Coincidentally, it was only 1 day before he was scheduled to make his deposition against Boeing.
“Suicide”
Is it still suicide if a corporate lawyer threatens to ruin your and your families lives through endless litigation and harassment leading you to despair and commit suicide?
I’d say: no, that’s murder by proxy.
“Suicided”
When taking on a company like Boeing, a company that had no qualms building and delivering defective planes, lying to regulatory bodies, concealing the truth all for shareholder gains. Everyone understands that suiciding a whistleblower is just another cost of doing business.
You forgot making munitions for the explicit purpose of destroying people and things
4D conspriacy theory: was actually killed by Airbus, because the negative press for Boeing will push the Airbus stock price up…
I feel bad for the guy. This is going to put a wet blanket on future whistleblowers, regardless of the actual cause.
Most whistleblowers end up dead or in a bad situation, especially if it is about something big. From the top of my head there’s Snowden, Assange, Epstein, the girl behind panama papers ,
It is a lost game, the people in power don’t want whistleblowers, it is literally the end of your life if you say something
Epstein wasn’t a whistle blower. He’s a sex trafficing nonce, who had a load of blackmail on powerful people.
The article says he was found in his truck and it was ruled a suicide, but they don’t give the cause of death.
Was it a self inflicted gunshot? Did he put a hose in the tail pipe and run it in the window? Did he take a bunch of meds? Or was he just found dead in his truck?
The timing of this and who he was testifying against do make it seem a little suspicious, but just a little more detail could put those suspicions to bed.
Or maybe raise even more.The Charleston Country police statement is that he died “from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound”
“In the back of the head, by a sniper rifle.”
Curiously, no firearms were found in the vehicle. The broken window remains a mystery.
Seems very convenient for the company.
I find less believable they hired an actual hitman. I rather think that he was pushed into the state of mind to end himself.
Swear to god, this story has one idiot conspiracy after another. If Boeing had anything to do with it, it was some sort of psychological pressure.
And for all you Qanons out there, tell me the last time a major American corporation fucking assassinated someone. I’ll wait right here while you dig up “evidence”.
Like 3 days ago with Boeing.
Pay Attention!!!
Does the Banana Massacre count? If not, why not?
Nestle, Chiquita and Boeing walk into a bar.
Nobody knows what happened next because the reporter watching them was later found dead.
*when was the last time they did it in America?
Completely agree. Works in movies but corporate world has much much cleaner ways how to destroy an opponent. Ideally without death.
This is true but the upper echelons of probably every corporation is filled to the brim with sociopaths. Wouldn’t be much of a stretch for some psychopaths to make it into the mix.
I ain’t saying Boeing had him killed, but
No, wait I am. How the fuck do you not see that conclusion?
Like shit, it’s a corporation. Who the fuck do you investigate? The motivation is the top down
Maybe the only form of justice the whistleblower felt was still possible in this late stage capitalist hell was making Boeing look even shadier than it already does by making his suicide happen at an extremely suspicious time because he knew both that Boeing and the people in charge there will never face true consequences for the murder they have already committed by slashing safety measures and also that Boeing would gladly murder him for being a whistleblower if they knew they could without a doubt get away with it.
That is the story I will choose to ponder while simultaneously giving a space to a sense of unknowing that I can never understand how hard it must be for someone who chooses to end their life because they feel in that moment it is the path of least suffering, without being there myself, living that life.
I think for someone in an extreme position of being a whistleblower for a massive US company with the defense industry well behind it, the meaning of what the truth is begins to depart from an evaluation of the literal facts and into a realm of the narratives that are allowed to exist by the status quo and the narratives that aren’t and what you can do to fight the injustice that maintains the violence of that filter.
My point being, the least important question of the murder case here is whether Boeing actually pulled the trigger of the handgun or not in the same way the least important question about Aaron Swartz is what material the sheets were that he used to hang himself with, he was murdered, the fact that it was by his own hands is tangential to the vital truth of the matter.
John Barnett did not kill himself
Epstein’d
Who suicided him?
I had no idea Hilary Clinton was on the board at Boeing. The more ya know!
