Fugitive John McAfee In Hiding
Released on 11/16/2012
[Male] John, you've been on the run for five days now.
[John] Right.
[Male] What's going on?
Where is this going?
[John] I have no idea where it's going, Josh.
I do know that the Prime Minister and the
Prime Minister's statement yesterday
could be equally reversed.
If I think that he himself is bonkers,
that he can throw away the constitution of the country
and become dictator without the world catching on.
That was John McAfee at 4:49 PM Belize time,
Thursday, November 15th.
For the past six months, I have been interviewing him,
and now Wired is publishing my exclusive 13 chapter
eBook investigation into his life.
What follows here is a compilation
of my most recent conversations with him.
[John] The job of the gang suppression
is to suppress gangs.
Well, yet they showed up in my yard.
[Josh] Right, well, I mean, is the other example
of the businessman in Belmapan whose house
was surrounded and they opened fire.
[John] So all I expect is that people do enough
research to understand those points, so when I say,
Well, given what I see, I think there's a high chance
that something, and by the way, I was beaten
nearly to death.
I went to the hospital in Fiwell when they-
[Josh] They broke his jaw.
[John] When they did.
Among other things, right?
[Josh] Yeah.
[John] I mean, that's a pretty severe blow,
to break a man's jaw.
[Josh] Of course.
[John] So no, I don't intend to put myself through that.
This is a fact.
[Josh] Right.
[John] And I did no less than him.
He didn't speak out much against the government.
He didn't do much.
Someone didn't like him and turned in an anonymous tip,
and then the next thing you know,
he's in the hospital and all this chitchat thing.
This is where we live.
This is this country.
If people can understand that, then I will talk to them.
If they think I'm living in America
and acting the way I'm acting, then I'm a madman.
I mean, everybody's reporting that McAfee says
his friends have been arrested.
Well, Jesus Christ, it's an easy thing for people to check.
(laughs) I mean.
Yeah, they intend to charge everybody, cash.
In fact, they did let my security guard's wife go.
[Josh] Right.
[John] You heard that, right?
[Josh] Yeah, I heard that.
In fact, I told you, with the baby,
that she had the one-year-old.
[John] Right.
And they let the taxi driver go, finally.
[Josh] Oh, okay.
[John] I mean, what can you charge the fucking
taxi driver for? (laughs)
I mean, think about it.
But they're searching for things to charge him,
so they're stretching the gun laws, okay?
They're just inventing shit to charge people with
under the gun laws.
As to my situation, anybody who will bother
to google Belize, the changes to the constitution,
the takeover of the Detail telephones company
and the subsequent refusal to return it
to its rightful owners by sending in the army.
And anyone who's willing to google the abuses of
the gang suppression units here in Belize
will have no problem understanding my reluctance
to turn myself in.
And I need to get off the phones now, sir.
[Josh] Okay, John.
[John] Thank you.
[Josh] Talk to you later.
Starring: Joshua Davis
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