AMONG the many resources available at Alun Watker’s website is a tip sheet for children on how to surf and chat safely on the Internet without falling prey to a child molester. Here are some excempts: W Ifyou are involved ina chat room with another person on the Internet, it is important to know that the other person vou are chatting wich may not be who they say they are; @ itis very important that you do not give out any personal information about yourself? like where you live or where you go to school; @ Ifyou are in a pen-pal club and you receive and send e-mail to your friends, it is also important that you do nor give out this information unless you have checked with your parents or you know for a fact, who you are talking to; @ Never, ever make any arrangements to mect someone personally through e-mail or Inrernet chat even though they may sound nice or catiug to you. Only Lad people would try to get you to do this without your par- ents’ permission, B If you are receiving e- mail from a friend that is talking to you about things that make you fcel uncomfortable, there is something wrong and you should stop communicat- ing with this person and tell your parents about it. ees Vancouver-based Media Cast Web Services hosts a seminar to show parents how to protect children while they're surfing the net. Dangers Of The Tuternet — What Every Parent Needs ‘To Know is being presented Jan. 14 and 15 at BCIT’s down- town campus. CLEU Detective Noreen Waters will be a guest speaker. For more information call Media Cast at 734- 8800. MAKE WITH OUR PERM SALE 2.2 Wella Vivations® Perm Perm package includes Perm, king abusers From page 1 George took bondage pic- tures, inflicted pain, humilia- tion and sex. As a teenager Walker was left empty and utterly con- fused. He tried to kill himself. He sold his body for sex. He set many arson fires. He now believes it was his way of trying zo burn away the symbols that represented the places where he was “done” by the pedophiles who had trashed his lite — the priest at the church where he was a choir boy, che nwisted friends of his dysfunctional father, che many boyfriends of his drunken mother. Over 15 years he did tim. in Kingston jail, Okalla ana B.C. Pen for the fires. Valker was still young enough, small eneugh and pretty enough to be rape bait for his fellow inmates. For safe- ty’s sake he spent the time in protective custody. He met pedophiles and other sexual offenders as an inmate and as a volunteer orderly working with a prison psychiatrist. who was treating pedophiles. Walker knows how think inside out. He now lives in a modest North Vancouver apartment. There’s a little fish tank in the corner of the living room. He’s got a cat that doesn’t like to be touched by strangers. A small, glass pyramid sits at the centre of a round glass-topped dining room table decorated with Egyptian motif. At tie base of the pyramid is a terry- towel cloth. The fabric covers a Pedophi THE following is an excerpt taken from the “Boylove Manifesto.” North Vancouver child advocate Afar) Walker says it was once linked to the NAM- BLA | (North | American Man/Boy Love Association) Internet website, bur due to its controversial nature the argument in support of pedophilia. now bounces to various other sites around the world: “Boylove is a worldwide phenomenon that does not they Take-Home Product, Haircut, Shampoo and Style on hair to shoulder length with selected stylists. Sale ends on Feb. 7, 1998. Not valid with any other special offer. Call The Salon for your appointment. Park Royal 922-3325 For a more beautiful book of spiritual guidance. There's a black, fast com- puter sitting in one of the small rooms in Walker's hea_e. He borrowed the money last year to get the machine. Walker fives on a modest pen sion and can’t really afford it, but it is the tool he uses te fight pedophiles. Last vear Walker ser up a website on the Internet to tell his story and work to educate people about othe dangers oof pedophiles and pederasts. Fhe re includes links to other child advocacy sites, self: help resources and missing child alerts. As ao voung victim) of pedophiles Walker felt very alone. Tronically, he now sces an exponential growth in the potential victimization of chil- drea by pedophiles via the Internet. He's on to the evber-per- verts and spends up ro eight hours a day monitoring web- sites and online chat forums. He provides possible case information to policing agen- cies around the world. In Vancouver he’s been working with Detective Noreen Waters with the Intelligence Unit of the Coordinated Law Enforcement Unit. In one recent case a 10- year-old North Vancouver girl who was befriended by a pedophile posing as 3. friend through an online chat forum inadvertently divulged the name of the school she attend- ed. Said Walker, “What is to es argue recognize the boundaries of gender, race, nationality, age, religious beliefs or philoso- phy. Bovlove describes a spe- cial kind of relationship between human males... “As boyvlovers we distance ourselves from the current discussion about ‘child sexual abuse’. We are not willing to participate in a confrontation - a discussion that docs not even take into account the variety of sexual relationships between various age groups... stop these perpetrators from sopping at the girl's school one day and picking her up? Would anvbady even know what happened i if this girl dis- appeared?” Walker cails himself a child advocate. Mike Echols is a child advo cate, author and investigative journalist based in’ Monterey, Calitornia. He is the author of two true crime books -- / Kuow My First Name Is Steren (which became the basis of an NBC mini-series), and Bretier Tony's Bays. Echols has a website for one of his books and ako puts out Internet information about a US-based pedophile group known as NAMBLA (North American’ Man/Bov Love Association). Like Walker here on the North Shore, Echols provides tips on the problem of pedophiles and child) pornography on ihe Internet. Said Echols, “Adan turned his excruciatingly painfui past into the most remarkable, hard-hitting Internet child advocacy site I've ever seen.” Echols will be working with Valker this year co help write an aurobiographical account of Walker's fife. “Thanks to Alan’s extensive work on the Internet, there are many child sex predators who are now feeling cotsiderable heat from law enforcemen:,” Echols said. For his efforts, Walker in turn has received death threats. Said Walker, “I should be Photo courtesy Alan Waker . ALAN Walker at age 11 in Glasgow. He says the photo was taken just before he was abducted. in jail, nuts or dead but Pr not. There's a purpose for me being bere and I think it’s to save other children. Thar’s all ] want to do. This can’t happen any mare.” Valker has set up a non- protic networking group he calls GOCIP (Guard Our Children’s Innocence against Pedophilia). He's been getting their case on the “It is not possible to reduce or limit bovlove by focusing only on the sexual Aspects of an intergenera- tional reladenship. Human sexuality plays the same part ina bovlove relationship as it undoubtedly does in any rela- douship between humaa beings. Therefore it may not be present, only slighty pre- sent. or explicitly preseat in any viven relationship. A rela- tionship that is based! on sey- ual comact done is not really part of bovlove, because this SALE Save up o% off our own line of furniture “980 Marine Drive. _At Mackay Ave: - North \, ncouver Sere wr aes See arnia some help, his web server provider Internet. Gateway is donating the web space, for, example, but. he’s’ struggling” for things like staples, a ing board and ink cartridges for his Canon BJC-4100 pnater. |” To contact GOCIP: write PO Box 30065. Parkgate Postal Outlet, North Vancouver, V7H 2Y8. nternet term includes far more than thar. “A boylover desires a friendly and close relationship with 3 boy, This relationship will nor necessarily include’ ary sexual intimacy, nor will it necessarily exclude it...”