Posted on 02/23/2006 12:13:15 AM PST by CrawDaddyCA
A community college student in Massachusetts faces possible disciplinary action for shouting "Remember Chappaquiddick!" during an on-campus speech by Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Paul Trost, 20, a student at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Mass., says he was upset by an introduction of Kennedy given by Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., in which the congressman noted how the long-time senator overcame hardship in life on his way to success.
"Lynch said Kennedy had overcome such adversity to get to the place he was, and that's a bunch of bull," Trost said of the introduction, which occurred in the school's student center Tuesday morning.
Just as Kennedy began speaking, Trost was walking out of the room when he shouted, "Remember Chappaquiddick!"
"Most of the crowd gasped," Trost said. "Then I walked out of the student center."
The student says a campus police officer went outside and stopped him. He also saw some state troopers go outside, the type who accompany Kennedy around the state to provide security.
Trost says the cop took down his information and told him he would be hearing from school officials about disciplinary action. A spokesman with the campus police verified the incident but stressed that Trost was not arrested.
The student said one of his teachers confronted him after a class about the Chappaquiddick issue.
"One of my teachers called me ignorant and told me this was an embarrassment to the school," Trost told WND. "She said to me, 'Can't you forgive him after all these years?' And I said, 'No, he killed somebody.'
"If it had been me or any other person, we'd be in jail," Trost says he told his instructor.
Referring to his two-word shout, Trost said, "I did it because I know about Kennedy's past. I know what happened at Chappaquiddick.
"I wanted to send a message to him that my generation still knows about it. We haven't forgotten about it."
Trost said he was satisfied to know that students on campus were talking about the Chappaquiddick incident later in the day – some of whom, in fact, were not familiar with it.
In 1969, Kennedy was driving a car that went off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. His passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, was killed after the car landed upside down in the water. No autopsy was ever performed to determine her exact cause of death.
At the time, Kennedy claimed he tried several times to swim down to reach Kopechne to no avail. He came under fire for not reporting the incident to authorities until the next morning. In the interim he reportedly made an effort to call a family legal adviser.
"I haven't yet found out what's going to happen to me," Trost said, referring to the warning from campus police.
I wouldn't give up on them so quickly. At 21 I wasn't the least bit concerned with what was going on in the world and if I had to label myself back then, aside from overall apathy, I would say when I did have an opinion on an issue it tended to be more liberal. As time marched on and I grew up that egocentric view of life changed drastically and by my late 20's I was staunchly conservative and well versed in politics. Give them time, we all grow up at different paces.
From that photo, it looks like Kennedy is getting his due.
The ACLU is not interested in this kid's case. The kid dissed one of the ACLU's political benefactors. Thus any abuse the kid gets is well deserved and not a violation of anyone's rights, except Kennedy's, who's right to keeping this kind of crap under wraps to avoid embarrassment was usurped by the kid's shouting, as far as the ACLU is concerned.
A Freepers MEDAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey somebody pick this up and run with it!!!!!
I'd even contribute to a fund if need be!!!!
wooohooooo
LOL!!!
yes annoying a liberal...is there any better thing in the world...god created that after chocolate
I would love to say it was mine but RONIN was the dude who thought of it first...
Well, he reported it to the Harvard Crimson within the hour. Is there something else he should have done?
How about giving this kid the "Golden Pajamas Award"?
bump!
Yes, the Save the Whales campaign.
What he SHOULD do is put the event on his resume, and then change schools if necessary.
Then her invitation to speak at commencement would be assured ;o)
"Cool article, In funny that the Kid is a liberal(protest Iraq war etc) he says but heck thought Kennedy was just wrong."
Well since he is a lib, he is eligible for the FR "NOT Jennings Way" award, aka a "PETER"
This kid is a hero and if the school takes the dumb course of sanctioning him over a free speach issue then fellow conservatives I think then we have an issue to rally around.
Chill, I am not a fan of the swimmers but look at the date of the photo.
This was therapy for the plane crash he was in in 64' I believe.
It was either an Aero-Commander or a Piper Aztec, bad crash, pilot didn't survive if my memory is correct.
Google it to get the real scoop.
By the way this kid has Brass Ones, The Peoples Socialist Republic of Massachusetts and the Apparatchiks running it will not take kindly to this. I suggest he transfer to a Red State. I am a defector from the PSRM.
Good to know!
Cool! I'd like to shake this kids hand.
I just love thids kid. What a pair!
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