Sandusky Speaks Out and Minor Penn State News
Jerry Sandusky has been quoted by his lawyer as saying that even if we are to believe he's guilty, the thought of a cover-up orchestrated by Spainer, Schultz, Curley and Paterno is "ridiculous". Apparently he's very upset with the sanctions and professes his love of Penn State through his lawyer. His attorney believes sentencing will happen in September, and reports that Sandusky is preparing a letter to read into the court record. Also, Sandusky is hoping for another trial or another opportunity for "the truth" to come out.
In the minor Penn State news portion of this post, former US Senator George Mitchell has been appointed Athletics Integrity Monitor within their AD, and will submit four reports annually for five years to the Board of Trustees, NCAA and Big Ten. Mitchell is famous for his report on steroid usage in baseball.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/lawyer-sandusky-upset-over-penn-170736679-…
Sandusky is rediculous and INSANE.
Minus 1,000,000 points for "rediculous"
I posted a quote by an ignorant BWI member & got sent to less than zero.
C'est la vie
I just have to ask: is a point total that incomprehensibly low liberating? Like you can now do whateva' wheneva'? Or is it just time to create a new username?
"ignorant BWI member"
The Baltimore-Washington airport has members that post things? :-)
I haven't read the report but the excerps that were reported on aren't that Curly covered it up (a la Watergate), but rather rather went out of their way to ignore it. It isn't like they went to the kids and paid off the families and tried to keep them quiet, it's that they did absolutely nothing to stop it and sat in their offices with their hands over their ears crying, "I can't hear you!!!"
They definitely weren't in an active conspiracy to pay off victims or anything like that, but if they were legally required to disclose what they knew and sat on it (and there are charges pending to that effect) I think that would be considered a cover-up.
Sandusky is a joke. He wants another trial for the truth to come out? Oh the first trial wasnt good enough for the truth. So the legal team just sat around and decided not to bring out the truth until the second trial.
This is just like the Paternos. The truth IS OUT. The Freeh Report was full of facts and truth. JoePA and the gang covered it up to avoid bad press for the football team which resulted in an unfair advantage to the rest of the B1G. The BoT paid for the truth (Freeh Report), and the NCAA penalized them.
Why cant everyone just admit the truth? Then maybe the victims can begin the life-long process of healing. They cannot heal with the wound still open. We need to execute Sandusky, Curley, Spanier and dig up JoePa and execute him too.
Jay Paterno and the whacked BoT needs to STFU and lets move on: for the nation, for the NCAA Fans, for the Penn State community but most importantly for the victims and their families.
I've had enough of Sandusky. He is a deluded and utterly despicable person.
I hate to admit it but I kind of wish he would just kill himself already. Society would be much better off without him.
prefer him to get the firing squad. Let him beg for his life like the victims begged him to stop.
Men guilty of such atrocities should not be allowed to have any public voice. We no longer want to hear from him. He had his day in court, decided not to take the stand, so that should be that.
Sandusky speaks out? I can't wait to not hear that.
Love is a choice, not just a feeling. Jerry chose to commit evil acts for his own satisfaction, and is responsible for destroying what he claims to love. Of he doesn't make those choices, Paterno-Curley-Spanier never make theirs.
I would say he's crazy, but unfortunately he is all too sane.
All Sandusky has left is the reality that he constructed for himself while rationalizing his actions.
His sentence should reflect the damage he caused.
"I would say he's crazy, but unfortunately he is all too sane."? If your'e trying to be cryptic or enigmatic, you've lost me and probably most of the other people who read this blog.
A sane person does not rape young boys and claim he's still innocent and done nothing wrong.
Are you arguing that his conviction is unjust, that he should have been declared not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to treatment?
You say that a sane person is not capable of doing such a thing, ergo Sandusky must not be in his right mind. By logical extension you therefore assert that no one in their right mind is capable of committing an evil act of this magnitude. I categorically reject this idea.
Normal people are capable of choosing to commit evil acts. To define anyone who commits such acts as insane is to excuse them from responsibility for behavior they deserve to be held responsible for.
Genocides such as those that have taken place in Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Maoist China, and Rwanda are not the result of sudden mass outbreaks of mental illness. They are deliberate acts of evil. Jerry Sandusky's behavior is the result of deliberate choice.
Perhaps you mean he cannot tell right and wrong. I disagree with this, because his behavior in every other area of his life suggests that he does, including his long-time concealment of his behavior. He is not mentally deranged, senile, or schizophrenic. He is not suffering from some kind of mental illness that causes him to not be in control of his own actions.
