Help Find The Missing Act~Billy's Law We All Must Act Now

[Larrry/Peace4 Admin]

By
Jan Smolinski
Larry Ramsdell

The political process and the way it works is at times very difficult. Originally the bill was to be expedited through the system but the trade off was to have all
Senators agree. Senator Coburn opposed and with the changes he wanted
made to the structure of the bill would have not even been worth going
forward with a bill.

 

Senator Lieberman, sponsor of the bill has decided the best way to  possibly have success with passage is to go through the regular process, however that being said we need everyone to jump on board. Now
that the decision has been made there will be no other changes this is
it and the bill could very well die right here in the committee but with
everyone participating this will work.  All participating in the
process has worked to hard to see this through so far it is almost like
birthing a baby.

 

The process is exactly the same when the bill was in its infancy stage and started in the house Judiciary committee. Co Sponsors were needed and everyone jumped on board contacted the House  Judiciary
Committee members and ask to co sponsor Help Find the Missing Act
~Billy's Law.

 

Now as it travels through the Senate.. Co Sponsors are needed from the Senate Judiciary members. A list of members and contact numbers are provided. If you ARE a state resident of one of the nineteen co sponsors a
phone call and/or email from your Senator's contact information on their
site will be acceptable please include if possible a few lines about
your personal story if applicable.

 

 If you are NOT a resident of the state then an email from the Senators' web site contact section ONLY, this is the quickest way since time is short and the postal system puts a delay on mail sent to the Senators because of
security reasons.

 

July 4-11 there will be a recess and most Senators will be traveling to their home state. At this time they will be making appearances and face to face would be the best to ask for co sponsorship
of the bill. They need to know there is support for this explaining
your story and how it has affected your life will add to the need for a
bill such as Help Find the Missing Act. If the state you live
in includes one of the nineteen  Senator Judiciary members, by going
onto their web site, a list of places where they will be appearing will
be provided.

 

We are sorry for the inconvenience, we are all striving for one thing and that is to have a law in place to help the present and future families of missing persons through incentives offered to educate our
law Enforcement and Medical Examines/Coroners..

Remember no one is exempt the technology is here the time is right.

 

Thank you this is a learning experience for all of us and anything worth having is worth the extra time and effort spent.

 

 

                                    http://judiciary.senate.gov/about/members.cfm
                                    
                          This is the link to all of the members of the Judiciary Committee                             

Now remember at this time we are asking for co sponsors from the members of the Judiciary Committee ONLY. Above you will see a link to all the members of the Committee.  Here are a few easy
steps to follow to email them. First find the Senator you want to write
too, then click on his name highlighted in blue. This will bring you to the Senators page. You then will look for Contact us or Email us, click on that and you are ready to write.
We have been to each Senators page and there are ways to email each of them. And of course follow the directions
in the opening statements


NOTE: Senator Charles Schumer of NY is a member of the Committee but he is already a co sponsor of this Bill.


Questions: If you are a member of peace4 and you have a question you may ask in
this discussion. If you are not a member of peace4 you may post your
question on Facebook. and they can be addressed to Jan Smolinski, Larry Ramsdell or Maureen
Reintjes we will answer all questions ASAP . If you have a
question on any of the above please ask we much rather answer all
question then to have no email sent to the Senators at all.


In closing, I would just like to mirror some of the above.This is it folks
it's make it or break time right here, right now, there will be no
second chance, there will be no changes in plans. We have all worked
very hard on this Bill to let it slide through our hands now.

[Sheila Joyce Gibbs]

My prayers are on the way for your goal...
& remember...it's time for the Kingdom of God, soon to be revealed !

Blessings...

[Christy Hotchkiss]

Great Information! Unreal How in the world can this senator be with the "program and cause all this havoc?
Come on! Remind me to NEVER VISIT OKLAHOMA while he is in office!!!
OK so what was his BIG improvement? After all this effort??Yeah Right? Hmm reading an interesting book ="God is RED" it/s about all the political and human atrocaties we delved out to the Native Americans -
it describes some VERY crafty political shrewd manuvers and some bluntly viscious ones too sounds
familiar...By the WAY ANOTHER TWO TEENs MISSING -Virginia I think...

[Rick Morse]

After having Jan and Maureen review my letter and agreed on the format I faxed it to Senator Cornyn of Texas. Please everyone get on board!
This is my version.
Senator John Cornyn.
My name is Rick Morse and I am from El Paso.
Sir I am writing not only on my behalf but on the behalf of far too many families of the MISSING.
But first I would like to relate a brief description of my son’s case.
Trevor Paul Morse was born October 20th 1976 at Wm Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso TX. After a brief relocation Trevor returned with his family to El Paso, Texas. He graduated from Irvin High in North East El Paso; afterwards he passed his Electricians Apprenticeship in Texas, became a practicing Journeyman Electrician. Through different companies he ended up working for a major contractor in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Within 6 Months my son vanished without a trace from Las Vegas and it would seem, from the planet, I cannot relate to anyone who has not gone through this the horror of having a loved one vanish without a trace. The assistance or lack there-of I received from LVMPD is stupefying; I was largely ignored and disrespected by that entity. The only way I was able to get comparison DNA from my wife and I, was to contact El Paso Police Department and submit a supplementary missing person report. A side note is that I was treated with the utmost compassion and respect from EPPD.
I do not have accurate statistics of how many missing persons there are in Texas, let alone the whole of the United States. Nor do I have the statistics of how many John / Jane Does are either in cold storage or already interned, NAMUS is a good start but there is far more cooperation needed.
Senator Coburn was the only one to Nay Say this bill; I will not belabor my opinion of his decision but say that he is running for reelection and there are many families of the missing that will try to influence his race in his state.
S. 3019 would authorize funding for, and increase accessibility to, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, to facilitate data sharing between such system and the National Crime Information Center database of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to provide incentive grants to help facilitate reporting to such systems.
We the families of the MISSING need more cosponsors of S.3019 and I would sincerely appreciate your consideration on this matter.
Rick Morse

