• kn0wmad1c@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    Look, we all know he didn’t off himself, but here’s my issue with these stories where a friend or family member says that the person said they told them it won’t be suicide:

    If Barnett really said that, why not also set up a dead man’s switch? If he was truly afraid that he had info so damming he’d be killed for it, then why not set it up so that the info still finds a way to come out even in the event of his death?

    If anything, ensuring the info comes out one way or another might have even protected him.

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      8 months ago

      He already published his information and was in the process of repeating it in front of a court.
      His death prevented him from giving his information as sworn testimony which a dead man switch could not do.

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      Well because according to his quote he wasn’t afraid. I don’t think he thought the company he worked for for 30 years would do this. Seems he said this remark only in response to what she asked.

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        It just takes one psycho in management with their own ass on the line to do something insane to cover their tracks.

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          That’s my thought if this conspiracy were true. It wasn’t some evil corporation assassinating the guy, it was one of the menial workers who had more to lose from his testimony.

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      It would have been really nice to have some kind of automated testimony upload or something.

      Have it in writing. “I have zero intention of killing myself and my life is great save for my horrendous former employer that should go straight to hell.”

      ANYTHING more substantial than “Y’know he told me once…”

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        8 months ago

        Someone on lemmy said it yesterday. Those Boeing shits could have put him in a no-win. Tell him that if he drops it they will still sue him and if he continues they will also sue.

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        This was my thought. As terrible as it is.

        Basically “We have a van outside your house. You have two options…”

        Man, wish they could’ve gone into witness protection and testified from an undisclosed remote location or something…

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      Not only that, but isn’t a dying declaration specifically admissible as fact or something? I’m only vaguely recollecting this, so I’m likely wrong.

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      Unless it really was suicide via blackmail/ extortion.

      If you don’t kill yourself were going to kill all your family and friends.

      Give him videos of the surveillance on all of them to scare him.

      Still seems more likely they did kill him, but that might be a reason for no Deadman switch

      I’d wanna be in witness protection and unreachable if I was whistle-blower at that level just to avoid situations like that.