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Guatemala is denying Anti-virus software guru John McAfee’s request for asylum in and soon he’ll be deported back to Belize, from where he illegally entered Guatemala.
Belize is the last place John McAfee wants to be. The authorities aren’t likely to do him any favors since for the last two weeks he’s been talking some major smack about them. On his personal blogs, WhoIsMcafee.com he’s been rallying against the country and displaying a banner asking people to boycott Belize.
As to whether or not McAfee is guilty, I don’t have any more information than you. But there is a plausible interpretetion that makes the strangeness of the case more palatable and offers a version that while not portraying Mr. McAfee in a Sunday-school-teacher light, does allow him an innocent scenario.
According to McAfee, he moved to Belize to help the people there. Yeah, sure John. Sources say he actually moved there to go wild with drugs and orgies. Bath salts, the synthetic drug that entered the pop culture this summer after a Miami man purported to be using the substance bit a man’s face off, was something McAfee relished in and allegedly was making in his compound. McAfee wrote in one post, “I’m a huge fan of MDPV. I think it’s the finest drug ever conceived, not just for the indescribable hypersexuality, but also for the smooth euphoria and mild comedown.”
Vice ran a post that tells the story of McAfee’s fall into the sort of decadent lifestyle $100 million dollars can buy you. With drugs like MDPV (bath salts) at the center of it, the sort of erratic behavior McAfee’s been displaying is not so strange.
Burning Tree lists MDPV’s side effects as “similar to Meth and Cocaine such as elevated heart rate, hypertension, irritability, extreme paranoia, delusions of super-human strength and invincibility, hallucinations, suicide, aggressive and violent behavior, and possibly even murder.”
That last symptom doesn’t bode well for McAfee’s innocence, but the extreme paranoia might shed some light on why he’s acting like the guy asking for change on the corner and fled illegally to Guatemala when he had only been questioned by the police and as of yet, there is not warrant for his arrest and he is free to leave the country though means like, buying a plane ticket like non-crazy people do. Belize’s Prime Minister has questioned whether or not McAfee is a loco.
McAfee says that Belize politicians offered protection in exchange for campaign contributions, and that since he refused his life is in danger. In a country on a low rung of the corruption index, this happens when a gringo millionaire lives next store.
What also happens is the police are also going to stop by and ask you some questions when your neighbor is murdered. But if you happen to be suffering from “extreme paranoia,” well, whether you are guilty or innocent you are probably going to screw up that conversation with the police and then do somethings that makes the murder boot appear to fit snuggly.
