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Interesting?? - Former drug smuggler who made it big tapping into and selling your personal and private data

WHO IS HANK ASHER?

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Former drug smuggler who made it big tapping into and selling your personal and private data

PHOENIX, AZ- Tuesday, May 9,2006:  Who is Hank Asher? Most people have probably never heard of him but few if any haven't had their lives touched by him. Whether they know it or not. 

 Hank Asher is a high school drop out and former drug smuggler turned multi-millionaire who made his fortune mining data. Although Mr. Asher was never criminally charged with smuggling SEVEN plane loads of cocaine into Florida in the early 1980's, his history is well known and is often the subject of much scorn and discrimination for him, even to this day. He is the father of modern day digging into the private and personal lives of every American citizen.

After acquiring skills in writing algorhythms, Mr. Asher began "purchasing" databases from various companies and agencies throughout the country. Databases from Motor Vehicle Departments, insurance companies, banks, etc.  
Databases which he acknowledges were not all available to "the public" but that he was still somehow able to purchase for what he describes as very inexpensive.

Mr. Asher then formed DBT (DataBase Technologies) and marketed his new super sleuthing cyber creation as AutoTrack. Using as little information as a name, AutoTrack cross-references an enormous amount of data - addresses, driver licenses, property deed transfers, criminal and corporate information and within minutes unifies it into an easy-to-read report. Almost overnight insurance companies and law enforcement offices began subscribing to Mr. Asher's AutoTrack program. Many in law enforcement have publicly stated that this creation literally changed the face of law enforcement. Saving incredible amounts of time and legwork. Pointedly Mr. Asher contends he could have marketed and sold his creation to many other sources but felt morally obligated to limit them to law enforcement and companies with "legitimate" uses.  Especially after typing in his own name. He was so taken aback by what he had created, the information that poured out that he at one point asked himself, "What have I done?" Obviously recognizing the potential abuse and dangerousness of the program. However, he quickly recovered. Eventually either for moral or financial reasons, or both Mr. Asher donated one of his systems to the National Centers For Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) feeling that they may also benefit from it's power. An organization which got his attention from it's founder's son, Adam Walsh who was abducted from the same Sears store three blocks away from Mr. Asher's own home.

Mr. Asher now sits on the Board of Directors for the NCMEC and is very good friends with it's founder, Mr. John Walsh. The same John Walsh of the popular television series, America's Most Wanted. Additionally, Mr. Asher is the Centers' largest private financial contributor on record with single donations of up to $7.9 million at a time. It has been said that Asher's altruism is a kind of psychological redemption for his brief stint as a smuggler. John Walsh calls this "bullshit…That was long ago. It's irrelevant. He's a brilliant guy who genuinely cares and wants to give to society. A lot of people are jealous of what he's accomplished. They shouldn't be."

I find it ironic that Mr. Walsh can excuse this man's past with such eloquence and ease yet mark hundred's of thousands of others with what amounts to the mark of the beast for committing less significant crimes. In most cases for the rest of their lives.

I wonder how much of the cocaine that Mr. Asher smuggled into this country found it's way into the bloodstream of individuals who then committed a crime. Crimes like rape, robbery, murder and quite possibly the abduction and molestation of the same children he says is his goal to protect. How many wives, girlfriend's and children beaten? How many cops shot at or killed by someone high on his cocaine?

Still, Mr. Walsh can find forgiveness in his heart. He rationalizes that "that" was long ago and is therefore "irrelevant". Many on the sex offender registry,  could easily make that same argument Mr. Walsh.

Even more poignant and poetic, is Mr. Asher's take on the discrimination and scrutiny he sometimes receives based on his past. "What redemption I felt I needed for being an adventurous pilot doing a ridiculously stupid stunt SEVEN times, I think I've made up for it. I don't think we live in a country where we don't believe in redemption. I think maybe somebody's gotten a little too high and mighty. I think mostly, though, that law enforcement is scared to wind up with their name in a newspaper article with me." - Hank Asher Quote from an interview withVanity Fair

Breaking it down, Mr. Asher is a repeat offender. A seven time repeat offender. It wasn't just one stupid mistake, it was seven. If his crimes were a sex offenses, even consensual ones, DBT and AutoTrack would never exist because Mr. Asher would be serving a life sentence, or he would have "offed" himself shortly after being indicted.

I like what he says about redemption. It is a good question. Are we a country that no longer believes in redemption? Indeed it is apparent from all that I have read about him, that Mr. Asher not only actively seeks redemption but almost seems to crave it. Perhaps redemption is the one thing that money can't buy. So then, forget about redemption and just start digging up everyone else's dirt instead. At least that way he may be able to even the playing field.

