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Penn State To Remove Paterno Statue This Weekend
WFAN ^ | 7-20-2012 | Kim Jones

Posted on 07/20/2012 11:12:53 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

NEW YORK (WFAN) – It seems the fate of Joe Paterno’s statue at Penn State has been sealed.

“Am told that Penn State plans to take down the Paterno statue this weekend,” Kim Jones of the NFL Network and WFAN reported via Twitter on Friday.

Paterno, fired by the university last year amid the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal, died in January. His legacy was further tarnished by a scathing report released last week by former FBI director Louis Freeh.

The Freeh report accused the former coach and other university officials of “repeatedly” concealing “critical facts relating to Sandusky’s child abuse” in order to avoid bad publicity.

Many have since called for the removal of Paterno’s likeness in front of Beaver Stadium. A banner even flew above Penn State this week with the message, “Take the statue down or we will.”

Sandusky was convicted in June on 45 of 48 counts of sexual abuse against 10 boys, some within PSU’s athletic facilities.

The Paterno family plans to launch its own investigation in the wake of the Freeh report.

“The announcement of the findings by the Freeh Group is yet another shocking turn of events in this crisis,” the family said in a statement Monday. “We are dismayed by, and vehemently disagree with, some of the conclusions and assertions and the process by which they were developed. Mr. Freeh presented his opinions and interpretations as if they were absolute facts. We believe numerous issues in the report, and his commentary, bear further review.

“Our interest has been and remains the uncovering of the truth.”


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To: WKUHilltopper
My next question is who in the NCAA knew this, heard the scuttle and did nothing as well—like report what they heard to police

Bingo!

I know of no coaching positions offered to Sandusky from other universities after his early retirement from PSU. Leads me to believe there were a number of people at other institutions who had knowledge, yet said nothing.

21 posted on 07/20/2012 11:35:01 AM PDT by Rational Thought
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To: erod

You are spot on Sir. If Joe had called the cops, he would have been called a hero. The stink would have been bad, but not nearly as what happened.
Pride destroyed a great man. Now he will be cast into the darkness.
Sandusky should get the chair. All child molestors should. They take a little ones life, leaving a empty shell of a person.


22 posted on 07/20/2012 11:35:35 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: ex-snook

Their goal was to conceal all the facts. The fact is that by not going to the legal authorities they concealed the facts that they each knew. Once they became aware, then from that moment on the concealment was continuous.


23 posted on 07/20/2012 11:38:40 AM PDT by Saltmeat
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To: lacrew

BEST POST. LOL


24 posted on 07/20/2012 11:41:52 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Sir Napsalot

ZANES:

Bronze statues of Zeus, known as Zanes and paid for from fines for lying, bribery, and cheating, lined the route to the Olympic stadium.

By the fourth century, bronze statues of Zeus, known as Zanes and paid for from fines for lying, bribery, and cheating, lined the route to the Olympic stadium. Pausanias says the first six statues were established in the 98th Olympiad (388 B.C.) when the boxer Eupolos of Thessaly bribed his opponents. An inscription on the base of one of the first statues declares that “an Olympic victory is to be won not by money but by swiftness of foot or strength of body” (trans. S.G. Miller). Inscriptions on other bases similarly urge piety and warn against violations. In A.D. 93 an Alexandrian athlete who arrived late was expelled and fined for lying. He had claimed being delayed by weather when in fact he had been delayed by competing in prize games in Ionia. A fellow Alexandrian exposed his lie and was declared the victor without a fight. Lead curse tablets show that athletes even tried to hex rivals at Isthmia and elsewhere with pleas to underworld deities such as “let them not prevail in running.”

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/olympics/olympia.html


25 posted on 07/20/2012 11:44:56 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Yep. Sandusky was the leading candidate for the Temple and Maryland coaching jobs and all of a sudden - POOF, he was dropped like a hot potato.

Things that make you go, Hmmmmmmmm.


26 posted on 07/20/2012 11:45:22 AM PDT by SengirV
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To: Sir Napsalot

I say leave it standing,

with a millstone tied round it’s neck.


27 posted on 07/20/2012 11:46:03 AM PDT by lack-of-trust
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To: Sir Napsalot
“Our interest has been and remains the uncovering of the truth.”

Ironic coming from members of the Paterno family.

28 posted on 07/20/2012 11:46:45 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man (T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
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To: ex-snook
How did Paterno conceal?

Just one example is that he gave McQueary a job after McQueary gave a credible eye witness account of seeing Sandusky in the shower with a boy who looked about 10 years old with (not for the faint of heart) rhythmic sounds of wet bodies slapping together.

This was roughly a decade before these charges came to light.

