Media Coverage for April's Law Wisconsin.

Hear me talk in this radio interview with a local radio station from Monday, October 17, 2011.

http://www.filefreak.com/files/836917_flmpc/Interview%20on%20WRJN.mp3

Here is the actual video of the April’s Law hearing. AB-136 starts about 15 minutes in, and lasts almost 40 minutes. I’m the last 7-8 minutes of that portion. You will need to agree to the user terms, and it will prompt you right in. Thanks for tuning in.

http://www.wiseye.org/Programming/VideoArchive/EventDetail.aspx?evhdid=5330

Now here is the local paper, the Racine Journal Times write up about the whole thing. I think this one helps me sound good. Bless this gal!

http://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/article_340b3d88-fde8-11e0-9c04-001cc4c03286.html

This is the type of stuff I’d like to push all over, far and wide!

April's Law Hearing Re-Cap & Update

I went to Madison this morning to speak at the hearing. The Wisconsin Eye TV, at www.wiseye.org covered the meeting, and call me weird, I actually liked going to this. It was interesting. When the link is ready, I will post it to share.

It was kind of a crazy morning, because I'd stayed up to ensure driving time. (I work 2nd shift, and so normally I'd go to bed around 4am, but I needed to leave around 6:15AM). I gathered my stuff up, made sure I had enough spare time, and left at 6, to gas up and get coffee. I made it with plenty of time to spare, took a couple pictures, and went in.

I got to meet the woman behind the phone and emails through Rep. Mason's office, and got situated up in the meeting room. I had my business cards, written testimony, notes from online supporters all to pass out... Just to realize, I forgot my note cards I had my speech written on... was left in the car. Mind you, this building is not the easiest to navigate, and so I figured well, I'll just have to wing it.

Two other people came to talk about this, and they had interesting takes. The first guy, from CASA? I didn't catch his organization, but I'm assuming it's the Court Appointed Special Advocates or something along that line...

He talked about how he's concerned that the higher sentencing would affect how many sex offenders would actually be convicted, and what not, and spoke of "unintentional consequences". where a grandfather "inappropriately touches" his grand-daughter, and how the mother, the sandwich between her father and daughter would feel, or say if she has a son and daughter from two different fathers, and the half siblings situation where she wouldn't want her own child to spend life w/o parole...

This guy was just saying how it's the "perfect victims" who get the convictions against their perpetrators, and some perpetrators may not get a conviction because they have a sympathetic perpetrator. The victim may be acting in some way or wearing something...

Thing is, I don't know about any one else. But, if my parent sexually abuses my child, I am NOT going to tell my child to quiet down to protect my parent. No. As for the sibling situation, good or bad, doesn't necessarily count as the child predator stance April's Law is looking at.

Next, an area DA talked, and supports the life w/o parole for those perpetrators who rape our children and then kill them. In that instance, she loves that idea, and spoke for the profession. While she was for raising the minimums and catching "the bad guys", she wasn't sure if this was the best way to think about it.

I think even the guy was wanting to get the bad guys, and the committee will be looking to form another study committee made up of legal professionals and others in the field to take a closer look at the situation and what not. That was actually a cool thing, even though that means that it will take that much longer to pass April's Law. BUT, it also means that it has the chance to make the most sense possible, with input from those in the field, and while it may not be as harsh, will maybe broaden the scope.

I was impressed with Rep. Bob Turner, he really pushed to say that our children are the most helpless, and we MUST, at all cost, protect them. And he was VERY vocal about that.

Lastly, I was up to talk in favor of AB-136. I thanked them for their time, and let them know that the various studies show on average that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be sexually assaulted by the time they are 18. I reminded them that back in 1993, a bill affectionately dubbed the "miniskirt" bill was passed to say that the attire of the rape victim shall not be used as evidence against the victim in the court of law. They were surprised. Well, I helped pass it...

You will be able to view my speech, and I think I did pretty well, and even winging it, that I felt I talked TO them, rather than AT them, and Rep. Turner thanked me for my advocacy for the children. Maybe I was supposed to leave my speech cards back...

Thanks for all of your support, and I'll post the link here to the hearing when it comes through. Until then, peace out!

Here is the actual video of the hearing. AB-136 starts at about 15 minutes in, and lasts almost 40 minutes. I am the last 7-8 minutes of this segment. You will have to sign the user agreement, and you'll get prompted through. Thanks.

http://www.wiseye.org/Programming/VideoArchive/EventDetail.aspx?evhdid=5330

April's Law Hearing!

Exciting news, everyone!

