"His money and assets would all be taken from him, he'd be thrown into a cell and possibly tortured."
He isn't in the backwater of Afghanistan, he's in a democratic country with an independent judiciary. What makes you think he would be tortured, let alone killed?
He seems to suffer from interactions with corrupt police. They could certainly beat the shit out of him after arrest with very few consequences. That's true even in the US.
As an example of special circumstances: how's Bradley Manning's trial coming along?
That's a Logical fallacy. This has nothing to do with Bradley Manning.
As far as you and I know Mcafee quite possibly killed his neighbour. Why shouldn't the authorities in the country where the crime was committed get hold of him?
If the dead neighbour had been an American celebrity, this argument would sound very different.
Yes it has, in the context of the present argument. Grandparent is saying that because you supposedly are in a "democratic country with an independent judiciary" doesn't mean that you won't be tortured/get a fair trial/etc., and uses Bradley Manning as an example of this.
If you were to assert that in democratic societies with functioning justice systems people are not let off for murder, then I think OJ would be a perfectly reasonable counter argument.
There's actually a lot of evidence that the vic was involved with and owed a lot of money to coke dealers who killed her in a manner consistent with prior M.O.s so while I did at one point believe OJ did it, there is some doubt in my mind and without having been at the trial and heard all the evidence I do not believe OJ actually would be a reasonable counter argument.
She had been telling the coke dealers, "Don't worry my man's rich he'll pay." When in fact he had told her many times that he wouldn't pay and many of his friends told him he better get very far away from her while he still can and before she gets herself and maybe him killed by the people she had been taking drugs from.
If you are going to call something out as fallacious, you should name which fallacy it is. Otherwise your statement is just as good as saying 'you are wrong!'
Not to sidetrack things, but Manning was not a civilian, and thus does not enjoy the same freedoms under the law as a civilian.
So comparing a civilian's (Mcafee's) fate with that of a non-civilian is apples and oranges.
Military justice is not the same as civilian justice -one's rights are curtailed. Thst's not to say your assertion is incorrect, rather, it might give the impression one might have rights akin to that a civilian --that, I understand, would be incorrect.
That's true, but all humans have the same human rights and he's a human, so the law is largely irrelevant in any discussion regarding ethics and democratic ideals.
I'm not going to defend the Belize justice system. But I wouldn't depend on the Heritage Foundation for any objective information. It's a right wing think tank.
Why would that matter? They show their methodology, the "corruption" index is mostly taken from Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index, where Belize and Guatemala do not do well.
I don't understand why you would assert that he is in a democratic country with an independent judiciary when Belize's corruption index is extremely high. See for yourself (it's near the bottom of the list):
We are talking about a country here where money is king. If you have money, you have clout and influence. There's nothing stopping anyone taking assets and offing him in some remote desolate field where nobody would find him. Considering the amount of attention McAfee has received, if he were to disappear there would be some serious questions so I doubt they'd kill him.
I don't know, would there actually be questions if he disappeared? The guy seems pretty crazy, if he dropped off the face of the earth completely I don't think I would really think much of it.
Now, if he or the government announced that he were captured, then he disappeared, that would certainly be different.
You think there are no government-driven assassinations even in democraties with "independent" judiciary ? You live in a very safe world, then. This being said, I know nothing about Belize so this comment may or may not apply to that part of the world.
He isn't in the backwater of Afghanistan, he's in a democratic country with an independent judiciary. What makes you think he would be tortured, let alone killed?