Posted on 12/01/2010 2:28:04 AM PST by bjorn14
(Reuters) - The mother of Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Wednesday she was distressed by an international police alert for her son's arrest and did not want him "hunted down and jailed."
Global police agency Interpol issued a "red notice" on Tuesday to assist in the arrest of Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, who is wanted in Sweden on suspicion of sexual crimes.
Assange, 39, a former computer hacker now at the center of a global controversy after WikiLeaks released a trove of classified U.S. diplomatic cables at the weekend, denies the Swedish allegations.
Christine Assange, who runs a puppet theater in Australia's Queensland state, said she was worried about her son's wellbeing as Australia's government joined the United States in launching an investigation into whether Assange and WikiLeaks had broken security or criminal laws.
"He's my son and I love him and obviously I don't want him hunted down and jailed. I'm reacting as any mother would. I'm distressed," she told Australian radio. "A lot of stuff that's written about me and Julian is untrue."
Assange, who was born in Townsville, Queensland has gone underground since WikiLeaks controversially began publishing more than 250,000 secret U.S. government documents.
Assange's arrest warrant was issued by Sweden's International Public Prosecution Office in Gothenburg on November 18.
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Under the heading, you can’t make this stuff up, running a puppet theater, and former computer hacker.
Dead end? No pun intended.
Too late—Julian Assange is now probably wanted for violations of the Espionage Act here in the USA and could now face violations of laws in multiple countries.
His parents met during the Vietnam War in a parade against war. Assange’s mother has no belief in formal education and has taught him to be independent.
Assange’s mother believed that formal education would inculcate an unhealthy respect for authority in her children and dampen their will to learn. “I didn’t want their spirits broken,” she told me. In any event, the family had moved thirty-seven times by the time Assange was fourteen, making consistent education impossible.
When Assange was eight, Claire left her husband and began seeing a musician, with whom she had another child, a boy. The relationship was tempestuous; the musician became abusive, she says, and they separated. A fight ensued over the custody of Assange’s half brother, and Claire felt threatened, fearing that the musician would take away her son. Assange recalled her saying, “Now we need to disappear,” and he lived on the run with her from the age of eleven to sixteen. When I asked him about the experience, he told me that there was evidence that the man belonged to a powerful cult called the Family—its motto was “Unseen, Unknown, and Unheard.” Some members were doctors who persuaded mothers to give up their newborn children to the cult’s leader, Anne Hamilton-Byrne. The cult had moles in government, Assange suspected, who provided the musician with leads on Claire’s whereabouts. In fact, Claire often told friends where she had gone, or hid in places where she had lived before.
Puppet theater? Is there money in that?
Must be. Soros has one.
LOL!
Thanks, your LOL! solved the momentary puzzle.
He will be lucky if he is jailed. The other options are less desirable I would think.
Good reply.
In this case he may actually be right.
Some of America's banks need and deserve to be taken down, every cent of executive bonus paid in the last five years clawed-back and, if it comes to it, the shareholders wiped-out.
Hurt the SOB. Hurt ‘im bad.
Imho, he’s the same as a terrorist.
Dear mommy:
I understand there will be a bounty put on your son before the end of the week. If it is substantial enough I will be hunting him. If I find him he will be terminated with prejudice. I just want to cover all my expenses except for ammo. That is on me.
Sincerely,
Mad
LOL! And Soros’ puppet theater runs 24/7 in Washington, DC.
My family moved eight times before I was ten.
That was Gibraltar-like in comparison.
Meet your new doppleganger, Julian Assange!
-——Why not?——
Because he should be hunted down and exterminated.
Jail is not an option
Doppleganger?
Not hardly.
Actually, he’d probably be a lot safer in a nice tidy Swedish jail than he is is right now. There are seriously powerful people out there who want him dead, dead, DEAD!
10 posted on Wednesday, December 01, 2010 4:45:20 AM by Ronin
He almost did. Remember this is the second set of leaks about the U.S. He’s out there giving interviews and still operating after the first one.
26 posted on Wednesday, December 01, 2010 6:10:26 AM by raybbr
That’s correct until BO’s WikiLeaks attempt to trash HC’s 2012 Presidential Challenge backfired on BO, he was more than happy assisting Assange in his espionage against the USA.
“The first one was not of this magnitude.
And the next one appears to be designed to take down America’s banks.”
what if..what if..what if......this is Obama’s way of taking down the USA.............people keep ignoring the amount of time he spent listening to Reverend “Godda*& America” Wright.
Given the large number of spec ops and other military folks being put at risk, or who have comrades being put at risk, by this jackass, I’m surprised he hasn’t just disappeared.
I’d like to see him just not come back from the market one day.
36 posted on Wednesday, December 01, 2010 6:52:36 AM by ConservativeWarrior
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