So Long, Silent Joe

What?  Me tell?

Joe Paterno, the so-called legendary head football coach of Penn State University, has died.  This is not one of those occasions wherein I make the customary "rest in peace" commentary.  No, this is a situation wherein I wish there really was a hell and ol' Silent Joe was getting raped in the shower with everyone who could do something looking away.  Let the punishment fit the crime.  

Considering all of the things ol' Joe accomplished at Penn State, he should have been able to retire in much fanfare, amid celebrations of his career.  Instead, he was forced to resign in disgrace and his final days were spent in total shame.  He deserved every bit of the shame and disgrace and more.  He looked the other way when a child molester was in the midst.  He put Penn State football above the safety of young children.

The story was in the news ad nauseum, so I won't disgust you with the rehashing of the details.  The gist of my disgust with Silent Joe is his silence.  When it was reported to him that former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky had raped a 9 or 10 year old boy in the Penn State showers, Joe didn't call the police.  Joe told the Penn State athletic director.  Yep, that's right.  He didn't call the cops.  He told the athletic director, whom he had every reason to believe would conduct a half-assed farce of an investigation and determine that it really didn't happen.  I also have a seething hatred for the useless piece of shit that reported it to Silent Joe. He witnessed a rape, didn't do anything to try to stop it, did nothing to protect the child, and didn't call the cops.  Noooo, he called his daddy, who in turn told him to tell Silent Joe.  What the fuck is going on at Penn State?  Were none of these fuckers ever taught to report such crimes to a cop?  For fuck's sake, what is telling ol' Joe, who tells the athletic director who doesn't do jack shit going to do?  Call the fucking cops!  I hate to use the term miracle, but frankly, it is a miracle that this incident ever saw the light of day or that criminal charges were ever filed.  The last prosecutor who seriously looked into the matter has vanished off the face of the Earth.  

I've long held the position that those who enable a pedophile are far worse than the pedophile.  The pedophile can always hide behind the cloak of mental illness - of course you're a sick bastard to molest children.  What do you say for those who cover up for them?  They haven't any such cloak.  They are the worst of the worst.  Those who cover for child molesters for their own personal gain are even lower.  In this case, Silent Joe was more worried about his legacy than about a child who was raped by someone his family trusted.  Silent Joe deserves Dante's ninth circle of hell, the Greek Tartarus, and any other form of hell from any other pantheon.  

Go to hell, Joe.  I'm glad you died in disgrace.