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Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno: there is NO GRAY AREA HERE

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The monstrosity that is former PSU Defensive Coordinator Jerry Sandusky and the lack of his higher-ups at Penn State to do anything about him is not ambiguous. There are not “two sides to every story” here. He was a child rapist, and it pains me that I still have to say this, but child rape is a very bad thing.
Joe Paterno knew that he had a child rapist working for him, and he did nothing to stop it. Joe Paterno was an enabler of child rape.

Being an enabler of child rape is an awful, horrific thing, and therefore the remaining JoeBots are awful, horrific people.
If you are part of that lunatic fringe that still wants the Joe Paterno statue restored, even after today’s revelations, then you are a horrific, disgusting person. There are no gray areas here; Joe Paterno was a really bad guy, and Jerry Sandusky was evil.
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Via Deadspin:
“A newly unsealed report from a risk-management expert found six different instances where sexual abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky were either witnessed by other coaches or reported to university officials, including a 1976 allegation where one alleged victim made a report directly to head coach Joe Paterno.”
This follows up the revelation from May where we learned that as many as six assistant coaches at Penn State witnessed “inappropriate behavior” between Jerry Sandusky and boys, stretching as far back as the 1970s.
It seems that there’s always more bad news coming out for Penn State regarding Jerry Sandusky, and the Joe Paterno regime in which Sandusky was essentially Paterno’s right hand man. It’s shocking and disturbing that it took this long for such awful revelations to leak out; as PSU sanctions from the NCAA have already come and gone.

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What can the NCAA do now? What about the Big Ten? What reasonable actions can any sane ruling body take in the wake of such atrocious revelations? This situation is completely unprecedented. Yet, you still have a group of malcontent and misguided miscreants, losers and riff raff who still cling to the idea that the Paterno statue needs to be re-installed for some reason.

I suggest you read this by Tim Baffoe of CBS Chicago:

It seems that Joe Paterno will always be alive. For some, in their hearts, swelling to the point where it takes over for a compromised brain and causes a person to act like a fool. For others like me, in their lower intestines, like a polyp.

Some of the former group got together and attached their names to a new attempt to return a statue of Paterno — he who knew of assistant coach Jerry Sandusky’s child rape and did little to curtail it — outside Beaver Stadium in Slaphappy Valley. More than 200 former Nittany Lion football players grouped by decade of graduation going back to the 1950s (it looks more cromulent that way) and eight former staff members signed a press release.

It’s beyond the realm of the absurd that we’re still having a “discussion” or a “debate” about the Joe Paterno statue. We know what Jerry Sandusky did. We know that Paterno did nothing to stop it. We need to turn the JoeBots into the JoeNots. This hopeless group of wacko Paterno acolytes need to finally wake up.

How to do that? I wish I had the answer, but I don’t. You can argue that the JoeBots have their right to free speech, and they certainly do, but at this point, their speech is moving ever dangerously closer to the speech that is falsely yelling “FIRE!” in a crowded theatre. It’s the old, classic example in all First Amendment debates, but it certainly applies.

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This isn’t a “complicated issue.”

Jerry Sandusky is repulsive and Joe Paterno is a horrible human being for letting him rape kids for 40 years.

Paul M. Banks runs The Sports Bank.net, partnered with FOX Sports Engage Network. and News Now. Banks, a former writer for the Washington Times, currently contributes regularly to the Chicago Tribune’s RedEye publication and Bold Global.

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