Predatory Hell At PSU

Alan Colmes has his knickers in twist over this statement by Alan Keyes,  Liberaland:

If the allegations against Sandusky are true, there’s an aspect of the situation that doesn’t make sense. Why would higher-ups be willing to risk their reputations and life-long careers to cover for the wrongdoing of one of their subordinates? Despite the almost religious promotion of homosexuality now in evidence at all too many of America’s institutions of so-called “higher learning,” it’s hard to believe that they would thus willingly sacrifice themselves to the gods of “political correctness,” especially given the fact that the zealous advocates of homosexual rights are still pretending to draw the line at the sexual abuse of children.

Reax. Lisa Graas:

Keyes is right. The “line” they draw is based on nothing but personal opinion and, as such, is subject to change. “Because I say so” and “because most people believe it” is an imaginary “line”.

What was considered immoral fifty years ago is no longer considered immoral because more people have rejected the notion that anything can be “immoral”.

Unlike Keyss and Graas, I do not claim to know what homosexuals think.    Did PSU, Pervert State University,  have a line beyond which predatory behavior was no longer tolerated?   I suspect that even PSU hsd some  standards.    Does anybody believe that had Jerry Sandusky been preying on female children that his predatory behavior would have been tolerated?   I suspect not.   Do we exempt homosexual predators like Sandusky from nomally accepted standards of behavior?

If Sandusky’s predatory behavior was tolerated because his victims were male,  then Alan Keyes is right.

Alternate theory, I suspect that Sandusky’s victims were black.   Was the victims’ race a reason their rapes were tolerated?

Do not know the specific reason why Sandusky’s sexual predatory behavior was tolerated.   It clearly was.   So why?

Has anybody ever called Robert Reich smart?    I never have.   To prove  that Reich is two all beef patties short of  a quarter pounder, consider this Reich idiocy from the Puffington Post:

The real question is how to stop this austerity train wreck, and substitute the following:

First: No cuts before jobs are back — until unemployment is down to 5 percent. Until then, the economy needs a boost, not a cut. Consumers — whose spending is 70 percent of the economy — don’t have the money to boost the economy on their own. Their pay is dropping and they’re losing jobs.

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Fourth: Cut the budget where the real bloat is. Military spending and corporate welfare. End weapons systems that don’t work and stop wars we shouldn’t be fighting to begin with, and we save over $300 billion a year. Cut corporate welfare — subsidies and special tax breaks going to big agribusiness, big oil, big pharma, and big insurance — and we save another $100 billion.

Do you hear me, Washington? Do these four things and restore jobs and prosperity. Fail to do these, and you’ll make things much, much worse.

Apparently, Bob the Short, got his definition of cuts from the same dictionary from which B.J. Clinton got his definition of sex.    First, Reich starts out ranting that spending cuts are evil but ends up demanding spending cuts. Go figure.

As with all libtards, Reich is only interested in government spending which goes into union paychecks and back out through mandatory union dues into democrat campaign coffers.

I note with some degree of interest with a resurgency  of Newt Gingrich in the early polling for Iowa.  There seems a good deal of objection to his showing up, particularly among the press who like Rick Perry and Herman Cain before him (and Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin before him… ) is now the subject of an  anal exam by the press.

The reason that he’s getting this extraordinary amount of attention from the liberals both in the DNC and the GOP establishment , is that he is both conservative, and he surging in the polls, therefore he is a serious threat to both of the above.    As were these others, of course.   You can always tell who’s leading in the polls by who is getting bashed the most by the establishment GOP and the democrats, whose goals should to most appear to be quite similar these days, more so than should be comfortable for any American.

But why is he surging in the polls?  Frankly,  there’s nobody on the planet that should be surprised that a republican who is a proud competent and confident articulator of conservative principles is going to be at the top or near the top in the polling for the nomination.

So what we see  is a political game of whack- a- mole, where any conservative who dares stick his head out becomes a target.

Notice, however, the one candidate that doesn’t get this kind of examination; Mitt Romney.  The reason is fairly clear; he is the choice of the leftists running the press, and running the establishment GOP, and certainly is the odds on favorite among the democrats.  That last one is clearly because they know that with Romney, like McCain before him the republican base is going to sit on its hands come election day thus guaranteeing Obama another four years.  Put another way, Romney is McCain version two ….or is that Bob Dole version three?

