Posted on 07/14/2012 3:17:10 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The embattled members of Penn State's Board of Trustees quietly have decided to leave Joe Paterno's statue standing -- at least for now and, some hope, forever, according to sources with firsthand knowledge of the trustees' private discussions this week.
The trustees' reluctance to remove the statue is motivated, in part, by a desire not to offend alumni and students who adore the late coach despite the damning findings of his role in the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse cover-up detailed in the Freeh report, the sources said. Some trustees also said in interviews they want to resist being pressured by the media into a sudden decision about such an emotionally charged issue.
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Well, if anyone witnesses the statue being vandalized, I hope they have the good sense to go home and discuss the matter with their dad instead of calling the police.
Good luck with that.
If they don’t want it, I’ll put it in my front yard.
I hope they give it to you. Then I hope a few of Sandusky’s victims pays your home a nocturnal visit, just to pay their respects in a proper manner.
Disgusting.
Monument to one who harbored a Molester.
Every Board Member who was supposed to be on duty during the Tenure of Sandusky should be terminated immediately.
And often.
I hope that they give it to you.
U means that Penn State fans are a lot like Obama fans.
U means that Penn State fans are a lot like Obama fans.
If you really respect the “man” then I hope you never get that statue shoved in your backyard. WHat you read right there was more concern than JoePa ever had for potential victims.
U means that Penn State fans are a lot like Obama fans.
“I hope they give it to you. Then I hope a few of Sandusky’s victims pays your home a nocturnal visit, just to pay their respects in a proper manner.”
Yeah, the grass around the thing would be pissed brown! The statue needs to be “Saddamed.”
“If they don’t want it, I’ll put it in my front yard.”
Will you put it to the left or right of the John Wayne Gacey statute?
Lighten up, all of you. I mean no disrespect to the victims or anything. I’m just sick of the whole god-damned thing. I just spent a week at PSU. All of the people I spoke to are as sick of the media as they are Sandusky and all his enablers. Like me, they love Paterno for everything else he did for the university and are completely saddened and angered by his role in this whole sordid business. We all want this whole thing to go away. If taking down the statue will hasten that, so be it. If it will lessen the pain to the victims and their families by one minute, then do it. Let’s not forget, there’s lots of blame to go around here, starting with the victims’ so-called parents. All I hear is, “Where was Paterno?” I haven’t heard anyone say, “Where were their mothers? Their fathers?” Huh?
I get the feeling that in the end, it’s not going to be their call whether or not the statue is going to stay up or not.
This.
Every article I see like this, and each whining comment I read from PSU supporters, makes it clear that the football program needs to be shut down and the place swept clean. They are simply unable to objectively understand the gravity of what happened and are unwilling to take the drastic steps needed to make sure this never happens again. The statue probably should at the very least be removed from prominence. But it is way down the list of priorities right now. There is a moral failure in "Happy Valley" that continues to this day, and it starts at the very top.
For now....it was announced recently that the “Joe Paterno Day Care Center” at NIKE Headquarters in Oregon WILL be renamed...
“Like me, they love Paterno for everything else he did”
Hitler was a decent painter, and he did design those cool SS uniforms....
The Paternophiles will always worship the patron saint of pedophiles.
After they are anally raped.
What kids? Most Oregon liberals are pro-abortion.
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Sandusky preyed on boys from broken homes and dysfunctional families as a M.O., just as any clinical predator does. There is an old saying that it just takes one Oh Sh!t to sink a whole boatload of atta-boys and this one sunk the whole friggin PSU navy (Rhetorically speaking). I couldn’t care less if Paterno gave birth to God himself, there is absolutely no justification or absolution because of his so-called good works to condone what he did for so long for the good of the fargin university, I mean the golden goose football program.
Sorry but one or too ah Shit’s nullify 1000 attaboys and rightly so in this case
All the better for grafitti and TP.
I would have got you if i had not stopped to talk to my Mother in Law who came into the room GMTA
OK. I’ll agree to indict Paterno if you’ll agree to indict the victims’ parents for child neglect. I have yet to hear one single opinionator make mention of the fact that these kids were at risk because their parents were asleep at the switch. Not one. Everyone is guilty in this case-—Sandusky, Paterno, various PSU officials, AND the boys’ parents. While their kids were being abused by Sandusky, their parents were no doubt smoking crack, sitting wasted in a bar, or otherwise unavailable and unattentive to their kids.
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I’d like to beat it with the bottom of my shoes.
They should leave the statue. Just turn it around so that it’s looking the other way.
Shut down the whole football program? Who’s going to be hurt by this? None of the perpetrators or their enablers. The hoteliers who depend on football weekend business, the restaurant owners, all their student employees, the sweatshirt and souvenir manufacturers and vendors and all of their low-income (and innocent) employees, the kids who work in the stadium, and on and on and on. Thousands of people, mostly young and low-income, dependent on college football related jobs and completely innocent of these crimes, will be adversely affected by cancelling the football season. They didn’t do anything wrong and they don’t deserve to be punished.
He was no hero. I was a de facto coconspirator and enabler. His statue should be pulled down like those of other monsters more concerned with ego and self-agrandizement than than right and wrong.
Of course it’s not a legitimate internet debate until somebody makes the first Hitler reference. Good job.
You have got to be kidding!
Do you really think that Sandusky chose kids from strong families? Of Course not he grabbed troubled boys he thought he could turn into his girlfriend or found single mom's who thought the defensive coach at Penn State was an excellent role model.
Then when they realized something was going on the big cover up began. How is a down and out single mother supposed to fight big Joe and Sandusky?
yeah that's the point the Defensive coordinator was running through as many boys as he could get his hands on and Joe let him do it. Joe deserves the disgrace he got. His statue should be gone.
The football program has to be shut down because that's why they were trying to sweep it all under the rug. They must do everything to protect the program. Who cares about a few troubled teens just collateral damage to Penn State fans.
This has nothing to do with the parents. A prolific child predator was using the Penn State facilities as part of his M.O. It was a poorly kept secret among students and some faculty.
All children belong to all of us, and we are responsible for their safety.
If I had my way, the entire University would be burned to the ground.
Fire everyone involved from top to bottom. But to shut down the entire program? What the hell would that accomplish, except to hurt those young men who have irked so hard to go to a school they believed to have the best football program. What about them?
That solution is such a liberal solution. Instead of punishing the perpetrators, let’s just make everyone miserable. So stupid.
I went to a gun show today. One of the t-shirt vendors had a shirt: “Alien vs. Predator,” with an image of E.T. and Jerry Sandusky. Scary thing was the only size available was “small.”
What a shock, Penn State. chooses the football program over morality.
Have you ever heard of players transferring to other schools? It happens all the time. Scholarship players at Penn State would be able to go to other decent to very good football programs across the country.
I’m not saying a down-and-out mother is supposed to take on Paterno and Co. I’m saying she should’ve been there for her kid in the first place, so Sandusky could’ve never gotten never his filthy hands on him.
After all, who would think that Paterno would allow a child molester to roam around on campus.
Who knew that every adult who knew would keep quiet, even the gutless janitors who were more afraid of losing their jobs then telling the truth.
What a culture you guys got down there!
And many of these children came from broken homes.
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