Paterno stripped of 111 wins....right or wrong?

[Makalakumu]

Here are more creepy connections that start to connect Sandusky with other sick pedo-rings around the country.

http://www.reddirtreport.com/Story.aspx/23022

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Lawyer John DeCamp is in his 70s, but two recent events put the author of The Franklin Cover-Up right back in the media spotlight.

DeCamp, a former state senator and a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, unraveled the Penn State child-sex scandal while investigating the Omaha child-pornography, child-prostitution ring that made him an icon.

Dekamp uncovered some sick stuff in Nebraska.

“One of Sandusky’s contacts was [here in Omaha],” DeCamp said. “Somehow those Pennysylvania people knew about it from my book; they said ‘you brought it up in your book.’”

DeCamp’s next media attention could come in the form of an ABC News 20/20 special.

The Lincoln-based lawyer was interviewed about three weeks ago along with Noreen Gosch, the mother of still-missing Johnny Gosch, a Des Moines newspaper delivery boy who was kidnapped in the mid-1980’s.

Paul Bonacci, one of the victims of the Omaha Satanic ritual abuse scandal who was present at many parties involving high-level business and political leaders, is an eyewitness and direct participant in the kidnapping of Gosch. It should be noted, however, that Bonacci was forced to take part in some of the most horrific duties, many of which he said were led by “The Colonel,” Lt. Col. Michael Aquino, a psychological warfare specialist who branched off a congregation of the Church of Satan called the Temple of Set.

This has to go way beyond football. I can't see anyone who isn't totally corrupted covering this up for any other reason. If this is true, I wonder how they got to Paterno?

 

[elder999]

Then there's this:

In case no one missed the significance of this event-which took place in the same state-I have a couple of questions.

Here we have a priest-a bishop-of the Catholic church, sentenced to prison for covering up pedophile priests.

How has the church been penalized?

What individuals that covered up Snndusky's activities-and that's what they did-have been sentenced?

 

[Tgace]

In case no one missed the significance of this event-which took place in the same state-I have a couple of questions.

Here we have a priest-a bishop-of the Catholic church, sentenced to prison for covering up pedophile priests.

How has the church been penalized?

What individuals that covered up Snndusky's activities-and that's what they did-have been sentenced?

What authority does the gvt have to penalize the Church? Rome is outside the federal jurisdiction Im presuming....

 

[elder999]

What authority does the gvt have to penalize the Church? Rome is outside the federal jurisdiction Im presuming....

Enough authority to send a bishop to jail.

Enough authority to force the Church to pay in civil suits-in fact, suits brought about by victims of pedophile priests have cost the Catholic church in the United States more than a billion dollars in penalties alone, and caused several diocese to file for bankruptcy.

Viewed in that light, the penalties against Penn State have been somewhat less than severe, so far......too bad for the football players, but the good ones won't have any trouble getting spots elsewhere, and the others can still go to Penn.....

 

[jks9199]

In case no one missed the significance of this event-which took place in the same state-I have a couple of questions.

Here we have a priest-a bishop-of the Catholic church, sentenced to prison for covering up pedophile priests.

How has the church been penalized?

What individuals that covered up Snndusky's activities-and that's what they did-have been sentenced?

Individual priests have been prosecuted. I don't know if any bishops have been prosecuted for conspiracy, though I seem to recall a mention to that effect in the news recently. The Church has also taken actions against some of the bishops and priests.

It's important to note that, so far, only Sandusky has been prosecuted and punished by the government. The NCAA is not the government, and their punishments against Penn State and Joe Paterno are essentially private/non-government actions. Also, I think I remember someone specifically mentioning the Catholic Church and making sure nothing like that happens in the NCAA as being a goal of the punishment.

 

[WC_lun]

I cannot find an article on it, but there was a Catholic church cardinal (I believe was his rank) here in KC that was prosecuted for covering it up. I remember it because it was from the same parish my mother and step father were married in.

 

[Tez3]

How does a sports team at an educational establishment manage to make so much money? I found the amounts staggering, are they playing professionally?

 

[ballen0351]

How does a sports team at an educational establishment manage to make so much money? I found the amounts staggering, are they playing professionally?

Advertising from sponsors and merchendise sales. College football is KING in places like PA and in the South. Its nothing to have over 100k people show up to a college game and MILLIONS watch them every Sat.

 

[WC_lun]

No Tez, they aren't professioal They get money from ticket sales, booster contributions, but particularly television rights. If a team is good enough to make it to a bowl game, that is a lot of television proceeds. If it is a major bowl game, that is just ungodly amounts of money.

 

[Wo Fat]

The stripping of Paterno's wins seems someone gratuitous. The proper penalty would have been a suspension of football activities--including games. One season for every year that Paterno (and others) knew about Sandusky's crimes and failed to report them.