The Republican base is looking for someone who articulates their point of view. THey’ve not found that in the establishment’s choice for the nomination… Romney.  Gingrich for the most part does that pretty well. Romney, meantime has yet to come up with anything approaching a reasonable explanation of Romney care nee Obama care. I strongly suggest to you that nobody who is a true conservative is going to come up with anything of like. I would suggest you also that the majority of republicans see it that way as well, particularly the tea party.

Now I grant, that Gingrich is on record as having supported most of the key aspects of Romney care. Sometime in May of this year, if I’m not mistaken. if I’m not mistaken also, that was the same interview in which he called Paul Ryan’s plan right wing social engineering. There was some hell raised in the press over that, but not among the base.

Obviously, though, there is something about his current state of mind as expressed in his recent interviews and whatnot, that rings true with the American people, at least with the GOP base. So what’s changed?

Clearly Gingrich has learned from these errors. Apparently the lesson  last May was taught well. As a result of that learning process he now articulates the conservative position and is

Newt Gingrich

a bit more controlled in his speech. Certainly, he articulates conservatism better than Romney. Which parenthetically, is why Romney still does not have widespread support among the GOP base. He just doesn’t. Indeed, it has more support among the left,  than he does the base. You would think that would be a clue.

I say again….anyone who has the courage to competently and proudly articulate conservative principles is going to be at the top of the polling. There’s no way around that one.

Before you start…..Am I convinced that Newt deserves the nomination?  Not particularly so.   At least, not yet. I suppose he’s far from the perfect nominee. But I think I should point out that with the exception of Romney and Huntsman, any one of the presidential candidates from the GOP side would be a vast improvement over what we have now. It’s my take the American people see it that way too…

Kathleen McCaffrey ponders liberal myth and Organize Wall Street peeves, one and the same, from Legal Insurrection:

I also think that a lot of people in favor of OWS are mourning the death of a dream. I can sympathize with that. A lot of the rhetoric I heard while growing up in the 1990s was akin to this: if you get good grades, go to a decent college, and don’t screw up, you can live comfortably. I think that, for a lot of folks who did just this, the past three years have been particularly difficult for them. It has been more of a struggle than they anticipated. Wall Street is their chosen scape goat, but I really doubt it’s the source of the difficulty a lot of 20-somethings have come across. That’s a post for another day, I suppose.

It not a dream, but rather a myth.   Liberal mythology is that you can pay good money to attend a esteemed brick and mortar college, and somehow, as if by osmosis, get a well paid college level position which will allow you to both repay your college loans and live on easy street.

It is not so. Employers will only  hire and retain people who can increase the value of their companies assets. This will necessarily involve both thinking  and communicating clearly.  If you can not do both, you will not be retained in any college level position.    Modern colleges simply do not emphasis math and communication skills.     Small wonder their graduates do not get hired.

Eric Adds:  Full on agreement.

And have you ever noticed, David, that nobody ever questions “big education” ?

The issue of course is that despite what the government and schools are going to tell you, four years of gender studies remedial basket weaving and Al Gore approved environmental studies do not a six figure salary make.

That such an amount is necessary to pay off the loans needed to pay off the government schools and the unions attached to them, and despite the extremely low reality quotient of what is being taught, strikes me not as an indictment on the banks who actually did provide the service they contacted for, but an indictment on the government  schools the unions and the leftist mentalities that inhabit each.

To put a somewhat finer edge on this; leftist ideology does not teach reality, because it is not reality.  We have an educational crisis in this country heretofore unseen.  That is largely because colleges and universities have become little more than leftist indoctrination centers.  Leftist policy fails every time it’s tried.  Why should we be surprised when schools teaching such nonsense as reality fail their students so horrendously?

We were down because of a registration issue on the domain. That has since been resolved, and we’re back on line. Essentially, that one’s my fault. I lost track of the time. I believe enough, the phone that would have advised me of the domain expiring , was just replaced a couple of days ago. Doesn’t that figure?

