Just exactly what were the higher ups thinking when they all passed on the chance to take a major child molester out of circulation? If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm glad you stopped by my blog immediately after living in that cave for the past few days, and before you turned on the news. It shows I'm getting a little respect, anyway. The case I'm discussing is the Jerry Sandusky affair currently going on over at Penn State University, now and forever after to be also be known as Pedophile State University.
I'm not going to reiterate and rehash the accusations or all the coverage, you are well aware of it. My question is how many people believe that after the young coach reported to Head Coach Joe Paterno, also known as God in Pennsylvania, and he reportedly told two other people who went to the President of the University, that not one of them asked him the questions any normal person would ask: What Happened, Exactly? Tell me what you saw. Are you sure?
Perhaps they are lying. But, for the purposes of this blog, let's assume they weren't. Now the question becomes: How much do I really want to know? This guy is one of my best friends. Surely, he isn't capable of this? Perhaps you only think you saw what you saw.
Now that we've established it isn't that bad, it's just a few quick decisions away from OK, what do we do about it? What is in the best interests of the University. Because folks, it all comes down to friendship and money. If this gets out it will damage the University. Oh my. If we keep him away from children while on campus, we'll be OK. But wait, he has a charity called The Second Mile (which ironically takes in underprivileged children and protects them from the ravages of society). OK, we tell them the little bit we know and let them make their own decisions. Now the University is covered. "We told them everything we know, your Honor, none of this is our fault."
The problem is, you Numb Nuts, that every child that was molested after you knew about this and did nothing about it, IS YOUR FAULT! The greatest gift most child molesters have is that the are trusted by everyone. And the person they are molesting, generally, trusted them, and after the molester changed their life, either were too frightened, too ashamed, were too afraid no one would believe them, or worse, just figured that's the way life was, and wouldn't tell their parents, or others in authority. That's what needs setting straight. And, I'm not sure there's anyway to do that.
Things will be different for a short while, and perhaps, some parents will sit down with their children and explain this to them, and then, maybe one of two of them will speak up and say something, like, "You mean like when Uncle Frank comes in my room at night and touches me, "down there" that it's not OK like he says it is?" Then, maybe for one family things will be set straight and we can take another one of these predators out of the reaches of society. Let's hope so! Oh, and by the way, let's make the sentences for molesters, life sentences. No sense in having to keep going through all this time after time. Because they won't stop. They can't. But we can stop them!
I'm not going to reiterate and rehash the accusations or all the coverage, you are well aware of it. My question is how many people believe that after the young coach reported to Head Coach Joe Paterno, also known as God in Pennsylvania, and he reportedly told two other people who went to the President of the University, that not one of them asked him the questions any normal person would ask: What Happened, Exactly? Tell me what you saw. Are you sure?
Perhaps they are lying. But, for the purposes of this blog, let's assume they weren't. Now the question becomes: How much do I really want to know? This guy is one of my best friends. Surely, he isn't capable of this? Perhaps you only think you saw what you saw.
Now that we've established it isn't that bad, it's just a few quick decisions away from OK, what do we do about it? What is in the best interests of the University. Because folks, it all comes down to friendship and money. If this gets out it will damage the University. Oh my. If we keep him away from children while on campus, we'll be OK. But wait, he has a charity called The Second Mile (which ironically takes in underprivileged children and protects them from the ravages of society). OK, we tell them the little bit we know and let them make their own decisions. Now the University is covered. "We told them everything we know, your Honor, none of this is our fault."
The problem is, you Numb Nuts, that every child that was molested after you knew about this and did nothing about it, IS YOUR FAULT! The greatest gift most child molesters have is that the are trusted by everyone. And the person they are molesting, generally, trusted them, and after the molester changed their life, either were too frightened, too ashamed, were too afraid no one would believe them, or worse, just figured that's the way life was, and wouldn't tell their parents, or others in authority. That's what needs setting straight. And, I'm not sure there's anyway to do that.
Things will be different for a short while, and perhaps, some parents will sit down with their children and explain this to them, and then, maybe one of two of them will speak up and say something, like, "You mean like when Uncle Frank comes in my room at night and touches me, "down there" that it's not OK like he says it is?" Then, maybe for one family things will be set straight and we can take another one of these predators out of the reaches of society. Let's hope so! Oh, and by the way, let's make the sentences for molesters, life sentences. No sense in having to keep going through all this time after time. Because they won't stop. They can't. But we can stop them!
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