If McQueary was NOT credible - why did Paterno give him a job? If McQueary was credible - then both he and Paterno witnessed, over the next DECADE, Sandusky parading around Penn State Campus with other young boys, going to banquets, and using his access to the Penn State athletic facilities as the “currency” with which he “groomed” his victims.

Paterno informed Sandusky of the eye witness account - but NOT actual authorities - allowing Sandusky to potentially silence the victim (who still has never been identified).

That is just ONE incident. The recent report also showed that this was the SECOND time (at least) that Paterno had credible reports of Sandusky victimizing young boys. It is also likely he knew of the janitor who saw the same thing McQueary did on a different date.

The report also showed that officials at Penn State were about to take what they knew to actual authorities - UNTIL they spoke with Paterno. Circumstantial - but quite damning.

Paterno is scum. Full stop. Winning football games does not ameliorate lessen or abrogate his complicity in child rape.

29 posted on 07/20/2012 11:50:07 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: allmendream

Paterno was determined to die as the Penn State coach, he knew his predecessor would eventually uncover the truth....I think of an accountant who never goes on a vacation.


30 posted on 07/20/2012 11:53:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: ex-snook

“I’ve read this but no details. How did Paterno repeatedly conceal? Anyone got any reference?”

In the Freeh report there were copies of mulitple emails between the criminals about how to cover it up, how to avoid the bad publicity, how to bury it and maintain the university’s squeaky-clean status, etc.

One email referenced the idea that they may be culpable later on if the story ever became public. They chose to cover it up anyway.

Google can probably find the full report for you.


31 posted on 07/20/2012 11:53:41 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (I wanna start a Seniors' Motor Scooter Gang. Wanna join?)
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To: lacrew
Just install a rotating base underneath it. Tourists could make it ‘look the other way’.

Wow. You've managed to sum up the whole situation with a bit of humor.
32 posted on 07/20/2012 11:54:38 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Sir Napsalot
I'm not a Penn State fan or a supporter of Joe Paterno, but I do not agree with the knee jerk reactions of many posters here or the Penn State administrators whose goal is to sweep this under the rug as fast as possible.

If you were to follow the entire Sandusky timeline, you would find that he was accused of similar sexual child abuse in the past, and was cleared of all charges. Although Joe Paterno did get him fired, the Penn State administration still allowed him “special” access to the sports facilities.

Run the timeline ahead several years and Joe gets a second hand report of Sandusky child sexual abuse from a student aide. He reports it to his superiors, and they sit on it. People (some here) decry his not going directly to the police, but what would they do, he was not a witness, and they had already been through all of this before – with Sandusky getting off. You must realize that during this time period, homosexuals were an uber protected class in State College – they could do no wrong.

If anyone is to blame for all of this it is the university administration who not only accepted the homosexual lifestyle with open arms, they promoted it with university (i.e. taxpayer and student fee) supported homosexual fairs. With all of this homosexual pressure placed on you, what would you do differently?????

33 posted on 07/20/2012 11:55:05 AM PDT by Conservative_Rob
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To: Responsibility2nd
Good move. Next they need to dismantle the football program. But I expect the NCAA will do that.

Running out of time if the NCAA or Big Ten are going to ban the team from play this year. My guess is that the sanctions will be announced after this season begins and will start with post-season play this year.

Frankly I think that the Big Ten should just kick PSU out and be done with it. But you've got that 100,000 seat stadium up there that just argues against it.

34 posted on 07/20/2012 11:56:35 AM PDT by Tallguy (It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
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To: lacrew

or put it back up with feet of clay...


35 posted on 07/20/2012 11:58:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Sir Napsalot

1. What took the administation so long?
2. Are they afraid of the pigeons who idolize the one who enabled a pedophile?


36 posted on 07/20/2012 11:59:04 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Da Bro' Gotsta Go!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I believe we’re going to find there was more than one child molester in high places at PSU. They are animals who run in packs.


37 posted on 07/20/2012 12:00:46 PM PDT by Crawdad
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To: ex-snook
I've read this but no details. How did Paterno repeatedly conceal? Anyone got any reference?

Every day that he didn't call the cops on a homosexual pedophile rapist who was walking freely around Paterno's beloved campus and Paterno's beloved football facilities was a coverup.

Paterno, being a grandfather, would have most likely done something if Sandusky was raping his grandchildren. But hey, if it's not his grandchildren, apparently in Paterno's world, it's no harm, no foul.
38 posted on 07/20/2012 12:02:17 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Sir Napsalot

Relegate them to division III and make them play all games on the road.


39 posted on 07/20/2012 12:03:00 PM PDT by tellw
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To: Sir Napsalot
The university could go a loooooong way to rehabilitating their image in the eyes of many, and openly redefining their priorities by melting it down and recasting a statue of PSU alum SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy...


40 posted on 07/20/2012 12:03:38 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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