Port of Sport III: Jerry Sandusky Edition

Editor's Note: For anyone who may read this, I urge you to read the two previous posts for context; none of this will make sense without the first two installments.

                Jerry Sandusky was born on January 26^th, 1944 in Washington, Pennsylvania. Jerry’s father Arthur Sandusky served as a youth program director at Brownson House in Washington, Pennsylvania for over 30 years. Arthur Sandusky was inducted into the Pennsylvania sports Hall of Fame in 1989.[1] Sandusky grew up and attended Washington High School where he was a standout athlete excelling in baseball, basketball, and football. He graduated from Washington in 1961 and went to Penn State where he started at defensive end from 1963-1965.[2] Sandusky became a graduate assistant for Joe Paterno in 1966; then bounced around to a few different schools with Juanita College in 1967 as a basketball coach and track coach; then Sandusky went to Boston University in 1968 as the Offensive Line Coach.

            Jerry Sandusky rejoined Joe Paterno in 1969 as the Defensive Line coach and would stay there until his retirement in 1999.[3] In 1977 Jerry Sandusky was promoted to Defensive Coordinator and would hold that same position until his retirement in 1999. It was also in 1977 that Sandusky founded his “charity” called The Second Mile which was supposedly designed to help under-privileged children. Specifically children (mostly boys) who came from broken homes, most often boys without father figures; Sandusky was widely praised in the media for his supposed helping children, including a special recognition from President George H.W. Bush as a “shining example” of charitable work in 1990.

Behind the scenes it was much less cheery than the unquestioning media would lead one to believe. It has now been widely acknowledged that the leadership of Penn State University including head coach Joe Paterno were aware of the investigation into Sandusky’s escapades in 1998. This led Penn State to essentially force Sandusky into retirement but was still awarded with “"both an unusual compensation package and a special designation of 'emeritus' rank that carried special privileges, including access to the university’s recreational facilities."[4] Sandusky had an office on campus, his face on a mural, his autobiography “Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story” in the schools book store, and keys to access the same locker rooms and showers where he was eventually convicted of raping children until the whole story blew wide open in 2011.

The question that must be asked is obvious and unfortunately to this day remains shrouded in layers of an immense cover-up. The question is how did Jerry Sandusky get away with these crimes for such a prolonged period of time? Well, Joe Paterno’s dead; Graham Spanier who was the President of Penn State was not indicted and actually landed a comfy job as an advisor for a top-secret project for the U.S. Government relating to national security; according to his lawyer.[5] So really any conclusion we might be able to come up with would be speculation. However, what is not speculation is pointing out connections between Sandusky and some very powerful people.

In 1988, Jerry Sandusky gave a nominating speech for George H. W. Bush at the Republican National Convention. At that same Convention there was a man named Lawrence E. King who sang the National Anthem. Lawrence King in a few short months would find himself as the key figure in a Congressional Investigation led by Senator John DeCamp concerning King’s laundering of money as the General Manager of a Credit Union in Omaha, Nebraska.[6] DeCamp quickly found that the money was just the tip of the iceberg concerning King’s escapades; when DeCamp dug into it he found King was connected to a town called Boy’s Town and all of the sudden had multiple children coming to him saying they had been taken by King to Washington D.C. multiple times and had taken midnight “tours” of the White House and were involved in depraved sex parties among other horrific things.[7] It just so happens the Washington Times reported on the front page of their June 29^th, 1989 newspaper that there was evidence of a homosexual prostitution ring which was being given late night access to the White House.[8]  

The next year Lawrence King was sent to prison, for money laundering; and President George H. W. Bush was publicly praising The Second Mile as a “shining example of charitable work.” In 2001, after Sandusky’s retirement he wrote his autobiography; in the book he specifically addressed the recognition from George H. W. Bush by saying “It’s about time George! This is long overdue.” [9] After Sandusky had finally been brought to justice in 2011, his Second Mile Foundation transferred all of their $2.6 million in assets to an organization called the Arrow Child & Family Ministries in Spring, Texas. At the time of this assets transfer; two of the directors for the Arrow Child & Family Ministries were Maria Bush the daughter-in-law of George H. W. Bush, and Susie Peake who had worked for George H. W. Bush in various capacities for over 10 years.[10]

Another very strange thing to point out is that the District Attorney in Centre County, Pennsylvania (which oversees the Happy Valley area) who would have been the person in charge of bringing Jerry Sandusky to justice, Ray Gicar, just happened to go missing without a trace on April 15^th, 2005. Months later on August 2^nd, 2005 Gicar’s county issued laptop was found by fishermen in the Susquehanna River; the laptop was conspicuously missing its hard drive.[11] Gicar was pronounced legally dead July 25^th, 2011 just a few months before the Sandusky story was finally disclosed to the public after literally decades of cover-up and lies. Undoubtedly, there is much more to know about the whole situation that was blamed on Sandusky and made to look like one rotten apple instead of exposing the whole rotten bunch.

