cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news/t/910625

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett alleged in a lawsuit prior to his death in South Carolina that he was "harassed" and "humiliated" for speaking out at work.

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[–] 135 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It stated that Barnett "continually objected to Boeing creating and maintaining a program not approved by the FAA that allowed mechanics to inspect and approve their own work, known as the Multi-function Process Performer."

Boeing should be dismantled and everyone involved in the harassment campaign against Barnett should be charged.

But that'll never happen 'cause it's too big to fail.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I don't understand why "too big to fail" is also "too big to be broken up." We broke up what was once literally the only company you could use if you wanted to use a telephone and it seems to have worked out.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What was once a politically reasonable and feasible course of action is now communism. Fox News now thinks for 30% of the country.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    If the government is giving any money to these assholes it should be from buying all their stock at fire sale prices using money from fines paid by the CEOs and board of directors.

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  • [–] 111 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Boeing's hit job must have been well planned.

    The killer would have had to kill him in his car, wrap his hands around the gun to establish fingerprint marks. A company like Boeing that's part of the Military-Industrial Complex wouldn't have an issue finding a highly trained contract killer.

    Bribes at the local authority level (maybe higher too) to have them rule it a suicide with no further investigation needed. No need for further pesky questions.

    Now all I'm waiting on is for the judge to toss out his incomplete testimony since it isn't complete.

    Then just wait a few weeks until the media focuses on other things.

    Then the execs can have martinis while stock number go up.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    They don't need to do that, they could have just called him on a burner phone and threatened to kill his family if he didn't kill himself. Forensically indistinguishable from suicide, but absolutely murder by coercion.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Has it ever happened to check the previous call logs of a suicide victim? Of course Boeing can bribe the telcom to keep shut / delete the info. But i'm curious wether it's ever been done.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago

    Regardless of if they actually hired a hitman, it's very clear that Boeing harassed and psychologically attacked this man to the point of him ending up dead.

    Whether they actually hired a man to pull that trigger or convinced him to pull it himself, legally his murder would be on their hands and they damn well need charged for it.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As it happened with Khashoggi and the same with Daphne and the list will always keep going on & on while we imagine hearing the clink of more glasses after.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why did they wait so long to off him then?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Being willing to kill someone as a "last option" and wanting to kill everyone who poses the slightest threat are not the same motivations.

    Also thinking about it, how many people at a company the size of Boeing become a threat by being bothered with criminal practices violating safety and other law and ethic standards? How many do we not hear about because the "normal" coercion tactics work?

    Having half your engineering department wind up dead because they raised concerns about issues with the production could backfire much more to begin with, but also it would make every engineer look for a different employer quickly. So trying to destroy someones reputation first, ousting him, creating a "him vs. us" mentality is preferential. It also makes it easier for the company to move on after killing him, if the need arises.

    So both from a emotionally crippled, but not fully devoid point of view and from an completely psychopathic cold blooded strategy point of view it makes sense to not pull the trigger on everyone right away.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Just like the whistleblower who outed the government for selling crack in LA to fund overthrowing governments around the world.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    True. Suicide by not one, but two bullets if you can believe that.

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

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The first went through his cheek and would have been non-fatal.

    Then his wife said she believed it was a suicide, he had been suicidal for a while.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Which i would also say, if three men showed up at my door to inform me about the very unfortunate suicide of my husband and that they really strongly hope, that i am not also suicidal like him...

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    They forgot assassinated.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Why put a hit on a guy when you can just harass him until he kills himself?

    Than again neither scenario reflects super well on Beoing. It's like it's run by Mr. Burns...

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