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July 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
The famed statue of Joe Paterno was taken down from outside
the Penn State football stadium Sunday, eliminating a key piece of the
iconography surrounding the once-sainted football coach accused of
burying child sex abuse allegations against a retired assistant.
Workers lifted the 7-foot-tall statue off its base and used a
forklift to move it into Beaver Stadium as the 100 to 150 students
watching chanted, “We are Penn State.”
The university announced earlier Sunday that it was taking down the
monument in the wake of an investigative report that found the late
coach and three other top Penn State administrators concealed sex abuse
claims against retired assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
Meanwhile, the NCAA said that that it would levy “corrective and
punitive measures” against Penn State in the wake of the child sex-abuse
scandal involving former football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. The
organization announced Sunday that it would spell out the sanctions on
Monday but disclosed no details.
NCAA President Mark Emmert hasn’t ruled out the possibility of
shutting down the Penn State football program in the wake of the
scandal, adding that he had “never seen anything as egregious.”
The statue, weighing more than 900 pounds, was built in 2001 in honor
of Paterno’s record-setting 324th Division I coaching victory and his
“contributions to the university.”
A spokeswoman for the Paterno family didn’t immediately return phone
and email messages. Sue Paterno and two of the Paternos’ children
visited the statue Friday as students and fans lined up to get their
pictures taken with the landmark.
Construction vehicles and police arrived shortly after dawn Sunday,
barricading the street and sidewalks near the statue, erecting a
chain-link fence then concealing the statue with a blue tarp.
Penn State President Rod Erickson said he decided to have the statue
removed and put into storage because it “has become a source of division
and an obstacle to healing.”
“I believe that, were it to remain, the statue will be a recurring
wound to the multitude of individuals across the nation and beyond who
have been the victims of child abuse,” Erickson said in a statement
released at 7 a.m. Sunday.
He said Paterno’s name will remain on the campus library because it
“symbolizes the substantial and lasting contributions to the academic
life and educational excellence that the Paterno family has made to Penn
State University.”
The statue’s sculptor, Angelo Di Maria, said it was upsetting to hear that the statue had been taken down.
“It’s like a whole part of me is coming down. It’s just an incredibly emotional process,” Di Maria said.
“When things quiet down, if they do quiet down, I hope they don’t
remove it permanently or destroy it,” he said. “His legacy should not be
completely obliterated and thrown out. … He was a good man. It wasn’t
that he was an evil person. He made a mistake.”
The bronze sculpture has been a rallying point for students and
alumni outraged over Paterno’s firing four days after Sandusky’s Nov. 5
arrest — and grief-stricken over the Hall of Fame coach’s Jan. 22 death
at age 85.
But it turned into a target for critics after a report by former FBI
Director Louis Freeh alleged a cover-up by Paterno, ousted President
Graham Spanier and two Penn State officials, Athletic Director Tim
Curley and Vice President Gary Schultz.
Their failure to report Sandusky
to child-welfare authorities in 2001 allowed him to continue molesting
boys, the report found.
Paterno’s family, along with attorneys for Spanier, Curley and
Schultz, vehemently deny any suggestion they protected a pedophile.
Curley and Schultz await trial on charges of failing to report child
abuse and lying to a grand jury but maintain their innocence.
Spanier
hasn’t been charged. Sandusky was convicted last month of 45 counts of
sexual abuse of 10 boys.
Some newspaper columnists and former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden
have said the statue should be taken down, while a small plane pulled a
banner over State College reading, “Take the statue down or we will.”
But Paterno still has plenty of fans, and Penn State’s decision to
remove the monument won’t sit well with them. One student had even vowed
to “chain myself to that statue” if there was an attempt to remove it,
but there was no attempt to stop the work Sunday.
University officials had called the issue a sensitive one in light of
Paterno’s enormous contributions to the school over a 61-year coaching
career.
The Paterno family is well-known in the community for
philanthropic efforts, including the millions of dollars they’ve donated
to the university to help build a library and fund endowments and
scholarships.
July 22, 2012 – TheDaily
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