Jerry Sandusky Isn’t Going to Like Prison

Nor will he live very long inside.

From the GJ report:

Sandusky was employed by Penn State for 23 years as the defensive coordinator of its Division I collegiate football program.  Sandusky played football for four years at Penn State and coached a total of 32 years.  While coaching, Sandusky started “The Second Mile” in State College, Pennsylvania in 1977.  It began as a group foster home dedicated to helping troubled boys.  It grew into a charity dedicated to helping children with absent for dysfunctional families.  It is now a statewise, three region charity and Sandusky has been its primary fundraiser.  The Second Mile raises millions of dollars through fundraising appeals and special events.  The mission of the program is to “help children who need additional support and would benefit from positive human interaction.”  Through The Second Mile, Sandusky had access to hundreds of boys, many of whom were vulnerable due to their social situations.

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Steven Turchetta testified that he was an assistant principal and the head football coach at the high school attended by Victim 1.  He testified that Sandusky was a volunteer assistant football coach.  Sandusky also worked with children in the Second Mile program in that school district.  Turchetta described the Second Mile as a very large charitable organization that helped children from economically underprivileged backgrounds and who may be living in single parent households.

Translation:  Black.  Most of Sandusky’s victims were likely young black men.

Maybe this is the “white elephant in the room” that Rush alludes to but confesses to being too scared to talk about.

If I’m right, then he won’t last long in a Pennsylvania prison, full of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh blacks.

Also, it would not be the first case of white men in the sports and athletics business with perverted fetishes for young black men.

I said in this blog a few days ago that a cover up as massive and long running as this one seems to be must mean that powerful and famous people are being protected.  Not making any accusations here, but someone took a screenshot of the list of Second Mile’s honorary board of directors from its own webpage before it was deleted.

A few days ago on Twitter, I made the somewhat vain remark that Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett should get out in front of this issue.  As it turns not, not only has be been out in front of this issue for a long time, he may have actually been the first person with real power and authority to do something about it the moment he found out that child molestation was occurring, back in the days when he was state Attorney General.  He will probably be the big hero out of this scandal.

Not a Bad Idea

Me, on August 3:

Even if we didn’t owe China one red cent, I wouldn’t want to go to war with Beijing over Taiwan anyway.  Are we to spill the increasingly precious and rare blood of white men over the question of should or shouldn’t a continential mainland country with 1.3 billion Chinese people rule over an island 140 miles off their coast populated with 23 million Chinese people?  In case you didn’t notice, even as Taiwan and Mainland China still trade verbal barbs, Taiwanese electronics maufacturers such as Sangean do their assembly on the Mainland.  Taiwan and China are getting economically linked more and more.  I predict that, notwithstanding any financial contretemps between Beijing and Washington, Taiwan will eventually rejoin the People’s Republic of China willingly.  Find the alternate universe with us not owing China anything, and do some time traveling, and I predict you would still see voluntary reunification.  Blood is thicker than ideology.

NYT, two days ago:

There are dozens of initiatives President Obama could undertake to strengthen our economic security. Here is one: He should enter into closed-door negotiations with Chinese leaders to write off the $1.14 trillion of American debt currently held by China in exchange for a deal to end American military assistance and arms sales to Taiwan and terminate the current United States-Taiwan defense arrangement by 2015.

Nice thinking on the part of one Paul V. Kane — If we do this, then we should hurry up, before Taiwan gets the notion to rejoin the PRC mainland willingly, as I predict they eventually will.

Right…As In Thing or Timing?

Daily Mail:

Fugitive who was in gun battle with police comes out of hiding after 42 years because ‘it was the right thing to do’

More than 40 years after jumping bail, a 67-year-old man has surrendered to police to accept his punishment for shooting at officers in a gun battle.

On November 5, 1968, Ronald Bridgeforth was involved in a shootout at a San Francisco discount store after he was accused of using a stolen credit card to buy $29 worth of clothes and toys.

He has lived under the alias of Cole Lee Jordan over four decade, working his way up from being a janitor to earning a master’s degree and becoming a college guidance counselor in Michigan.

On Thursday, after resigning from his job, Bridgeforth arrived at the Hall of Justice in Redwood City, California, and surrendered.

‘This seems to be the right thing to do, and in the end it is all about family.’ Bridgeforth said.

‘I guess I’ve come back to face the consequences of my actions on that evening of 1968.’

Yeah, “face the consequences.”  Conveniently, California is literally out of prison space.  Even if they wanted to put him in prison, they probably can’t, and wouldn’t based on the age of the case.

I don’t think he did this because it was the right thing to do, he did it because it was the right timing.  He figured that doing the right thing was a lot easier after reading about the Federal Judicary’s demand that California empty its jails and prisons.