[VintageHawkeye]

Relative to the penn state horrors.
I am appalled that the attention span (and memory) of the average American is soooo short and limited.
Children were hurt in the most heinous fashion and had their lives ruined by sandusky and his accomplices.
IT SHOULD NOT YET BE YESTERDAY'S NEWS. These disgusting freak criminals have to pay for what they've done.
REMEMBER THE VICTIMS.

[imported_ankle23]

Originally Posted by VintageHawkeye

Relative to the penn state horrors.
I am appalled that the attention span (and memory) of the average American is soooo short and limited.
Children were hurt in the most heinous fashion and had their lives ruined by sandusky and his accomplices.
IT SHOULD NOT YET BE YESTERDAY'S NEWS. These disgusting freak criminals have to pay for what they've done.
REMEMBER THE VICTIMS.

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PSU just hired Freeh (ex FBI) to investigate on their behalf starting from 1975. I don't think anyone is forgetting. The pain is just getting started for the current and former staff and admins at PSU.

[silvanthalas]

Don't worry, Vin, there will be plenty of chances to let the outrage return in the coming weeks and months.

I mean, here's the latest article from the NY Times about Spanier:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/sp...d=1&ref=sports

Once PSU's records are opened up, there's going to be a whole lot of bad stuff revealed.

[JonDMiller]

Penn State is going through the process of the China Syndrome right now. Beneath the surface, things are melting straight through to the core.

[JonDMiller]

In reading that article, I had no idea Graham Spanier graduated from Iowa State. Perhaps I am the last to know that.

[DwayneTwill]

"The Brutal Truth About Penn State"...

There will now be a decade or more of criminal trials, and perhaps a quarter-century or more of civil actions, as a result of what went on at Penn State. These things cannot be prayed away. Let us hear nothing about "closure" or about "moving on." And God help us, let us not hear a single mumbling word about how football can help the university "heal." (Lord, let the Alamo Bowl be an instrument of your peace.) This wound should be left open and gaping and raw until the very last of the children that Jerry Sandusky is accused of raping somehow gets whatever modicum of peace and retribution can possibly be granted to him. This wound should be left open and gaping and raw in the bright sunlight where everybody can see it, for years and years and years, until the raped children themselves decide that justice has been done. When they're done healing — if they're ever done healing — then they and their families can give Penn State permission to start.

If that blights Joe Paterno's declining years, that's too bad. If that takes a chunk out of the endowment, hold a damn bake sale. If that means that Penn State spends some time being known as the university where a child got raped, that's what happens when you're a university where a child got raped. Any sympathy for this institution went down the drain in the shower room in the Lasch Building. There's nothing that can happen to the university, or to the people sunk up to their eyeballs in this incredible moral quagmire, that's worse than what happened to the children who got raped at Penn State. Good Lord, people, get up off your knees and get over yourselves.

Charles P. Pierce on the brutal truth about the crimes at Penn State - Grantland

[hawkeyebob62]

Originally Posted by VintageHawkeye

Relative to the penn state horrors.
I am appalled that the attention span (and memory) of the average American is soooo short and limited.
Children were hurt in the most heinous fashion and had their lives ruined by sandusky and his accomplices.
IT SHOULD NOT YET BE YESTERDAY'S NEWS. These disgusting freak criminals have to pay for what they've done.
REMEMBER THE VICTIMS.

Perhaps if the outrage had been properly directed in the first place, it would still be there. So long as YOU'RE satisfied, I guess?

The outrage and insinuation, from the get-go, was on Paterno. Not saying his hands are clean. At all. But the initial, and continuing, outrage should have been directed at the (alleged/accused) perpetrator. Not on Paterno. Not on PSU students. Not on PSU Board of Trustees. Not on whether or not Paterno transferred title to his house. (Sure, it works for you and Thunder, but in the real world? No.)

You can be like Thunder and scream for Paterno's head. You can take bits and pieces of grand jury statements (which are, by design, one-sided) and news stories and use it however you please. You can, like DiNardo and C-Mart, go on and on about how everyone would have/should have known. You can rail on McQueary's apparent lack of bravery, or even his contradicting/conflicting statements.

But...because Paterno became (almost) the sole focus, media-wise, from day one, a natural death of the moral/arrogant/superior outrage was predetrmined the night he got fired.

Even Sandusky's "interview" with Costas didn't get the "billing" it should have. The focus has never truly been on Sandusky.

[racerhawk]

Originally Posted by DwayneTwill

"The Brutal Truth About Penn State"...




Charles P. Pierce on the brutal truth about the crimes at Penn State - Grantland

That was a really good article. Well written and thoughtful. I found the "putting the brand above everything else" sentiment to be especially poignant.

[silvanthalas]

Originally Posted by hawkeyebob62

The focus has never truly been on Sandusky.

Because Sandusky is going away for the rest of his life. He may be walking free at the moment because of a judge with a conflict of interest who should be thrown off the bench, but he will be going to jail. End of story.

And yet, he had plenty of enablers around State College. The fact that the focus has been on those enablers should make for a fine warning to others not to repeat this sickening behavior.

[latrans]

Originally Posted by silvanthalas

Because Sandusky is going away for the rest of his life. He may be walking free at the moment because of a judge with a conflict of interest who should be thrown off the bench, but he will be going to jail. End of story.

And yet, he had plenty of enablers around State College. The fact that the focus has been on those enablers should make for a fine warning to others not to repeat this sickening behavior.

To this I would add that people can accept that there are sick and disturbed people in the world and while abhorent to them they are much less disturbing than otherwise normal people that turn a blind to evil for such petty reasons.

[edr247]

Wait...something happened at Penn State?

[ssckelley]

Originally Posted by edr247

Wait...something happened at Penn State?

OMG, you are sooooo funny! I am laughing so hard my sides hurt.

Children being sodomized while a university covered it up is no laughing matter. Anybody trying to make light of this situation or make jokes is truly pathetic.

Hopefully one of the mods will delete your post along with mine.

[homes]

Originally Posted by VintageHawkeye

Relative to the penn state horrors.
I am appalled that the attention span (and memory) of the average American is soooo short and limited.
Children were hurt in the most heinous fashion and had their lives ruined by sandusky and his accomplices.
IT SHOULD NOT YET BE YESTERDAY'S NEWS. These disgusting freak criminals have to pay for what they've done.
REMEMBER THE VICTIMS.

People don't forget about these things, but there are not many new facts to review and discuss, so commentary right now amounts to re-hashing and re-formulating previously stated opinions and points of view. However, you can probably google this and find daily news, but the blitz of media won't be there until there is something new to discuss.

[LG210]

Originally Posted by VintageHawkeye

Relative to the penn state horrors.
I am appalled that the attention span (and memory) of the average American is soooo short and limited.
Children were hurt in the most heinous fashion and had their lives ruined by sandusky and his accomplices.
IT SHOULD NOT YET BE YESTERDAY'S NEWS. These disgusting freak criminals have to pay for what they've done.
REMEMBER THE VICTIMS.

Vinty,

Please do us all a favor and let us know when we can make the transition from this being a tragedy in the forefront of our minds which brings constant anger to us--to this being a tragedy that brings anger only when we are reminded of it. Until that time, I will let this tragedy continue to consume the entirety of my conscienceness at all times.

[Hawkfromnorwalk]

Typical news cycle. Once the shock value of the news wears off it gets shuffled to the back.