Julian Assange was born on July 3rd 1971. He is a 39 years old Australian male who was born in Townsville, Queenland, and is the creator of Wikileaks. Growing up he had a very rough childhood, when he was one year old his mother remarried, when he was eight his mother remarried again, and to get custody of him, she went into hiding with her children for five year. They frequently traveled all over to keep hidden and safe. this forced Julian to go to many different schools, and even to be home schooled at times. By the time he was 16 years old, he was hacking computers under the name of Mendax. Julian's early life
Wikileaks was founded in 2006, but the real trouble began on November 28 2010, when WikiLeaks began releasing more than 251,000 documents for all of the public to see. 53% of these documents were listed as unclassified, 40% as confidential and just over 6% were classified as secret. Julian Assange Named Man of the Year?!
In an interview with Julian tries to defend Wikileaks by stating... "We are familiar with groups whose abuse we expose by attempting to criticize the messenger to distract from the power of the message." What I got from this statement, us that he is "the messenger" and he didn't make the mistakes that are in the documents he posted for the public, they brought that upon themselves. Another good quote from Julian is as follows "The real story of this material is that it's war, its one damn thing after another." Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange
The irony of this site, is that recently on December 7th, 2010, was arrested for sexual offences. Assange admitted that he had sex in Sweden with two women, but says that the relationships were consensual. Sex Crime Cited.
He is now on bail and also on house arrest, and best of all, his private documents regarding the issue have now also been posted on Wikileaks. Julian is now wanted for questioning, and is said to be currently hiding out somewhere in London. I think it's safe to say he is now getting a taste of his on medicine.
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