The persons, or groups, Dim Won, a/k/a Dumbo, b/k/a Barrack Obama has insulted:

African Americans: “Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’.”

Americans: Are “not a model for the world” and have a “tragic history.” Also, “we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared,” and, more recently, we have gotten “a little soft” and lost our “competitive edge.”

Bankers: “Fat cats”

Border enforcement: Its overzealous adherents want “alligators and moats” on the border and would arrest children on their way to get ice cream.

The Cambridge, Mass., police: “Acted stupidly” and, like law-enforcement officers in general, racially profile

Corporate-jet owners: “Are you willing to compromise your kids’ safety so some corporate-jet owner can get a tax break?”

Democratic base: Must “shake off this lethargy. People need to buck up . . . if people now want to take their ball and go home, that tells me folks weren’t serious in the first place.”

Doctors:Needlessly chop off the limbs of diabetics and take out tonsils to increase their own profits

Donald Trump: A “carnival barker”

Grandmother: “Typical white person”

Las Vegas: Where you are likely to “blow a bunch of cash when you’re trying to save for college”

Millionaires: They don’t pay their “fair share” and are synonymous with those who have 1,000 times more.

Nancy Reagan: Don’t “get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any séances.”

Rural Pennsylvanians: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment.”

Sarah Palin: “You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.”

Special Olympics: Comparable to the president’s dismal bowling scores

Super Bowl: Where you go “on the taxpayer’s dime”

Supreme Court: Would “open the floodgates for special interests”

Supreme Court Justice Thomas: “I would not have nominated Clarence Thomas. I don’t think that he, I don’t think that he was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation.”

Tea Party: “The teabag, anti-government people”

Hat tips, Victor Davis Hanson, National Review and Nice Deb.

Partial list of crimes committed by Organize Wall Street gangs:

• Occupy Fort Collins – Member arrested, $10 million in damage
• Occupy Portland –  Member arrested for throwing Molotov Cocktail
• Occupy Seattle – Suspicious fire at Bank of America 2.7 miles from camp
• Occupy Portland – Three men arrested with homemade grenades

That is just the arson.    John has more from Verum Serum.

The list of republican presidential candidates not named Mitt Romney who Jen Rubin likes:

When Jen gets off her Romney band wagon I might think about giving her a link.

The preceding list might also be the names of all the minor boys in State College Pennsylvania not molested by Jerry Sandusky.

Columbia, NJ- I’m set to run into the city at about 3am, and am taking a rest break before doing that. It’s raining here, fairly hard, though the radar says it’ll slack off shortly.

• Hacking: The last few days, I’ve been having problems hitting Limbaugh’s site. Anyone else notice this one?
• Obamacare: Walter Russel Mead suggests that Obamacare is killing small medical practices. He’s right, of course. One more reason why most Americans want this Obamacare monster killed.Both are points largely ignored by the Obama house organs in the supposedly mainstream media.
• UNCLE SAM: RIPOFF ARTIST: Frank Flemming, by way of Glenn:
  

  It wouldn’t be so bad if Uncle Sam earned his money, but he doesn’t. He’s never produced anything — he gets all his money through deception.For instance, he said he was going to provide retirement savings for everyone, but the whole thing is a Ponzi scheme in which Uncle Sam constantly raids the funds while giving people a horrible return on their investments. He’s bilked people out of trillions with that scam; Bernie Madoff is a shoplifter by comparison.

  He’s always looking for more ways to scam people, hiding fees everywhere. He even grabs money out of our paychecks and then gives us a small fraction back once a year as a “rebate” and expects us to be grateful.

  You almost have to admire his shamelessness; he mugs you and expects you to thank him because he gave you back a dollar.

  Uncle Sam has absolutely no appreciation for his unearned wealth and just spends it lavishly and pointlessly. A while back, people were criticizing how much he was spending on public-radio stations no one listens to, and his defense was that it was only $100 million. Only $100 million. Can you even imagine being so wealthy that $100 million is an inconsequential sum?

  This guy is completely disconnected from the financial reality we’re all in. Unlike responsible rich people who have savings and investments, Uncle Sam is hugely in debt. No matter how much money he has, Princess Sam thinks he deserves to spend more.

