Does Joe Paterno’s Statue Need to Be Removed?

I didn't know there was a statue of OJ anywhere. And breaking the law is pretty bad, but protecting a predator of children is the worst - there should be a place worse than hell for people like that.

When did I ever say breaking the law was good? Like that guy, you're trying to put words in my mouth. All I'm saying is that it's not going to be so easy to demolish a statue of someone who's coached their football team for 45 years. Drummerboy had a hard time getting that through his thick head.

What is that supposed to mean? First of all, the answers were pretty biased. Second, nobody seems to respect my point of view because they keep cherry picking all the information. Third, I'm saying it's not a black-and-white issue because Paterno is dead. I never said what he did was right or that those accountable shouldn't be tried.

Leaving the statue up would be saying we are okay with Paterno's decision to not tell authorities. Child molestation is the most hainous and damaging crime in my book and we need to show that we will not tolerate intentional protection of the pervert.

Since he did no thave the cojones to Call the Police on Sandusky HELL YES!

How about letting the people of the State and more importantly the college students decide if they want the statue removed or not.

Good point, I'm sure other jealous coaches want Joe's record diminished, and opponents who lose to Penn state on the field will vote to take it down.

if the people of Pennsylvania and more importantly the students of that college choose to do that so be it, as long as is THEIR CHOICE what's so hard to understand about that?

If the Students council and the administration are at odds with what to do with that statue it could become a big problem so sorry but NO! Student councils do have weight on campus decisions.

A better question is "Did they even care?" I know that if a student council cares about something it can apply tremendous pressure to the adm. to change one policy or another.

i can't answer that but even then it's still the decision of those that run that college and the students if they decide to pull their weight on that decision not ours which remains the point, unless you are part of the Penn State University adm, which I doubt.

Why? The guy was employed by Penn State for 60 years.
He was a championship coach twice, and and led them to winning seasons so often it makes your head spin. Should we just throw all that into the Memory Hole, just because he made an error in judgement like the rest of us? What would that say?

Good points, he without sin cast the first stone.

you dont know what he was thinking. You dont know what he thought to make him act like he did so stop pretending

You have a strange fascination with things anal, don't you?

Yes; error in judgement.
Paterno wasn't the perp, here, remember. He probably simply hoped to save the school and his peerless football program the embarrassment. Should he have acted differently? Sure. But hindsight is always 20/20, isn't it?
But no, he did what he did--or rather, didn't--and there was his all-too-human error in judgement.
He screwed up, like untold numbers of people every day, who make equally stupid decisions, sometimes with even more tragic consequences. A guy named George Zimmerman leaps to mind. Of course, his bad decision was exacerbated by media hype and rhetoric, but you get what I mean.
That should be a reason to erase him and his record from Penn State history? I don't think so, personally.

paterno was an accomplice in the crime ..

active with held information from authorities..

suppressed witness from coming forward

paterno 's legacy ,, knew of, allowed, encouraged the contiuation , provided access , to a child rapist ...

and it is a sad day in W. Pa. .. paterno let a lot of people down, a lot of children were victimized due to paterno actions / in actions.. sad day indeed.

error in judgement ?
such as run a red light ?
or miss spell a word
or stutter when execited ?

or .. active hide a rape
allow a child rape in the college building
conspire with other university professionals to with hold information from authorities

hmm,, looks like you and I have a diference of opinion of what a " error injudgement " is..

and add this to the judgement pot... for 15 years ,, not 15 days or hours,, YEARS paterno hid the pedophile raping children ,,

wow, and there are some that will try to defend paterno on this ??? wow,,,

If you take it down then those without wrong doings cast the first stone. What about our crooked Chicago style gangsters stirring shi*, liars, dividing the country, Obama will stoop to the lowest level to try to win in November. I hope the true Christians will see we defeat this anti God anti American, hey Obama hasn't got time go to the D-Day Monument that honors the soldiers killed during the Invasion.
The occasions were:
1. Barack Obama 2010
2. Barack Obama 2011
3. Barack Obama 2012
This Administration and its Regime and it's Russian style Chicago trained czars have the agenda's of diminishing our Constitution and mocking our Founding Fathers because none were Black. I say all this to make the point that others in higher places have greater sins to be judged. Joe died shortly after the incident surfaced, to bad he let his mistake stress him to accelerated death, to bad our politician's don't have a conscience, too bad they are cold, out of control gutless wonders.

The previous pope, Pope John Paul II, and the current pope, Joseph Ratzinger, protected child molesters from civil authorities. They, too, should have the works erected in their honor removed.

I See, well then maybe we all should be judged by your method. We need to replace every liar and deceiving deadbeat in leadership roles. Hey what about our own judicial courts they protect the OJ's of this world, you see you yourself may have been guilty of covering up for family friends or loved ones. May God judge us by the same standard as we judge others.

There is no god. There is no divine judgment. It is just us humans, doing our very best to sort out what is ethical and proper. All this talk of the judgment of god does nothing the redress the tangible wrongs committed by flesh and blood humans here on planet earth.

You wrote, “I See, well then maybe we all should be judged by your method.”

Please do that. On the day I protect a child molester from the law, you can feel free to tear down all of the statues erected in my honor. That is all that I have advocated.

If he was told that his coach was molesting little boys and did not do nothing about it then yes.

it just gets worse and worse , as more and more info comes out .

at the end ( or beginning of the child rapist trial ) paterno was negotiating a better deal on his retirement , he was bailing out knowing that once the info was public he would be fired ..

paterno,, you let us down, you turned your back on young boys and allowed them to be raped in your football locker rooms.. you failed us, your failed your family ,, you failed the big test in life,, the test of integrity ... your failed...

Joe Paterno didn't handle it right that parts true,but Joe Paterno WAS NOT the child sex predator that did all these atrocious things,and to be honest I don't think Joe even knew how to handle this situation because in his generation he didn't know how to deal with pedophiles.Remember Joe for all the things he did right not a big mistake he made at the end of his career.

It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out what to do. You pick up the phone and you call the police. You tell the police that you just discovered that someone you know is molesting children. It is that simple.

Joe made a bad judgement call, but hey we got political elected leaders who have been decieving us this past 3 1/2 years, we should take the pay and benifits from our elected officials until they balance the budget. We should take away your wages pensions for your decieving of we the people.