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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 11:46 AM
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38. Occam's Razor says it's probably the whistleblower laws
But who knows. I hope questions like these get cleared up before this is all over.
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  -Why hasn't McQueary been fired? MadHound  Nov-11-11 12:40 PM   #0 
  - +1000 I agree....he let down everyone including the boy...how shameful  opihimoimoi   Nov-11-11 12:43 PM   #1 
  - k&r...  spanone   Nov-11-11 12:44 PM   #2 
  - He has been key to the Grand Jury investigation. It might look like retaliation.  pnwmom   Nov-11-11 12:48 PM   #3 
  - The police have said Paterno was not required to report under the law.  former9thward   Nov-11-11 12:55 PM   #4 
  - He didn't  KamaAina   Nov-11-11 12:57 PM   #6 
     - He probably did.  former9thward   Nov-11-11 01:05 PM   #13 
  - He was a graduate assistant, a man grown  MadHound   Nov-11-11 12:56 PM   #5 
  - What part of this don't you understand? He's cooperating with the prosecution  pnwmom   Nov-11-11 01:23 PM   #16 
     - He will be replaced when they get a new head coach  ProgressiveProfessor   Nov-11-11 05:32 PM   #28 
     - Yet what is your excuse for him not acting at the time?  MadHound   Nov-11-11 06:22 PM   #31 
        - There's plenty of time to beat the hell out of him after he's done putting worse people in jail. nt  jeff47   Nov-11-11 08:24 PM   #36 
  - He did nothing for 8 yrs, after doing the bare minimum that day...screw him.  jmg257   Nov-11-11 12:58 PM   #8 
  - McQueary may have "heard" things about Sandusky's previous "incidents"  rocktivity   Nov-11-11 01:02 PM   #12 
  - He probably went to his father because he trusted his father more than anyone.  pnwmom   Nov-11-11 01:29 PM   #19 
  - Why do you keep defending him on this and other threads?  shraby   Nov-11-11 01:16 PM   #15 
     - The question was why he hadn't been fired. That's the question I was answering.  pnwmom   Nov-11-11 01:27 PM   #18 
        - He had an obligation to try to stop what was going on, AND  shraby   Nov-11-11 01:41 PM   #21 
           - I agree that he failed. But I'm a little skeptical about all the armchair heroes around here.  pnwmom   Nov-11-11 02:27 PM   #24 
              - Nobility, risk taking, and self sacrifice is most often found in those typing on a keyboard  ProgressiveProfessor   Nov-11-11 05:22 PM   #27 
              - You agree that he failed, and yet  MadHound   Nov-11-11 06:27 PM   #32 
  - same reason none of the janitors that saw the rapes were fired.  Township75   Nov-11-11 12:57 PM   #7 
  - Well, they should be gone as well,  MadHound   Nov-11-11 12:59 PM   #9 
  - It was one Janitor  trumad   Nov-11-11 01:01 PM   #10 
  - Enlighten us...  Rebubula   Nov-11-11 01:02 PM   #11 
  - It isn't that easy to fire someone with a union contract  Freddie Stubbs   Nov-11-11 01:25 PM   #17 
     - Good try.  Kingofalldems   Nov-11-11 06:04 PM   #30 
  - He will dissappear into the night,,,  benld74   Nov-11-11 01:09 PM   #14 
  - IF he stays The University can control the message (Contract)  Bennyboy   Nov-11-11 01:38 PM   #20 
  - He's a wus wimp of the worst kind  Ter   Nov-11-11 01:54 PM   #22 
  - No, there is a worse kind -- the older, more experienced adults  pnwmom   Nov-11-11 02:29 PM   #25 
     - Fine, there are worse  Ter   Nov-11-11 02:58 PM   #26 
  - Moral yes, legal maybe not so much  ProgressiveProfessor   Nov-11-11 02:20 PM   #23 
  - Have you ever considered that maybe he was sexually abused as a boy?  riderinthestorm   Nov-11-11 05:33 PM   #29 
  - The Penn. whistleblower protection laws likely prevent them from doing so. nt  NutmegYankee   Nov-11-11 06:36 PM   #33 
  - That's why. It's an odd stroke of fate. Otherwise, he should be fired. n/t  FourScore   Nov-11-11 07:12 PM   #35 
  - A sports related talking head was asked that on cable news  rainbow4321   Nov-11-11 07:09 PM   #34 
  - "He knows too much and that scares the univ officials."  justiceischeap   Nov-11-11 08:28 PM   #37 
  - Occam's Razor says it's probably the whistleblower laws  Patiod   Nov-12-11 11:46 AM   #38 
  - Like others in this thread I'm thinking whistleblower laws -  TBF   Nov-12-11 11:50 AM   #39 
 

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