Bibliography

Arrow Child and Family Ministries. (2014). Guidestar Premium Report. Houston: Guidestar. Retrieved November 20, 2014, from http://www.guidestar.org/ViewPdf.aspx?PdfSource=0&ein=74-2622426

Begos, K. (2011, November 12). Penn State Scandal: Sandusky Had Access To Vulnerable Kids Via Charity. Retrieved November 20, 2014, from Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/12/penn-state-scandal-sandusky_n_1090203.html

Belson, K. (2012, July 12). Abuse Scandal Inquiry Damns Paterno and Penn State. Retrieved November 20, 2014, from New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/sports/ncaafootball/13pennstate.html?_r=3&hp&

DeCamp, J. (2011). The Franklin Cover-Up. Chicago, Illinois, United States of America: Adventure Works Press. Retrieved November 20, 2014, from http://educate-yourself.org/cn/franklincoverupexcerpt.shtml

Ganm, S. (2011, March 31). Jerry Sandusky, former Penn State football staffer, subject of grand jury investigation. Retrieved November 20, 2014, from The Patriot-News: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/03/jerry_sandusky_former_penn_sta.html

Heil, E. (2012, July 27). Graham Spanier’s gig as a federal worker is a mystery. Retrieved November 20, 2014, from Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/graham-spaniers-gig-as-a-federal-worker-is-a-mystery/2012/07/26/gJQAbAx5BX_blog.html

Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. (2009). ARTHUR SANDUSKY. Retrieved November 20, 2014, from Waskington-Greene Chapter: http://www.webcitation.org/63Oz1EtFK

Rodriguez, P., & Archibald, G. (1989, June 29). Homosexual Prostitution Inquiry Ensnares VIPS with Reagan, Bush. Retrieved November 20, 2014, from New York Times: http://educate-yourself.org/tg/franklincoverupexcerptwashtimesphoto.shtml

Veira, M. (2011, November 7). A Reputation Lies in Tatters. Retrieved November 20, 2014, from The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/sports/ncaafootball/jerry-sandusky-was-long-admired-at-penn-state.html#

Ward, P. (2005, August 2). Missing DA's Laptop Found. Retrieved November 20, 2014, from Pittsburgh Post Gazette: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iZYNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8XADAAAAIBAJ&pg=5334,210533&dq=ray+gricar+laptop&hl=en

Yorkshire Television. (1990). Conspiracy Of Silence. Retrieved November 20, 2014, from The Franklin Scandal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtstlx96s8M

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[1] Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, 2009

[2] Veira, 2011

[3] Ganm, 2011

[4] Belson, 2012

[5] Heil, 2012

[6] Yorkshire Television, 1990

[7] DeCamp, 2011

[8] Rodriguez & Archibald, 1989

[9] Begos, 2011

[10] Arrow Child and Family Ministries, 2014

[11] Ward, 2005

Ronald Reagan’s Inaugural Address, 1981

Ronald Reagan came in at the perfect time in American society. The fact that he was a B-list actor before ever getting into politics truly speaks volumes both about him and what a puppet position the President of the United States has become over the 236 years of the United States. Of course, he had George H. Bush pulling all his strings as “Vice-President” much like Dick Cheney would later do to George W. Bush in the same “Vice-President” role. What made Ronald Reagan more fondly remembered was his solid ability to talk in front of a camera; compared to George W. Bush he was much more charismatic which really does not say too much. Reagan ran as a libertarian republican but ended up adopting all the typical policies of the United States Presidency, so far as to come up with the term “Reaganomics” which benefits all the big business interests so they can, by the grace of their hearts, start the “trickle down” effect that exactly reflects the doctrines of Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth.   

