[APFN] The Family.....dots connect to Wikileaks!

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The Family.....dots connect to Wikileaks! http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=134723;title=APFN The Family.....dots connect to Wikileaks! SEE VIDEO: http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/stories/870619/the-family Going back to what we can learn of him from Wikipedia, he’s something of a traveling show, himself. Six universities in 3 years, but no degrees? True, he’s innovative, but to what effect? And therein may lie the problem with Julian Assange. The case could be made that he’s a perennial mess in need of cleaning up after. And now, thanks to the Internet and an age where freedom, or what passes for it, is often held up as the only standard, without consideration for its consequences, or a prerequisite sense of responsibility required to enjoy it without doing great harm, it may fall to some government, with the help of Interpol, to put irresponsible, if not anarchistic, genie, Julian Assange back in the bottle for good. Santiniketan Park Association >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search The Santiniketan Park Association, also known as The Family and The Great White Brotherhood, is a controversial New Age group formed in Australia under the leadership of the Yoga teacher Anne Hamilton-Byrne. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiniketan_Park_Association Enter the Santiniketan Park Association, or: The Family and The Great White Brotherhood, is a controversial New Age group formed in Australia under the leadership of the Yoga teacher Anne Hamilton-Byrne. While perhaps impossible to know precisely what forces shaped Assange, it’s not a stretch to suspect that some of them may have been rather unusual, to put it mildly. One could almost see Assange as one of Hamilton-Byrne’s own children, to the extent they were hers, of course. Anne Hamilton-Byrne acquired fourteen infants and young children between about 1968 and 1975. Some were the natural children of Santiniketan members, others had been obtained through irregular adoptions arranged by lawyers, doctors and social workers within the group who could bypass the normal processes. The children’s identities were changed using false birth certificates or deed poll, all being given the surname ‘Hamilton-Byrne’ and dressed alike even to the extent of their hair being dyed uniformly blonde. The children were kept in seclusion and home-schooled at Kia Lama, a rural property usually referred to as “Uptop,” at Taylor Bay on Lake Eildon near the town of Eildon, Victoria. They were taught that Anne Hamilton-Byrne was their biological mother, and knew the other adults in the group as ‘aunties’ and ‘uncles’. They were denied almost all access to the outside world, and subjected to a discipline that included frequent corporal punishment and starvation diets. The children were frequently dosed with the psychiatric drugs Anatensol, Diazepam, Haloperidol, Largactil, Mogadon, Serepax, Stelazine, Tegretol or Tofranil. On reaching adolescence they were compelled to undergo an initiation involving LSD: while under the influence of the drug the child would be left in a dark room, alone, apart from visits by Hamilton-Byrne or one of the psychiatrists from the group. A few children managed to escape. One adoptive daughter, Sarah Hamilton-Byrne, later wrote a book, Unseen Unheard Unknown, in which she claimed, among other things, that children were stolen. She claimed that her biological mother had come to get rid of a baby and that members of the medical establishment in Melbourne and Geelong took part in a process where women were told that their babies had died at birth, when they had actually been taken away and eventually passed on to Anne Hamilton-Byrne. Going back to what we can learn of him from Wikipedia, he’s something of a traveling show, himself. Six universities in 3 years, but no degrees? True, he’s innovative, but to what effect? And therein may lie the problem with Julian Assange. The case could be made that he’s a perennial mess in need of cleaning up after. And now, thanks to the Internet and an age where freedom, or what passes for it, is often held up as the only standard, without consideration for its consequences, or a prerequisite sense of responsibility required to enjoy it without doing great harm, it may fall to some government, with the help of Interpol, to put irresponsible, if not anarchistic, genie, Julian Assange back in the bottle for good. Unfortunately, along the lines of unintended consequences, the seemingly freedom loving Assange may ultimately only drive world governments to reassess their views of the rather free form of communication we think of as the Internet, making it all the more difficult for those capable of embracing freedom with at least a modicum of responsibility to protect their own freedoms in the end. Far from freedom’s greatest champion, Assange may eventually be seen as one of its greatest enemies – though that feature of an Internet-enabled world was always going to emerge as a bug. And Assange is likely not the last one to emerge. In 1987, after turning 16, Assange began hacking under then name “Mendax” (derived from a phrase of Horace: “splendide mendax,” or “nobly untruthful”). He and two other hackers joined to form a group which they named the International Subversives. Assange wrote down the early rules of the subculture: “Don’t damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don’t change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information.” In response to the hacking, the Australian Federal Police raided his Melbourne home in 1991; he was reported to have accessed computers belonging to an Australian university, the Canadian telecommunications company Nortel, and other organisations, via modem. In 1992, he pleaded guilty to 24 charges of hacking and was released on bond for good conduct after being fined AU$2100. The prosecutor said “there is just no evidence that there was anything other than sort of intelligent