The establishment will do anything to maintain its power.
Donald Trump learned that lesson the hard way.
And a Military Industrial Complex whistleblower just suffered one shocking fate.
Untold billions of dollars have been sent to Ukraine.
The money goes down a bottomless pit with zero oversight.
And not much is done to look into the companies that compose the war machine.
One such company is Boeing, which also builds planes for commercial flights.
Scandal in the air
Boeing recently came under scrutiny after an Alaska Airlines flight suffered a terrifying incident when a side of the plane blew off in midair, forcing an emergency landing.
John Barnett, a Boeing whistleblower, came forward with details about safety concerns in 2017.
Now Barnett is dead of an alleged suicide.
NBC News reported that “John Barnett, 62, of Louisiana, spent more than three decades at the aircraft manufacturing giant and sounded the alarm with aviation authorities in 2017 over what he said were potentially ‘catastrophic’ safety failings.”
Officials in Charleston, South Carolina claimed that Barnett died “from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound” in his truck.
The timing is suspicious because Barnett was preparing to give testimony on day three of a deposition regarding a lawsuit against Boeing.
Barnett, a Boeing quality inspector, accused the company of a “culture of concealment” and said that it valued “profits over safety.”
Charleston police spokesperson Sgt. Anthony Gibson said in a statement that the department had “not received any indication from the coroner’s office that foul play is suspected in this case.”
However, Gibson later said in a statement that detectives “are actively investigating this case and are awaiting the formal cause of death, along with any additional findings that might shed further light on the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. Barnett.”
Unsafe at any altitude
Barnett’s family stated that he suffered from PTSD and panic attacks as a result of the “hostile work environment at Boeing.”
The company wrote in a statement, “We are saddened by Mr. Barnett’s passing, and our thoughts are with his family and friends.”
In 2019, Barnett told the New York Times, “ haven’t seen a plane out of Charleston yet that I’d put my name on saying it’s safe and airworthy.”
Barnett’s case was set to go to trial in June, and his family claimed in a statement, “He was looking forward to having his day in court and hoped that it would force Boeing to change its culture.”
The Alaska Airlines fiasco and Barnett’s untimely death will only lead to more scrutiny of Boeing.
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