Hello all,

This message will likely reach you long after New Year's Day is over. Indeed, it is after dark here (Colombia).

Many (if not most) of you do not care about any movement to protect our civil rights and push for our freedoms. If you are one of those people, then kindly ignore this message. It is not for you.

Others of you care, but have fallen complacent. You have learned to find small comfort in your online communities, in the free (or for some of you, paid) images you can easily find online of cute little girls in several stages of undress and other palliatives for the fulfilling relationships with children that you would prefer. If you fit into this category, this message is for you.

Please be assured, the soma that has kept you sated and reasonably 'not unhappy' has also kept you silent. Finding comfort in a substitute for true love will, however, never keep you happy over the long term. If you care at all about your future, your real happiness and the plight of all childlovers, you will realise this. Not only will you realise it, you will DO something about it.

I am not asking you to come out as I have. I know first hand how difficult that can be. For the last three years, I have lived out of a duffel bag that contains nearly everything that I own. I bounce from youth hostel to youth hostel. I do not have a 'home' to 'return' to. I live where I happen to be, which at the time is Colombia. In three weeks I have to leave here because my visa will expire and then I will be somewhere else, and that is where I will then 'live' (if I can afford to even get there). All of my clothes, with the exception of one pair of trousers and one shirt, have holes in them.

No, not everyone needs to cast his life into the lottery (and lose) to make a difference. But there are so many other things one can do. To start out with, you can all make a difference by opposing unfair legislation to your elected representatives. You do not have to say that you are pedophiles, only that you think that XYZ legislation is a violation of civil rights or that it is in some other way discriminatory or unfair.

You can also actively support candidates that have views least discriminatory towards us. As mid-term elections (in the Evil Empire) are approaching, you can all submit names of favoured candidates here or on other forums for the perusal of other posters.

All of you can also participate in other online communities that have resources that may be of interest to childlovers or present a message that is [relatively] unbiased towards us. Right now, for example, following negative press coverage, there is an attempt to delete the 'Childlove Movement' article from Wikipedia as it is 'biased and irrelevant'. Anybody can edit at Wikipedia, and anybody can vote there.

Another online resource, DMOZ, is a human-edited directory. Many major search engines use DMOZ data for their own directories. Since DMOZ threw me out in 2002, the Pedophilia directory I built there has been emasculated. When I was turfed out, it had nearly 180 links. It now has around 60. Anybody can apply to edit there. Why not one or two of us?

And each of you can make a difference in your communities. Do something for the children in your community. Give a bit of your time. Look for unanswered needs that the children there have and do somthing to fill those needs.

Discuss children's rights with your friends and see what you can do to advance causes like an end to corporal punishment, an end to junk food marketing in schools, an end to untrammelled junk (food and merchandise) advertising on children's programming, and end to the destruction of the planet that is the birthright of children, the instruction of children in the proper stewardship of that birthright.

Each and every one of you can make a difference for children and for childlovers in this world. All it takes is for you to get off of your asses and find the ways that you can do so. I have been 'off of my ass' for over three years now. How many of you will join me this year?

A final challenge: How many of you will come out, if not fully, at least to your families, partners or closest friends by Alice Day this year? Let's get a list. I'd like to see at least ten brave souls on that list. You've got more than 100 days to make a real difference by using your own life as an example to refute the stereotype.

All the best,

Lindsay--