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He’s a murderer and fraudster. You do not in fact have to applaud him for anything.
Guilty until proven innocent?
That's the HN default I think.
John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US
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Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US
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He died in a Catalan prison, not in US. Even if the US government had really any reason to kill him, sending an agent to prison in a foreign country to fake a suicide, when he was going to get extradited anyway, seems a bit hard to believe. The other explanation -that the policemen in the Catalan prison were useless enough to let him hang himself without them realizing- seems more plausible.
> sending an agent to prison in a foreign country to fake a suicide In the US, police culture generally doesn't allow taking bribes or letting sketchy figures with improper documentation into prison cells to administer extra-legal punishment. In the other countries, things might be a lot more relaxed -- I don't know about the police in this particular country, but I imagine there are a fair number of prisons around t…
1- You have watched lots of films.
2- You have probably never been outside of US.
3- No... You cannot bribe your way into a Spanish (or any other EU country) prison in order to kill someone.
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> I don’t care if McAffee owed some taxes - leave the guy alone, he's obviously unstable This is ridiculous. Okay so let's leave all the rich people alone who claim they are unstable. McAfee made millions, from what I understand, he paid little taxes on that. That's stupid. I don't care how unstable you are, or how good you are donating your "fair share". You're still not excused from paying your taxes.
Taxation is theft. Fuck you and your blind support for the war machine, the war on drugs and the killing of millions of people at home and abroad. No tax in today's society is just. The US's case against John McAfee is weak at best and he should not be dead. Downvote and censor all you want because rational debate has been dead hear for while now.
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Actually, John killed his own dogs after he believed they were poisoned by his neighbor. Were they really poisoned, or was that just one of his psychotic delusions(like his claim that Belizean officials were out to kill him but killed Faull by mistake)? We'll never know. But we do know that his dogs were allowed to run free in a giant pack and attacked at least 6 people (probably more, but they may be locals and not…
"Actually, John killed his own dogs after he believed they were poisoned by his neighbor." I've never heard he killed his dogs. I did hear he thought the next door neighbor poisoned his dogs.
He shot his dogs and buried them on his property (allegedly, because he thought they were poisoned). The last I heard of the dogs, the police had taken their corpses to see if they were shot with the same gun that murdered Faull. But odds seem low since it was known that John had a ton of guns and armed guards in Belize.
Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US
#955I am sorry to hear it. May he rest in peace. I never knew him personally, but I really liked his explicit non-conformity. Strange... I have an emotional disconnect that prevents me from being sad about conventional things. Death of close family members - depressing, but not acutely sad. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I see most of those coming? This bit of news on the other hand... I felt a sharp crack in my st…
I hear ya...
Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US
#956Abolishing taxes on movable private property, in favor of a tax on land ownership, would solve this. No one would be persecuted internationally because they refused to surrender their privacy and property in filing an income tax return and fulfilling the payment obligations imposed on them, respectively. To enforce a land tax is straightforward: you don't pay the tax, you are evicted from the land, and lose your righ…
Simplicity is not for ordinary mortals. How many people did you think can wrap their head around simple taxation rules?
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#957No one deserves to be kidnapped and throw in a cell for the victimless crime of tax evasion. RIP, McAfee. In the 20th century: ~8 million were murdered in mundane crimes. ~175 million people were murdered by the state. Democracy is just violence in disguise. Pure evil.
>Democracy is just violence in disguise. Pure evil.
Slightly better way to put it IMHO: Democracy is the tyranny of the masses.
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What is with the downvotes? What am I missing that I should know because I don't see anything out of place with this post? (serious question)
If I were to take a guess, it might be because the quoted text comes across as conspiratory and opportunistic. It's not that Weinstein shouldn't be free to post tweets about what he likes. It's just that it had no relevance here.
It's well known that Eric knew Epstein. And he shared screenshots of text messages with McAfee (which McAfee himself sent first).
How's that opportunistic/"It's just that it had no relevance here"?
Re: John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US
#959No one deserves to be kidnapped and throw in a cell for the victimless crime of tax evasion. RIP, McAfee. In the 20th century: ~8 million were murdered in mundane crimes. ~175 million people were murdered by the state. Democracy is just violence in disguise. Pure evil.
>Democracy is just violence in disguise. Pure evil. Slightly better way to put it IMHO: Democracy is the tyranny of the masses.
Definitely. Unfortunately here this would get downvoted really fast, and fewer readers would see what I wrote. I didn't want to get downvoted so fast. There's not much space for respecting the opinions of people who care about liberty and principles here.
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#960Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would one hope for him to escape justice?
Because it is cruel and unusual to punish someone for hyperbole, severing a mans penis and making them eat it is not justice.
I either responded to the wrong comment, or misinterpreted the one I replied to. I wrote that believing I was responding to a claim that it was a good thing that McAfee evaded arrest in Belize. He certainly shouldn't be made to eat his own genitalia, regardless of what he's done.