WaPo Piece on PSU/Sandusky/Paterno

A real comment, is it?

A LOT of other people feel the same way?? I would sure like to meet those lot of people. Because unless they live or attend in and around Penn State, I think you'd be hard pressed to find ANYONE who shares that laughable sentiment.

Paterno was in charge of the football program at Pennsylvania State University. You know that place where a coach molested children for 30 years. So I would say Mr Paterno deserves a lot of the blame. 

Are you for real?  To an exaggerated degree, Hitler never was proven to have actually killed anyone.  He is still responsible for one of the most heinous acts in our civilzation's history.  I hope you can draw the connection here.  Just in case, being complicit is an act of deviance.  He's not clean.

From all the evidence I've heard as a non-insider, JoPa was a clear accomplice to a sick crime. Whether he personally benefited (and not having to fire his coordinator was clearly a benefit) is irrelevant. He harbored a child molester and actively concealed that monster's actions. If others on this board feel the same as you, then I am deeply saddened for this board.

I'm a 7-star general who just wants to blow stuff up in some foreign country, so why should I do anything about my soldiers raping women and children in foreign countries?

It must be nice to be able to compartmentalize everything.

EDIT: Also, so far 15 people have anonymously negged you, and 0 have anonymously pos-ed you. I think that's a pretty good indication that there's no silent majority of people on this board who think JoePa's actions were kosher.

It's a good thing you don't value "fake internet points", because you are going to lose A LOT

and deserve to

You're an idiot

JoPa never molested anyone and didn't benefit from Sandusky raping children.

Joe knew and little kids got screwed.

crimes never came to light. He and his beloved program were going to take a whenever they were revealed. Keeping them from becoming public was worth it to JoePa, even if it meant more kids getting hurt.

but fail to mention  he KNEW what was going on and did NOTHING to stop it..that alone makes him culpable

Joe Paterno was the enabler of a child rapist. At minimum, he allowed the rapist to prey on more kids by not reporting Sandusky to the police when he found out. The longer Paterno knew, the more culpable he is in all of it.

An accomplice does not actually commit the crime, but his actions helped someone in the commission of the crime.  This includes failing to prevent it. 

Where is East German Judge?  We need some words of wisdom here.

"JoPa never molested anyone and didn't benefit from Sandusky raping children.  The guy was a football coach who just wanted to coach football." 

All that might be true, but it is also true that has the leader of the football team (not to mention an influential voice in the larger PSU community) JoePa had greater responsibilities than just football. 

Further, while it is likely true the JoePa didn't benefit from what Sandusky did, he very likely benefitted (or at least believe he would benefit) by looking the other way so he could keep Sandusky around.

An accomplice to murder didn't actually commit the murder. But he/she helped bury it, cover it up, plan it, stood by while it happened and did nothing, etc. The same holds true here. 

JoePa didn't rape children. But he had enough information to do something about it and didn't. He enabled the rape to happen. In many ways it's just as bad. In his heart of hearts, he may have been a good man, but as that old saying goes: the only thing that is necessary for evil to triumph is when good men do nothing. 

99% of MGOBLOG: "Wow, I don't know if any post is this thread could get worse than the 9/11 conspiracy post."

Fieldy'sNuts: "Hold my beer."

No he was a football coach worried about his wins. He sat in the booth not coaching the last couple of years and collecting wins to beat Eddie Robinson's total. JoPa didn't give a shit about those kids just his own legacy and in the end his legacy has suffered and rightly so. Fuck JoPa and Fuck PSU. The truthers also want to ignore that JoPa allowed that twisted Fuck to take kids o  the road with him after JoPa knew and he was allowed to keep an office on campus and was still bringing kids around after he retired (fired) Fuck you Paternos

Gotta love the idea that people act independent of environments.  The fact is that we love to scapegoat because it removes us from implication.  Focusing on Sandusky allows Penn State to contnue on practicing their perverted morality without feeling guilt or remorse.  MSU is pretending nothing happened outside of Nassar's actions.  They do this because it works.  The myth of individuality is so pervasive that we are doomed to repeat history until we hold up what's really right and what really matters.  If anything like MSU or PSU happens in Ann Arbor they should shut football down until they take care of the problem in entirety, but this will never happen as long as winning and profit are all that matter.