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Re:John Barnett before death "if anything happens, it's not ... by regentbowerbird on Friday March 15, 2024 @05:06AM (#39713537)
But people _do_ die when exposing corruption of the rich. Such as Daphne Caruana Galizia and Ján Kuciak for the Panama papers. Would you call their deaths "hollywood films"?

And it'd be natural to think killers would try to hide their traces, such that most such deaths would look like an accident or suicide.

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Re:John Barnett before death "if anything happens, it's not ... by whimsicalism on Friday March 15, 2024 @05:39AM (#39713726)
I am more skeptical of the perfect staging to make it look like a suicide theory.

Both of those killings were in pseudo-mafioso states. Both were also immediately recognized as murder. State-sanctioned murder of your own citizens on your own soil is a lot less commmon in a country like the US, although there are well as Mafia and organized crime murders. But I think successful staging as a suicide is uncommon outside of Hollywood and repressive governments.

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Re:John Barnett before death "if anything happens, it's not ... by squigz on Friday March 15, 2024 @02:50PM (#39719321)
I'm confused - has there been any implication that (if this was a murder) it was "state-sanctioned"?
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Re:John Barnett before death "if anything happens, it's not ... by dinkblam on Saturday March 16, 2024 @10:22AM (#39726193)
> Both of those killings were in pseudo-mafioso states

ugh? there is more law & order in Malta than in the US.

been there for nearly a decade and according to Wikipedia [1] the homicide rate in the US is 6.4 while it is 0.4 in Malta.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

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Re:John Barnett before death "if anything happens, it's not ... by asdfgjkl on Friday March 15, 2024 @05:18AM (#39713593)
Just a correction, Kuciak wasn't killed for Panama Papers, but regular investigative journalism into the corruption of the rich (your point still stands).
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Re:John Barnett before death "if anything happens, it's not ... by Bluescreenbuddy on Friday March 15, 2024 @08:45AM (#39714904)
Daphne was exposing corruption long before the Panama Papers. She was already a target.
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