Joe Paterno, Jerry Sandusky, and the Penn State Turmoil
What follows is what I know, what I've heard, read and viewed on television newscasts and my opinion and conclusions after digesting all this fully one week past the incident broke nationally.
It has been reported that a young man passed the athletic showers and observed Sandusky showering with an 11 year old boy and that he saw him sexually assaulting him. The exact nature of the assault I have not the details.
So horrified he was, that he waited until the next day to notify coach Joe Paterno. So horrified was coach Paterno, that he picked up a phone and called his boss.
After these incidents happened, nothing further was said, or done, to my knowledge, according to any news reports. No censure, no meetings, no recriminations, discussions, nothing more happened. Football is not holy. Entering the stadium does not mean you are on holy ground. A crime is a crime, if the perpetrator was holding a gun or a knife, there is NO difference between that or what actually was going on in that shower. We give far TOO much significance to sports figures. We cut them too much slack, get over it.
The very next day and for nearly ten years there after, business went on as usual. Sandusky was the driving force behind the Second Mile club, an organization near the University to encourage young children in sports, who often utilized the college sports facilities.
Sandusky, Paterno, and the young man who reported the incident were all closely allied with on-the-field football activities and from what I glean, nothing interfered with their collective work towards their functions.
It was reported that a possibility of more victims of an alleged child rape may be forthcoming, but as of this writing, none have come forward.
To my opinion, I feel thus: If I were the young man witnessing the alleged sexual assault of a grown man on an 11 year old boy, I would take a chair and bend it over Sandusky's head. Depending on the nature of the act, as yet reported publicly, I would have struck him about the head and shoulders until he was bleeding profusely until both the young boy and I were safe from that hulking threat.
Immediately, I would call the cops. I wouldn't care what the University Policy says about such things, or if it would cost me my job, or care about what damage it would bring down on the " football program."
As a human being, it is up to me to protect the innocent, afflict the comfortable, and bring justice to those that cannot defend themselves. The old adage is true: evil exists when good men do nothing.
To my mind, Paterno, the AD, and the President were only thinking about reputations, their money and their future. How could they work day after day after day, next to an alleged predator for most of TEN YEARS, without saying something, without doing something?
How could they sleep at night? I hope the press tears the roof of the place.
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It has been reported that a young man passed the athletic showers and observed Sandusky showering with an 11 year old boy and that he saw him sexually assaulting him. The exact nature of the assault I have not the details.
So horrified he was, that he waited until the next day to notify coach Joe Paterno. So horrified was coach Paterno, that he picked up a phone and called his boss.
After these incidents happened, nothing further was said, or done, to my knowledge, according to any news reports. No censure, no meetings, no recriminations, discussions, nothing more happened. Football is not holy. Entering the stadium does not mean you are on holy ground. A crime is a crime, if the perpetrator was holding a gun or a knife, there is NO difference between that or what actually was going on in that shower. We give far TOO much significance to sports figures. We cut them too much slack, get over it.
The very next day and for nearly ten years there after, business went on as usual. Sandusky was the driving force behind the Second Mile club, an organization near the University to encourage young children in sports, who often utilized the college sports facilities.
Sandusky, Paterno, and the young man who reported the incident were all closely allied with on-the-field football activities and from what I glean, nothing interfered with their collective work towards their functions.
It was reported that a possibility of more victims of an alleged child rape may be forthcoming, but as of this writing, none have come forward.
To my opinion, I feel thus: If I were the young man witnessing the alleged sexual assault of a grown man on an 11 year old boy, I would take a chair and bend it over Sandusky's head. Depending on the nature of the act, as yet reported publicly, I would have struck him about the head and shoulders until he was bleeding profusely until both the young boy and I were safe from that hulking threat.
Immediately, I would call the cops. I wouldn't care what the University Policy says about such things, or if it would cost me my job, or care about what damage it would bring down on the " football program."
As a human being, it is up to me to protect the innocent, afflict the comfortable, and bring justice to those that cannot defend themselves. The old adage is true: evil exists when good men do nothing.
To my mind, Paterno, the AD, and the President were only thinking about reputations, their money and their future. How could they work day after day after day, next to an alleged predator for most of TEN YEARS, without saying something, without doing something?
How could they sleep at night? I hope the press tears the roof of the place.
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