You spelled assassinate wrong, dude
You are invited to a meeting Agent X/Whistleblower Coffee chat.
Going? Yes/No/Maybe
Could this just be an email? I’ve already got enough on my plate.
My indecisive ass would still hit “maybe”
I don’t know
Can you repeat the question?
You’re not the boss of me now!
And you’re not so big!
Location: outside 7th floor
Retaliated against is a funny way to say killed
Imagine killing a man and then saying this…
“I may have committed some light murder.”
Not a big deal, he was kinda asking for it!
Look what he’s wearing!
Points to whistle
Prolly let his other CEO hit it without any complaints!
“You have a duty to demand the highest safety standards… and [ensure] that ‘speak up’ in fact means speak up, not shut up, as it is meant all too often.”
Tell that to Snowden, Assange, Manning etc.
Obligatory fuck Assange, no protection for Russian Agents.
yawn. The 2016 media ops are really paying dividends.
Haha no. He selectively edited Manning’s stuff to frame the US Army long before 2016.
“Frame” the US Army…? Bro the great satan doesn’t need any framing, its sins are dripping from its fangs and claws.
Then why did he edit videos he used to accuse the Army of war crimes? If they don’t need to be framed, why fuck with the evidence?
Idgaf, death to America
Fuck Snowden too, no respect for him running to Russia. If you think it’s your moral obligation to break the law, you should be willing to take the consequences. You can’t run off to an enemy state that does much worse things than what you were willing to break the law to expose. I have zero doubt Snowden is a traitor and gave Russia whatever they wanted. It’s possible he started off well meaning, but I wouldn’t be shocked if he did it for Russia all along. His original intentions don’t matter now either way, he had a high clearance and Russia now knows everything he learned with that clearance beyond even the scope of his “whistleblowing”.
Maybe don’t throw your whistleblowers in a jail and let them rot for life, and you will avoid defections to another country.
Can you blame the guy to not want to die in a dark cell for showing the world that your own government is keeping a lot of tabs on you without your knowledge?
He tried to go to other countries, but none of them wanted to take him in except Russia because of what he knew.
So it’s either die in a cell in the US, or live a somewhat free man in Russia.
The choice is clear.
So demand that your government do better and get behind the people that shows you how your government fucks you over.
There would have been a lot of pressure to get him released and would have kept what he revealed talked about and more pressure to end that as well. He’s just a little bitch that wanted to play hero and or a Russian agent.
Spoken like a true keyboard warrior.
Guys I found the gatorade abuser.
He didnt run to russia you moron, his passport was canceled by the USA while he was in russia. And his only demand for giving himself up to the US and go to trial was that he was allowed a public interest defense.
FUCK THE USA. You are licking the boots of a surveillance state, and snowden has more backbone than your entire familytree
I thought he was trying to go somewhere with no extradition treaty with the US and was laid over in Russia when his passport was suspended. It’s kind of outlined here but I could see how that could be concocted and I just want to believe he was better than a Russia mole.
Fuck the US and any other governments that are doing this dodgy shit that requires whistleblowing in the first place.
I mean, if I felt morally obliged to disclose illegal or immoral practices to the public, I’d be sure to run so somewhere they can’t get me. If there aren’t proper whistleblower protections, you gotta make your own.
Slurp slurp slurp 👢😛
I have noticed that if you say anything bad about snowden on reddit or now the Fediverse, you quickly get down-voted a lot. I am starting to think this is coordinated somehow.
He’s a whistleblower. Corrupt corpos/countries hate whistleblowers. Reddit/Lemmy users hate corrupt corpos/countries. There.
It’s as easy as that, no need to bring out conspiracies.
You are probably right. It’s just the speed and amount that got me thinking otherwise. Lemmy is a lot more popular then I thought.
No, it’s just about the dumbest thing I’ve read today. So far.
Deploy our great bot army!
For what purpose, Sir?
