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Originally posted by whos2know
I for one hope he is riddled with guilt and checks out of his own accord.
Originally posted by MRuss
I hope this verdict sends a big message to all the child abusers out there.
We're going to hunt you down.
Originally posted by gwydionblack
Based on this trial, it sets a precedence that so long as I can come up with a convincing enough story about someone from my childhood abusing me... and get the jury to believe it - devoid of and actual evidence, I would be able to put someone in prison?
Originally posted by gwydionblack
reply to post by Bixxi3
I posted in a much older Sandusky topic on here about the "showering with boys" thing.
I consider it strange to shower other children then your own. I do not consider it sexual abuse or molestation. It is only strange because society deems it as strange - in the past something such as this would be passed by with a simple glance.
As far as the "love letters", the only physical evidence that actually exists... once again - evidence of a strange, creepy man - a conclusion I could have made just by watching him speak in any of his interviews in the past. Proven child molester? Pedophile? Not quite yet.
I have met many creepy men in my life. I have heard stories of many creepy men in my life. Of those creepy man, most of them are just that - creepy... stalker like even. They were not child molesters.
I know the "evidence" and there is little. There are stories... OLD stories. Very old stories. In the event that these people would have come forward when this happened there would be the element of dating the crimes, placing the suspect at the scene of the alleged crime, and various other pieces of actual evidence besides STORIES. Considering these stories are so old, that was not really possible. It was just a matter of whether or not the story was convincing enough to make the common man believe - regardless of whether it is true or not.
People are good liers. Do not forget this.
Originally posted by SpittinTruth
Do ANY of you know...how the game operates? I've heard a lot of talk about "denying ignorance"...but see it's running ramped. It's not too difficult, setting people up...to take the fall. It's not difficult paying off people to say, "so and so did such and such". Heck, it's not that difficult, when you're in position of power, to have those you're trying to destroy, destroy themselves, for them.
Question: HOW DO YOU KNOW, Sandusky will even be sent to prison? How do you know, this wasn't a DOG AND PONY show? Is it POSSIBLE, for Sandusky to give those statements....knowing that if he didn't, WORSE would happen? I'm surprised DEATH wasn't an option.
I also read somewhere, that Michael Jackson was about to expose the pedophile ring, running throughout the music industry; as he was a victim of child abuse; and passed around, to those at the top...like a cheap prostitute. Don't believe EVERYTHING you see on tv. It just might be scripted! Ya NEVER KNOW!
Originally posted by Bixxi3
reply to post by BABYBULL24
To me that is the bigger issue and i shudder to think how widespread this really is.
Originally posted by gwydionblack
So...
I'm always considered an odd man out in these situations but allow me to play devils advocate.
Once again, Sandusky was a media darling from the beginning, determined guilty before the trial was even held. Seems all too common.
But allow me to indulge people's logic for a moment...
Based on this trial, it sets a precedence that so long as I can come up with a convincing enough story about someone from my childhood abusing me... and get the jury to believe it - devoid of and actual evidence, I would be able to put someone in prison?
Now imagine if myself and a group of people held a grudge against a particular person. Say we trumped up a bunch of stories, came out with them all at the same time, and then convince the jury with those stories to put the person away for life. Certainly a feasible thing to do.
Even more ridiculous - let's ALL claim that we never came out about it before because we were ALL scared. Every single one of us, and any supposed evidence that we did come forward in the past is conveniently missing or dead. Hmmm.
So... decade plus old stories manage to put a guy away for life in prison and the public to label him as a sex offender, a pedophile, a child molester, ect. The guy, being creepy and weird to begin with, was setup for failure from the very beginning.
I am a man of justice. Evidence. Timely charges. There is a difference if any of these charges would have come forward before, and if they were apparently dismissed, continued to do so. The emotion behind these events skews the logic of all, and the timing raising questions that no one wants to answer or justify. They would much rather just feel pity towards the alleged "victims" then to question the inconsistencies.
I don't know if Sandusky is innocent, but our courts are SUPPOSED to prove guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt" and for me, and any logical thinking person - there still should be "reasonable doubt".
Originally posted by SyphonX
One man took the fall, and the syndicate stands.
There is without a doubt a very serious case of organized sexual abuse in that festering pit that Sandusky crawled out of..
.. but they got their fall guy.
Originally posted by Bixxi3
Originally posted by SpittinTruth
Do ANY of you know...how the game operates? I've heard a lot of talk about "denying ignorance"...but see it's running ramped. It's not too difficult, setting people up...to take the fall. It's not difficult paying off people to say, "so and so did such and such". Heck, it's not that difficult, when you're in position of power, to have those you're trying to destroy, destroy themselves, for them.
Question: HOW DO YOU KNOW, Sandusky will even be sent to prison? How do you know, this wasn't a DOG AND PONY show? Is it POSSIBLE, for Sandusky to give those statements....knowing that if he didn't, WORSE would happen? I'm surprised DEATH wasn't an option.
I also read somewhere, that Michael Jackson was about to expose the pedophile ring, running throughout the music industry; as he was a victim of child abuse; and passed around, to those at the top...like a cheap prostitute. Don't believe EVERYTHING you see on tv. It just might be scripted! Ya NEVER KNOW!
Wait so your saying he didn't rape kids in the showers?
Multiple people i n this thread including me havesaid how there is most likely a bigger issue here.