Ultimate Judgment: the Debian Suicide Cluster
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.
There is no stronger judgment against an organization than a group of volunteers who take their own lives.
Statistically, only one in four victims writes a suicide note or similar communications. The Debian Day Volunteer Suicide, that is the volunteer who chose to write about his intentions the night before Debian Day, is a case that includes many written records.
Given that only one in four leaves a note we can only wonder how many others from the list of missing developers chose suicide without telling us.
According to the financial disclosures from Software in the Public Interest, Inc, over $120,000 has been spent paying lawyers to write insults to my family and I after my father died. They are now circulating suspicious documents and forgeries they created themselves to insult my family again.
For those who have suspicions about the documents being created by these people, the answer is in the document itself. The document simply contains no proof of anything, other than the proof that somebody gave CHF 18,500 (equivalent to $20,000) to insult my family and I after my father died.
When a group behaves so far outside of social norms, insulting volunteers at a time of grief, is it any wonder that volunteers have committed suicide?
One of the other facts that is very easy to check is the definition of a suicide cluster. Experts tell us that 3 or more people is a suicide cluster and it looks like Debian has crossed that threshold some time ago. The death on our wedding day was subject to a secret inquest in Switzerland so people who didn't see the report can't officially link it to the cluster.
We can think of the volunteers who chose to die by suicide as a jury. They all had similar experiences and they all reached the same conclusion. They have given us the ultimate verdict. The suicides are themselves a judgment that no amount of corrupt money can buy from corrupt processes. The judgment passed by Frans Pop & others is not about my family. Taking your life is a judgment on the Debian "family" and this is where to find the evidence that they are so desperate to censor. █
