Posted on 02/15/2016 3:24:02 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
John McAfee, better known in recent years for his brushes with the law in Belize and Guatemala than for his anti-virus software, filed to run for United States president as a Libertarian candidate.
McAfee told USA Today he plans to run on a platform of pardoning all marijuana users in prison and and to "stop the U.S. from being the world's policeman."
Doug Craig, a national board member of the Libertarian Party, said,"He fits right in with our political philosophy.:
Earlier this year, McAfee vowed to run as a member of the Cyber Party to "disrupt the political status quo" where his platform would focus on the "dangerously ignored issue of cybersecurity."
Macafee...the worst POS software ever. Scammy, spammy, obammy are all better.
Hey, why not?
Join the crowd!
However, we already have a major lawbreaker running as a Democrat, so don’t count on that engendering any cachet with the voters.
Could it get any nuttier?
This is Bizarro World, right?
Commies, criminals, oligarchs, lapdogs... the election is getting crazy.
Go Cruz!
pot users out of prison?
i dont know one person in prison for smoking a joint.
i do know sadistic animals that used to sell it in my cab.
they were not “nonviolent” offenders. They would have killed their mother if she messed up a deal. and their father if they knew who he was.
Agreed. Talk about junk.
Absolutely, your description of those “nonviolent” offenders is perfect!
They had to invent the term “bloatware” to describe it. It wasn’t until later until Norton and Office put the clothes on.
A bit more about this eccentric guy:
ndeed McAfee himself has dubbed the piece of software “one of the worst products on the planet†and even produced a tongue-in-cheek video titled “How to Uninstall McAfee Antivirus,” which has garnered more than 5.5 million views on YouTube.
McAfee made headlines in 2012 when he was named as a person of interest in a murder investigation by the authorities in Belize, where he was living at the time. McAfee denied any knowledge of the death of his neighbor Gregory Faull and went on the run to Guatemala, where he was eventually arrested for illegally entering the country. He was deported back to the U.S., having faked a heart attack while in detention, to buy time for his attorney to file an appeal which prevented his deportation back to Belize. The Belize government has not charged McAfee with any crimes and no longer seeks him in relation to the murder of Faull, though it has auctioned off his seized assets.
In 2013 McAfee founded a new company, Future Tense Centralm, which has produced a number of security-focused products including encrypted messaging app Chadder and privacy-focused app D-Vasive.
I hate the Libertarian Party. I flirted with becoming a member of theirs shortly after Obama won in ‘08. But the party is a total joke. They could have much more impact by becoming a wing of the Republican Party and helping slay the Democrats once and for all. If GOP can have a Christian wing and a RINO wing, then it can have a libertarian wing too.
every liberal/libertarian should have to drive livery in the projects for a month.
i can’t type here the things i saw.
Just when I thought they couldn’t find a bigger nut than Gary Johnson...
What the hell.......
It would give me someone to throw my vote at should Trump be nominated.
Yes, it’s Bizarro World...and you can play that game from nearly any position.
All Conservatives have a libertine (small l) part of their political essence, but a Libertarian Party is as you said, a joke, because there is no standardized Libertarian.
They are all over the place with no defined political stance.
In some ways, as we have noted recently, it appears that some self proclaimed Conservatives are undefinable as well. I found it to be quite disturbing in some ways...but I have gotten over it.
Agreed. Talk about junk.
I was going to try them out when mine expires in May. What’s their problem?
This guy is nuts.
Could pull votes from Trump.
I have no idea what he did with the Oreo cookie parts but he would spend hours and hours a day mindlessly peeling the creme off Oreo cookies and pushing them into the Bugles. I think this would fall under obsessive/compulsive behavior.
Eventually, he completely dropped out of society, cashed in his stocks, and went on his jungle sabbatical where he had all manners of adventure. Not sure this is the same guy but I'm thinking maybe he is. The story was either in WIRED magazine or one of those other magazines, whose name I can't remember.
There should be a couch in a corner of the party room for McAfee, Bernie and Trump.
I saw the Dateline about this, and it seems quite likely that McAfee murdered the neighbor because the neighbor didn’t like McAfee’s attack dogs or his erratic behavior with guns and had filed a complaint against him.
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