Quote Originally Posted by happylabs View Post
I totally agree with you on this! Paterno should have been more diligent with the situation when he first heard about it. I truly believe he did not want to scar Penn State's "good name". This was swept under the rug on purpose. I know a lot of Penn State fans and lovers of Paterno will rant and rave if they read this but I don't really care.
That is the reason that PSU wants the cases to be settled ASAP.

They did nothing but dodge the facts.

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On the day that the OJ Simpson trial verdict was read, I was in a meeting for my job.

During the trial I was able to watch most of the coverage and I was interested in the verdict.

Why?

A few years earlier I watched people in El Lay burn almost burn the place down - to this day there are open spots along the main drags that are concrete slabs where people and businesses stood. I was pretty sure if that creep was tossed into the clink, the same thing would happend.

Someone came into the room and told us that the verdict was in and we could watch it in one of the media rooms.

We all made our way in and started to watch the tube.

I took up a place along the wall and a woman came up and stood next to me. That kinda irritated me, because I wanted to judge the reaction of everyone in the room.

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The room got still and the two things that i remember most vivdly is Robert Kardashian looking like someone kicked him in the gonads and the woman next to me.

I felt her jostle me and I looked over to see her face.

Her eyes were wide open and she was smiling while doing a little victory jig.

I thought to myself, "WTF is THAT all about?"

The coverage cut to shots of reactions at some kind of law school were half the audience was cheering, hooting and clapping.

I have to say that is what embarassed me to be a human and Angleno, not in that order, but close enough.

The media played up all the angles, except the basic fact that two people were killed.

El Lay and the people who lived there were on pins and needles waiting for the results.

The verdict was a joke, but the way people 'celebrated' it left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

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Years before, I was a member of a jury that before being excused, we were asked if we wanted to meet with the lawyers, for some reason they wanted to talk to us and get some info about the deliberations.

Before we went out, the foreperson and two other women were shaking with excitement about getting to talk with them. One said, "Good, I don't have to go back to work today...."

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I think I prefer TV courtrooms to the real life BS when 'real' people are involved.

There is no more decorum, common sense or thought for each other when real crap like this happens. It's all a tragedy and instead of soaking it in and learning from it?

People celebrate it like it's something good.

Yes, there should be relief that people are held accountable for their actions, but a group of people standing around and making light of a courtroom verdict, make me nervous.

We may as well go back to the Wild West and start public executions all over again.

That would give the crown a more instant kind of gratification and think of the souvenir sales?