Four things to know about presidential hopeful John McAfee

Juan juan.g71 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 12 16:14:06 PDT 2015




	this one was entertaining 

	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIXc_GqIsE0

	what's also slightly entertaining is that a retard like
	grarpamp (with his 'limited' government bullshit) takes mcafee
	(and alex jones LMAO!) seriously...



> > He’s played Russian roulette in front of a reporter 


	obviously using a fake bullet.



>> to prove a
> > point, was once a fugitive from the law in Belize and, just last
> > month, was arrested for an alleged gun violation and driving under
> > the influence.
> > 
> > In keeping with his unconventional style, McAfee’s bid for the White
> > House, announced this week, will be waged a candidate from his own
> > “Cyber Party.”
> > 
> > "I have a huge underground following on the web," McAfee told CNN 
> > Money.
> > "I promise you I will win because I have the votes."
> > 
> > On the same day he announced he was running for president, TV
> > network Spike announced they were planning to air a series next
> > year that “will be centered around McAfee's first-person interviews
> > and will reveal unanswered questions about his life ranging from
> > drug-fueled college days in Virginia, to learning to battle
> > computer viruses early in his career at Lockheed in the 1980's, to
> > starting McAfee and Associates in 1987, to the 2012 murder
> > investigation in Belize.”
> > 
> > Here are four know about McAfee as he reenters the national
> > spotlight.
> > 
> > He built fortune on antivirus software, then lost it
> > 
> > McAfee made his millions at the anti-virus company that bore his
> > name. He ultimately cashed out, selling his stake in the firm after
> > taking it public.
> > 
> > But his fortune took a hit during the 2008 recession. He was worth 
> > about
> > $100 million before the financial crisis, and less than $10 million
> > after. He said that his losses were exacerbated because much of his
> > money was tied up in real estate.
> > 
> > “My father always said, 'Real estate, you can't lose in real
> > estate' ...
> > you know, oddly enough you can,” he told ABC News at the time.
> > 
> > He sold many of his assets, including houses in Hawaii, Colorado
> > and New
> > Mexico and moved to Belize to develop “natural” antibiotics.
> > 
> > McAfee Associates, the company he founded, was bought by Intel in
> > 2010. They dropped his name from the brand in 2014.
> > 
> > The Russian roulette story
> > 
> > While McAfee was in Belize, a Wired magazine writer visited his 
> > compound
> > to report a profile. McAfee pulled out a gun during a conversation
> > with the writer about the Belizean authorities’ interest in his
> > activities.
> > 
> > McAfee put one bullet in the chamber and placed the gun to his head,
> > according to the profile. “Maybe what happened didn’t actually
> > happen. Can I do a demonstration?” he asked the writer, who wrote
> > that he tried to deescalate the situation.
> > 
> > McAfee pulled the trigger repeatedly. Nothing happened.
> > 
> > “I can do this all day long. I can do this a thousand times. Ten
> > thousand times. Nothing will ever happen,” he said. “Why? Because
> > you have missed something. You are operating on an assumption about
> > reality that is wrong.”
> > 
> > The fugitive
> > 
> > In 2012, authorities in Belize investigating the murder of McAfee’s
> > neighbor, Gregory Faull, were looking to speak with McAfee. He and
> > the man had had disputes over McAfee’s dogs and the security guards
> > that watched his property. McAfee told authorities that his dogs
> > had been poisoned two days before Faull died.
> > 
> > McAfee maintained his innocence and fled the authorities. He said he
> > thought he would not get a fair hearing in the country. “Things do
> > not operate here as they do in the States,” he said. “We are living
> > in a near dictatorship where the legal system is subservient to the 
> > cabinet."
> > 
> > His flight from Belize made national headlines and media outlet
> > Vice was
> > briefly embroiled in a controversy when it appeared as though they
> > had leaked McAfee’s location accidentally. But after a month on the
> > lam, he ended up in the capital city of Guatemala.
> > 
> > “I like Guatemala. I think the legal system in Guatemala is
> > superior to the legal system in Belize," he told CNN at the time.
> > "Guatemala is close, it is beautiful and most importantly, I enjoy
> > the company of Guatemalans.”
> > 
> > DUI arrest
> > 
> > After a period of relative quiet, McAfee surfaced again when he was
> > arrested earlier this year for a gun possession violation and a DUI
> > in Tennessee. He claimed that while he was impaired, he hadn’t been
> > drinking alcohol. Instead, he said that a new prescription for
> > Xanax had
> > impaired his driving.
> > 
> > "Never taken them before,” he told CNBC. “And in fact I was
> > impaired, I must admit."
> > 
> > He has also been running a company called Future Tense Central. It 
> > backs
> > a range of products and services, one of which is called Autonomous
> > Armor. The website for the forthcoming product lists several of 
> > McAfee’s
> > accomplishments, before offering a coda.
> > 
> > “Billions of dollars and decades later,” it says. “McAfee is back
> > and at
> > it again.”
> > 
> > http://thehill.com/policy/technology/253454-four-things-to-know-about-presidential-hopeful-john-mcafee#
> 





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