tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260510730184507282.post2298377834636305309..comments2024-01-30T04:57:48.673-05:00Comments on Second Mile Sandusky Scandal: Tom In Paine: Rubin Slams Media for Maltreatment of PaternoBarry Bozemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03484041114078117845noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260510730184507282.post-27392010011540751532013-07-15T08:48:55.607-04:002013-07-15T08:48:55.607-04:00There are many examples of community madness in hi...There are many examples of community madness in history. 22 people were tried and executed in the Titus Oates hoax of 1680. The Salem Witch trials came a decade later. 19 persons were hanged and one was crushed to death before the hysteria played out. In recent years we have had day-care cases. Mr. Bob at Little Rascals was tried and convicted on 99 charges. Eventually his conviction was over turned and no one pursued the further persecutions of the man. In Mr. Bob's trial, a child testified that the video man kept pet sharks in a salt pond. The video man would take the sharks to play in the nearby bay. Mr. Bob would then chum the water for the sharks with chopped up babies. <br /><br />The priest scandal came when changes in statue of limitations opened up settled cases. People believed the settlements to be admissions of guilt. Settlements are often a cheaper resolution than expensive litigation. The settlements then created a moral hazard to greedy lawyers and opportunist families. I never saw any real evidence of actual priest misconduct. One poor guy goosed a kid while playing in a swimming pool. He was given 4 years and was killed in prison. The accuser of Father Shanley came up with stories as bad as the shark story after recovered memory flim-flam.<br /><br />What boils my blood is the extortions from an abstract Catholic Church put a tax on parishioners who did noting wrong themselves. We just lost a bunch of nearby parochial grammar schools due in part to liability concerns.<br /><br />The moral panic over priests and the Sandusky matter are just two more examples of community madness. Your assertion of guilt of Sandusky does not ring true to me as some lewd intent would be required. Suppose you tore the pants off a boy who just spilled a pot of coffee on himself. Would you want that to be crime?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260510730184507282.post-18292412636874514462013-07-14T12:51:12.871-04:002013-07-14T12:51:12.871-04:00Wow... thanks for sharing. And on your link to To...Wow... thanks for sharing. And on your link to Tom in Paine is the link to the entire suite of documents on the Milwaukee case, well organized on the website of MN attorney Jeff Anderson.rdkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11007253694089460950noreply@blogger.com