                 

George H. W. Bush before his first “Vice” Presidency term was the head of the CIA where his notorious reign included oversight of mass amount of drug smuggling during the “Just Say NO!” years, and arming foreign entities like the Mujahdeen which would later become the Taliban and Al-Queda. George Senior was also was a high ranking CIA member and was in Dallas the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. In the last 20 years there have been numerous books written about George H. W. Bush ranging from his career laundering money through his Carlyle group and the money his father Prescott Bush made off funding Hitler’s Nazi war machine to massive pedophile rings running through the White House.

                

 In the late 80s through the early 90s a story begins to break in Boys Town, Nebraska. A man by the name of Lawrence E. King, who sang the nation anthem at the Republican National Convention, became a general manager within the system. But when over $40 million went missing under his watch, the story ultimately led to Boy’s Town, Nebraska children being used in a pedophile sex ring during the 80s [1]. Outlets like The Washington Times reported on this scandal and Discovery Channel had an entire hour long expose they were going to run on May 3^rd 1994, until high power Senators and other politicians had it pulled before it was going to air [2].

               

Author Nick Bryant wrote a book titled The Franklin Scandal which does an excellent job of actual journalism. The book details all of the circumstances involving Lawrence E. King and his laundering through Franklin Credit Union as does the documentary cited above; this is just a small taste of the 20 years of American Presidency suspended within a heartbeat of being a guy named George Bush.

http://www.franklincase.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=9    [1]

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-franklin-cover-up/  [2]

Bill Clinton and NAFTA

On December 8^th, 1993 Bill Clinton signed the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Eric Foner, the compiler of these documents, mentions in the foreword that because Clinton was finishing the work of his predecessor George H.W. Bush that there was an overwhelming consensus that this so called “free trade agreement” was the right move. To insinuate that George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton represent all interests of the American political and economic is dubious at best. Those two men also supported the same policy of dropping bombs in the Middle East during their time as President. Which has become a morbid tradition since JFK that has been continued through George W. Bush and now Barack Obama; but of the last four Presidents clearly two of these men are “democrats” and the other two are “republicans.” Bill Clinton even attacked Iraq with 23 Tomahawk missiles for the alleged assassination attempt of George H.W. Bush [1], killing many innocent people on that day to “protect” a different mass murderer, Clinton would go on to bomb many thousands more during his 2 terms. Needless to say, they all read from the same script.

         
That script is written by the corporate elite who write up “trade agreements” like NAFTA in the totalitarian tiptoe towards one world government. Throughout the speech Clinton references trying to “create a world of free trade supported by institutions which would facilitate it…” The institutions Clinton is mentioning are these massive corporations which corner markets through buying politicians to stack the deck in their favor. Many large corporations pay zero taxes and their CEOs move their money off-shore and pay relatively no income tax or any other taxes. These corporations operate like cartels and many outlets tout the numbers of “created jobs” from this agreement but fail to see the underlying print; NAFTA may have “created more jobs” but corporations like Wal-Mart running small markets out of business then hiring people at minimum wage can hardly be counted among “created jobs.” Also between 2001 and 2003 when this agreement got out of its boom stage and into bust 2.4 million domestic jobs were lost with a high concentration in the manufacturing sector [2]. This agreement opened up the borders for these cartels to move seamlessly across North America which opens up the “Pandora’s box” of cheap foreign labor.

Bill Clinton would continue to boldly claim there would be “no loss of jobs” and that NAFTA was to “help out the middle class” all with a straight-face. As good as Clinton’s poker face was one thing that always gives away he’s lying…his lips are moving. Today there are over 18,000 companies with U.S investments in Mexico [3]. One of the most notorious, PepsiCo, has made a huge push into Mexico and continue now going into Central and South America [4]. As these interests slowly tiptoe their way past the border, the world is then open for them as they expand and exploit, like Apple Inc. into China at glorified sweat shops like FoxxConn [5]. Then the kicker, these huge cartels move their businesses overseas on taxpayers’ money [6]. It’s a great plan Bill, just when does this part about helping the middle class kick in?

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Dzieza, J.. 8 ridiculous tax loopholes: How companies are avoiding the tax man. N.p., 2012. Web. 27 Jul 2012. <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/25/8-ridiculous-tax-loopholes-how- companies-are-avoiding-the-tax-man.html>. [6]