AB-136, aka April's Law Wisconsin, is being heard in the Committee on Criminal Justice and Corrections! We need as many people as possible to either come to the hearing or to submit their written testimony to support this piece of Legislation.

The hearing will take place on Wednesday, October 19,2011 @ 9:30am in room 300 Northeast State Capitol. Let me know if you'd like to carpool.

Just to let you know, the Racine County Sheriff's office is also supporting this.

If you can't make it, please send me an email, so I can submit it - lika.yvi@gmail.com or you may send it to the members of the Committee on Criminal Justice & Corrections, which is hearing the Bill to vote on it. Here is a list of those who are on the committee. Please remember to have add your name and pertinent info, and thank them for their time.

http://legis.wisconsin.gov/w3asp/commpages/IndividualCommittee.aspx?commid=496

I'm hoping to get as many people or letters in, because the more support we have, the better chance it has to come to a vote rather than dropped on the floor.

Thank you all for your kind support, and please don't forget to submit your letters for support, and if you can, please join me at the hearing! Just to ensure that we will be there on time, I'll probably be leaving around 6:30AM to ensure I can be there, because it looks as if AB-136 is the first billing for this hearing.

Please keep me posted! :)

Warning! If you upload pics from your mobil phone, you NEED to know this!

And this is why we NEED April's Law NOW! Please sign the petition.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/worldwide-petition-for-aprils-law-in-the-us/

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vARzvWxwY

New Update on April's Law Wisconsin!

Dear friends and supporters,

We have a huge update on April's Law Wisconsin, which is currently AB-136 in the Criminal Justice and Corrections committee. Representative Bob Turner has requested the chair, Representative Gary Bies to hear AB-136 to move it onto the next phase. Let's give Rep. Turner a big huge thank you.

Madison Office

Room 109 North

State Capitol

P.O. Box 8953

Madison, WI 53708

Telephone

(608) 266-0731 Or

(888) 529-0061

Email

Rep.Turner@legis.wisconsin.gov

Now, lets write to Rep. Bies and encourage him to hear AB-136 in committee so we can get this into law! We've come a long way, and the light at the end of the tunnel is bright! Please write or call today to encourage this important piece of legislation to be heard today!

Madison Office

Room 216 North

State Capitol

P.O. Box 8952

Madison, WI 53708

Telephone

(608) 266-5350

Email

Rep.Bies@legis.wisconsin.gov

A big thank you to all of you who've been with us all this time, and for those who are new to the cause! Please keep up the awesome work. We get this heard, and ALW comes to a vote in the Assembly!

Sincerely,

Lika Saliscente - Founder of Youth Voice Initiative

Attention All Advocates!

Bulletin from the cause: Project Safe Girls: Stop Domestic Violence & All Assaults Against Females Go to Cause

Posted By: Anny Jacoby

To: Members in Project Safe Girls: Stop Domestic Violence & All Assaults Against Females

