OP-ED by Barry Weinstein Sr. Ed.

Dear Friends and Fans of Austin Scott 
Austin Scott Legal Defense Fund

    The Austin Scott Legal Defense Fund has been established to help Austin Scott pay for legal fees and related expenses resulting from a FALSE accusation of Rape.

    You can make a donation to the “Austin Scott Legal Defense Fund”  at PNC Bank or by sending a check made out to “Austin Scott Legal Defense Fund”  to C/O JoAnn Scott P.O. Box 639, Tannersville, Pa. 18372

    Any donation over $100.00 will recieve a Signed Austin Scott - T-Shirt, Sweat Shirt or Hoody as seen at the      www.NationalWritersSyndicate.com store.
 
    Donations are NOT tax deductible and are considered as gift money to Austin Scott. Donations to the fund will only be used for the following purposes:

    (1) to pay outstanding legal fees and associated expenses to law firms representing Austin Scott;

    (2) to reimburse Austin Scott and Parents for legal fees and associated expenses that  have already been  paid to  lawyers/law firms  to date;

     and (3) to reimburse Austin Scott & Parents for expenses in establishing the legal defense fund.   
 
    The fund is NOT a trust but contributions are held in a separate checking account.  On request donors will be provided with an accounting of the contributions and disbursements from the account on a
semi-annual basis. The first reporting will be through May 31, 2008. The Austin Scott Legal Defense
 
    Fund will be closed once the purpose of the fund as described above have been met and no future expenses are expected. Any remaining funds will be donated to a charitable organization, yet-to-be-named. Any
contributions made after the closing date will be returned to the donor.
 
    Thank you for your continued prayers and support, Austin Scott and Family.
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Op/Ed Continued:

This is gender bias! Today it’s Him & tomorrow it’s You! These are the observations of the National Writers Syndicate as it contemplates the broader meaning of “justice” in the Austin Scott case.

NWS interviewed Mr. Scott and that appears below.

Austin Scott! …. Austin! …. Austin! And then there was the joyful shouting and screaming upon Austin Scott’s success in gaining yards or a touch down, in many a hard hitting game. Their arms were flailing, eyes were wide, jumping up and down was common, their faces were painted white just as the color of the clothing they wore, for the “whiteout” on national Television on ESPN, and it was all in all a cacophony of fun.

Those were the boisterous cheers and more from the tailback, Austin Scott’s, adoring female fans and admiring male fans at Penn State University. On top of that were the pervasive hand painted banners, made by the game attendees, that is until recently as you probably know.

Nevertheless, once again the rancid stench of sex discrimination emanates from a ‘politically correct’ University and a ‘politically correct’ prosecutor, Lance Marshall’s, biased decision to promote false allegations against an innocent man. This time, unlike Nifong, prosecutor Lance Marshall uses an historical or serial perjurer, Ms. Desiree Minder, in pursuit of a malicious prosecution against a prominent young man. As here for Scott, those fine young Duke men were guilty first, not innocent as is called for, that is in the “Politburo” like minds of the misleading actors at Duke and the judicial branch “apparatchiks” Nifong and the magistrate there.

Now, a corporeal ghost from the gender biased bureaucracy, including the Professors therein, at Duke University has arrived at Penn State University. However, today simultaneously there are audible laments from the Dean at Duke and the County officials, Nifong included, for their intentional destruction of the lives of the three young men whom they maliciously prosecuted. They were ‘persecuted’ merely for the poised benefit of unconstitutional politics. And a judiciary branch and its structure intent on denying men equal protection under the law. One result was that the young men’s career in sports was intentionally interfered with at Duke. Now at Penn State it is “Déjà vu all over again”.

There may very well be a financial incentive, bribe, payoff all meaning the same thing of course, from the Federal Government, for the County Prosecutor to pursue such a weak and it seems un-winnable case against Mr. Scott.

We, here at the National Writers Syndicate, believe that the conduct of the Centre County Pa. prosecutor Lance Marshall and the Magistrate amount to the commission of an ongoing Human Rights Crime being viciously committed against the innocent target Mr. Austin Scott, this time. Discrimination or reverse discrimination what’s the difference? In either case someone is being discriminated against. Evidently it is done directly by the judicial branch, by way of its officers, which truly promotes it and then they blame everyone else for it. So far “they” have gotten away with it. The National Writers Syndicate is now taking a stand against such unequal treatment of “we the people”. How about you?

The Interview:

Q - Mr. Scott was there or is there any Penn State or team policy that you were made aware of regarding dating while on the team?

A - No.

Q - Were you ever advised or told that if you were merely accused by any woman of anything that you would be prevented from being on the team or of course playing?

A - No.

Q - After the Duke Lacrosse players were found innocent on the perjured sex accusations and the prosecutor Nifong was disbarred for his acts of gender and race bias; did anyone at Penn State provide any warning about false accusations or that Penn State had a similar policy to that of Duke University regarding a policy of gender bias?

A - No.

Q - Do you think that Ms. Desiree Minder should be charged with criminal perjury this time and should have been the last time when she falsely did the same thing to another man at Moravian College, over there in the Lehigh Valley, who after all was found innocent?

A - Yes.

Q - When Ms. Desiree Minder Came to Penn should Moravian have notified Penn State and all of the other schools about her and Penn State could then notify the Team and everyone else on campus about her?

A - Yes.

Q - Should the universities and colleges warn the men playing on any team and the rest of the campus that the government has a policy of gender bias which is sex discrimination against men and on behalf of women where consensual dating is concerned?

A - Yes.

Folks, the United States Constitution demands Equal Protection under the law. Once again America’s public servants in positions of public trust with prosecutor Lance Marshall in particular, are acting in contempt of that restraint upon our government. Yesterday the judicial branch supported discrimination was targeting woman and blacks today it is men, Austin Scott in particular and Caucasians; as in the Duke Lacrosse team! What will they be doing tomorrow if they are not stopped now?

Let me quote Reade Seligmann, He was and is one of the Duke’s students who were falsely accused and who said: ‘‘If police officers and a district attorney can systematically railroad us with absolutely no evidence whatsoever, I can’t imagine what they’d do to people who do not have the resources to defend themselves. So rather than relying on disparaging stereotypes and creating political and racial conflicts, all of us need to take a step back from this case and learn from it.”

www.NationlWritersSyndicate.com with the approval of Austin Scott has made “Support Austin, Position Gear”, available on line located on its front cover. Wear it on campus and for the next “Whiteout”. Demand Justice for Austin now! “If you do not stand for something, you may fall for anything!”
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