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John McAfee Triggers the Ultimate False Positive
Barence writes "The wild man of antivirus software, John McAfee, has been forced to deny reports of his own death. Internet reports circulating last night claimed the hard-living security software entrepreneur had died after one too many drink and drugs sessions. However, McAfee has taken to his Twitter account in the past few hours to assure everyone that he's still alive, and hasn't mislaid his sense of humour.'"I felt great when I went to bed last night. I had such great plans,' tweeted McAfee, alongside a link to a report — now hastily withdrawn — that claimed he had died from an overdose."
All this story does is give free press to a raving lunatic who should probably be locked up for murder and drug trafficking. At a minimum, the cases against him should be tried.
Knox? As in Amanda Knox? The girl who got railroaded by an Italian court? Then had her conviction overturned by a higher court? Then was going to be retried? Yeah, that's a real fugitive there.
You see, under American law, there's this "no double jeopardy" thing. It's actually part of the constitution. So Interpol can "want" all it wants, but the US government is never going to extradite Amanda Knox for a double-jeopardy case. It's actually illegal for them to do so. Funny, the US government refusing to break its own laws. Yeah, I know. Rare these days.
Also, this answers the "does the Constitution trump treaties?" question with a big, fat "yes!"
Whatever. Fuck Italy.