ATTENTION ADVOCATES!! ATTENTION WARRIORS!! ATTENTION MEDIA!! By Lee Davis... Over the last few days we have seen a few articles written about B4U-ACT and the conferences they are holding. This organization is attempting to normalize pedophilia. They are attempting to change the name of pedophiles to "minor attracted" as well as create a way for the public to be more tolerant of pedophiles and to change and enact laws to help pedophiles and lesson sex offender laws. B4U-ACT was founded by Michael Melsheimer aka Lek who was a sex offender, a pedophile and an activist member of Boy Chat. He ran B4U-ACT with Richard Kramer. Richard Kramer of the website, MHAMic (Male Homosexual Attraction to Minors Information Center) runs a website designed to coerce the public into believing sexual abuse of children is not harmful. B4U-Act is also associated with Reformsexoffenderlaws.org who is attempting to change law lessoning sex offender incarcerations and stop the sex offender registry and also has ties to NAMBLA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB1k5SPLLLU We must get active. We as American's have a duty to protect our children and our nations children from harm. As Child Abuse Advocates we know first hand how physically and emotionally harmful and scarring pedophilia is. We know that child sexual abuse not only physically hurts children, not only mentally hurts children but in some cases kills children. We know it is not "love" as they claim, but ABUSE!!!! We know that sexual abuse of our children must not be tolerated, must not ever be accepted and must be fought with everything we have! Please share this note with everyone you know. Ask everyone to use their voice. Post it on pages of media outlets and every child abuse advocates pages !!! Share this with every single friend !!! The people behind these organizations are CRIMINALS !!!! THEY MUST BE STOPPED, WE MUST OPEN EVERYONE'S EYES TO THIS !!!! Please see the following links below to get a better understanding and confirm this for yourself. B4U-Act Website: http://www.b4uact.org/ Recent news articles about B4U-Act: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/25/paving-way-for-condoning-child-rape/ http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/24/mental-health-group-looks-to-remove-stigma-from-pedophilia/ http://www.salon.com/life/sexual_abuse/?story=/mwt/feature/2011/08/17/pedophilia http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/15/conference-aims-to-normalize-pedophilia/ I cannot put the websites as facebook is flagging me for attempting to post this. Please research the following websites: Reform Sex Offender Laws website: MHAMic website: NAMBLA: BoyChat: ----------------------------------- Who was Michael Melsheimer the founder of B4U-Act?? Michael Frederick Melsheimer, 67, of Westminster, died Thursday, July 15, 2010, at Carroll Hospice's Dove House. Born Aug. 21, 1942, in Jacksonville, Fla., he was the son of the late Richard L. and Nancy R. Ison Melsheimer. He was an Army veteran having served during the Vietnam era. He was a social service worker, and co-founded and was active with the nonprofit B4U-ACT. Surviving is a friend, Russell Dick, of Westminster. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/carrollcountytimes/obituary.aspx?n=michael-f-melsheimer&pid=144094084 --------------------------------------- B4U-ACT is an advocacy organization for “minor attracted adults” who they claim are being discriminated against by society. On their site they claim to want to help child molesters get the therapeutic help they need to not act on their impulses, but this is a lie they use to keep their 501(c)(3) status and remain eligible for grant money they receive from the state of Maryland. The truth of B4U-ACT is made plain by the online activities of those involved in the group. In May of 2009 a “Richard K” working on behalf of B4U-ACT posted the following on a now defunct child molester forum called Boylove.net: For those of you who don’t know, B4U-ACT (www.b4uact.org) is a 501c3 non-profit organization started by Mike Melsheimer, an out BL [boy lover] who posts at Boychat. The goal of B4U-ACT is to promote communication between BLs/GLs and mental health professionals so they can learn about us and start to work with us to counteract stereotyping, stigmatization, and hatred. We also want to help them develop *humane* and ethical ways of working with those BLs who want therapy to deal with society’s hatred, or other issues related or unrelated to being BLs. (B4U-ACT does *not* believe BLs are “sick” and need to be “cured”.) I now work with B4U-ACT, and was part of the planning committee for this workshop that was held last Thursday. The following is a report of what was discussed at the workshop..http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2767355/posts --------------------------- The late Mike Melsheimer who started B4U-Act was a convicted child molester, first caught in 1984 when he was the director of Pennsylvania YMCA. He befriended the two young sons of a Nicaraguan immigrant and began producing child pornography using the boys. In 2002 Melsheimer made the news in Maryland by publicly demanding the state provide him lists of comprehensive mental health services for his pedophilia. At the same time, he was a frequent poster on pro-child rape forums using his own name or sometimes the handle “Lek” where he spoke at length of the time he spent in Thailand. In one 2009 discussion on a forum called Boychat, Melsheimer is taken to task by other child molesters for B4U-ACT’s claim they want to help stop “minor attracted adults” from offending.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2767355/posts ------------ Who is Richard Kramer? Richard Kramer is the owner of the website "Male Homosexual Attraction to Minors Information Center" and a member of "Boy Chat". Here is an example of him speaking out on the BoyChat website: We have to examine our audience and our message. As for the former, we have to do triage. The antis (including the mainstream media, politicians, etc.) are a waste of time. Life's too short and our emotional resources are too limited to get into arguments with people who can't change their minds about us or have vested (political or financial) interests in perpetuating the lies. Then there are the people who already understand (mainly us, but there are a few non-MAAs who understand). We need to identify the middle group: people who don't know us but who we have a chance of helping to understand. These are people who: - are oriented toward compassion, understanding, and acceptance of marginalized people - aren't easily frightened about sex, different perspectives; and - are skeptical of the conventional wisdom. It's also important that they have some kind of influence in society in order to maximize the effect of our contacts with them. As for our message, it's silly and counterproductive to argue a pro-sex position. That's not even the real issue. Society needs to believe we're dangerous in order to justify their hatred. THE HATRED COMES FIRST. Trying to address any issue without addressing the hatred is like treating the symptoms without treating the illness. The gay movement knows that. Very little of the pro-gay literature actually talks about sex. It's all about accepting differences, not hating, stereotyping, and doing violence to people for a characteristic they did not choose, and caring for children and teenagers who are growing up in a society that rejects them.http://absolutezerounited.blogspot.com/2009/03/this-is-important-discussion.html The list goes on and on and on, Doctors and Pedophiles working together to achieve their common goal. I won't list them all here and waste any more space but if you google any of these names you will find a slew of other people working with them to normalize child sexual abuse. These organizations are all tied in with each other through the common ground of being pedophiles. Here is a great video on youtube that thoroughly shows how by combining their collective efforts they are attempting to legalize pedophilia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB1k5SPLLLU PLEASE REPOST THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for your advocacy and support. Take care and STAY SAFE! Anny

