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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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This is kind of mind-blowing to me. First case in my lifetime where a US corporation appears to have murdered someone for political reasons. Has this happened before? I assume it has but it's very rare.

See: Octopus murders.

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

#52
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming he shot himself, yes, it would generally follow that it's self inflicted. I'm unable to think of anyway in which someone can shoot themselves and not have it described as "self inflicted", even an accidental self shooting would be described by some in either form. However , in general, with a gunshot wound and and a gun discarded right there some people might not assume that it was self inflicted and perhaps…

That wouldn't matter. If they really want to send a message, you get suicided with two shots to the back of the head. Having the entire media apparatus complicit in gaslighting the public into accepting absurdity is all part of the demonstration of power and demoralisation ritual.

So which one is it? So far as I can tell he didn't get "suicided with two shots to the back of the head", but despite that you still think the media is complicit in "demonstration of power and demoralisation ritual"?

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

#53
Maybe he was killed by the agents of whoever. I have no non-public knowledge about this.

On the other hand, if you were obsessed with some conspiracy theory, were feeling suicidal, and wanted to create maximum effect with your death ... "it's not suicide" is exactly what you'd say.

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

#54
post #37

This is kind of mind-blowing to me. First case in my lifetime where a US corporation appears to have murdered someone for political reasons. Has this happened before? I assume it has but it's very rare.

>First case in my lifetime where a US corporation appears to have murdered someone for political reasons Is there anything supporting this theory other than the fact the death benefits Boeing?

It's far more likely that he simply changed his mind after making the statement attributed to him than it is Boeing would arrange for him to be murdered five years after the fact.

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

#55
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>First case in my lifetime where a US corporation appears to have murdered someone for political reasons Is there anything supporting this theory other than the fact the death benefits Boeing?

I did say "appears," but this is some Epstein levels of "coincidence." I'm not really a conspiracy-theory type, but I mean c'mon. Does anyone believe that Epstein killed himself? Makes me think of this little stand-up comedy snippet. https://www.reddit.com/r/StandUpComedy/comments/14rcr7n/cons... "I understand not believing in most conspiracy theories, but NONE? You really think the government's batting 100? They ain…

> Does anyone believe that Epstein killed himself?

Yes, I believe that Epstein was a coward who took the easy way out rather than face repercussions.

If it was a grand conspiracy, why is Ghislaine Maxwell (Epstein’s partner-in-crime) still alive in prison?

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

#56
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.

> jumping out a window

Or a poisoning with a ludicrously rare poison, a strange car crash, a plane falling out the sky, dying at a gulag when you were fine a few days earlier etc etc.

It’s a very unsafe place when you don’t toe the line.

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

#57
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>First case in my lifetime where a US corporation appears to have murdered someone for political reasons Is there anything supporting this theory other than the fact the death benefits Boeing?

I did say "appears," but this is some Epstein levels of "coincidence." I'm not really a conspiracy-theory type, but I mean c'mon. Does anyone believe that Epstein killed himself? Makes me think of this little stand-up comedy snippet. https://www.reddit.com/r/StandUpComedy/comments/14rcr7n/cons... "I understand not believing in most conspiracy theories, but NONE? You really think the government's batting 100? They ain…

>Does anyone believe that Epstein killed himself?

Yes. People of high status frequently take their lives when they realize everything's gone down the drain.

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

#58
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>First case in my lifetime where a US corporation appears to have murdered someone for political reasons Is there anything supporting this theory other than the fact the death benefits Boeing?

I did say "appears," but this is some Epstein levels of "coincidence." I'm not really a conspiracy-theory type, but I mean c'mon. Does anyone believe that Epstein killed himself? Makes me think of this little stand-up comedy snippet. https://www.reddit.com/r/StandUpComedy/comments/14rcr7n/cons... "I understand not believing in most conspiracy theories, but NONE? You really think the government's batting 100? They ain…

>"I understand not believing in most conspiracy theories, but NONE? You really think the government's batting 100? They ain't lying about ANYTHING?"

"government lying about something" =/= "my pet conspiracy theory is true"

The government was responsible for the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, but that doesn't mean the covid vaccines contains 5g nanobots or whatever.

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

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>First case in my lifetime where a US corporation appears to have murdered someone for political reasons Is there anything supporting this theory other than the fact the death benefits Boeing?

The article we're commenting on, where a friend attests he was told explicitly that any "suicide" is fowl play. Sure, it's nowhere near "beyond a reasonable doubt", but it's plenty, together with the obvious motive, to form an opinion.

> fowl play

You probably meant foul play. "Fowl" means chicken-y (galliformes) or duck-y (anseriformes) birds.

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