I think I’m going to have to avoid Facebook all day, if not all week, as I cannot abide the tributes to Joe Paterno that are overtaking my wall. If anyone had the power to put an end to that horrible situation at Penn State, it was him. The fact that people give him a by, that they accept that he is absolved of any responsibility because he did the bare minimum that was required by law to report the situation, is frightening to me. He was the most powerful man on that campus. If he had wanted to bring justice to the situation, it would have been done. Instead he chose to turn his back while children continued to be molested FOR YEARS!
I can understand still having pride in your school if you’re a Penn State alum. This one situation doesn’t define the whole institution. But to publicly defend this man? Total moral failure.
