Arrest Joe Paterno

     I cannot fathom how Joe Paterno or anyone with a decent conscious could continue to work beside such a person while having anything close to reasonable suspicion that he committed such heinous crimes.
     But another thing that strikes me the most about the case against Jerry Sandusky is that there are people, including Penn State students, defending the indefensible. They are defending Joe Paterno and even threatening others that they think had something to do with his resignation as if Jerry Sandusky is charged with smoking a joint or some other victimless crime.
       In my opinion Paterno, Sandusky, Mike McQueary, Graham Spanier, Gary Schultz, Timothy Curley, indeed anyone that witnessed, committed or knew of the crimes from witnesses, as well as the people defending any of them now, are all cut from the same cloth, that of a selfish cowardly, self-centered person who will not risk a hair on their heads to help or defend others.
      Admittedly I do not know these people and I am sure that there are readers who will point that out. All I have to reply is that I didn't know them before, but I do now--by their reprehensible conduct.
         Furthermore, I submit that I now know them better than people who actually have met them in person and thought they "knew" them. Heinous incidents like this bring out the character of people involved or the lack of same. That is what happened here, revealing once and for all the fraudulent nature of Paterno's "character"  and others that they've adroitly hidden all these years. Maybe they themselves didn't know how characterless they were, I don't know, but this case and their conduct shows them to be poor in character to say the least.
         All I know is that from where I come from, Paterno not reporting a crime of a friend or colleague to the police is reserved for such "crimes" as smoking a joint. In the world I grew up in, a man who  doesn't forthwith beat a child raper half to death when he catches him in the act is no man at all. None of the people who witnessed these crimes or knew of them from reliable witnesses yet filed no police report should remain un-incarcerated, let alone keep any job they had at the time.
      And  I'm only assuming that Paterno didn't report Sandusky because he was a friend or colleague. That's just the most reasonable explanation I can come up with that doesn't make Paterno seem like even a bigger scumbag than he seems to be now.
        Not reporting such a crime whether committed by a friend and colleague or not is nothing short of reprehensible when it involves any kind of victim. All crimes, especially ones in which the victim is a child must be reported to the police. There should be laws in place in all 50 states that stipulate that if it is not reported, then the witness is guilty of the same crime. Many criminal charges involving victims have this kind of law. For instance, conspiracy cases and robberies in which the getaway driver can also be charged with murder though he did not commit the murder inside the bank.
        Because in my opinion, anybody that witnessed such crimes or knew of them from witnesses and did not report them to the police are co-conspirators in the  case and should be charged with the same exact crime, plus a few more.