{"id":23597,"date":"2011-11-09T23:33:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T06:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/overreacting-for-an-awful-cause.html"},"modified":"2011-11-10T08:01:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T15:01:44","slug":"overreacting-for-an-awful-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/overreacting-for-an-awful-cause.html","title":{"rendered":"Overreacting for an awful cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, even if Joe Paterno were the most revered figure since Gandhi, and his outster by the Penn State Board of Trustees the greatest injustice since the Dredd Scott decision &#8230; that still doesn&#39;t justify a bunch of (presumably) drunken students essentially rioting on the Penn State campus &#8212; vandalism, overturning vehicles, rock and bottle throwing at the police and media, stupid crap like that.<\/p>\n<p>And given what Paterno did (or didn&#39;t do) to justify the firing, it&#39;s even more indefensible. (<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/sports_blog\/2011\/11\/joe-paterno-fired.html\" >http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/sports_blog\/2011\/11\/joe-paterno-fired.html<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Folks, it&#39;s a freaking <i>game<\/i>. Life will, in fact, go on without Joe Paterno coaching the football program.  Be angry, if you like, and if, after considering the circumstances, you think your anger warranted.  But acting like the school administration, abetted by the police and the media, just suggested everyone should chop off their right thumb, is plain stupid &#8212; and, arguably, a great reason to actually get rid of the whole semi-professional football program at Penn State. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn2.sbnation.com%2Fentry_photo_images%2F2245499%2F132008384_extra_large_large.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/ncaa-football\/2011\/11\/10\/2551315\/penn-state-riots-protest-joe-paterno-fired-state-college'>Penn State Riot: Students Protest, Clash With Police After Joe Paterno Fired<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStudents took to the streets in State College after Joe Paterno was fired on Wednesday night. Crowds were clashing with police as the protest got out of hand.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, even if Joe Paterno were the most revered figure since Gandhi, and his outster by the Penn State Board of Trustees the greatest injustice since the Dredd Scott decision &#8230; that still doesn&#39;t justify a bunch of (presumably) drunken students essentially rioting on the Penn State campus &#8212; vandalism, overturning vehicles, rock and bottle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/overreacting-for-an-awful-cause.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Overreacting for an awful cause&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,67],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-sports","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23653,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/scandalous.html","url_meta":{"origin":23597,"position":0},"title":"Scandalous","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Nov-11 8:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting perspective on the Joe Paterno \/ Penn State scandal, from a man in the middle of writing Paterno's biography. #ddtb Embedded Link Joe Posnanski \u00bb Posts The End of Paterno \u00ab","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23697,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/13\/a-thousand-reasons-no-justifications.html","url_meta":{"origin":23597,"position":1},"title":"A thousand reasons, no justifications","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 13-Nov-11 11:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, there are a thousand reasons not to do the right thing. 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