I guess what it takes to be a legend of a football coach is minimal morality. This should cause all Americans to step back and rethink their predispositions about football coaches; their leadership does not always carry over into the real world. The actions taken by Joe Paterno and his subordinates and higher ups are embarrassing. The fact that it took the courage of a victim in this catastrophe to jump start an investigation while the "adults" just "passed it along to their superiors" is shameful. Any one who is defending Joe Paterno right now has got to be brainwashed to some degree. To think that it was wrong for Joe Paterno to be fired is incredulous; the mindset that a person must have to not condemn the inaction by a revered "leader" in the football community. To flip over cars in ignorant protest. The institutional failure by Penn State to take action against this molester of children and the failure of Pennsylvania law to make this a legal obligation to tell police about this sort of thing is sad and naive. I'd be for passing a law to make it illegal to not report illegal activity and suspend post de facto laws temporarily to put Paterno and his colleagues in jail. Jail time thats well deserved.
Let me just explain the widespread condemnation of the inaction of Paterno and his staff the way I see it. First, it is not that any one would condone the actions of Zandusky or whatever his stupid name is. It is just that he clearly could not be expected to take rightful actions due to his perverse disease and evidently irrational actions (receiving oral sex and sex from children in his basement and in the actual confines of Penn State). That is why the inaction by Paterno and others within the Penn State system are rightfully coming under attack by the American public. Because they are right-minded individuals who should have the intellect capable of doing clearly what is the right thing to do; going directly to the police.
One might ask: How could they not have? They didn't because of individual failure, institutional brainwashing and because of the ineffectiveness of a hierarchal system that incentivizes discretion of atrocities. To see a grown man sodomizing a child and to not go directly to the police afterwards has to be influenced, to some powerful degree, by institutional brainwashing. And by brainwashing I mean the ability of a culture to make individuals within do inhuman and irrational things, much like military cultures. In military cultures, soldiers are culturally shaped to take irrational actions to save fellow soldiers:
"Why did you go back when you knew the likelihood of your survival was minimal?"
"I did it for my boys [fellow soldiers]"
Thus, the man who told Paterno what he saw must have done so because that is what the institution directed him to do. This should be a wake up call to the American legal system, specifically at the federal level, to enact legislation that mandates individuals to go to the police when they witness illegal activities that is accompanied by a severe punishment for failing to do so.
Another condemnation should go out to those students who are flipping over cars in protest of Paterno's firing and their "defense" for doing so. The defense being that the "media" is focusing on Paterno unjustly and to too much of a degree while ignoring the real perpetrator. And because of this media attentiveness Paterno was wrongly fired. First of all, Paterno looked the other way. And by looking the other way, I mean prolonging the molestation of children. People should be flipping over cars on these kids who are "sticking up" for their savior Joe Paterno because they have a perverse love for college football.
Let me just explain the widespread condemnation of the inaction of Paterno and his staff the way I see it. First, it is not that any one would condone the actions of Zandusky or whatever his stupid name is. It is just that he clearly could not be expected to take rightful actions due to his perverse disease and evidently irrational actions (receiving oral sex and sex from children in his basement and in the actual confines of Penn State). That is why the inaction by Paterno and others within the Penn State system are rightfully coming under attack by the American public. Because they are right-minded individuals who should have the intellect capable of doing clearly what is the right thing to do; going directly to the police.
One might ask: How could they not have? They didn't because of individual failure, institutional brainwashing and because of the ineffectiveness of a hierarchal system that incentivizes discretion of atrocities. To see a grown man sodomizing a child and to not go directly to the police afterwards has to be influenced, to some powerful degree, by institutional brainwashing. And by brainwashing I mean the ability of a culture to make individuals within do inhuman and irrational things, much like military cultures. In military cultures, soldiers are culturally shaped to take irrational actions to save fellow soldiers:
"Why did you go back when you knew the likelihood of your survival was minimal?"
"I did it for my boys [fellow soldiers]"
Thus, the man who told Paterno what he saw must have done so because that is what the institution directed him to do. This should be a wake up call to the American legal system, specifically at the federal level, to enact legislation that mandates individuals to go to the police when they witness illegal activities that is accompanied by a severe punishment for failing to do so.
Another condemnation should go out to those students who are flipping over cars in protest of Paterno's firing and their "defense" for doing so. The defense being that the "media" is focusing on Paterno unjustly and to too much of a degree while ignoring the real perpetrator. And because of this media attentiveness Paterno was wrongly fired. First of all, Paterno looked the other way. And by looking the other way, I mean prolonging the molestation of children. People should be flipping over cars on these kids who are "sticking up" for their savior Joe Paterno because they have a perverse love for college football.
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