That's not to say that evil people don't justify their own actions. Almost all people believe themselves to be good, but are nonetheless capable of terrible things, as I have argued previously on this board. But make no mistake, Sandusky knew what he was doing and did it anyway.
Read it.
Seriously though this guy is senile and no matter what he says in court about PSU it should just be ignored.
You are so unbelievably wrong. I also posted this at the bottom of the thread to give you an opportunity to edit your post. Seriously man. I just googled Egypt and there's no river there called "the Denial."
Well yeah, there was that whole trial thing.
If I were Spanier, Curley or Schultz, I'd look for a better character witness.
Every one of those people knew something, and I include McQueary in that statement. Even if they were to get a pass for not going to the police, they, with their collective knowledge, allowed Sandusky continued and unfettered access to the PSU facilities. They might not have pinky sworn it, but there was a conspiracy, make no mistake. It might not meet the legal definition, but it meets mine.
a pass. In the report there were others who witnessed some of Sandusky's actions and they did nothing too. But these actors are low-level people. Can you imagine if McQuery went on CNN with what he saw? No one would have be;ieved him, Joe would have cried and said "why do you hurt me so" and everyone would have believed JoePa.
McQuery's life would have been in danger with all the whack-o's over on the black shoe diaries. So McQuery gets a pass because he was a lowly, un-paid volunteer in 2001.
Surreal.
Um, you probably should not put "Sandusky" and "Minor" in the same post title.
There's news on Sandusky, and there's a pretty insignificant bit of Penn State news. The title accurately reflects that.
Edit: Yea, I see what you're going for. Oh well, totally different context/meaning.
What compels people to add "Um" to the beginning of written sentences?
It's Maize and Blue. Now I see the relevance.
"...Sandusky told him that even if people believe he is guilty of the crimes for which he was convicted in June, it would be ''ridiculous'' to think Penn State administrators engaged in a cover-up." - from the article
I don't think it would be ridiculous to think this at all - cover-ups can be passive. They chose to not present information to the authorities. To cover up something doesn't necessarily imply that there was an active attempt at deception, although one may argue that those who knew and were in a position to stop Sandusky tried very hard to deceive themselves in a way.
On another level, you could say it was a lie by omission to their fanbase if not all of college football regarding the real state of control in the program, I suppose. Certain facts were simply removed from internal and external discussions for the supposed good of the school and program. It was easier in their mind to enable Jerry Sandusky than to tell the truth to their students, alums and fans.
My basic reply - It's not ridiculous to think this, Jerry. At a large university, it would have been rather difficult for you to do what you did without the complicit silence and misguided loyalty of many individuals.
Forget about being distraught over PSU's sanctions. Be more distraught over the lives you f*cked over by "horsing around" in the showers with little boys for decades.
Then again, he can't think these things since he still claims to be innocent and that the real truth will eventually come out, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Amendola needs to tell Sandusky that the world doesn't give a crap what he thinks about...well, anything.
It bothers me that this criminal can even go public with his thoughts. I don't think he deserves any kind of an audience.
That'll undue everything he did.
rock in the US Senate. He was the Senate Majority Leader. Politics aside, most people who know him have great things to say about his character. I think he was an excellent choice.
GM turned down Pres Clinton for a seat on the US Supreme Court. Rumors swirled that he was "running" for MLB Commissioner when he resigned shortly after in 1994. Bud Selig was working through the 1994 Players strike and was rumored to be "on the outs". Mitchell gambled but lost.
Is that even against all the evidence, Sandusky will not even for a second, admit to any shred of guilt or any hint that he is anything other than innocent.
And everyone in State College still holds the fate of the university and football team in higher regard than the kids.
As expected
He shouldnt be allowed to make any sort of statement in regards to Penn St. AT ALL
August 1st, 2012 at 10:10 PM ^
the most commonly used definition of insanity. He has warped thinking, I think he may have a narcissistic disorder, he is highly manipulative, and is a pedophile. I'm unsurprised that he is looking for his words to have meaning from behind the bars. That is not unusual or unexpected. What continues to nag at me as highly unusual, is otherwise good people doing nothing for the sake of a football culture and reputation. Even his wife is clearly in denial. I find that whole situation so profoundly pathetic and sad that I run out of words...On to Michigan football, fall is approaching and Alabama needs to go down. Go Blue!
August 2nd, 2012 at 12:19 AM ^
he had a real hands-on approach to the whole situation and was really in deep when events were happening.
