[Lancey Howard]

Welcome to Free Republic, and thanks for your reasoned posts. I only hope some of the big-mouths around here some day have somebody point at them and allege that they are homosexual pedophiles, since they think that's such an easy, happy-go-lucky thing to do.

The fact is, McQueary never told Paterno that he witnessed an actual rape. But the old man was creeped out enough by the possibility that his former assistant coach may have done something "inapproriate" that he did indeed send the matter up the chain of command to people who were supposed to look into it further. Those people failed to do so.

It's scary, all the big-mouth nobodies who love to crucify Paterno because they apparently think it's no big deal to point at a man and accuse him of being a homosexual pedophile. They never consider the ramifications of a mistake. (Obviously, Sandusky actually did turn out to be a homosexual pedophile, we now know.) But imagine if an accusation against a man turned out to be totally false, the result of a complete misunderstanding or even malice? What would they say then? "Oops. Sorry about that, heh heh."?

As far as I'm concerned, you don't make that kind of accusation against a man unless you see it with your own two eyeballs. Paterno did not. McQueary (apparently) did, although even that is by no means clear. (Anyway, I still don't get how McQueary, who was at the time in 2002 a 28-year-old employee of the university, has skated on this thing so far?)

All those years went by and no victim (or victim's guardians) ever came forward (aside from the woman in 1998 whose son came home with a wet head)? How is that possible? Like Paterno said, Sandusky had everybody fooled. Homosexual pedophiles are sneaky that way, by nature. I don't know how the cops investigate accusations of child molestation, but I suspect they do it very quietly and carefully. Actual victims coming forward would certainly propel the case.

Anyway, Sandusky didn't get away with decades of homosexual pedophile rape because Joe Paterno and a couple of other university officials looked the other way - - Sandusky got away with homosexual pedophile rape for decades because a hundred people, including his family and friends, his Second Mile associates, university donors and benefactors, and reporters looked the other way. Hell, even The Creamery made fun of Sandusky's affection for young boys with their "Sandusky Blitz" ice cream dish.

But no - - small people have more fun laying everything at the feet of Paterno.

FRegards,
LH

[privatedrive]

ANYONE who actually READ the Freeh report KNOWS that his conclusions were NOT based on actual evidence.

And remember: Freeh NEVER even talked to McQueery.

[Scoutmaster]

The fact is, McQueary never told Paterno that he witnessed an actual rape. But the old man was creeped out enough by the possibility that his former assistant coach may have done something "inapproriate" that he did indeed send the matter up the chain of command to people who were supposed to look into it further.

Please stop it.

Joe Paterno, in his own Grand Jury testimony, said based on what McQueary told him, Paterno knew Sandusky's acts were "sexual" and "inappropriate."

I don't know why you leave out the 'sexual' part, and then throw in the weasel words "possibility' and 'may have done', other than you're still apologizing for Paterno.

And according to Joe Paterno's own Grand Jury testimony, he didn't send the matter up the ladder to 'people' (plural). Paterno swore under oath that (a) he spoke with only Athletic Director Tim Curley and no one else, and (b) that he did not know if any other official at Penn State became aware of Paterno's report to Curley.

We now know Paterno also met with Gary Schultz from all of the other testimony and documentary evidence. That means both of those statements by Paterno constituted perjury - among other statements made by Paterno before the Grand Jury.

As for your "Sandusky Blitz" ice cream dish? That photo is an internet joke. Although the creamery at PSU served a flavor called "Sandusky Blitz", it didn't consist of two scoops with a suggestive upturned cone. Here's what the Sandusky Blitz was, a flavor and not a suggestive concoction:

[Scoutmaster]

The fact is, McQueary never told Paterno that he witnessed an actual rape. But the old man was creeped out enough by the possibility that his former assistant coach may have done something "inapproriate" that he did indeed send the matter up the chain of command to people who were supposed to look into it further.

Please stop it.

Joe Paterno, in his own Grand Jury testimony, said based on what McQueary told him, Paterno knew Sandusky's acts were "sexual" and "inappropriate."

I don't know why you leave out the 'sexual' part, and then throw in the weasel words "possibility' and 'may have done', other than you're still apologizing for Paterno.

And according to Joe Paterno's own Grand Jury testimony, he didn't send the matter up the ladder to 'people' (plural). Paterno swore under oath that (a) he spoke with only Athletic Director Tim Curley and no one else, and (b) that he did not know if any other official at Penn State became aware of Paterno's report to Curley.

We now know Paterno also met with Gary Schultz from all of the other testimony and documentary evidence. That means both of those statements by Paterno constituted perjury - among other statements made by Paterno before the Grand Jury.

As for your "Sandusky Blitz" ice cream dish? That photo is an internet joke. Although the creamery at PSU served a flavor called "Sandusky Blitz", it didn't consist of two scoops with a suggestive upturned cone. Here's what the Sandusky Blitz was, a flavor and not a suggestive concoction: