Khross wrote:
Ladas:
I'm not ignoring anything. I'm challenging the false outrage of posters who would otherwise make rational posts on this matter.
What false outrage is that?
The outrage was at Xeq's position that he would not either intervene or call the police if he actually witnessed the child abuse.
That was the situation the GA was in, not the situation Paterno was in, even if he weren't nearly 70 years old at the time of the alleged abuse and probably in no position to physically challenge Sandusky.
I don't believe the situation with regard to Title IX is nearly as cut and dried as you think it is, mainly because if Paterno were sued by the University over this, or criminally charged, the implications of the law - that it prevents a person from reporting child rape to the police, and puts him in an unteneble legal situation - would almost certainly result in an overturning of it by the Supreme Court amid public outrage - and make no mistake, it
would go all the way to the Supreme Court with considerable press attention, assuming Paterno's adversaries didn't decline to appeal at a lower level, simply because of the incredibly high profile nature of the case. As for lack of funds to hire a lawyer, plenty of lawyers would be
all over the chance to represent Joe Paterno, even if he is not personally exceptionally wealthy.
In any case, however, Paterno is really not what everyone was so upset about; it was the idea that someone might be more concerned with imagined "blackballing" and "getting fired" for reporting a child rape
while it was actually in progress, or, failing that, intervening to stop the attack. Xeq seems to have conflated your comments regarding Title IX and Paterno with some applicability Title IX may or may not have to the actual witness to the crime, at the time the crime was occuring, specifically the GA.
If Title IX, by some bizarre machination of poorly-written legislation, somehow is supposed to prevent employees from reporting or stopping a crime in progress, I'm calling bullshit. As I asked before, if a woman is being raped and an employee (PAterno or anyone else) sees it and calls the police, is that somehow a breach? If there is a fire and he pulls the fire alarm does he somehow become liable later if it turns out it was Arson, because he didn't call his boss and say "The field house is on fire!" and have
him call the fire company?
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