I concur.
I've been saying that when Joe Paterno dies I will mourn him as I mourned my father. Now I feel as if a family member was accused of a heinous crime...constantly feeling that knot in my stomach.
The things that I dwell on are
1) Joe did not perform the sexual abuse himself. That's where we are in society. The POS that abused those boys sits at home and waits for his punishment which he fully knows he deserves...meanwhile all the focus is on the "why didn't you DO something?" bystanders. Makes sense until you consider that Casey Anthony - who behaved like a high school party girl for 30 days while Caylee was "missing" - beat the endangering-the-welfare-of-a-child rap because "everyone grieves differently".
2) Maybe the sacrifice of Joe's dignity and the collapse of the Penn State value system will finally demonstrate to everyone who pays attention that promotion of open sex and sexually deviant behavior on college campuses is sending a sending a very, very bad signal.
3) Women are being raped on the OWS sites and the media overlooks it because the protesters are managing the situation themselves. Who will be charged with "why didn't you DO something?" in that situation?
“Makes sense until you consider that Casey Anthony - who behaved like a high school party girl for 30 days while Caylee was “missing” - beat the endangering-the-welfare-of-a-child rap because “everyone grieves differently”.”
Now there are two little children missing, their mothers the last to see them, remaining silent EXCEPT TO LIE TO POLICE and plenty of evidence to arrest them, yet the authorities wait. A little ten-month old girl missing in Missouri a two-year old boy in Seattle. The Casey Anthony jury gave mothers all over this country a “HOW TO GET RID OF YOUR CHILD WITHOUT GOING TO PRISON” MANUAL.
That is more a commentary on the gross human inadequacy of her jury pool and the extraordinary difficulty for prosectors (in some parts of the non-Pennsylvania Amish country) in assembling a minimally competent jury. There's a scandal that needs addressing. Another day, perhaps.
Fortunately though, in this instance, here was an exemplary grand jury.