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[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 192 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yes, it was a suicide, because his testimony wasn't part of anything related to whistleblowing, he was appealing a loss of the wrongful termination lawsuit against Boeing.

The idiots who never bothered to learn more than the man's name think "big company killed whistleblower" are showing just how little they understand things.

To recap, all the evidence from his whistleblowing was submitted to authorities 7 years ago. He had no bombshells to drop, no story that hadn't been told, just a lawsuit over how Boeing retaliated against him for Whistleblowing 7 years ago, forcing him to "retire".

A few days before he killed himself, he was on the stand in front of the appeals judges, and from all accounts, they did not seem like they were going to overturn his loss. He was then called back for another round of testimony, but was already dead by then.

Can you imagine a 7-year legal battle over being fired for having integrity? The stress this man must have felt?

Boeing killed John Barnett, but they didn't pull the trigger, he did. Don't cheapen that with lies about some sort of conspiracy. Just know that Boeing is one of dozens of companies who have worked for decades to weaken labor protections.

[–] Vendul@feddit.de 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You sound like qAnon, no matter what is said, you can always just say it's deepstate trickery.

[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Nice try, Boeing

[–] mino@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you bother to read past the first paragraph?

[–] Vendul@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Boeing got you fooled too? 👁️👄👁️

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right. I can't imagine the stress and depression they might have felt just by seeing how the system was completely against them. Labor protection laws in the US really need to change.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also ruining someone's life in endless lawsuits against a company behind a squad of lawyers and walls of papers in a legal system in favor of power, is another form of killing someone.

[–] pop@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The idiots who never bothered to learn more than the man's name think "big company killed whistleblower" are showing just how little they understand things

And you have supernatural powers to understand all things? Don't act like you've got it all figured out, big guy.

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

And yet, the comments here are sort of proving that point.