inquisitiveness and the pleasure of being able to—what’s the _expression_—surf through these various computers.” Assange later commented, “It’s a bit annoying, actually. Because I co-wrote a book about [being a hacker], there are documentaries about that, people talk about that a lot. They can cut and paste. But that was 20 years ago. It’s very annoying to see modern day articles calling me a computer hacker. I’m not ashamed of it, I’m quite proud of it. But I understand the reason they suggest I’m a computer hacker now. There’s a very specific reason.” Child custody issues In 1989, Assange started living with his girlfriend and soon they had a son. She separated from him after the 1991 police raid and took their son. They engaged in a lengthy custody struggle, and did not agree on a custody arrangement until 1999. The entire process prompted Assange and his mother to form Parent Inquiry Into Child Protection, an activist group centered on creating a “central databank” for otherwise inaccessible legal records related to child custody issues in Australia. Computer programming and university studies In 1993, Assange started one of the first ISPs in Australia, known as “Suburbia.” Starting in 1994, Assange lived in Melbourne as a programmer and a developer of free software. In 1995, Assange wrote Strobe, the first free and open source port scanner. He contributed several patches to the PostgreSQL project in 1996. He helped to write the book Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier (1997), which credits him as a researcher and reports his history with International Subversives. Starting around 1997, he co-invented the Rubberhose deniable encryption system, a cryptographic concept made into a software package for Linux designed to provide plausible deniability against rubber-hose cryptanalysis; he originally intended the system to be used “as a tool for human rights workers who needed to protect sensitive data in the field.” FULL REPORT:>> http://bigpeace.com/driehl/2010/12/01/who-is-julian-assange/ --------------- KARL STEFANOVIC: Anne's followers included dozens of respected, middle-class professionals - doctors, nurses, lawyers, teachers - all willing to do the bidding of their master. EX CULT MEMBER: I was told to leave my first wife and go up to the hills. I did. I was told that I would have a baby with another woman, and I did. KARL STEFANOVIC: Anne began collecting children at her hideaway at Lake Eilden, near Melbourne. Her devoted followers able to convince unsuspecting teenage mothers to hand over the babies. One of them was Sarah Hamilton-Byrne. SARAH HAMILTON-BYRNE: My mother was a 15-year-old girl whose doctor was a member of the sect, and the doctor organised the adoption, drugged my mother and took me away from her at birth. KARL STEFANOVIC: Sarah would grow up believing that Anne Hamilton-Byrne was her natural mother, that all the other children were her real brothers and sisters. And to convince outsiders they were all related, Anne dyed their hair blonde. LEX DE MAN: Bleached blond hair, singing like the von Trapp family, living out Anne's fantasy of, in her thoughts, I'm sure it was, something like an Aryan race. Horrific. KARL STEFANOVIC: Even Anne claims she doesn't know how many children she acquired this way. So how many? ANNE HAMILTON-BYRNE: I can't tell. I don't know. KARL STEFANOVIC: You don't know? Dozens? ANNE HAMILTON-BYRNE: No. I only know mine. KARL STEFANOVIC: How many of them were yours? ANNE HAMILTON-BYRNE: Altogether I had nine children. KARL STEFANOVIC: Even that is a lie. What we do know is that eventually, Anne would have up to 28 youngsters under her control, guarded by a sinister group of her disciples known as the 'Aunties'. The children's very existence, a secret. So how on earth do you hide 28 children from the world in the middle of Victoria? Well the answer is right here. A barbed wire fence surrounds this property, the kids were never allowed out. But not 300 metres away, is a lake. Thousands of Australians came here for holidays during the course of two decades. No-one saw anything. No-one raised the alarm. When the alarm was eventually raised, and the police came knocking the Aunties had already swung into action - and the children just disappeared. SARAH HAMILTON-BYRNE: I'll show you where we were hidden. KARL STEFANOVIC: Sarah showed me the house at Lake Eildon and the secret tunnel where they were forced to hide when visitors called. SARAH HAMILTON-BYRNE: And under here there's a little hole that was blocked off, and there was a picture-thing which covered it - it's got a bit of cloth now - and we'd all pile through here. KARL STEFANOVIC: Through that hole? 28 of you in there? SARAH HAMILTON-BYRNE: Up to 28, yeah. KARL STEFANOVIC: That is disgusting. That is abhorrent abuse. SARAH HAMILTON-BYRNE: We'd just be absolutely still. We were very well disciplined, anyway. We were used to not moving a muscle on pain of punishment. Plus we were scared. Scared of the police, scared of the outside world. Because they said that if they found us, we'd get the blame and we'd be taken away and beaten in sacks. KARL STEFANOVIC: It was the Aunties' job to hide the children at any cost. REPORTER MARIE MOHR: You keep a lot of children in the commune here, is that right CULT AUNTIE: No, that's not right at all. http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/stories/870619/the-family -- APFN-1 YahooGroups: Subscribe: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apfn-1/join Unsubscribe: apfn-1-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com   APFN MSG BOARD: `In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.' http://disc.yourwebapps.com/Indices/149495.html   APFN CONTENTS PAGE: http://www.apfn.org/old/apfncont.htm   APFN TWITTER http://twitter.com/signup?follow=APFN1   Find elected officials, including the president, members of Congress, governors, state legislators, local officials, and more. http://congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/   SUPPORT APFN: PMB 206, 7549 W. CACTUS RD. #104, PEORIA, AZ 85381