Action Call for our children, we need YOU for April's Law!

Anyway, April's Law went to the Criminal Justice & Corrections Committee as AB 136. Good. But, the almighty CJ&C committee is sitting on it... It was drafted by Rep. Cory Mason (D) and former Senator Lehman (D) both from Racine. But now Lehman isn't here.So, if people could, please contact these State Representatives, if at all possible, just to press them to hear the cause for April's Law Wisconsin. It helps if you are a constituent, but, any pestering has to help at this point.

Here is the list:

Garey Bies (R)- Sister Bay, WI

Madison Office

Room 216 North

State Capitol

P.O. Box 8952

Madison, WI 53708

Telephone

(608) 266-5350

Email

Rep.Bies@legis.wisconsin.gov

Andre Jacque (R) - Bellvue, WI

Madison Office

Room 9 West

State Capitol

P.O. Box 8953

Madison, WI 53708

Telephone

(608) 266-9870

Email

Rep.Jacque@legis.wi.gov

Steve Kestell(R) -Elkhart Lake, WI

Madison Office

Room 15 West

State Capitol

P.O. Box 8952

Madison, WI 53708

Telephone

(608) 266-8530 Or

(888) 529-0027

Email

Rep.Kestell@legis.wisconsin.gov

Edward Brooks (R) - Reedsburg, WI

Madison Office

Room 20 North

State Capitol

P.O. Box 8952

Madison, WI 53708

Telephone

(608) 266-8531 Or

(877) 947-0050

Email

Rep.Brooks@legis.wisconsin.gov

Scott Krug (R) - Cedar Rapids, WI

Madison Office

Room 316 North

State Capitol

P.O. Box 8953

Madison, WI 53708

Telephone

(608) 266-0215 Or

(888) 529-0072

Email

Rep.Krug@legis.wi.gov

Jeremy Thiesfeldt (R) - Fon du Lac, WI

Madison Office

Room 16 West

State Capitol

P.O. Box 8953

Madison, WI 53708

Telephone

(608) 266-3156 Or

(888) 529-0052

Email

Rep.Thiesfeldt@legis.wi.gov

Frederick Kessler (D) - Milwaukee, WI

Madison Office

Room 302 North

State Capitol

P.O. Box 8952

Madison, WI 53708

Telephone

(608) 266-5813 Or

(888) 534-0012

Email

Rep.Kessler@legis.wisconsin.gov

Robert Turner (D) - Racine, WI

Madison Office

Room 109 North

State Capitol

P.O. Box 8953

Madison, WI 53708

Telephone

(608) 266-0731 Or

(888) 529-0061

Email

Rep.Turner@legis.wisconsin.gov

Gary Hebl (D) - Sun Prairy, WI

Madison Office

Room 120 North

State Capitol

P.O. Box 8952

Madison, WI 53708

Telephone

(608) 266-7678

Email

Rep.Hebl@legis.wisconsin.gov

Whether snail mail, email or phone message, here is a sample message, and if you call, make sure you smile and are polite. They can hear those smiles.

Dear Representative (Insert Name);

Hi, my name is (state your name), and as a concerned parent (and/or) constituent I would like you to support AB136, aka April's Law, to protect our children from sex predators on and offline. Our kids are NOT for sale, and they deserve to be properly protected against those who sexually prey on them.

It is important to ensure that these people get maximum punishments, by not going easy on them. (Now would be a good place, to show how many sex offenses in your city has happened against our children, and feel free to share other stories personal to you, w/o naming names about the victims).

For more information, please visit www.youthvoiceinitiative.org or contact Lika, the founder of Youth Voice Initiative - lika.yvi@gmail.com to speak at the hearing.

Thank you so much for your time!

Sincerely,

(Your Name)

Thank you again, and please share this with everyone you know, especially if they live in Wisconsin, more so if they are in the district! Thanks!