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Offline Libertas

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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #100 on: July 03, 2012, 11:27:07 AM »
Can't argue with that.
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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #101 on: July 04, 2012, 10:23:29 AM »
It's hard to believe that this case could get any sicker.

But as more is revealed it seems to do just that...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/sports/ncaafootball/paterno-may-have-influenced-decision-not-to-report-sandusky-e-mails-indicate.html?pagewanted=all

E-mail correspondence among senior Penn State officials suggests that Paterno influenced the university’s decision not to formally report the accusation against Sandusky to the child welfare authorities,
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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #102 on: July 12, 2012, 05:07:28 PM »

State College, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- The most powerful former leaders at Penn State University have been accused of showing "total and consistent disregard" for child sex abuse victims, while covering up the attacks of a longtime sexual predator, according to an internal review into how the school handled a scandal involving its former assistant football coach.

Investigators conducted more than 400 interviews and found that several officials had "empowered" Jerry Sandusky to continue his abuse, while Joe Paterno, the school's legendary head football coach, could have stopped the attacks had he done more, investigators said Thursday.

Read the report here(PDF)

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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #103 on: July 12, 2012, 07:34:24 PM »
Yup, I think PSU is toast.
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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #104 on: July 12, 2012, 08:17:23 PM »
Quote from: Libertas on July 12, 2012, 07:34:24 PM
Yup, I think PSU is toast.

 They better start printing money now and get a jump on it.
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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #105 on: July 15, 2012, 04:48:14 PM »

Penn State Stiffens Its Neck, Intends to Keep Statue Memorializing the POS Whose Silence Exposed Untold Numbers of Children to a Rapist

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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 ...


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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #106 on: July 15, 2012, 05:20:35 PM »
No they haven't.  But didn't I hear something about an artist removing the halo from a Joe-Pat mural?  Ironic that an artist has learned more than most people in Happy Valley, hopefully I am not reading too much into it.
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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #107 on: July 16, 2012, 07:35:06 AM »
Death Penalty.  It's obvious everyone associated with the sewer that is Penn State is completely out of control.

Flush it all down the toilet and start over in a few years.

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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #108 on: July 16, 2012, 07:58:36 AM »
Quote from: Charles Oakwood on July 15, 2012, 04:48:14 PM

Penn State Stiffens Its Neck, Intends to Keep Statue Memorializing the POS Whose Silence Exposed Untold Numbers of Children to a Rapist

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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 ...





Maybe, if given the death penalty, penn state can simply re name the statue.
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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #109 on: July 16, 2012, 11:15:02 AM »
Knowing these arrogant clowns they are more likely to put a statue of Sandusky up.

Hopefully it isn't the shower scene...

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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #110 on: July 16, 2012, 02:32:32 PM »
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while Joe Paterno, the school's legendary head football coach, could have stopped the attacks had he done more, investigators said Thursday.



as I suspected...I got sick of people running around making excuses for the guy...
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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #111 on: July 16, 2012, 08:12:36 PM »
There are no excuses, zero, zip, nada.  Most people know this, you just do not harm kids, period.  And this kind of harm will be with the kid for life and his family has to live with it as well.  Hopefully they can cope and have as normal a life as possible, but something vital was stolen from these kids which will never be got back, and that is unforgiveable by us mortals.  May God have mercy on them, I'm plumb out.
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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #112 on: July 18, 2012, 12:44:35 PM »
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A couple of students have started to camp out in tents and watch over the Joe Paterno statue at Penn State. The sign says "Protect the Paterno statue"

Occupy Joe?
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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #113 on: July 18, 2012, 01:35:35 PM »
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A couple of students have started to camp out in tents and watch over the Joe Paterno statue at Penn State. The sign says "Protect the Paterno statue"

Occupy Joe?

If sandusky was occupying Joe, no one would care. he would be a hero.
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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #114 on: July 18, 2012, 04:44:38 PM »
Too bad these kids can't care about something worthwhile.

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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #115 on: July 20, 2012, 11:32:26 AM »
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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.
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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #116 on: July 20, 2012, 12:06:26 PM »
And now, they can address the real problem...unless PSU wants to stand for Pederast State Univ for all time!
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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #117 on: July 20, 2012, 12:10:12 PM »
Quote from: BMG on July 20, 2012, 11:32:26 AM
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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.

How not-smart to announce this thus giving the protestors and obstructors notice.  Just take the damn thing down at night and be done with it.
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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #118 on: July 22, 2012, 07:32:23 PM »
The statue is down and in stored somewhere.

As for PSU, rumors of a big NCAA fist coming down...

"I've never seen anything like it,"
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Ok, we'll see.
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Re: Penn State Scandal
« Reply #119 on: July 22, 2012, 10:28:16 PM »
Yeah, but no "death penalty."

As for the statue coming down...make no mistake, they didn't do it because they are ashamed of Paterno, they aren't. They took it down so that it won't be vandalized. It will go up again after the dust settles. If they were truly ashamed of Paterno then they would have also taken his name off of the library...they didn't.

These people do not get it. And they never will until they are brought to a reckoning. Which may or may not happen.

Enter the liability lawyers.

I hate lawyers but this is one of those instances where they are the remedy of last resort. If the law enforcement types won't bring the victims justice...if the university officials won't do the right thing (see above for all you need to know about that one)...if the NCAA won't hand down real punishment (we will know tomorrow morning but I don't see anything serious happening), then the liability lawyers are going to have to get it done.

Not that they wouldn't get in there for their piece of the action...wild horses, etc. No, they will do what they do and if there is any justice then Penn State will lose their football program somehow, someway.
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