Downvote any post on any social media platform that is critical of Snowden!
As you command, SIr!
It’s not coordination when sheep decide to bleat the same thing based off headlines. Most people want to believe he wasn’t a mole because that fits the little guy hero narrative better.
Most people want to believe he wasn’t a mole
This sheep has never seen anyone provide any kind of evidence for such claims.
He could not have gained access from his position to the data compiled. His story on how he did doesn’t add up to anyone with security clearance. The real way it was accomplished isn’t going to be divulged either. The NSA isn’t going to publicly explain whatever avenue was found.
You see that this is trust me bro, no matter how correct you may be, right?
Quick, prepare the wrist-slapping fines!
The total energy of the strong finger wagging that follows this admission will be enough to power a flashlight for 2 milliseconds.
These fellows are going to get slammed and blasted by Congress, it might spoil up to a few minutes of their time on the yacht.
Maybe even Torched!
Do you mean “award them more fat defense contacts??” Cuz that’s what we’re gonna do!
Much too harsh for this gold-domed “too important to really hold to account” CEO. Perhaps a mildly stern, yet askance look (or two, if the crowd rumbles for more)
United States Senate be like pull those sleeves up slightly, bad boy!
oh boy their wrist is gonna hurt so much. that is what you get for killing/endangering lives of many people to gain couple more billions on your already existing billions. Go MURICAH!
And yet, still CEO I see…Sorry for misinformation - see comment below.
And apparently NOT in jail at this time
Military-industrial contracts… I doubt he will ever face consequences that he does not choose for himself. :-|
Better people…
No they fired him, but he’s staying on till they find a replacement. (He did get millions of dollars to boot though)
Oh… I thought they had someone already and this was him, sorry - I edited my comment to apologize for misinformation, thanks for the update!:-)
well anyways he will probably become CEO of another company or find another way to float to the top. his greed might even be seen as a positive trait by other companies.
How the f do you even start killing people for this? I mean the PR crisis that follows an assassination makes everything way worse doesn’t it?
There are people who have a lot riding on the line going up (often the same people in high positions in the organisation)
All these whistleblowers make the line go down
Of the people psychopathic enough to accumulate enough wealth to have a significant stake in Boeing, there’s going to be a percentage who are full-psychopath.
It’s what unabated greed looks like
Let’s also not forget those lucrative NASA and Military contracts. A lot of private and public money riding on this.
You only kill a whistleblower if you’re confident that they would have said something worse in court. It’s almost guaranteed to be front page news.
Exactly this. Whatever those whistleblowers knew must have been so damning, that committing two murders was better publicity.
It’s what he’s paid for
Bad PR comes and he takes the fall of stepping down with an exit package then everyone is happy
Nobody’s fucking happy about any of this. They killed a person for speaking up about something that affects almost everyone.
I suppose I am a bit more cynical than you
David Calhoun apologized to the families of Boeing crash victims, saying the manufacturer was “totally committed” to future saftey improvements, as he began testimony at the committee on Tuesday.
Cue South Park
investment bankerBP oil spill apology.Also, “saftey”? Seriously, Independent?
Do you mean South Park’s BP apology? The investment banker is the “…and it’s gone!” thing.
I did mean the BP apology, good catch.
That’s the… first… thing… that’s… ever gone wrong.
We know, they’re fucking dead.
People have died due to the greed and corruption of the leadership of Boeing. The people at the top have in fact gotten huge financial rewards by taking actions that were likely to kill people. There is no mechanism in US society to hold these people accountable. Are they going to get put in prison? Nope! Are they going to be PERSONALLY fined? Nope!
I really dislike how in Chinese society people are not able to criticize the government. I hope one day, everyone everywhere will have free speech. It’s unfortunate to say this, but in China, this would be dealt with severely and and with impact. I am not saying their mechanism is right, but the US has no mechanism at all. We all know nothing will happen, especially because most of the deaths were foreigners. It’s disgusting and makes the US look bad.
