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You may think this is a bunch of internet warrior crap but it is not. This is about institutionalized support for child sexual assault for the purpose of protecting the reputation and earnings power of monsters, exactly as it was with the Catholic Church.

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So where are the tickers about boycotting the Catholic Church? From my point of view Gen, your hypocrisy is profound.

Vernonb wrote..

Anyone that tells someone that he MUST go along with any majority decision for the sake of harmony and consencus in a group is twisted. The dissentor must then also support that decision. This is brainwashing. Needless to say - the righteous resistors get kicked in the teeth from a carreer perspective.

DrHooves wrote..

the Catholic Church? From my point of view Gen, your hypocrisy is profound. Or is just more fun to kick the little guy, as there were only a couple of dozen victims at Penn St. vs. hundreds or thousands with the Church? You are still a member of the Church, no?

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I left the Catholic Church for essentially the same reasons Karl did, actually - almost exactly the same reasons. Long before there was a Tickerforum or I knew that Karl Denninger existed.

Hard for me to understand why anyone would continue to support an institution which has

Baydog wrote..

I"m willing to bet the majority of people calling Penn State followers cult members are the same people that indulge in Tebowmania or Linsanity or have a home sports team they put on a pedestal. They are just as guilty as the people they complain about and detest in that they give these people hero status which we now know can be manipulated to shield a criminal from justice.

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So where are the tickers about boycotting the Catholic Church? From my point of view Gen, your hypocrisy is profound. Or is just more fun to kick the little guy, as there were only a couple of dozen victims at Penn St. vs. hundreds or thousands with the Church? You are still a member of the Church, no?

Genesis wrote..

If the intentional and fraudulent misrepresentation vis-a-vis my activism on this matter with the Catholic Church (which was EXTREMELY loud and in fact included my FULL withdrawal of ALL financial support, and that support HAS NOT returned nor will it)

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She agrees with Freeh's suggestion that the university's trustees lead an effort to "vigorously examine and understand" Penn State's culture, why it's so resistant to outside perspectives and why it places such an "excessive focus on athletics."

"It's comforting to know that others can now understand," Triponey said. "It didn't have to happen this way."

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At Penn State, Triponey was among the few who stood up to Paterno, the legendary "JoePa" who for 61 years was synonymous with a football program that pumped millions of dollars into Penn State. And she paid dearly for it. At the end, nobody at the top backed her. And it didn't seem to matter to anyone whether she was right, or even if she had a point.

At the heart of the problem, the Freeh report stated, were university leaders eager to please Paterno above all else, a rubber-stamp board of trustees, a president who discouraged dissent and an administration that was preoccupied with appearances and spin.

Triponey has been saying that since 2005.

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PSU opponents should cancel games, since it's apparent that the NCAA, another worthless agency, doesn't plan on taking immediate corrective action to rectify this situation. Just sayin.

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The Woman Who Stood Up to Joe Paterno...

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Advocacy Group Asks NCAA to Let Penn State Football Players Transfer Without Penalty

July 18, 2012, 3:48 pm

The president of an advocacy group for college athletes on Tuesday sent a letter to Mark Emmert, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, asking the organization to let current and incoming Pennsylvania State University football players transfer to other institutions without penalty in the wake of the damaging Freeh report. “Penn State officials should not be given the power to hold players’ financial aid and athletic opportunities hostage and, under these circumstances, the NCAA should waive its one-year residency requirement for Penn State football players that wish to transfer,” wrote Ramogi Huma, president of the National College Players Association. Mr. Huma’s request comes shortly after Mr. Emmert said in an interview that the NCAA wouldn’t rule out the so-called death penalty for Penn State’s football program.

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Big Ten Conference Could Consider Expelling Penn State Over Scandal
Jim Delaney

By Brad Wolverton

In considering a punishment for Pennsylvania State University over the Jerry Sandusky scandal, the NCAA has said it will not rule out benching the entire Nittany Lions football program. But the Big Ten could hand down an even harsher penalty—booting the university out of the conference.

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Brown U., Paterno’s Alma Mater, Removes His Name From Sports Award

July 17, 2012, 12:11 pm

Brown University is the latest organization to distance itself from the late Pennsylvania State University football coach Joe Paterno in the wake of last week’s damning report that implicated top Penn State officials in the Sandusky sex-abuse scandal, according to the Providence Journal. In 1993, Brown named an award for a male freshman athlete after Mr. Paterno, who graduated from the university in 1950. The university said it had removed Mr. Paterno’s name from the award this spring, and “will make a decision about the naming of the award in future years.” Nike removed Mr. Paterno’s name from a child-care center at its headquarters last week. A student group that manages the area outside the Pennsylvania university’s football stadium where students camp for tickets has also changed the site’s name, from “Paternoville” to “Nittanyville.”

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Jerry Sandusky Retirement Package Revoked By Penn State University, Pension Remains

Jerry Sandusky has been downgraded.

Penn State University has officially revoked the retirement package of Sandusky, a convicted pedophile, according to the Daily Collegian.

Sandusky, a one time assistant football coach at PSU, retired in 1999 and received a lump sum payment of $168,000. The Freeh report, released last week, noted this was a highly unusual amount.

Another bizarre condition of Sandusky's retirement included giving him "emeritus" status, which allowed him generous privileges. At the time of his retirement, Sandusky was an assistant physical education professor and assistant football coach positions, which wouldn't qualify him eligible for the emeritus rank. He was given wide access to use facilities on campus, including the locker rooms and showers where he was found to repeatedly molest and******young boys.