although we are clearly in trouble. Let your voice be heard (and join me in preparing for the day we hope never comes)!
DM: “Don’t you dare give up on this country”. There are men and women of great courage and conviction all around us.
Agreed times a billion. American will continue to produce men like Chris Kyle, Salvatore Giunta, and Dakota Meyer to name but a few. Men who will selflessly do what needs to be done to protect and defend this great nation from enemies both foreign and domestic.
Giving up on America and not preparing for the bad times ahead would be giving up on what our Founding Fathers sacrificed, to say nothing of what great men since have given to help make America what it is today.
It’s just a shame scumbags like Barack Hussein Obama sully America every day they draw breath.
Don’t give up bangbang. It’s never too late to make a difference. Just as those old men during the RevWar.
I don’t know who Pete Wheeler is, but he writes well and I agree. I too have that uneasiness of bad things to come. I prepare by learning new skills and refining old ones. I train.
At least if I die, it will be on my feet, not on my knees, crapping in my pants and cowering like a bed-wetting liberal.
I feel that free-fall feeling many times a day, particularly after watching the sheeple news where the deception is obvious to me and you just want to slap those that regurgitate what they hear as the truth when they’re too naive to know what’s really happening. So I listen to Mark Levin and Limbaugh to help me interpret the liberal agenda and realign myself with like-minded sensibilities. Then that makes me want to start screaming like Mr. Wheeler describes, screaming to wake people up. In many ways, we are along for the ride, but eventually many are going to get sick and want off this crazy carnival ride. Get off! I urge all, for the sake of those before us that sacrificed much more than we could imagine, don’t give up the fight. For those soldiers long forgotten, pick up that blood-stained American flag and continue the surge. Continue to vote with your head. Continue to speak up against wrong even if you lose friends and others talk. Stand up for your kids and country-loving values at school board meetings when they start teaching them those dangerous liberal ways. Ask questions, start conversations at work. Call your senators even when it seems futile because you keep fighting. The government, libs, society, ISIS want you to tire and give up. Please don’t make the attempt to destroy our country an easy feat for anyone.
I buried yet ANOTHER 500 rounds vacuum-packed in the ground last weekend.
Anyone top that?
I know what’s coming.
I’m prepared.
Are you?
Sir, if it is bad enough that you need to be digging up craptastic value pack ammo, they you sat on the sidelines for far too long.
C’mon, ken, get onboard with the good guys, get engaged with your elected officials, educate your friends, neighbors and the public, and get involved with the nra and gsl.
Cause nothin is going to get better if you spend your time trolling, crying “that’s not fair” (hint, life isn’t about fairness) and burying ammo.