March 2

Events

• Current events

• 1957 - Ah, the good old days! When men sang to girls of love! - Tab Hunter's biggest hit song by far was "Young Love." Every one of his millions of teen girl fans was sure he was singing it just for them. On this date the song was the number one single in the United States. What was number two the same day? Why, that was "Teen-Age Crush" sung by Tommy Sands. A regular festival of pedophilia!

• 1999 - So just what are those guidelines for, anyway? - Florida Atlantic University professor Marvin Hersh traveled to Honduras to meet boys. He later brought a 15 year old boy back to the United States after obtaining a United States passport and social security number identifying the boy as his natural son under the false identity of "John Anthony Hersh." The two had a sexual relationship until March 28, 1996, when the boy was removed from Hersh's home by state authorities. On this date Hersh was convicted on March 2, 1999, on two counts of transporting a minor in foreign commerce with intent to engage in unlawful sexual activity, one count of conspiracy to travel in foreign commerce to engage in unlawful sexual acts with minors, three counts of receiving visual depictions of minors engaged in explicit sexual conduct, one count of possession of a computer disc containing images of child pornography, one count of making a false statement in an application for a United States passport, one count of harboring and concealing an illegal alien, and one count of making and using a false birth certificate and presenting it to the Social Security Administration to obtain a Social Security card. The sentencing guideline for such a case was between 10 and 13 years. Judge Alan S. Gold sentenced Hersh to 105 years in jail. On appeal, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals found that sentence was proper.

• 2000 - Be careful when stick shifting a Ford - the results could be very unpredictable - Susan Ford's story is unbelievable, but she claims it is true. She says that as a young girl she was recruited by the CIA as a child sex slave and offered up to a number of U.S. presidents, foreign officials, Bob Hope and Henry Kissinger. She claims that this followed from Satanic ritual abuses and mind-control experiments she was subjected to from her earliest days. She explained how she came to realize what had happened to her like this: "In 1985 I had a head injury. I had a head-on collision where my head went through the windshield of the car. What that did was it allowed me to access both sides of my brain for the first time in my life, and I began having memories - very frequent memories of all sorts of abuse that came in such a way that it was difficult for me to continue to process it all. There was just so much of it. There were years of memories that came flooding in. As my programming dictated, when those memories initially in 1985 started coming in, I just thought I was crazy. I was programmed to believe that if anything came up, I would just think I was crazy. In 1987 I had another accident on the same date as the head-on collision where I broke my back and smashed my head again riding a horse." In 1999 she self-published a book about here "experiences" called Thanks For The Memories. On this date, several months later, her book was reviewed and her story being told by many media outlets.

• 2002 - Sex, drugs, and armed robbery? T.I.S. the season! - Wisconsin State officials reported on this date that the typical prison sentence for sex offenders had doubled since 1998. According to state statistics, the average sentence for a single-count felony sex crime - rape and child molestation included - was more than nine years in 2000, the first year in which the state's "truth-in-sentencing law" went into effect. In 1998, it was about 4½ years. By "truth in sentencing" they meant that a sentence would have to be served in its entirety in jail. In the previous three months prosecutors got sentences totaling 55 years in prison for three pedos with no parole eligibility and no time off for good behavior. Before "truth in sentencing," someone given a 20-year prison sentence was eligible for parole after five years. Even if they misbehaved in prison and weren't given parole early on, they would still be released after serving two-thirds of their sentence. "We are seeing people get prison for touching," District Attorney Sandy Williams said. "Abuse is abuse. There are degrees, of course. But the more people get educated on these types of cases, the more people are saying they won't tolerate this type of behavior." Actually, educating people - real education would do quite the opposite. Alas, that is unlikely to happen there soon.