LANCASTER NEW ERA
Concerning the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal, editorial “Kane’s fishing expedition” asserts:
“It apparently makes little difference to Kane, a Democrat, that the prosecution was successful …”
WATCHDOG: It apparently makes little difference to the New Era editors that, during the three years that then attorney general Tom Corbett allowed the investigation to drag on, a number of children continued to be sexually molested.
Moreover, while the investigation was ongoing, Corbett accepted $640,000 in campaign contributions from board members and affiliates of Sandusky’s Second Mile Foundation.
Even if the editors don’t understand a need for an independent investigation of the delays, a vast majority of voters did when they overwhelming elected Attorney General Kathleen Kane, in part for pledging to conduct such an investigation.
Kane isn’t “fishing”; she is doing her job. Let the chips fall where they may.
Newslanc may recall the 1993 Waco TX massacre of the Branch Davidian group. 76 men women and children were killed as well as 4 ATF agents. All of that tragedy over what the government described as weapons violations. Kane investigator, Mr. Moulton was a government investigator in the aftermath in which no one in the government was held accountable, despite the government using military armor against those people for mere weapons violations by a few of them. Many think the government should have used much more restraint. Some of us might remember the video of a 70 ton M1 Abrams tank probing a compound building with it’s 105 mm cannon. Tim McVeigh claimed he bombed the Murrah building in Oklahoma City (168 killed, 800 injured) because of the Waco massacre. Perhaps Ms. Kane should have found a less controversial investigator.