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Antivirus Pioneer John McAfee Arrested In Belize
First time accepted submitter rebelwarlock writes "McAfee lives in Belize and he says that he has become a target of the Gang Suppression Unit. He says the GSU came busting into his research facility in Orange Walk, killed his dog, took his passport, handcuffed him and arrested him on a bogus weapons charge. McAfee says he's a victim because he didn't donate money to a known U.D.P. Orange Walk politician."
Answer: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/145/fantasy-island.html
I know you're joking, but a lot of other people aren't and I can't respond to all of them. McAfee (the person) hasn't had anything to do with McAfee (the malware company) for nearly twenty years. He does pharmaceutical research now, and has nearly blown through his entire fortune in the process. Perhaps that's why he could no longer afford to pay the protection money ...er, I mean, make the "political donations".
From Wikipedia:
Beginning in February 2010, John started a new venture in the field of bacterial quorum sensing.
His new company QuorumEx is headquartered in Belize and is working towards producing commercial all natural antibiotics based on anti-quorum sensing technology.[6]
From the cited article:
http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/69891
Analysts at the Forensic Laboratory, and personnel from the Ministry of Health were taken to inspect the facility and samples of an alleged antibiotic apparently being manufactured at the Laboratory were also taken for analysis.
The Ministry of Health has already confirmed that no licence has been granted to McAfee or any of his agents to manufacture antibiotics in Belize.
Doing so without a licence is an offence under the Antibiotics Act.
Then, there are bits that seem a tad... not directly related to the alleged main issue of the police action:
Present on the premises at the time were John McAfee, his girlfriend who is a seventeen year old Belizean minor, five security guards.
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Further investigation led into a query regarding the employment of the security guards. This revealed that only two of the four guards on the premises were licensed to act as security guards.
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At the end of the search, three of the security guards were arrested and charged for "Providing Security Services without a License".
Also, the dog was not shot dead. It was "fatally wounded".
The same dog then attacked a B.D.F. soldier who responded by fatally wounded the dog.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
It has been independent since 1981. Which coincidentally was the year it started to degenerate.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
Why are you shocked and surprised? This happens every day in the United States in drug raids. Whole family is sitting down to dinner, just chilling one evening, then the door explodes (gotta love those no-knock warrants) while armed thugs swarm in, family dog gets a bullet (well that pomeranian could have gotten a cop and given him an infection ya know), kids are screaming while mom and dad are roughly thrown to the ground. Thugs take their time searching through the house and snickering loudly at mom's sex toys. Sometimes people even get shot for absolutely no reason.
Welcome to the creeping tyranny of a police state. Not so fun to actually be a part of one, is it?