  And you know, it’s always struck me that were the OWS crowd to go after the real problem…. government… that they might actually have some support in the electorate. Instead, they go after private enterprise.  Speaking of which:

• OWS….I actually heard some liberal whack job spout off today on a rimshot station, saying that they’d gotten reports that Occupy Portland has noted the presence of Homeland Security people.  One the the brainless flunkies wanted to know what they’d be doing there, to which the host responded that they were obviously trying to limit the first amendment rights of the human refuse there. No, I’m not kidding, nor am I making this up. I wonder if anyone told them that DHS serves at the behest of the Obama White House? I mean, if they really think Obama wants OWS curtailed… I can’t help them… and I wonder frankly if anyone can.I should tell you also, that there’s a lefty polling outfit called Public Policy polling that has a poll out, which now finally suggests voters are not supporting OWS. Here’s the report in PDF form. The thing is, they NEVER had popular support. Never.  So, why were we told they did? let’s remember Obama’s work history…. a “community organizer”… in other words, a professional rabble rouser. He knows how to get the mental defects behind him, and certainly that includes the left-leaners in the press. The problem is eventually the truth comes out… left leaners are still a minority in this country and that gap continues to get larger by the day, thanks to OWS. But now when the numbers are so canted away from OWS that even a lefty polling group can’t deny it, it’s time to pick up what’s left of the chips and go home. And for the protestors to attend the free clinic to see about the lice and STD problems.
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Karen, the Lonely Conservative, passes on this from the  Organize Wall Street scum:

Democrats in Congress have criticized NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg for shutting down the OWS encampment at Zuccotti Park. Apparently, that means they support this guy, who oddly signs autographs while threatening to burn New York City to the ground and bomb Macy’s.

Comrade Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov meet Mr. John Moses Browning.   If you don’t like Macy’s, don’t shop there.

Utica, NY– I’m back.  In more ways than one.

I spent the weekend here with my wife of 22 years, and had a wonderful time. Odd, that this was one of the first places I had to come to unload freight. It’s not as nice a place to be, as it was over the weekend.

Got a new phone over the weekend, as well.  The Droid 2. Nice phone but lots of things I have to unlearn. It’s quite different from the Palm I’ve carried for quite some time, now. The Palm was getting a little beat up…. life in the truck is hard on people…. and harder, I think on electronics.

I’m sitting in a Starbucks, drinking cocoa. They’re already playing Christmas music on the speakers. Too early. Just now, they’re playing a cut from the Neil Diamond Christmas album.  I’ve always admired Diamond, a wonderful voice and from all accounts a nice sort. But there’s something about one of the more popular Jewish entertainers, singing about Christ that rings as less than sincere. No, I’m not being anti-Semitic… not at all. I’d make the same comment about Al Gore hawking the latest Hummer.

I’m going to dispense with the unordered list, at least for today since it’s a bit cumbersome on the phone. (Yes, I’m writing this on my new Droid, just to see if I really can. ) Besides, I really only have one topic on my mind today.

SANDUSKY, ET AL:- First order of business, is to elevate a comment of David to a front line post:

Mike McQueary while he may stumbled on to the rape as innocent, and sort of reported it, his actions after the incident seem more consistent with a co-conspirator than anything.

Ok, McQueary spots a rape in progress, does not attempt to intervene, but does  sort report the crime.   He then observed that the perp still has access to children and has not modified his predatory behavior.   To which McQueary raises no known objections.

This is what is looks like to to me, when McQueary stumbled onto Jerry Sandusky’s predator operation, Joe Paterno offered him the heir apparent role in exchanged for McQueary continued tolerance Sandusky’s predatory behavior.

Having witnessed one predatory act by Sandusky,  McQueary had to assume that Sandusky was continuing the same behavior.   McQueary kept his mouth shut, got a paid coaching position and the promise to succeed Paterno.

I tell him:

Been pondering your point for a couple days, David… and what you say strikes me as one possibility. Another is that he felt himself stuck in an impossible situation. He’s trying not to lose his job… something Sandusky certainly had the power to arrange. Such a person might first appeal to a trusted authority figure… a father, perhaps.

