As IF Times

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In a rather bizarre story recently, a man aboard an airplane preparing for departure, suddenly ran to the cockpit door and tried to open it.  He was subdued and taken back to his seat.   The flight was delayed and authorities placed him under arrest when the plane was stopped.  Naturally, the other passengers were upset at being inconvenienced.  The man, for his part, claimed to have suffered an anxiety attack and felt that he had to escape the confines of the plane.

As we know, the incidents of open doors on airplanes, intentional or otherwise, is a big issue recently, so this story made the news.

By all accounts, the man seemed to be a normal, educated and functional person who is an engineer by profession.  But for some reason, he snapped and his hidden illness became evident to everyone. It’s likely that before the incident exposed him, he was considered sane.

It occurred to me that untold numbers of people are afflicted with some kind of latent mental issues which can be hidden for long periods of time.  That is until the dam breaks and an event reveals to the world that not all the mental bolts are tightly fastened. Statistically, these kinds of latent mental issues likely exist in a large number of the population and which affects people across all socio-economic strata.  It would be fair to say that if you found out that your surgeon manifested such behavior, you’d be leery of his capacity to function.  What about the guy who designs bridges, or the University prof, or the judge at a trial?

Or what about the people elected to make laws? At some point, so many politicians today have that moment when they try to open the airplane door….and yet they are still accorded respect by those endangered and allowed to stay in office rather than rightfully being ushered out the door for professional help.  Today’s example of the most recent aircraft door rusher is a Canadian MP by the name of Charles Angus.  He has proposed a private member’s bill in the House of Commons that would ban fossil fuel ads. Anyone who violates the ban could be fined up to $1.5 million or sent to jail for up to two years.

Oddly, the authorities have yet to rush and send him off to a psychiatric hospital despite the obvious harm he would inflict upon innocent bystanders.  Just because he wasn’t buck naked singing Sweet Caroline doesn’t mean the guy isn’t unhinged. The potential harm that would be inflicted is no less traumatic to others than the poor guy who tried to open the airplane door. In fact, this guy Angus is not the only guy at the airplane door.  He’s joining his fellow MP Steven Guilbeault and of course the head door rusher, Justin Trudeau who’ve already beat him there.  Trudeau of course pushes for climate policies to save Canadians from climate disasters…even if it kills them.

We could of course list ad nauseum the names of other politicians who have been allegorically rushing to open airplane doors for years, but somehow never get tagged as being clearly unhinged. Unlike an open airplane door, the detrimental effects upon innocents by inane policies are less immediate but the damage no less dangerous over time.  For that simple reason, people underestimate and thus tolerate these infringements on their safety…until it’s too late.

link: https://thepostmillennial.com/tucker-carlson-may-face-eu-travel-sanctions-as-a-result-of-putin-interview-report

An amusing phenomenon that the majority of men will be familiar with is the situation wherein they are walking down a street next to their wife/girlfriend.

An attractive female approaches them and the man is obligated to avert his eyes, or at the very least, pretend not to notice the oncoming potential tempest.  Wearing mirrored glasses won’t be of any help.

As most men know, to even hint that they find the oncoming female of any interest is to invite an episode of instant rebuke, or in some cases, a prolonged sulk later on the part of the wife/girlfriend.

What most women don’t understand is that the perceived comeliness of the approaching female has very little to do with any attraction on the part of the male.  It could be a bear on bicycle and the novelty of that alone would pique the man’s interest.  Still, the majority of men will experience the hissy fit that will ensue in the aftermath of the encounter.

Amusingly, a similar situation is occurring now as Tucker Carlson makes his way to Moscow to interview the leader of the Red Menace, Vladimir Putin.  The majority of the traditional western media outlets are having a hissy fit that would make the Rousey/Carmouche UFC fight look like a game of slap slap.

Accustomed to being the guardians of what the masses hear and dictating to them what to think, it’s now considered the highest affront that Tucker dares to intrude on their sacred dominion.  Reactions have ranged from horrified to outright maliciousness with some even proposing that Tucker be sanctioned or even prevented from coming back into the US because of his treasonous actions. If it’s one thing we know the media is good at, it’s hyperbole.

There is likely much fear and angst in the general media ranks; and which is shared by the political cabal that has for decades been successful in providing the accepted narrative of the day; in this case, the characterization of Vladimir Putin.  Why wouldn’t any rational person be willing to assess the facts for themselves via direct information rather than through the filter of approved channels?  The public has for the longest time been treated like children on topics of all kinds.  How do we know it’s so? Because we told you so. Eerily, the courts system seems to be moving that way.

It’s not as if there’s no precedence for interviews with all sorts of world figures. Celebrated ‘journalists’ in the past such as Barbara Walters, Mike Wallace and others have carried sessions with the entire range of political leaders from despots to allies and these interviews were considered journalism and newsworthy.  Was Dan Rather considered treasonous for his Saddam Hussein piece?  Was Barbara Walters’ interview of Fidel Castro a despicable career event?

In the ‘free’ west, we have an impression of Vladimir Putin solely from the narrative given to us by the mass media and likely encouraged by the political overlords.  Oddly, this is precisely the criticism leveled against the Russian news agency, Pravda and the network, Russian Television.  People who live in glass houses and all that.

The last few years have provided definitive proof that official media narratives here are coordinated and laughably not objective.  As that revelation occurs, it also calls into question much of the other narratives spewed over the decades, including the characterization of which states are allies and which states are enemies.  There’s buzz that our ‘ally’ Ukraine has a target out for Tucker because of his pending interview.  With ‘friends’ like that…..

There’s nothing that would have stopped any of the regular media outlets from gaining an interview with Putin.  They chose not to because it would have pushed against their established narrative of Putin, bad.  We’ve been told that he’s a tyrant who runs the country like his kingdom and who imprisons enemies and rigs elections.  So, in the spirit of real journalism, Tucker goes to find out for himself.  That’s pretty radical in this time of packaged narratives.  Like the passing female in the opening paragraph, we don’t know if it’s any good, but there’s no harm in looking.