Posted on 01/31/2012 8:44:20 AM PST by Neverforget01
When the hundreds of thousands of Penn State alumni hear the name JoePa, they think of moral leadership, of the kind of person they aspire to be. Of his warmth, his fatherliness, his steadiness, and his granite character. Joe Paterno was for hundreds of thousands of alumni the very model of the moral ideal of Western humanism.
Hundreds of thousands of alumni think a huge injustice was committed against JoePa by the board of trustees, and they have emphatically expressed their sentiments to the new interim president of Penn State during his coast-to-coast series of alumni meetings to damp down the great anger he is encountering.
First news of the Sandusky scandal, in which longtime defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was accused of sexually molesting underage boys, broke in March 2011, and it came before the board of trustees that June. They said it was not a Penn State problem, because Sandusky had left the university in 1999, though he continued to use an office there for several more years. It was a problem for the institution Sandusky had founded, the Second Mile organization for youngsters.
Then, quite suddenly in November 2011, with a huge national scandal erupting, the board suddenly acted as if the burden were on them. They did not weigh their own responsibility, their own inaction, their own failure to get to the bottom of the scandal of five months earlier. In a fit of what to many alumni seems to have been fear for themselves, the board’s members ducked their own responsibility, and in the most ignoble and impersonal way, made JoePa, the moral giant of Penn State, a moral outcast.
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Joe Paterno is a piece of human trash.
Remember- Jesus loves the children the most.
Quite the coincidence that he died so quickly after this, huh?
Scumbag.
Why don’t they let the poor guy rest in peace.
“Jerry Sandusky was accused of sexually molesting underage boys”
The writer is trying to condition his readers to think that if the boys hadn’t been “underage” all would have been well. This is a good example of sodomite spin.
This will never be over. JoePa went to his chain of command and said that their are rumors going around from the young guy saying that the other guy is bonking kids. The upper chain did nothing. If Joe himself saw what was going on then I could see this being a negative, but that kid is the one who should be strung up. He literally saw it and waited 24 hours to go to Joe who then went to his supervisors. I would love to know what that young kid said to Joe. “Oh Joe. I think I was the child molester bonking a kid yesterday in the shower.” Joe said, “You think?” The kid says, “Yes that is what I think was happening.”. Joe said, “Well I am going to the chain of command over this.” Man you guys make something bigger than it was. Everyone keeps saying 10 children but the main point was one and Joe was not even sure it actually happened because the young kid was not positive.
Concur.
Yep.
Remember- Jesus loves the children the most.
I’ve read every bit of this scandal head to toe.
In the end, it is all nonsense BS!
If you know something like that (little children being harmed) you don’t question how to handle it. You don’t deal within your organization. There is only ONE single sane, human response to that knowledge- GO DIRECTLY TO THE POLICE.
If the locals won’t hear of it, go to the county, then to the state, then to the feds, then to the press.
I mean this isn’t rocket science. Anyone with even a shred of a heart and morality would know the obvious move here.
Like I said- scumbag Paterno got what he deserved. Death in disgrace, his devilish career and success destroyed before he departed (funny how the devil’s gifts never really pan out, huh?) and hopefully an eternity of torture in hell.
Jesus loved the widows and orphans (adult orphans as well) as much, perhaps more than he loved children (true religion being that you care for widows and orphans in their distress).
So I don’t hear you railing about coaches who don’t support children’s homes for orphans, or coaches who don’t write checks for widows and widowers.
You got a Paterno Derangement Syndrome problem?
THAT IS A POLICE ISSUE.
IF YOU ARE AWARE OF A CRIME YOU MUST REPORT IT TO THE CORRECT AUTHORITIES.
YOU DO NOT HUDDLE WITH YOUR “BOYS” and decide what is good for the group.
Or are you saying that I can do that with my personal discretion if I saw one of YOUR family members being attacked.... (Oh that wasn’t sexual assault that guy just accidentally grabbed her breast on the subway.. I’ll just ignore it).
I think the author should start praying to the messiah Paterno, now that he has ascended into heaven.
Joe knew it happened. Joe still let the rapist on his campus. Joe let the rapist bring other boys to overnight Penn State football events. Joe still employed the scumbag who let the rapist finish the assault and leave with the child. And Joe never once followed up with the police or anybody else as to the welfare of that child. He could still be under Sandusky's porch for all we know.
If Novak's only point was that more heads should have rolled at Penn State, I'd be with him. But Paterno deserved to be fired and they should have sent his statue with him.
First of all. That young guy who saw the action should have gone directly to the police immediately. I can’t believe he is being looked at as some sort of Saint. He was wrong in the first place. Secondly, we have know idea what he said to Joe. I mean rumors fly around a lot. Had Joe witnessed the assault and only went to his superiors, then I would be disgusted with Joe for sure. But he took secondary information to his superiors. Heck in a court Joe could not even use this information as second hand information. The judge would throw it out.
either thte title should be “the injustice done to the children by jopa’s people”,, or there should be a barf alert
Where is the short in your wiring?
That is the most ridiculous attempt at a metaphor ever.
The correct comparison would be if I didn’t feel the same way about a coach who knew a home for orphans was being burned down (or of a plan to do so) or used for molestation and not reporting it.
Not simply not supporting something. No one is mad at him for not campaigning against abusers in general.
Get a grip, man.
The comments on the National Review site are worth reading. On target, and 10-1 opposed to this dreadful jock-worshiping column by Novak.
Well, sure.
That kid is the absolute worst of the lot, but that doesn’t exonerate Joe.
You still morally culpable, even if someone is more culpable.
It’s not either or.
Well, sure.
That kid is the absolute worst of the lot, but that doesn’t exonerate Joe.
You’re still morally culpable, even if someone is more culpable.
It’s not either or.
Great point. In fact I have even read how some editorialists try to let many of those priests of the hook by their pointing out that many of the victims were adolescents as opposed to children.
Bottom line. The Almighty will have the final say on Joe. We will never know how that turned out until we either see him up in Heaven or join him down in the hot spot.
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