Enter the MATRIX. The Multi-state Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange. So intense was this program that when Asher, along with Florida Governor Jeb Bush met with top officials immediately following 9/11 it was heralded as a state of the art terrorist tracking tool by Vice President Dick Cheney and Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge. Senior law enforcement officials from around the country were astounded. So thorough and scrutinizing was this new program that it drew near instantaneous outrage from the ACLU as well as several members of congress. The threat to civil liberties and privacy rights was recognized immediately. Not only could the MATRIX give detailed information on it's subject, but it went even further giving information and even digital images of the subjects network of family, friends, and neighbors. It is instant access to a wealth of public and private data that no one else can match. For now, it is available only to law enforcement and only a few states are using it, some states have discontinued using it due to the nature of it's creator's past history. What's interesting and which definitely deserves mentioning here is that Mr. Asher sold his AutoTrack technology database along with another of his companies, CHOICEPOINT, to Lexis Nexis for a whopping $775 million!
Shortly thereafter Lexis Nexis made public the fact that the database had suffered numerous security breaches by individuals who were not authorized to access it and that said unauthorized access was done while under the ownership of Hank Asher. What the effects of those breaches may mean are anyone's guess. For now, it's just for finding terrorists. Or so we're told.

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HANK ASHER (BELOW) FORMER DRUG SMUGGLER (looking under the influence of something in this photo)WHO MADE IT RICH BY HAPPILY MAKING MILLIONS  OFF OF SELLING YOUR PERSONAL AND PRIVATE INFORMATION.

ALSO SEE>>> LEXIS NEXIS , CHOICEPOINT, DBT, AND SEISINT INC  ....SOME OF MR. ASHER'S  COMPANIES. WARNING! MAKE SURE YOU ARE SITTING DOWN BEFORE READING ANY FURTHER!
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On a Personal Note

Thanks for the opportunity to express my thoughts regarding the issue of citizens’ rights, particularly addressing certain sex offenders’ crimes that do not fit the devastating, inequitable and endless punishment given.


As you know, many young men and women lives across the nation are being destroyed by incarceration, life-time registry and restrictive laws that do more harm than good. For those individuals, there is no second chance.

Below is a personal letter to President Obama:
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“Dear President Obama,

I truly agree with your sentiments that individuals, such as ex-felons, should be able to receive a second chance at life. Since we all know that one can veer off that path of life and travel along rough, rocky terrain, sometimes running off and ending up in some ditch. We all have made our fill of mistakes and sometimes those held a costly consequence that changed life forever. So we lived through it, trying harder to make things right with family, friends and those around us, but what about those who aren’t able to make things right even if they tried…because they’re labeled as too dirty, a leper, a person who is rejected from society and home.

But what if they’re a seventeen year old and had sex with a fifteen year old, consensual at that? Or they’re a teen that had gotten so enraged after a breakup that he sent out naked pictures of his girlfriend on his cell phone or email? Or an individual urinates where someone just happens to see them?

All are wrong and a travesty but do they deserve the life of no second chance with a registry that ends all. They are labeled, no jobs, no where to live…they have been deemed a menace to society, a plague. These certain circumstances, and many other situations similar to these, I believe still deserve a second change.

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

After my son’s early release and two years of prison, I thought I had handled that fact graciously knowing after serving his time he would be able to get that fresh start, that second chance. He was an exemplary inmate, GED, college courses and vocational classes. Little did I know that a second chance on the outside was the farthest from the truth? He now struggles and lives in a trailer park sharing a trailer with another and surrounded by others in the same rocking boat, one to float endlessly in shark infested waters. I see him little because of probation requirements (he couldn’t live with us because we were 800 feet near a school). My family is afraid of what would happen to them if he lived with them…vigilantism. My son has no other place to stay since others condemn him of his crime that is screamed from the highest rooftop. Sex offender, sex offender!

Not all sex offenders are pedophiles or predators but some are simply young kids that make one stupid and rash decision that eventually changes everything, and they have no idea what they’ve done until their life is never their own. Exactly, where is that second chance for those sex-offenders who are lumped together with pedophiles and predators? Now, it makes me sick to think of my son’s future and many like him that are on the registry and many with no second chance…ever. I am asking you as a mother and as another concerned citizen of the United States that these laws are looked at again and taken into serious consideration in what they are doing to the Constitution of the United States, not for sex offenders in general but the future rights of every citizen, before anymore are put into effect. They unjustly strip an offender of their rights and place them in a guillotine that can be easily set off by anyone and at anytime. Where is the second chance for ex-sex offenders in the present, pending and future laws?”
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What truly saddens me is the weakness and deterioration of what the sex offense issue is doing to our once, great nation. Across Europe, others are seeing the injustice and disregard of rights, but we ignore this problem and it makes me wonder where humanity is heading….

We have become a hysterical society in which our latest witch-hunt is a sex offender--no matter his/her crime.

Below is a email sent from a foreign advocate to a father of a sex offender:
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“The tragic story of your son's death is just so sad that it's difficult to explain how. It was very hard to read your letters. It seems almost unbelievable that this can take place in a democracy! From our point of view, there is no justice in this. Not in any way: not for you, your son, the former girl friend – or even the state.

It is an abusive legal system. It seems barbaric. And we are so very sorry that this takes place. That's why it's so important for us to try to neutralize the debate with this…, hopefully making some changes. ….. to show the every day life of the sex offenders, trying to show how they keep on being punished, even after served prison time…..But we will for sure tell the story of the injustice that your son has been exposed to.”
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I appreciate everyone's commitment and backing to protect everyone's civil rights, plainly as noted in the Constitution of the United States and is presupposed, giving ALL men are “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.”