I note that nobody including myself is questioning Sandusky’s culpability, here. The main issue in the chatter is invariably the reaction to what certainly was an immoral scene.

So, let’s examine what we have in evidence on this point; McQueary’s claim is initial reax was to call his father. Since I have no evidence he did not make such a call, it seems most logical to proceed with the assumption he did so call.

We have one of two possible reasons he would make such a call;

1:  Like a good little liberal, he doesn’t have the stones to take the action most people would have taken…. kicking Sandusky’s ass, or at least being confrontational. A good little liberal would nbe non-judgemental and certainly never violent.  Such a person would certainly make an appeal to an authority figure…. one not involved in government.

2: McQuery recognizes Sandusky as star power.  Consider my comments as regards Michael Jackson, a few days ago:

Certainly, we can see by his whack-job behavior,  that Jackson was well beyond reason for a lot of years, but that point alone does not absolve him of his irresponsibility toward his health and the consequences of it. That irresponsibility was essentially reinforced by his star power. Let’s be honest enough to say that after the string of hits in the 80’s and early 90’s, the guy could spend an entire CD making artificial fart noises and nothing else, and his fans would be buying the things, talking about how talented he was, and that he was breaking new artistic ground, rather than simply breaking wind… and that brings me to the second point; Jackson is being held as innocent by his fans, since he was the star and could do no wrong.

It seems a lock sure bet to me that Sandusky had gotten to that level of start power at PSU. So, people would have some serious difficulty trusting a report of child abuse from such a person. (And should I need to remind anyone, that Jackson himself had a thing for small boys?) McQueary looked at the situation and recognized his far smaller… and easily replaceable… role at PSU, and balked at throwing away what he’d achived… because he doubted… and perhaps correctly… that anything would ever be done about what he saw. So, an appeal to a trusted authority figure… a desperate cry for help.

Of the two, the latter seems more likley, though I don’t rule out some combo of the two.

there seems something in human nature that causes us to ignore the wrongs of those we hold high, those who ahve what I’ve been calling “star power”.  I’m sure we each can point to other similar situations…. Bill Clinton, certainly, had is (rather irrational) defenders…. many of whom when called on such defense today, dance around or outright deny it.

There are many calls for some sort of governmental intervention in this case.  A congressional hearing so the pols can say they’ve taken action. All of it is for naught, of course.

Is the real cause, human nature? Not in Sanndusky, or in Jackson or Clinton, but in we, ourselves, I wonder?

Addendum:   (DavidL) As to Mike McQueary, On Deadline as this nugget:

The Allentown Morning Call is reporting that in an e-mail to a former classmate, Penn State football assistant coach Mike McQueary said he had stopped an alleged rape of a boy by Jerry Sandusky in an athletic facility shower in 2002 and discussed it with police.

McQueary, who was placed on administrative leave last week, said in the e-mail he “did have discussions with police and with the official at the university in charge of police.” McQueary also wrote that he “is getting hammered for handling this the right way or what I thought at the time was right.”

So we have two versions of events, the grand jury version and the McQeary leaked e-mail version The e-mail version does not resolve any questions but would shift the blame.

I grant that McQueary found himself in very difficult situation   A powerful person was abusing his power.    Personally I know what I hope I would have done in McQuery’s  situation.     Not having been their, I can not say what I would have done.    That is why we have heroes , people who were brave enough to have done what they were supposed to do.   If it was easy, we would not call them heroes.

Cripes  Suzette links this story:

Chelsea Clinton to Report for NBC

The appointment is immediate. Ms. Clinton will show up at the news division offices on Monday morning, said Steve Capus, president of NBC News, and will begin work on stories that NBC expects to use as part of its “Making a Difference” series, which runs on “NBC Nightly News … Mr. Capus said an intermediary contacted him in July with word that “she was kicking around what she wanted to do next.”

Hat tip: Cripes Suzette

Reax:

She’s probably going to be a big hit at this. I do think with her background and experience that she could provide illumination on many issues that Americans would be interested in. I’d like to suggest for a start:

• cosmetic surgery
• keeping Dad away when your girlfriends come over
• gluten-free power breakfasts with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton
• what to avoid when choosing your wedding gown
• hosting a Come To Jesus meeting when your husband announces his intention of being a ski bum
• make-up tips and tricks
• avoiding awkward conversation about federal crimes at the family dinner table

Should make the sphere a bit more interestng

Professor Althouse likes Newt Gingrich, link:

There’s something I like about Newt Gingrich.