This is why ancient humans invented mob justice. When the laws don’t work, order still needs to be imposed.
Exactly this. In ancient Roman times, emperor Caracalla was infamous for having many of his enemies outright killed. One of these was the brother of a soldier who was assigned to his personal guard at the Rhine border regions. When Caracalla got off his horse for a piss, he got a gladius thrusted between his ribs. For all his might and power, he very much brought that on himself.
Sometimes people like that soldier are the last line of justice in the world.
why are people in this thread acting as if he’s just admitted to ordering hits on whistleblowers
Might have something to do with the whistle blowers dying mysteriously
To be fair only the first was a surprise mysterious suicide.
The second was sick for years and died because of that.Tell me again why we need to be fair to executives that murdered 340+ people to save money on training and certifications for their new plane?
Because it’s the right thing to do.
Well if we were treating them fairly they’d be in prison.
Absolutely! And we wouldn’t have to speculate or exaggerate or misrepresent to do so.
Now we’re on the same page!
Even the 1st wasn’t that mysterious if you read more than headlines. John very likely did kill himself. He had already lost his civil suit against Boeing for damages. Was trying to appeal that case. It very likely wasn’t going anywhere. Because if he had a case Boeing could have quietly settled before the initial trial.
The case also had nothing to do with current Boeing practices as John retired in 2017. John was suing for defamation.
Is thia a PR release from Boeing lol
This is not correct, he was in normal health until after he became a whistleblower and then he got MRSA and died in 2 weeks.
That shit happens, that’s almost exactly how one of my grandparents died but minus the whistleblower part.
Yeah it’s pretty low odds though.
We will never know if Boeing did it… But we do know how these companies are, so I am just assuming this they did until proven otherwise.
You can always count the corpo trash to do crime… 24/7
1% CEO of one of the largest companies in the military industrial complex.
We obviously haven’t read the article, yet feel entitled to comment on it all the same! /s bc not having read it myself, I just presume that’s the case 🤣.
More importantly, why are you surprised at that?
Social media is more about feelings than facts, especially when it comes to precision in the details - the barrier to speak is very low, on purpose, to allow us to vent our frustrations at the world being unfair and corrupt and twisted.
In this case it is fairly understandable - he is a very bad man who did very bad things. He has now admitted to a subset of the badness, and people wish that he had gone further to admit it all, so people talk as if that were the case.
Again, that’s just my guess, but we cannot control the world, only ourselves.
Fine the CEO, not to the company. He has to take responsibility.
When poor people put others in danger and/or exploit things for financial benefit, they go to prison.
Stop giving fines for big companies and actually start putting people in fucking prison.
Government can’t be too hard on Boeing, critical space and defense programs are at risk. I wish it was sarcasm.
In my opinion, the US federal government can/should be able take over Boeing temporarily in cases of felony or federal offenses perpetrated by executive personnel for the duration of the criminal investigation and trial.
Don’t be poor, problem solved!
And put him in jail
Fine? Arrest and jail.
Fine the company. Take the capital (which will have to serve the community), fine and jail the executives!
Companies are as accountable as the executives.
Of course they relieved themselves of the resource (human) that negatively impacted the share price.
Same way they relieve themselves of a resource (bolts) that negatively impacts the share price.
This just shows you how much of amateur this guy. If he doesn’t know you just lie lie lie what’s he doing being a CEO?
He is not lying because his counsel advised him that trick won’t here. They are doing damage minimization.
This clown should be prosecuted for murder tho
Seriously! Maybe he’s trying to play the honesty card in hopes that people see it as being transparent and we should trust him, but this is admission of guilt and willful negligence that lead to death. The guy should be charged and locked up.
What kind of a cruel world do we live in, where the CEO must apologize in public to the families of the plane loads of people their product killed, in literal crashing planes?
Apologize and then say “I’m proud of our safety record”
“Retaliate”
