Posted on 11/17/2011 12:00:46 PM PST by servo1969
I had in my car two fourteen year olds and one thirteen year old. All were familiar with the Sandusky case, so I wasn’t exposing them to sordid information they didn’t already know. None of them, however, knew about Mike McQueary’s involvement, or lack thereof. I gave them a simple multiple choice question:
You walk into a room and see a 50 year old man raping a 10 year old boy. Do you (a) attack the man and try to drag him off the boy or (b) sneak away and, hours later, ask your parents what you should do?
The roar from the back of the car shook the windows: “I’d rip him apart!” “Of course I’d attack him!” “I’d kick him the balls!” “That’s a really dumb question.”
As the response from these very young people demonstrates, McQueary’s young age (28) is no defense to his action. Young people can and do know right from wrong, and child rape is wrong.
How to explain McQueary then? I think the problem isn’t his young age, ’cause he, at 28, was no youngster. The problem was his old age. He’d been around long enough to be fully indoctrinated. All those liberal pundits who are apologizing for McQueary’s behavior by pointing to his youth, his tribal loyalties, and his lukewarm, delayed response are hiding the ball. For liberals, the uncomfortable truth is that McQueary probably didn’t act because, after a lifetime in America’s public education system, his moral relativism training had completely erased any absolute moral standards that might once have populated his pre-academic brain.
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Plain and simple, he's (now) trying to cover his own ass, so to speak...
You got that right. Be looking for that perp in the Everglades. And won’t find him.
McQueary faced one of those moments that defines character, which is am I going to do the right thing or the right thing for me. He came up short.
the coverup started then....and according to reports, the ONLY reason McQ came forward was because there were postings somewhere on a blog and the cops tracked down McQ...
Definitely possible.
Umm... happens all the time at the local YMCA.
And it's hurting the prosecution's case. If he's the main witness, he's not helping his credibility.
Nice.
At least now I am no longer surprised at your defense of a child-rapist and his enablers.
yeah...my dad was in the Navy at age 17 in WW2....back then we had boys that were MEN...
Agreed.
Not defending anyone.
He also went to the supervisor of the campus police.
But, yes, if that was the reason for Paterno and Sandusky’s icy relationship, that does not reflect well on Paterno.
I wouldn’t expect him to run out under fire and grab a wounded comrade, that’s for sure.
Or dive into the river for the drowning kid.
I completely mis-read which of mine you were responding to.
Please see Post #34.
You have my sincere apologies.
I don’t think McQ saw anything close to rape, just a man and and a boy showering together. That is bad enough — no need for Bookworm to exaggerate what was seen.
“I am sorry about this post!!
I completely mis-read which of mine you were responding to.”
No worries, Mate. I didn’t help by not quoting.
My concern here is that McQueary could be hurting the case - - and I cannot find a positive thing to say about him whether he is lying or evolving his truth.
What makes this so puzzling is that he once broke up a knife fight between football players and his dad was also a special ops guy.
WE do not know what his testimony was before the Grand Jury. The only thing that has been published is the grand jury SUMMARY. The fact that he was placed on leave and not fired outright is important. What he saw, and is willing to testify to is critical to the case. Until others start to come forward, which is what is happening now, he was/is their most important witness.
Maybe swords intimidate him, but knives do not?
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...I’m sorry, that was tasteless and immature...
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