[Larrry/Peace4 Admin]

Very nice letter Rick

[Jan Smolinski]

Rick this is a great letter, if you could send it to the other committee members as well it would be appreciated. All you need to do is copy and paste the same letter but change the name. There are nineteen committee members New york is already a co sponsor.
I hope people understand that there will be none other like this. Many bills die in the Judiciary committee, we cannot let that happen.
Thank you please everyone, give the families a chance to possibly get resolution. The technolgy is here.
Faith, perserverance & Always Hope,

[Andrea Wikso]

Dear Rick,

Sadly, I know all to well what you and your family have been through. My brother, Larry, went missing in August of 1998. His remains were finally identified in 2005, after which, we brought him home and laid him to rest in the family plot in NY. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office has been as rude and uncooperative as you can possibly imagine. They refuse to respond to my phone calls. It took the detective on my brother's case 2 YEARS to respond to repeated calls to update our contact information after my mother passed away. He swore that he wanted to find the monster that marched my brother 2.6 miles into a wooded area and shot him in the back before he retires from the force, yet when we presented him with the first credible lead in Larry's case last summer, he ignored it until I went to the press 4 months ago. He somehow managed to get the press to kill the story. He refuses to follow the lead of an eye witness, who saw and heard a man that believed my brother had robbed him, shouting in the streets that he'd see my brother dead if it was the last thing he did! The police have a report of the incident, the man's name, social security number, current address, and signature, but the detective thinks it best to try and find one of my brother's friends from 12 years ago. What a freaking joke. Oh, I forgot to mention that the reason it took so long to identify my brother is because the PBSO "forgot" to send our missing persons report, complete with recent dental x-rays, to their homicide division. Ooops! Then, it took another 2 weeks while we waited for them to find which warehouse they had stored him in, have him re-autopsied and finally "prepared" to be shipped home. He was identified on 7/15/05, but not buried until 8/15/05.

I wish I could tell you to have hope and that the police will find Trevor, but if my experience is any indication of how law enforcement treats the murdered, unidentified and their families, I am sad to say that I don't have any faith in the system.

My sister in law and nephew were denied my brother's death benefits from Social Security because they didn't apply within 6 months of the murder, a murder we didn't even know took place for 7 years! The whole system is crazy, from the local level all the way up to the Federal level! A Federal employee told my sister in law that he'd have HER arrested if she came back to the Social Security office again, "looking for money she didn't deserve!!" My brother paid into that system from the time he was 16 and she was left to raise my nephew alone. She damn well WAS and IS entitled to that money. They told her since there was no precedent, she was out of luck.

I'm sad to say that Sen. Coburn's actions do not surprise me in the least. He's just another cog in the slow turning wheels of justice that are gumming up the works. If only we could soak him in WD-40 to make him see the light. The only way that people like him could understand what we live with every day is for them to go through it. He couldn't care less about how we've suffered as long as he gets his pension and lifetime benefits, courtesy of the American public he so blithely ignores. He, too, will be judged in the end.

I wish you all the luck in the world and hope you find out what happened to Trevor. Just know, that you'll have to keep pressuring people to do their jobs and to do the right thing.

Most sincerely,
Andrea Wikso

P.S. If you'd like to know more about my brother's case, there is a Facebook page for it. There are pictures of him and his family, as well as a complete history of his case and the fallout from it. You can find it here:
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&ref=mb#!/group.php?gid=318094854092&ref=ts

[Sara Huizenga]

Thank you, Andrea ... ;)
xoxoxo

[Andrea Wikso]

If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know. I've been sending letters, but that doesn't feel like it does much good. I was horrified to learn that Sen. Coburn is on the Senate committee that will decide if this bill makes it out of committee and onto the Senate floor for a vote. I cannot believe that this bill got shot down by him and it frustrates the hell out of me. I hope the good people of Oklahoma think twice about pulling the lever next to his name in November! Keep up the good work you're doing. From one who's been living with this insanity for 12 years, I applaud your efforts!

My current Facebook status reads:
Would the egomaniacal, moronic Senator from Oklahoma, please exit the gene pool? The door is this way, Dr. Coburn. Please watch your step on the way down. Satan hates when the new recruits stumble down the stairs and disturb his quiet time. GOD IS WATCHING, Senator and you've been a very bad, self serving person!!!

I just don't understand how this one man had the power to kill this bill. I hope he never has to suffer the insanity of a missing loved one. No one should have to know how that feels!

[Sara Huizenga]

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[Larrry/Peace4 Admin]

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[Maureen Reintjes-Peace4 Admin]

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[Shirley Emerson]

Okay when referencing the Help Find The Missing Act in correspondence do I refer to HR3695 or S3019? Sorry I am a bit confused on that point.