Posted on 09/17/2015 9:07:03 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
US presidential candidate John McAfee has released his manifesto for the 2016 elections, revealing policies that include opening US borders to immigrants, ending the War on Drugs, and abandoning the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) in its entirety. McAfee, who founded the antivirus software company of the same name, confirmed his unlikely presidential bid – as a new third party candidate – earlier this month with the campaign slogan "privacy, freedom, and technology".
The 1,700-word manifesto lists 10 key policy areas: foreign policy, War on Drugs, immigration, taxation, education, welfare, TSA, economy, cyber awareness and the FDA (Food and Drug Agency). McAfee claims there is "much, much more" to be added but what is described lays out his political leanings and intents.
One of the first acts of a McAfee administration would be the wholesale decriminalisation of marijuana, while possession of any chemical substance intended for self administration would be considered "at most a misdemeanor". Should McAfee be elected in 2016, this policy, combined with his intention to open US borders, would likely face strong opposition from conservative Republicans.
The antivirus mogul, who is also a regular columnist for IBTimes UK, revealed last week that he believed the world is facing a cyber war more dangerous than nuclear devastation: "The next major war will not be fought with guns, ships and missiles. It will be a cyber war with far more devastation than could possibly be achieved by our combined nuclear arsenals.," he says.
In order to address this, McAfee suggested that the US follows in the footsteps of Australia by setting up a cabinet level position to bring cyber awareness and cyber security education into the government. According to McAfee, the recent creation of Australia's Digital Transformation Office revealed how far behind the US was lagging in this area.
"This should shame us," McAfee's manifesto states. "A country with one tenth our population and nowhere near the global leadership position that the US aspires to recognises that they cannot survive without cyber awareness within its leadership.
"We must look hard at this example and ask ourselves how we got to the tragic situation of cyber illiteracy that we now occupy. If this does not immediately change we will be relegated to the bottom ranks of important nations and we will in every respect wiped out by more astute nations."
What, no free anti-virus software in every pot?
Open US borders: very, very stupid. Welfare overload, ISIS, Ebola!
End war on drugs: Agree. get the F***ing Feds out of it and let states decide. End the DEA.
Abandon TSA: Agree. Who wouldn’t’ want one less Gestapo agency that sucks up money and commits 3rd degree rape and 4th amendment violations every day.
McAfee is a radical libertarian. Some very good ideas, some very bad ones.
Wow...what a scum bag!!!
I have heard about his soft ware but had no clue this was him....I wouldn’t use his products, heard nothing but bad...
Shouldn’t this guy be in jail?
The new Libertarian candidate? Actually, I believe he’s planning on starting his own party, so who knows?
Remember, this is a guy who is open and unashamed about his love for heavy psychotropic drugs like methamphetamines and pcp, and he is also a “person of interest” in a homicide in a foreign country, which he fled.
I really don’t think that his campaign is going to get much traction :)
Ever heard of “McAfee Antivirus” software? He’s that guy. Smart and successful, but happens to be a total lunatic.
People would find a new country to live in real fast. The smart ones anyway.
Pages? Article says words. In any event, I’ve learned all I need to know by the FR comments here.
This guy is a libertarian nutcase.
What is he smoking?
Open borders would be much less a problem if ALL entitlement programs were scrapped (phased out so that current enrollees no longer pay +tax benefit until they are back to zero balance.....and current users receive benefits until they pass). Then the only reason to come across the border would be to get a job (no additional benefits), and maybe actually assimilate. As it stands now, they (yep, they) are coming across for the goodies (with some exceptions), and the intention to vote themselves more largess and basically turn the United States into a better shinier version of the crapholes they came from.
Pity
KYPD
This guy has always been certifiable.
I’d rather have McAfee as POTUS than any Dem/Leftist.
Lunatic
He’s the perfect fit for the Democrat Party
He is a leftist, and a Democrat in all but name.
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