How whistle-blowers shape history | Kelly Richmond Pope

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40 Comments on How whistle-blowers shape history | Kelly Richmond Pope

  1. You may prevent the loss of lives in the future, report what you see or hear that may be harmful to others. That is NOT being a Rat or a snitch! As human, it is your DUTY to report harmful or dangerous discovery.

  2. You forgot to mention the DNC Whistle blowers. The Data Analyst and Bernie Sanders supporter who worked at the DNC and leaked the *.pst files of Clinton, Wasserman-Schultz, and Podesta, to expose alleged rigging of the Democratic Party primaries. The leaks were a way to expose evidentiary tactics that were used as evidence in the Jared Elizabeth Beck lawsuit on behalf of Bernie Sanders donors.

    • +The Flaneur Seth Rich was murdered. By whom? Was it political? Was it a “botched robbery”? Nobody knows because the details were never released. Nobody seems interested in resolving the murder, especially the DNC.

    • +CHAS1422 They the took control of Michael Hastings car and had him killed. But noooo, cars can’t be hacked. That’s just a crazy conspiracy talk.

    • You mean to type “women”, right? There were like three women who accused him. One of them even had top secret security clearance, so she’s even more trustworthy than normal.
      Gotta live up to the reality and admit that trump installed a rapist on the court.

  3. Wow!!! So in your face, and yet very little see it! Conditioning!!! Does anyone remember the brown shirts??? Maybe not cause they aren’t teaching it with common core

  4. It is easy to stand (or hide) behind big names and important people and organizations. It is hard to do the right thing and to be the one who does the right thing even if it is hard. I often wonder what I would do and I really hope I would choose the second.

    • No you wouldn’t.
      If you are wondering now when there is no danger, you would not do the right thing when there is REAL danger.
      I know, I will blow the whistle every time.
      Because I do.
      I have been thrown out of more places than I can count.
      Most people are either evil or cowards.
      I am neither.

  5. This is why CEO’s and those directly responsible for fraud never get prosecuted nor held liable for the very fraud that they setup.
    Instead there are Employees due to the nature of their job Know of the fraud and do not report it due to retaliation by the very CEO that set the fraud in motion.
    Then when the Company gets caught the person who did not report it for fear of being fired gets thrown in jail.
    These corrupt CEOs count on it!

  6. Whistle blowers are not so black and white as you like to depict it. In post soviet states whistle blowers are despised because of how the Soviet Union used them to send people to Gulag or simply assassinate for their political views or being male dominant role-models in society e. g. teachers; rich farmers with greater networth than average; literates who didn’t support communist agenda blindly. Women are more obedient than men and easier to be abused in order to get your agenda through, just as happened in Soviet Union. And because of that whistle blowing is stigmatized. Nobody wants to be the “knocker” as the term is in Estonia… Plus as a whistle blower you got some merits, what got abused by the more illicit types giving the negative connotation to all the whistle blowers. (example: Whistle blowing against a nationalist farmer could end you up with his farm and the victim shot, while his family deported)

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