He reminds me of a law professor

Maybe law professors have their roles, like teaching law, but as bloggers I find the vast majority to be over rated and some akin to useless. However in this case the professor makes a good point and has evidence to prove it, video:

Professor Gingrich slices and dices a useless moderator, Scott Pelley. from Byron Preston, PJ Media:

All in all, it was a good night for most on the stage, and a bad night for Barack Obama, who clearly is a failed president on foreign policy, and who is clearly inferior to almost everyone who was on stage tonight. This was also a bad night for CBS, whose moderators lacked anything close to a pulse and whose broadcast decisions served America poorly. If you intend to host a debate on a Saturday night, at least make sure the nation can see it.

Is it time to CBS to bring back Dan Rather?

To echo Eric wrote. we have a problem.   First we had PSU (Pervert State University) and now we have The Citadel. Mere coincidence? Or a pattern?

(Reuters) – In the wake of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, another university, The Citadel military college in South Carolina, revealed on Saturday that it had investigated accusations against a camp counselor but took no action.

The man has since been jailed on separate charges of molesting five boys in Mount Pleasant, near Charleston, South Carolina.

“We regret that we did not pursue this matter further,” Citadel President Lt. General John Rosa and Board of Visitors Chair Doug Snyder said in a statement

Note to Alumni with checkbooks, do a little homework before you write your next check to your old school, or before you send Junior off to school

Note that Jerry Sandusky was not just a lone predator in State College, PA, he had an entire organization set up to entice, collect and from which to select his victims, from Sports and Stars:

A grand jury report noted that Sandusky chose his victims from a charity he started called The Second Mile. Sandusky reportedly had access to hundreds of boys through the charity set up in 1977 to help troubled boys. It raises millions of dollars through fundraising and special events, the grand jury report stated.

“The program had access to hundreds of boys, many of whom were vulnerable due to their social situations,” the report noted.

PSU was not just harboring a sexual predator, it was facilitating a criminal enterprise.

A pervert rapes minor boys and two schools do not feel motivated to take any legal action.   We have a problem with our culture.

Addendum I:  It only gets worse, from Jane M. Von Bergen, Philadelphia Inquirer

No one said no to Jerry Sandusky.

That’s the underlying message from those closest to the alleged victims in the child-molestation scandal that has engulfed Pennsylvania State University.

[…]

“Jerry Sandusky admitted to my face, he admitted it,” she told the Patriot-News. “He admitted that he lathered up my son, they were naked and he bear-hugged him. If they would have done something about it in 1998 and then again 2002 – there were two chances they dropped the ball.”

But police didn’t press charges.

This is getting big, and messy.

Addendum II: It looks like that in State College PA, pedophile is not considered a threat the community, from Allah Pundit, Hot Air:

[T]hanks to a judge who, it turns out, once volunteered for his charity — but he’s apparently moving freely among the population. Don’t believe me? Check out this mind-boggling photo from TMZ. I don’t know where to begin: If TMZ’s correct, you’re looking at a guy who’s facing 40 counts in Pennsylvania related to child rape hanging out in another state, at an airport, apparently unescorted. It’s a flight risk/danger to the community/threat of vigilantism trifecta! Way to go, bail judge.

The sink hole keeps getting deeper.

I note David’s post, Pervert State University with large chunks of agreement, particularly  where he closes with…

Evidently, building character is not included in the curriculum at Pervert State.

True, but I’m not so sure we can aver that Penn State is anything unique, in this.

I note with some interest a similar post over at OTB:What Ever Happened To Courage?

One of the common questions I keep hearing people ask about the Penn State child rape scandal is how so many people could have stood by and done nothing for so long. Many of those comments center on the person of Mike McQueary, former star Quarterback for Penn State, professional football player for the NFL’s Oakland Raiders, and NFL Europe’s Scottish Claymores. How could this 28 year old man have witnessed an old man raping a ten year-old boy and, instead of trying to stop it, go back to his office and call his father? (All of this is in the Grand Jury Report [PDF])

Doug is quite correct in that courage seems have have been lacking in the person who walked in on that scene. But, think seriously, now… what conditions in society would have caused this lack of response? I suggest the fear of legal and social reprisals against the accuser is the largest of the motivations.

