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'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

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Re: 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

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post #6

While I can't see "Boeing" (as a whole command structure) can be blamed for his death I do see the possibility of some corrupt person in a high position fearing what he had on him personally and ordered a strike against him.

I worked for an eBay Inc. company as an executive, never thought that could happen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal

Re: 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

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That is every farmer.

That is almost every small business owner.

That is most people with a house in large cities.

I need to save up $350,000k for my kid's college before he heads off to keep him from having any loans, that means people with two kids who fully fund college for their kids will have $700k in assets just in college savings[1].

Saving for retirement takes 3-4 million.

1 million was a lot of money back when I was a kid in the 90s, now not so much.

[1] College prices are truly obscene.

Re: 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

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post #8

It seems like that's said very often before whistleblower or journalist deaths subsequently ruled a suicide.

They don’t even know the details of the weapon, but in the minute of it being published, they claimed to know it was “self-inflicted”.

Maybe the authorities do know and it's simply not published/released? After all, assuming he shot himself and the gun is right there, it seems fairly reasonable to tentatively presume it's self inflicted.

Re: 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

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post #5

Wouldn’t the time to have killed him be before he testified?

He was killed between pre-trial deposition interviews pertaining to a trial that is still upcoming.[1] One might speculate he was killed immediately after it was confirmed in a deposition that he had knowledge damaging to Boeing, and he intended to testify in that upcoming trial.

[1] https://au.news.yahoo.com/boeing-whistleblower-john-barnett-...

Re: 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

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Dr Evil has entered the room [0]!

"Don't you think we should ask for maybe more than a million dollars"

0: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EJR1H5tf5wE

Re: 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

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post #12

Oh so in Russia its jumping out a window and in the USA its some random method of suicide? Why not be specific, and consistent, like Russia?

Just speculating here but isn’t jumping out a window in Russia usually an implication it was ordered by the Russian state (ex: FSB) while in the US a framed suicides are assumed to be done by numerous non-associated actors. So in one place a single entity is responsible and in another it’s multiple entities.

It doesn’t seem surprising to me that there would be an affinity towards a particular method within entities.

Re: 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

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post #4

This happens way too often, and I'm genuinely curious why. The easy answer is that paranoid people with a vendetta say exactly this to throw guilt onto the other party. The hard answer is harder to swallow. What can we do about it?

>This happens way too often

1. What some other recent occurrences?

2. What's the baseline rate of suicides we should expect for people in high stress positions, like being a whistleblower? How many people could plausibly be categorized as "whistleblowers"?

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