Posted on 01/30/2012 5:00:54 AM PST by Kaslin
Precisely what I was thinking, and read no further than that rather strange statement.
Yes, and the author probably has no clue that the darkness was working through him in writing that!
I really don’t understand all you Monday morning quarterbacks. Just what else was Paterno supposed to do? Go to Sandusky’s home & beat him up? Call press conference to expose (poor choice of words) the “facts”? What facts did he have - McQuery’s word? What if McQuery had a personal vendetta & made the whole thing up? Would you really risk ruining a man’s reputation on some else’s say-so? All Paterno had was, legally, a rumor.
Have you ever witnessed and reported a crime? Did you “follow up”? And if the authorities you “followed up” with told you things were being handled, then what?
Of course the kids come first, and Joe never failed to mention that they were, first and foremost, the victims.
That being said, Joe was also a victim —— of the BOT, medical wonder that they are: spineless, gutless, ball-less.
Joe could have went against the system to save young males. He decided not to do that. It cost him his life and his honor on a bad decision. Joe paid a cost for that. His friendship to Jerry killed him.
You wrote:
“I didn’t know who Joe Paterno was.”
Okay, but he was a national icon. I have been all over the USA and have seen his image and name on bumper stickers, T-shirts, etc. The guy has been famous since the 1960s. I suppose if someone knows nothing about college football, he might not know him, but he also was involved in Republican politics too.
Paterno was surely not so virgin-eyed or -eared that he hadn’t heard stories of the buggery of the navies of old, or read it in the bible, or heard it warned about from a pulpit?
Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt.
Jerry never gave Joe cancer, unless they were REALLY weird.
Now now, don’t go depriving the age of consent abolition lobby of their martyr.
Report the allegation to police, mentioning all he had learned including McQueary’s allegations. If McQueary was the villain here, police investigators and Sandusky’s own attorneys (not difficult to get given his posh position) would be the cure.
Nonsense. None of this is new. You really think they didn’t know about pederasty and pedophilia before now?
Paterno didn’t act upon knowledge that he should have acted upon. Little kids continued to be abused. I feel bad for him, but he made his own decisions.
I don’t know all the details of the story but didn’t this sandusky already get fired and told not to run his camp on campus? Which is why he only took boys one by one on specuial trips to the locker room or games? So Joe Pa would have known that Sandusky had this issue.
Paterno died because he was old, had terminal cancer, and his time had come. Would he have lived another 20 years if this Sandusky thing hadn’t happened?
Your comment is very simple and does not take into account the stress Jerry put on Joe. Your comment was more RedNeck than HiTech. The comment was not funny either.
JoePa should have been let go years ago. He was nothing more than a figurehead. This just provided an oportunity to get rid of him and move on.
Yes, thank you for having the courage to tell the truth about what went on at Penn State. The truth is: liberalism once again won, and a man who held to conservative standards was sacrificed on the twin altars of cowardice and political correctness.
To those who bleat, “Well, I care about the children,” please stop insulting the rest of us with your self-righteous effluvia. We all care about the children. As did JoPa — who spent his life caring about the children and molding men.
With the knowledge he had, Joe Paterno did what was right and just. He reported to those whose job it was to investigate and take appropriate action. Should he have gone on a vendetta against Sandusky based on the skimpy information we now know he was given?
No — for three reasons.
First, as noted, he reported to those whose responsibility was to investigate the charges, the ones who had the tools to thoroughly do so.
Second, he proceeded with his own job assuming that if further action from him was required, he would be so informed.
Third, he worked for a college president who was a notoriously “gay rights” zealot, a man who had made it known that any employee or student who criticized homosexuals could be punished (he even went after the Boy Scouts for being “homophobic”. So, JoPa should have martyred himself in a case in which he didn’t even know the full story?
The leftwing board of Penn State considered Joe Paterno an anachronistic conservative. They hated his standards, morals, and virtues. They saw a chance to scapegoat him — and like typical liberal vipers, they couldn’t wait to strke.
Given the harm that's been done of late by those professing to do good in the name of "the children," I think I'll go with the former; though I would freely admit that in the grand scheme of things it's not particularly important. Let's just say that in this grand scheme of things my view of "the children" is closer to Churchill's view than it is to Hitler's.
ML/NJ
These are the same who when Michael Jackson was accused; not only 'looked the other way'; but concluded/accused all who did not take Jackson's side; as being racist. These same; made/knew what became 'iconic jokes' re Sandusky; and that was ok - to not go to the truth of them.
Sandusky was the perp;and no matter what was said; no one knows how Paterno internalized the info; nor do we know; just how that info was framed. There can be no question; of course; that more could/should have been done. But, by turn; what was done to Paterno; should scortch some souls as well.
In the end; the damning indictments cannot ignore the mind/moral-numbing impact of our now Liberal culture which makes light of sexual mores/taboos; and in fact; appears by every measure of Liberal education; to invite and give sanction, to the worst. No question; our current culture's 'moral clarity' has turned opaque.
(And those who do not so synthesize the politically correct rewrites; are punished, for their resistance.)
Sandusky was not Paterno's employee and had not been for years. Joe reported what was told him. He did what he was supposed to do. Joe was destroyed by the perfect storm of the evil press, the liberal mind-set that shields homosexual behavior from scrutiny AND a the growing number of self absorbed, self righteous and arrogant people that believe they can easily understand reality by what is spoon-fed them via their TV's and computer screens!
Kids are being molested all around our nation everyday, just check the national sex offender data base and see how many live within a mile radius of your home. . .what are you doing about that. . .anything?
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