That fear is driven by the domino effect, as one moral bulwark after after falls to legal challenges.   Don’t expect the morality to be upheld when morality suffers one defeat after another as they have for generations.

And don’t tell me that the lack of courage Doug correctly notes isn’t caused at least partly by the direction we’ve been traveling, morally, the last 40 years or so, as driven by the challanges to our morality in the courts has gone on apace.

Look at is this way; As has been pointed out elsewhere, the initial reponse 40 years back would have been to kick the moron’s ass.

After 40 years of moving away from that morality as driven by the claim of “rights” in our legal system , we now see what we get; legality has supplanted morality as our prime motivator… so why are we shocked when morality isn’t a motivator anymore?

Want a parallel?  The Occupy Wall Street crowd.

If you think I’m kidding consider the morality of a group calling for the wholesale teft of goods and services as they’ve been doing? I mean, of course, aside from the morality issues we’ve been seeing in the actions of the protesters themselves during their protest .

I consider it part and parcel of the same moral deterioration.

From the grand jury investigating Pervert State University:

On March 1, 2002, a Penn State graduate assistant (“graduate assistant:) who was then 28 years old, entered the locker room at the Lasch Football Building on the University Park Campus on a Friday night near the beginning of Spring Break.

The graduate assistant, who was familiar with Sandusky, was going to put some newly purchased sneakers in his locker and get some recruiting tapes to watch. It was about 9:30 p.m. As the graduate assistant entered the locker room doors, he was surprised to find the lights and showers on. He then heard slapping sounds.He believed the sounds to be those of sexual activity. As the graduate assistant put the sneakers in his locker, he looked into the shower. He saw a naked boy, Victim 2, whose age he estimated to be 10 years old, with his hands up against the wall, being subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Sandusky. The graduate assistant was shocked but noticed that both Victim 2 and Sandusky saw him. The graduate assistant left immediately, distraught.

Hat tip and reax, Clayton Cramer:

Look, even calling 911 would have been an improvement over this, but how sick and evil has our society become that the graduate assistant didn’t go over and bash Sandusky’s head into the wall to stop this crime from taking place? Has fear of being called a homophobe at Penn State become so powerful that seeing a crime this horrible underway did not cause an immediate direct, violent response?

Given the apparent depth of moral corruption at PSU, I doubt that even calling the local police would have resulted in any action. However I expect more of any citizen who encounters a rape of child to do more than a Senator Oldsmobile and just walk of away from the incident.

Does Pervert State University tolerate and support pedophilia, sodomy or both?

More over the sickos at PSU,  rioted to defend the morally empty man Joe Paterno, from Michelle:

Hoodlums tore down street signs, threw beer bottles at police, pulled down a lamp post, and made an utter mess as they chanted “F**k the media” and “F**k the trustees” for taking long overdue, underwhelming action to can Paterno and Penn State’s president Graham Spanier for enabling accused child sex predator/rapist Joseph Sandusky for years. The Daily Collegian student newspaper has coverage as the riot unfolded — and I know I’m not the only one aggravated by the passive voice in the paper’s descriptions of students’ acts of vandalism and debauchery.

As if Penn State alumni and donors didn’t have enough reason to hang their heads in shame tonight…

Evidently, building character is not included in the curriculum at Pervert State.

Like the Roman Catholic Church, Penn State is an arrogant institution hiding behind its mystique. And sports, as my former fellow sports columnist at The Washington Star, David Israel, says, is “an insular world that protects its own, and operates outside of societal norms as long as victories and cash continue to flow bountifully.” Penn State rakes in $70 million a year from its football program.

Paterno was still practicing for the game against Nebraska on Saturday, and supportive students were rallying at his house. This is what Israel calls “the delusion that the ability to win football games indicates anything at all about your character or intelligence other than that you can win football games.”

Maureen Dowd, New York Times.