Penn State Child Molestation Scandal

The Paterno family's statement on the NCAA penalties...

They don't get it.

 

OMG! That's odd that the people investigating Paterno for covering up for a child molester didn't get input from his family about how to soften their findings. Isn't that pretty commonplace? Since when do we let our public officials publish the results of an investigation into wrongdoing without first letting the wrongdoer's family's lawyers sign off on it?

Plus, fuck the survivors. Won't someone think of Paterno's legacy? Who cares about living people who've experienced real, tragic pain, we've got sugar-coated memories to preserve! Have these people thought about the fact that if we damage Paterno's legacy, it will essentially be like he covered up for that child molester for nothing? No. They haven't. Because they've selfishly put "justice" and "doing the right thing" ahead of more important things like misplaced pride and willful-ignorance-of-child-rape-for-the-greater-good-of-college-football (yes, I hypened that whole fucking thing instead of rewriting the sentence in a more coherent way - I have my priorities straight, unlike that asshole Louis Freeh).

 

You have to realize the mentality of these people. Football is Penn State. Football is Joe Paterno. Joe Paterno is Penn State. In the minds of many the words are interchangeable. How many people do you know that get a statue while they're still living? The net result is that it's all about Joe. He was regarded as infallible by a large part of the football community, not just his family. If anyone has anything bad to say about him it has to be a lie, be it deliberate or incidental (i.e. a result of incomplete evidence). No matter what anyone has to say they will never ever admit that he did anything wrong. So long as people are pointing out that he did do something wrong they have to make these kinds of desperate, bleating noises.

The brutal irony is that the more loudly they defend their hero, the more they prove to everyone else that the 'football culture' at Penn State has gotten out of hand and something needs to be done about it.

 

Unfriggenbelievable

The Website of Record for the Defense of Joe Paterno | The Framing of Joe Paterno

I guess everybody has the right to be wrong, even when pursuing it to great lengths.

 

:facepalm:

I wish the people in my state would get as fired up about ensuring the safety of our water supply (re: fracking) as they do about fucking Joe Paterno.

 

Thanks for the update.

 

I heard that after Paterno's defenders get his name cleared, their next goal is to erect a statue of Colorado shooter James Holmes.

 

from the article linked above, this is the main paragraph that differentiates what is happening from delerium:

i am agnostic about this particular matter. but i do find it deeply problematic that penn state has been turned into a new version of the "bad apple" the purging of which implies that the rest of the big-time sports world is somehow ok. as if the routine concealment of rapes of women are ok, for example. because, you know, these players are important for revenue. to be clear, i have no problem with how penn state's football program has been treated here---i would hav e advocated going further and vaporizing it had i been in a position of power---only the ways in which the opportunity to address systemic problems (i know the concealing of rape by sporty programs at several universities) has been dodged.

 

*like*

And beautifully put, Borla.

I see Joe's emotion had interfered with his judgement:
"My name," he told Jay, "I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone."
Well, it does mean something: Rape-Enabler.

 

Borla, the scuttlebutt is that these charges are going to be filed against non-Sandusky's. There's a persistent rumor that's been out there for months that there are boosters that were involved with Sandusky and that child porn was involved as well. Those rumors faded for a while, but they've come back strong in the last couple of weeks.

 

Bloody hell. The cess-pit deepens. Bloody hell.

 

Well then...

High-Ranking Catholic Priest Has Some Horrifying Thoughts About Seductive Teens And "Poor" Jerry Sandusky

 

Hi, Craven. Thanks for posting this, and 'scuse me while I vomit.

I reckon I'm about to make some kind of fallacy of scale, but I'm too tired, and too pissed off by this article to care: When will it get to the point that fashionable pre-pubes may be expected to take some of the 'blame'/responsibility in paedophilic cases?