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| Really, we just wanted to run this picture. Suffer those little children! |
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — After top Penn State officials announced that they had fired Joe Paterno on Wednesday night, thousands of students stormed the downtown area to display their anger and frustration, chanting the former coach’s name, tearing down light poles and overturning a television news van parked along College Avenue.What the fucking hell are they teaching these ninnies in Happy Valley? Certainly not logic. Or English, even.
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“I think the point people are trying to make is the media is responsible for JoePa going down,” said a freshman, Mike Clark, 18, adding that he believed that Mr. Paterno had met his legal and moral responsibilities by telling university authorities about an accusation that Mr. Sandusky assaulted a boy in a university shower in 2002.
Demonstrators tore down two lamp posts, one falling into a crowd. They also threw rocks and fireworks at the police, who responded with pepper spray. The crowd undulated like an accordion, with the students crowding the police and the officers pushing them back.
“We got rowdy, and we got maced,” Jeff Heim, 19, said rubbing his red, teary eyes. “But make no mistake, the board started this riot by firing our coach. They tarnished a legend.”
A few, like Justin Muir, 20, a junior studying hotel and restaurant management, threw rolls of toilet paper into the trees.No, cretin, you & Coach Joe Perv are the embarrassments.
“It’s not fair,” Mr. Muir said hurling a white ribbon. “The board is an embarrassment to our school and a disservice to the student population.”
The United Snakes are falling apart around them, the planet on which these fucking jerks no doubt hope to live for another 60+ yrs. will be an unlivable wasteland before they can retire from whatever low-wage jobs their corporate masters may deign to give them, but preserving the career of an 84-yr. old moral failure (Who's held the job since 19-fucking-66.) while blaming his deficiencies on the "media" does agitate them?
As the crowd got more aggressive, so did police officers. Some protesters fought back. One man in a gas mask rushed half a dozen police officers in protective gear, blasted one officer with pepper spray underneath his safety mask, and then sprinted away. The officer lay on the ground, rubbing his eyes.*Too damn bad these sheep can't get angry about anything serious. But this completely justifies our doing anything we want about anything that happens anywhere, right?Yes, a few not-so-white faces in photos of the crowd, but talk about First World problems.
Paul Howard, 24, an aerospace engineering student, jeered the police.
“Of course we’re going to riot,” he said. “What do they expect when they tell us at 10 o’clock that they fired our football coach?”
Credit &c.: Stolen straight up from Andrew Sullivan, who couldn't make a connection between the actual anarchic violence of what he (ironically for a still-devout cafeteria Catholic) termed a cult & the Occupiers who are attempting to call attention to the grim reality of economic oppression. So we stepped in.
*Ha ha. A taste of your own medicine, fascist bully-boy.
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Fuck. As a graduate of Ohio State University in the '70s, I can tell you that worship of academic/corporate football coaches is bound to disappoint you.
I worked as a waitress at the faculty club and had to wait on pre and post game banquets and events. it's not a surprise to me that football coaches like to play grab-ass - at the very least.
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